Author Archives: jolanta

Composed with the intent to create a sort of survival guide for humanity, Federico Diaz’s collection of work for his exhibition Adhesion at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, explores relationships between the natural world and our ever-evolving manufactured world, through a range of different mediums, all asserting a heavy inference of one side outweighing the other. In […]

Leah Oates: When did you know you would be a photographer?Will Steacy: There was a single experience in my life which had the most profound effect on me and from that night on, I vowed to devote my life to this thing inside me. In 2003 I was almost murdered in a robbery. I was […]

I’m Nigel Tomm—the most famous artist in the world. Some blah had already blah the blah by blah blah, and blah its blah by the blah that blah, blah blah, and all my blah, save blah who blah to tell the blah, had been blah to blah at the blah of the blah by a […]

In the past few years, the majority of my work and research has been dealing with the domestic sphere and how it can act as a microcosm for the nation-state and society. I am interested in how the family, especially under circumstances of war, can learn to re-enact the trauma of political violence within the […]

Green Oregon actually started out as Keep Oregon Green, and was originally a collaboration with the Keep Oregon Green Association, a 150-year-old wildfire prevention group operating out of Salem, Oregon. As an Oregon native I have grown up seeing Keep Oregon Green’s iconic fir tree shaped road signs on trips to Mt. Hood or the […]

The “Obey” sticker campaign can be explained as an experiment in phenomenology. Heidegger describes phenomenology as “the process of letting things manifest themselves.” Phenomenology attempts to enable people to see clearly something that is right before their eyes but obscured, things that are so taken for granted that they are muted by abstract observation. The […]

Sally Mann’s statement is insightful but it addresses only one element that contributes to the impact of this work. The book Proud Flesh and the accompanying exhibition, which opened at the Gagosian Gallery in New York in September, are the latest installments in Mann’s continuing thematic and visual explorations that ultimately deepen key subject matter […]

It’s strange how an experience can change someone’s way of seeing things. And even influence their whole life. I grew up in Cairo as a Muslim, and in Islam we speak a lot about destiny—that each of us has a written time to come into this world and a time to leave, and whatever happens […]

The work of Angela Bulloch is complex and versatile. She produces light and sound works, drawing machines, interactive installations, series of photographs, video programs, and works consisting of text. Behind her work’s diversity of form, technique, and presentation, there always lies a focused concern for public structures and social systems. Just as these processes and […]

Leah Oates: What do you think an artist is? When did you know you were an artist?Deana Lawson: An artist is someone who questions and interprets the world(s) around them, and who then responds in an outward and physical way. Ten years ago, an old friend, Sassy Ross, taught me that an individual could invent […]