Author Archives: jolanta

I attempt in my personal work to imply sexuality and sensuality rather than be explicit about it—how do I do this? It is the suggestiveness of a pose or relationship between people in my works, or the use of a title. In film its called the "montage technique" of putting 2 or 3 images together, […]

Upon seeing Karim Hamid’s work, I was reminded of Euan Uglow and R.B. Kitaj, two artists from the London School. I thought of Uglow because of the way both artists leave visible marks that show how the painting’s composition was formulated, and  I thought of Kitaj because of his distorted perspectives and odd anatomy, which […]

Australian multi-media artist Hilary Pollock is no stranger to new challenges. Having explored a vast array of media from etching to sculpture, her oeuvre is vast and varied. It was with this continual sense of pushing herself in new directions that she was drawn to the NY Arts Beijing residency in China, which she completed […]

Korean painter Shin Hye Park’s recent solo exhibition at New York’s Broadway Gallery can only be described as eloquent. A showcase for her ongoing series of carefully cropped vistas of ocean tides caressing sandy shores, the show evidenced a Zen-like sensibility in theme, style, and curatorial approach. The paintings themselves, almost obsessive in their unyielding […]

Graphic-novel styling meets fine-art sensibility in the work of Eve Poland, a UK-based painter and printmaker whose bold imagery celebrates sexual subcultures and feminine power. Eve Poland’s “kinky ladies” acrylic paintings celebrate the beauty and power of women through images intended to be both naughty and nice—an accessible, tongue-in-cheek take on erotic art. “The phrase […]

Catherine Y. Hsieh: Your installation The Killing Machine (2007) consists of moving robotic arms, an electric dental chair, and old televisions, exuding icy eeriness and a sense of detachment. You said on your Web site that the inspiration was Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony and the American system of capital punishment as well as […]

The Carlton Arms Hotel is described as an art hotel. There are a few other hotels in New York that make this claim for one reason or another, but the Carlton Arms is better described as a piece of living art, and as such is unique. This hotel started out as a single-room-occupancy hotel. During […]

I want to evoke a world of metamorphosis. In my recent photographs, I use ginseng as an agent of transformation and crystal as a manifestation of the passage of time. In addition to its medicinal properties, ginseng root has an uncanny resemblance to the human body.  This is the result of the interaction of energy […]

I often think about what is beyond our visible world. I am sensitive to unseen things, like someone’s feelings and energy, a particular atmosphere in nature, or memories that come back to me over and over again. I am interested in speaking to that level of consciousness. Through my art, I try to connect to […]

The Swiss-born artist Mai-Thu Perret has recently become known for her multi-disciplinary practice encompassing sculpture, painting, video, and installation art. Drawing on the revolutionary potential of modernism, she has created a complex oeuvre that combines radical feminist politics with literary utopian texts and homemade crafts. Perret has exhibited in shows such as Apocalypse Ballet at […]