Author Archives: jolanta

After many years of constructing and installing immense plywood structures with a range of imagery, Michael Zansky began to switch his focus to large optical installations, the largest of which was American Panopticon. Today, he is creating smaller tableaus in which a psychological drama unfolds through Fresnel lenses that bend and distort creating otherworldliness. Using […]

Based in Victoria, Australia, self-taught artist Helen Joynson has shown her paintings around the world, including the European Outsider Art Fair earlier this year. Shifting between two approaches—complete abstraction and naïve figuration—her oeuvre is compelling in its diversity. Her painterly approach revolves around the uncovering the spirit of each color. She paints intuitively, instinctually coloring […]

Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, creating series of images that explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of queer subcultures to her expansive urban landscapes, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in […]

My photographs are part of a tradition of erotic art that employs exaggeration, mystery, and the guilty pleasures of voyeurism. The photographs are about the forms employed in narrative-based erotic art as contrasted with erotica crafted to merely to display the explicit. The work concerns the art of presentation, the mystery of anticipation, and the […]

A squatting person crouches his body, a red shadow cast on the ground, against a bright yellow backdrop. This is the work of artist Ma Yue. Ma uses this imagery and a unique language to speak for the common people, voicing their nightmares. Throughout the Squatting series, Ma’s special consideration for the ordinary people is […]

The most important part of my work is the translation of interior thought into narrative image. For quite a while, my paintings operated as a loose painted collage of images from photographs found in magazines. This involved lots of sifting through magazines, photocopying or ripping out pages, and looking for the right images to paint […]

Alice Anderson gazes into a fairy-tale mirror to question her past and her identity. She constructs “Freudian Tales” from situations or objects that recall her childhood, and awaken violent emotions within. Under a seductive and smooth appearance, her images speak of the cruelty of her family. In her photographs Screen Memories, she uses her imagination […]