Author Archives: jolanta
Sun Screening
In 2003 an all-night exposure of the stars made during a camping trip was lost due to the effects of whiskey. I was unable to wake up to close the shutter before sunrise; all the information of the night’s exposure was destroyed. The light of the rising sun was so focused and intense that it […]
Art Fair Diaries- Miami 2008
Wednesday Dec. 3 This year’s Miami art fair experience started even before we left New York. Judging by the majority of passengers clad in black, chic jewelry, and angular haircuts, the entire plane was populated by art-fair goers. We even experienced our first art-star sighting of trip: painter, John Currin and his wife, sculptor, Rachel […]
Art Basel Miami Top Five:
1. Jordan Wolfson film projection at Johann König, 2. Chicks on Speed video installation Kate MacGarry 3. Falke Pisano installation at De Bruijne 4. Michael S. Riedel film projection at Gabriele Senn Galerie 5. Olaf Breuning sand sculpture on the beach near the Sagamore Hotel Gillian Sneed 1. Jordan Wolfson film projection at Johann König, […]
Sima Schloss
My goal during my creative process is not to beautify the already beautiful forms of nature. My goal during my creative process is not to beautify the already beautiful forms of nature but to strip the veneer, crack open the vessel and display the vulnerability of the glossy innards of life and […]
Sima Schloss
My goal during my creative process is not to beautify the already beautiful forms of nature Sima Schloss My goal during my creative process is not to beautify the already beautiful forms of nature but to strip the veneer, crack open the vessel and display the vulnerability of the glossy innards of life and […]
In and Out of History
My work derives from propaganda and other ideological sources. Since the late 1980s, I have made paintings and drawings based on images archived from advertisements, posters, “fine art” photographs, and tourist ephemera published under political movements ranging from the mid-1930s Nazi, WPA, and Stalinist “Five-Year Plan” tracts to current military recruiting and corporate Web-based “motivational” […]
Femininity in Renaissance
Femininity in photography is not what it used to be. It is no longer romantic or desirable. As women, it seems that cotemporary images found in fashion and fine art are created to make us feel less than adequate. I yearn for the time when sensuality and grace could be found in subtle incarnations rather […]
Image Manipulation
Ripped and Torn is an arcade of unique artworks that appear to be sliced and diced with a scalpel, torn and ripped by hand, and assembled from non-logical parts by 24 whimsical artists who set out to create the aesthetic illusion of a magical world conjured up from the depths of their subconsciousness. Today collage […]
Handmade Landscapes
Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival entitled APAture features the work of emerging Asian Pacific American artists that live and/or work in the San Francisco Bay Area. This past fall APAture visual arts exhibition, Shifting Landscapes through the Labor of the Hand-Made, included a dynamic group of 20 artists practicing in a variety of […]
Traversing Wilderness
This past October, Mahan Gallery presented an exhibition of paintings, drawings, photography, and collage by nine globally recognized artists who share a strong interest in symbolical narrative. The exhibition functioned as a survey of mountainous aesthetics, simultaneously exploring the fables, folklores, and assumed simulations of the mountain by the artists or interpretation of the curator, […]
