Author Archives: jolanta

I started making the drawings…as a way to both counter and enhance this power, depending on my mood, as a way to gain false mastery of the words, of the language, and as a way to enter an alternative world in order to jump start my neurotransmitters during a nasty depression one winter, I started […]

A ghost materialized, wandering in the street of a city in the middle of the night—this was the feeling I had when I first saw the new works of Liu Xin-Tao. People fear the night because they can’t see the world as clearly as they do during the day, and that makes them feel they’re […]

The Post Apocalyptic Tattoo: A Ten Year Survey is a history of post-modern angst directed from the point of view of a tattoo artist. One of the intriguing things about this show is that the artist D. Dominick Lombardi claims to be a “vehicle for the Tattoo Artist” who “sends” the images. Lombardi in fact […]

Mixed Greens started in 1999 as the vision of a passionate collector, Paige West.  Paige was tired of people only being able to name dead artists. She wanted to give living artists, and, in particular, under-recognized artists, a platform. She started through documentary film and then, as the Internet took off, created the mixedgreens.com Web […]

For Wu Jun-Yong, the world is a circus and life is a performance full of diversity and banality. The images Wu creates are like sparkling phrases, composing a story that is never finished. For five years, Wu has been expanding his vocabulary of images that are multiplying like mushrooms after the rain. The little people […]