Author Archives: jolanta

The New Museum presented the first U.S. surveys of Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer this past summer. Double Album: Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer brings together two artists—Daniel Guzmán, born in Mexico in 1964, and Steven Shearer, born in Canada, in 1968—who use an array of visual media to explore the overwhelmingly male world of […]

The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center opened its doors in August to five new exhibitions in the museum’s galleries, running through November 16. The spotlight is on prints this fall in three of BMAC’s five new shows. Featured is a major retrospective of the prints of Jules Olitski, one of the 20th century’s foremost American […]

I am a Hong Kong-born, British-based artist, working in film, photography, and video installations. In a recent panel discussion at Tate Britain, I was invited to summarize the deeper meanings of my practice. After much pondering, I recounted an experience I once had of returning home from a sustained period traveling abroad. On my return, […]

Photographic images appropriated from various media outlets are the source for my work, which can be described as a hybrid between drawing and printmaking. I use carbon transfer templates as a way to filter the original photographic information to develop a new abstracted image. The works are created through this meticulous process, while keeping the […]

I’m essentially a painter who also works in performance. I come from a visual art background, not “live art” or theater, and this is very important to me as it informs the way my work is read. In the last 20 years or so I have developed ways of working to suit my need at […]

“Want to know what is going to happen next? Please listen to the next chapter.” I heard these words every day during my childhood. Every day at noon, 12 o’clock sharp, everybody would sit around the radio waiting for the upcoming program, a story-telling program featuring just one man. It was a one-man show, in […]

I take an experimental approach with my photography: different angles, themes, and equipment coupled with my work ethic. Over the past four years, my work has not only transformed the magazines I work with into category leaders, but it has reinvigorated the entire world of surf photojournalism. Whether I’m swimming in the impact zone on […]

My photographic work is driven by a strong sense of narrative, often with a dark dimension. My aim is to create small stories out of the snapshots I gather from the world around me. These photographs are not staged, but are chance happenings: a little out of the ordinary, somewhat removed from reality. I like […]

Impressions from the Interior was the first exhibition of work in the U.K. by Swiss artists Andres Lutz and Anders Guggisberg. Consisting of video, painting, installation, and sculptural pieces, made since these two artists began their partnership in 1996, the exhibit was a judicious survey including spectacular new work. Epitomizing Lutz and Guggisberg’s funny melancholy […]

My main focus through my work is to explore what constitutes the universal. This translates to repeating motifs that are often inspired by myths and spiritual symbols. It also takes root in my process of art making. I am very obsessive; I find myself creating a world through repetition of line and shape. This has […]