Author Archives: jolanta
Urban Snapshots
This is an age of imagery. We see a great number of pictures every day. People want better and better quality for the images they see. The more exaggerative, the more exciting, the more sensational the image is, the better. However, if an artist creates an image solely for the sake of getting attention, without […]
The Illusive Lure
Drawing on theoretical discourse related to the semantics of desire and difference, curator Basak Malone constructs a platform for multiple investigations of liminal space through Lure, recently presented at Broadway Gallery in SoHo. Reinterpreting classic texts from French structuralist and post-structuralist theory, Malone skillfully orchestrates a compelling constellation of works by a group of serious […]
Prying Eyes
My pictures are far from being documentary photographs or snapshots. However, I make them for much the same reason that people take pictures of historic events or their travels or a child’s first steps: to bear witness, to remember, to say, “This is special. I was there. This is what I saw.” This desire to […]
Mara Corfini
What does art want? To express the inexpressible and to communicate what is impossible to communicate? Mara Corfini What does art want? To express the inexpressible and to communicate what is impossible to communicate? Mara Corfini is a dynamic artist who utilizes the enigmatic and elusive questions that surround contemporary art in order to […]
Forces of Nature
A painter passionately committed to exploring the inherent properties, color and plasticity of her medium, Irene Neal’s ardor for paint is evident in her remarkable solo at the Huitai Art Centre, in Tianjin, China. The exhibition will showcase Neal’s free-form abstracts—incredibly fluid, vibrant, and intensely colorful works on canvas and wood until the end of […]
Ulysses to Nowhere
Photographs are light, images cut from the present. They act as reports of a life, a perfect portrait. Photography is stealing the soul of things that are observed: expecting, idealistically, the perfect moment. To photograph is to falsify reality, to create a story, to tell a story. Many times it is false, old, and depicts […]
Constructing the Exit from Childhood
I am an interdisciplinary artist, using the mediums of photography, video, and new media as forms of expression. My work explores the nature of performance, reality, and the moments in between. I am interested in the conflict between what is being represented and what is, under closer observation, actually occurring. The Exit Series explores longing, […]
Toying Mentality
Possibly influenced by the cartoon culture, Xia Hang’s graduation project was a man in the form of a comma. In the three years he’s trying to enter an MA program, Xia developed this concept of the comma man with the support of the New Era Gallery. First, he made the comma man in stainless steel, […]
Cross Culturalism
Mi-Lou series serves as a platform where issues related to city, prediction, and dream are discussed. It is a piece supported by a comprehensive framework, a project divided into three distinctive elements. The scenes took place sequentially in New York, Taipei, and Tokyo. Although I am often distracted by the minutia and seductions of daily […]
Inky Dreadfuls
Debra Anderson: What does your show title mean, and how does it tie in with your work? Michael Mararian: The title is Phobia, Foibles, and Fiends, and it is a reexamination of my last show, Little Unfortunates. The works in this show all fall under one of the categories listed in the title. The subjects […]
