Author Archives: jolanta

It doesn’t seem like a good idea for one to always talk about her work, especially when she talks to no one but her computer. But I still want to talk about my creative process, and things like emotions, time, flaws, and creativity. These phrases have been occupying my mind, like a shrub growing, and […]

ARTWALKING: Bedford Ave was curated by Eyewash founder and director Larry Walczak and independent curator Donna Kessinger. This exhibition, considered the largest public art installation of its kind in the borough of Brooklyn, ran from April 27 through June 8 and featured 30 artist installations in storefronts on Bedford Avenue, running from North 3rd to […]

New York avant-garde artist Barbara Rosenthal, an American art export with attitude, created her latest performance work, Existential Interact, in Berlin this summer. And she wasn’t the only American to choose this time and place to strut their stuff. Barack Obama came in July. Both Americans brought their national persona of self-invention, self-reliance, charisma, improvisation, […]

My work stems from an interest and exploration of space, both physical and psychological. My current body of work is owed to an intense and persistent studio practice. Visually, the work is pared down. Excess marks and information have been stripped away; leaving only what is necessary to transport the viewer to an idealized place […]

The creative process requires an artist to do experiments continually to invent the best conditions for the birth of art. At the same moment that a problem is successfully resolved, one discovers that a new problem immediately arises and follows. This continuous cycle of death and rebirth embodies the knowledge that I frequently apply and […]

Unlike most noted experimental artists, Shen Shao-Min did not receive a formal academy education. Instead, the starting point of his artistic path was completely by way of another course. First, he participated in the production of visual culture for Cultural Revolution, then organized artistic propaganda for the masses—including drawing posters, making slide shows, and screening […]

My creative inspiration for photography stems a great deal from film and literature. When I work with someone on creating an image, I believe myself to be unconsciously filled with flashes of textures, frames, actions, colors, and much more. Those flashes mix with narrative voices and the result is a collective of my influences and […]

My studio practice includes a constant process of research and response to natural events and phenomena that captivate me. They serve as an impetus to weave these seemingly isolated events into a larger contextual tale. I am especially interested in how the landscape and weather systems are altered by the human hand, the driving social […]

I’m a U.K.-born artist of Armenian descent who’s been living in Hong Kong for many years. I came there by accident, and was able to make enough money, working construction, to finance the staging of my own exhibitions of figurative oil paintings. Within a few years I was selling well enough to quit the day […]

The year is 2051, and Mineko is a 70-year-old female pilot flying over the Indian Ocean, on her way to Sri Lanka. The sky is clear; there’s a mild wind blowing to the southwest, and Mineko is smiling as she stares into the sun through a pair of orange bubble shades. Miles below and on […]