Author Archives: jolanta
The Watchwoman
Jenny Holzer, like many young artists in the late 70s, early 80s, began her career pasting anonymous offset posters on building walls, garbage can covers, postal boxes, and fences around New York City. Truisms (1977-79), her very first public work consisted of 257 alphabetized statements printed in bold italic lists, culled and condensed from her […]
In Between Voids
When I look at the work of calligrapher, poet, and painter Bada Shanren (Chinese, 1625-1705), I can easily get a sense of the storytelling ability of the great calligrapher. But Shanren’s use of the painted image told the story for a Westerner like me, who was not getting a feel for his writing ability because […]
Re-digesting Kitsch
D. Dominick Lombardi’s recent exhibition Toyota vs. Godzilla at ArtLexis in Brooklyn highlights the alternately political, prosaic, spiritual, and flamboyant methods by which life is experienced in Tokyo and Seoul. The exhibition exploits Lombardi’s own fluency in these multifarious forms of discourse, here painting and sculpture. They are the basis for his shrewd and penetrating […]
Andres Giles
Andrew Francis Giles was born in Buenos Aires on November 10, 1980. From an early age he was attracted by a noble profession: he decided to devote himself to painting. Self-taught, and great traveler, he travels to museums around the world: New York, Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Berlin, where he studied the great masters of […]
