Author Archives: jolanta

There are more women working in the contemporary photography world than ever before. Their methods and subjects run the gamut of artistic possibility, but what unites them is the passion and effort they devote to creating extraordinary bodies of work. Women in Photography, a new online venue created by Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips, is […]

We honor music as a vibration that cannot be captured or recorded; it exists in an independent and ephemeral moment reliant upon the environment and the people within it. During our performances we create a group mind shared by both the animate and inanimate objects within an area. We do this through the use of […]

Catherine Y. Hsieh: How long have you been doing Chinatown Garbage Tour? Nate Hill: The tour has been going on since July of last year. CH: What made you decide to do such a project? NH: It was to teach people about my art and how they could do it themselves. I was trying to […]

Past-Forward brings together 29 international contemporary artists whose works manipulate, replay, and disrupt borrowed structures from mass culture, media, art history and industry. The artists in Past-Forward question the means and ends of artistic production in the face of an increasingly globalized culture. Appropriation, quotation, re-contextualization and revision are common techniques in the works, alternately […]

When I was a child my grandmother would take me fishing by the steel mills in Baltimore. Sometime around noon the fish would stop biting and I would pace the lengths of the pier with her camera making photographs of jellyfish and minnows. Weeks later, she would scold me for wasting film when the prints […]

As I walk into the Joan Grona Gallery, the unusual setting chosen by the artist immediately captivates me. A material such as vinyl is not commonly seen as the backdrop of a photograph. This unorthodox display sets the viewer up for the contradictions witnessed in the work itself. These large vinyl sign banners depict photographs […]

Most of my recent pictures are the size of either a page or a person. This is partly a result of the work’s sources (digital or printed documents and photographs) and subjects (human figures). It is also—and perhaps more importantly—a consequence of my technique, and by extension, of certain ideas about figures and figuration that […]

Mieke Vanmechelen’s epic canvases portray atmospheric landscapes sometimes glimpsed beneath washes of hallucinogenic color, at other times through nets of thickly patterned marks. Driven by ideas and process simultaneously, her works are an exploration of materiality through a conceptual framework initially influenced by Modernist Reductionism and Expressionism. The Flanders-born artist approaches her medium in a […]

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 […]

When I came home one morning, I found my best friend and her boyfriend conversing in bed. He was asking her many detailed questions about my boyfriend’s cock, as he had just found out that there was a new photograph of it on my Web site that she had seen. He wanted to know the […]