Author Archives: jolanta

With photography, I record my daily activities, such as listening to music, going to movies, shopping, gallery hopping, and chatting. Taking photographs is a necessity in my life. It’s as natural as eating and sleeping.   Liu Ren is a Beijing-based artist. Liu Ren, Someday, Somewhere-04, 2005. C-Print, Size A: 100 x 100 cm Edition: […]

Starting with canvas board, the artist composes unplanned compositions stemming from his unconscious and his dreams, compositions he often fully visualizes while he sleeps. Often centralized around the motif of the circle—or for Doolittle, the mandala—these visionary acrylic images combine repeated patterning of circles and rectilinear components, resulting in dramatic designs that produce interesting optical […]

 STRIKE! mixes boxing matches and contemporary chamber music, with most of the performances taking place in boxing rings. In combining such seemingly disparate genres, the crowd at STRIKE! is unusually diverse. STRIKE! derives much of its fundamental vitality from everyone getting to learn a little about the each other’s “world.” From this odd coupling, STRIKE! […]

China is undergoing one of the most dramatic transitions in the history of the world. The acceleration of change echoes throughout our society and beyond our borders. Inevitably the changes result in both stimulation and trauma. The past is disappearing and the present is in constant flux. China is becoming more and more dynamic as […]

Comprised of works created in different media, this exhibition introduces a new fictional model called “Abissology,” or the science that studies the abyss, which is the result of the artistic practice of the artists. This model is reflected in the fiction they create, which is concerned with the literary composition of a specific science of […]

Thousands of newspaper cuttings, photos, and quotations including the word “everything” hang on the wall around a black pulsating screen. The artist has been tracing the existance of “everything” in our culture for almost two years. This installation is constructed by oppositions—symbols and symptoms, pathos and irony, overflow and the unnoticeable, schematic and idiomatic, and […]

Biology is no different from photography, video, or computers, in that it can be used as an art medium. The use of biology as an art medium is not a recent phenomenon. It is likely that ever since early humans have started domestication, animals and plants have been selected, and consequently modified, based on aesthetic […]

With its famous Speedway, the once champion Colts, and the popular Pacers, Indianapolis is first and foremost a sports town. What most do not know is that Indianapolis has an art scene–albeit limited–with one world-class institution, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), as its core. At the IMA, you will find a number of stellar […]