Author Archives: jolanta

In Amir H. Fallah’s lat­est body of work, he con­tin­ues his prior explo­rations into boy­hood mem­ory, the inten­sity of rela­tion­ships, both past and present, and the thin line between the real and the imagined.   In Amir H. Fallah’s lat­est body of work, he con­tin­ues his prior explo­rations into boy­hood mem­ory, the inten­sity of rela­tion­ships, […]

Michael Linares’ recent exhi­bi­tion Found & Lost at Museum of Con­tem­po­rary Art Puerto Rico high­lights the alter­nately polit­i­cal, pro­saic, spir­i­tual, and flam­boy­ant meth­ods by which life is expe­ri­enced and observed. The exhi­bi­tion employs Linares’ own flu­ency in mul­ti­far­i­ous forms of discourse—from sculp­ture, to pho­tog­ra­phy and video. Suzie Wal­she on Michael Lineares   Michael Linares’ recent […]

Some of the things I make are obvi­ously built for audi­ence inter­ac­tion—Eleven Heavy Things, the sculp­tures for the Venice Bien­nale, are objects that lit­er­ally have holes for peo­ple to fit their bod­ies into and pose with. Sim­i­larly, my Web site Learn­ing To Love You More (with Har­rell Fletcher) gives assign­ments to the pub­lic.   Some […]

Venezue­lan artist Patri­cia Cazorla cre­ates “diaries” or per­sonal col­lec­tions of por­traits of women who have a sig­nif­i­cance to her, whether because of their bold char­ac­ters or because of their sim­ple beauty.Cazorla depicts the emo­tions, sen­si­bil­i­ties, and per­son­al­i­ties of her sub­jects through vivid col­ors, strong brush strokes, and col­lages of images taken from the media, although […]

I have been making pretty straight city scenes from my head for the past couple of years. I like to believe they are similar to what the Internet looks like, with all the individualistic people existing invisibly, unable to observe each other over at the colliding room town, with no walls, piled in more than […]