Author Archives: jolanta

In 1990, The World of Female Painters opened at China Central Academy of Fine Arts. I had just graduated from college. As a curator and a participating artist, I was nervous to see the audience’s feedback, just like any young person who organized an exhibition for the first time. The ’85 New Wave and the […]

I approach my work with specific formal concerns. I think about materials that create activities when they interact with light. The materials I am attracted to absorb, reflect, and transmit direct light, light filtered by film, and video projection. Through these activities, I am interested in producing excess, and thus eventually, creating a fantastic space. […]

The name Andrew Penfold is actually a pen name used to disguise the identity of an English based landscape artist and illustrator who was inspired to tackle the subject of human sexuality by a visit to Amsterdam’s Museum of Erotica in 2006. Using this alias allows Andrew to enjoy both anonymity and the freedom to […]

This round of works by the prolific, Bob Dylan-admiring Canadian artist Marcel Dzama exposes his interest in the political realm, although the artist was quick to point out (in response to a prying journalist’s question) that it is his intention to be oblique rather than dogmatic in his approach to subjects such as the Bush […]

My drawings have often been described as organic surrealism and I suppose, since I was born under the sign of Taurus, it seems only natural that my art should have an earthy quality about it. I never know what I am going to draw when I sit down with my enormous sheet of white paper, […]

For Your Pleasure has been instigated to celebrate the opening of the new Matches store in Marylebone High Street, London. My contribution to the store is based on circus imagery. I have been a life-long fan of circus stemming from my mother’s love of it. She quite literally ran away with one when I was […]