Author Archives: jolanta
Haegue Yang
Haegue Yang’s artistic production has been strikingly described as the combination of the act of speech and the act of silence. Haegue Yang Haegue Yang’s artistic production has been strikingly described as the combination of the act of speech and the act of silence. The objects of mass production that define Yang’s pallet Venetian […]
Haegue Yang
Haegue Yang’s artistic production has been strikingly described as the combination of the act of speech and the act of silence. Haegue Yang Haegue Yang’s artistic production has been strikingly described as the combination of the act of speech and the act of silence. The objects of mass production that define Yang’s pallet Venetian […]
The Santa Fe Art Scene
The art scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico remains vibrant and active. There are more than 250 galleries in a town of 67,000 and more than 150 are within walking distance of the central plaza. This includes the well-known Canyon Road area. The coyote and raven appear frequently in the folklore of the region and […]
Jasper Johns: Gray at The Metropolitan Museum
Jasper Johns, the great mariner of modern art, guides us down deep into the world of gray in this shining 200-piece retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The palette of these works could, in the hands of a lesser artist, dampen their vibrancy, but Johns’ work has its own life, recalling […]
David Kastner at Ico Gallery, Tribeca
"On display were several of the artist’s bodies of work including his Liquid Expressions series, a series of images of swirling, vibrant colors that expand from the painting surfaces onto their frames; as well as his popular sculptural relief works that explore shape, form, and color relationships, as well as text." Jill Smith Opening […]
Neo-Pop Art Goes East
Florida’s first exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Neo-Pop art is being held at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in Coral Gables through February. “Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists” includes oils and original works on paper by established artists such as Lu Peng and Liu Yan as well as emerging artists Xiong Lijun, Kang Can, Yang Na and […]
Sobin Park at the Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
William Shakespeare referred to sexual intercourse as “the beast with two backs”—something of a fitting description for the works of Sobin Park, on display at the Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. Park’s art, and the obsessiveness, sexuality, beauty, and beastliness portrayed in the act of love making, and the passion and pleasure evidenced in […]
Elizabeth Peyton at Gavin Brownââ¬â¢s Enterprise
“From royals to rappers, her paintings of men have consistently been the most intriguing. Real or imagined, the unabashed ‘feminization’ of her male subjects has rarely been given its deserved critical attention.” Dmitry Komis Elizabeth Peyton’s work is on view at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise through May 17. Elizabeth Peyton, Matthew March 2008, 2008. Oil on […]
Panni Malek
My work has always been about things in myself that I feel incredibly uncomfortable with and embarrassed by. I exploit what’s dangerous and scares me about myself. I collect; I hoard… I do weird shit. Right now I’m trying to paint a series of still lives of all my trinkets… including a jade dildo, this […]
Pedro Cabral Santo
There is no all-embracing and global way of understanding art. I favor the logic of work, inquiry, and the kind of experimentation that rejects the idea of the illuminated artist, and the “bad” romantic sense of art. Pedro Cabral Santo is a multi-media artist based in Lisbon. Pedro Cabral Santo, The Hit of Courbet, […]
