Author Archives: jolanta
Elenor Cicily Backstrom
Elenor Cicily Backstroms direct, impulsive and experimental paintings are remarkable. Her art transmits a strong message and contains a lot of feelings. Elenor Cicily Backstroms direct, impulsive and experimental paintings are remarkable. Her art transmits a strong message and contains a lot of feelings. Creating in a very personal and distinctive way, the viewer […]
Elenor Cicily Backstrom
Elenor Cicily Backstroms direct, impulsive and experimental paintings are remarkable. Elenor Cicily Backstroms direct, impulsive and experimental paintings are remarkable. Her art transmits a strong message and contains a lot of feelings. Creating in a very personal and distinctive way, the viewer can see influences of other epochs and artists. A broad decorative register […]
Time Will Tell
You see I am here after all (2008) is the third in a series of projects at Dia:Beacon commissioned from a younger generation of artists in response to the museum’s collection and/or location. Comprising some 4,000 vintage postcards sourced mostly online over the past year, Zoe Leonard’s piece reveals its renowned subject, Niagara Falls, from […]
Interacting Forces
I am an Irish artist who lives in Los Angeles. I have lived and worked in New York City, Italy, Belfast, and Dublin. My work is included in many European and Irish collections, public and private. Initially recognized as a painter, I have in recent years produced a consistently strong body of video-based work. My […]
Micci Cohan
Micci Cohan, a native New York City mixed media artist lives and works in New York’s lower East side. Micci Cohan Micci Cohan, a native New York City mixed media artist lives and works in New York’s lower East side. She has exhibited professionally for 25 years, is in several private collections in the […]
Micci Cohan
Micci Cohan, a native New York City mixed media artist lives and works in New York’s lower East side. Micci Cohan Micci Cohan, a native New York City mixed media artist lives and works in New York’s lower East side. She has exhibited professionally for 25 years, is in several private collections in the […]
Touching Nature
My work is influenced by generations of naturalists and their practice. Like those before me, I too have developed my own unique practice, using nature and the natural world as both material and subject. As an artist working in collaboration with the environment, I have ideas that are often manifest as 3D sculptural compositions of […]
Seeing is Believing
For Jamie Isenstein’s solo exhibition Acéphal Magical at Andrew Kreps Gallery, Isenstein took on the role of the magician’s assistant in the midst of the classic “Sawing the Lady in Half” illusion. Rather than being sawed in half, the illusion was of “sawing the lady at the neck,” suggesting that half of the box contains […]
Mud Slinging and Rock Chiseling
I was born in Wenzhou, China. Hangzhou is my second hometown. I like strolling along the West Lake, watching old people sipping Long Jing tea bathed in the sunset. This is the kind of peacefulness I am looking for. If only the city would slow down and savor this very moment. I like to pretend […]
Express Yourself, Donââ¬â¢t Repress Yourself
The character “Ã¥âºÂ§” has been completely transformed, and has an absolutely different meaning than it did before. In ancient Chinese history, “Ã¥âºÂ§” meant “brightness.” Now it has been altered by the media, by us—generations born in the 80s and 90s, to mean profound thinking, or romance and passion. I feel the character seems to have […]
