Author Archives: jolanta

My work embodies subjects that range in subject from simple-celled organisms to political and societal statements; I tend not to gravitate towards any one subject. These ideas are set within portal-like spaces of rimmed pumice. The overall effect is dimensional and draws the viewer in with intensely contrasted colors.   Mike Norkin is a New […]

Voyeur Project View solo exhibitions are shown to the public through a peephole in a door that can be accessed 24 hours a day. This work in progress is a project integrated into my own artistic practice. It implies partnership as a way of seeing the space through a group of different artists. It is […]

All Work and No Play is a guerilla art installation attempted in Dubai in December 2007. Numerous towers are being constructed at the same time in Dubai, and at night they leave all the lights on. For the installation, we snuck into the construction site of one of the towers dressed as laborers to manipulate […]

In 2007, the Des Moines art scene blossomed into an interactive night out on the town. With the debut of Art Stop, the growth of the Des Moines Arts Festival, and the large number of gallery shows, Des Moines has turned into a Midwest art Mecca.   Jared Curtis  Christine Mullane, Corona. Oil on Canvas […]

I think each viewer’s experience is unique and no two people will have the same experience. The question of Abstraction vs. Figuration is something that the viewer needs to answer. My interpretation of the work is always in flux. It’s simultaneously foreign and familiar. In the world, I tend to see color and form first, […]

I combine the twisting and reconfiguring of (mainly) plastic and metal found objects, with improvised bulbous hand-sculpted abstract forms made up of pigmented resin, fiberglass, paint and polyurethane foam. The intersection of the squeezed, bulbous, and almost cartoonish forms, with the cut scrambled plastic and metal, creates the exact tension I seek; a pathetic, goofy […]

The city is a place where buildings furiously propagate. In China, it is almost like a carnival. All kinds of unthinkable new buildings gather from all over the world, to compensate the desires of a newly rising powerful country, to satisfy a thirst for marvelous spectacles. I’ve combined these buildings from various places with other […]

The most immediately striking piece in "Unraveling Identities" was the video work of Akiko Kikuchi, projected in an elegant mirrored box on the floor. Kikuchi’s work is highly graphic—black and white—and this particular piece examines clusters of people separating and re-integrating into a crowd formation. The mirrored installation box created multiple dimensions in a fishbowl […]

Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, I was an only child who from an early age found escape through my drawings. Standard elementary school was replaced by boarding school and high school by a Southern Baptist military academy. I soon realized in these environments that the only way to find oneself was through one’s creations.   […]