Author Archives: jolanta

Since the day my mother, an accomplished artist, put a camera in my hand at the age of 13, I have attempted to capture the subtle, hidden beauty of the world. My current work focuses on what I refer to as “cinematic female nude portraiture.” The fact that the models are nude is almost inconsequential […]

The force of nature can never compete with our efforts of forcing nature. The byproduct and manifestation of my frustrations and egotism seem to devolve into the things I love. This is my life; there is no other side to my coin. I create to live and live to create. It may have some issues […]

The actualization of an authenticity remains bound up in popular notions of the aims of artistic practice. Perpetuated by the osmosis of art historical ideas into the popular consciousness, mass understandings of art often embrace the idea that the artist seeks to present an authentic experience. This is particularly notable in popular notions about figurative […]

A studio artist exhibiting for two decades, I create carefully crafted representational paintings of figures and still life, using the techniques and processes of the Old Masters. My works are included in many fine private collections, and my skills as a portrait painter have won commissions from patrons both regional and national. I attended the […]

In my book The Critique of Wu Guan-Zhong’s Art—on Zhuo Mo’s, Shui Tian-Zhong’s, and Lu Hong’s Critique of Wu, I wrote, “Judging from essential artistic values, Wu’s art is obviously limited. The reason is that he didn’t surpass Chinese traditional symbolism. He references to Western contemporary formalism. The beauty of Abstraction theory and methodology of […]

My work explores ideas surrounding repetition, transformation, memory, and the physical and mental processes involved in the production of art objects. My practice encompasses a wide range of media, from painting and drawing to text and video. In my recent paintings, simple actions and patterns are repeated over and over again, imbuing something otherwise simple […]

Among the many Chinese artists who work with military themes, Xing Jun-Qin is a maverick. Military-focused artists are a special category in contemporary Chinese art, in that they are sponsored by the military and make work about army. Their work is mostly about realism. They utilize military subjects, building a visual image of soldiers that […]

Our perceptions normally encompass a viewing angle of roughly 90 degrees; anything wider has to rely on short-term memory. What happens when we’re presented with a panoramic view? Our wonderful brain adapts, and we transcend our biological limits. Concepts like left, right, front, and back no longer are valid. The viewer becomes like Panoptes, suddenly […]

My full-time job is actually an architect, not an artist, though I attended quite a few art fairs. Most of the time, I was involved in the space design of the fairs. I provided an appropriate space for the participating artists to display their works. The more “invisible” my design was, the more popular it […]

My immediate environment has always provided the impetus for my art practice, a snapshot view of the world, something to work with, or more often than not, kick against. For a period of six years I lived in Amsterdam, Berlin, Lisbon, and Prague, absorbing what I could from each environment and culture I found myself […]