Author Archives: jolanta

The rhetoric of the pose is both visual and performative. Although it is activated on an instinctual level—as one scans another’s pose for signs of aggression, fear, authority or compatibility—it can also be indicative of a particular time, class or culture. Studied closely, a pose reveals confidence or insecurity, self-awareness or self-doubt, desire, joy or […]

Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh: What inspired you to create Works on Paper? What do you hope to accomplish with this annual event? Sanford Smith: I thought there was a need for a show that focused on all art that was created on paper: watercolors, prints, drawings, photography, architectural renderings, and so on.   Sanford Smith is […]

Starting in Shanghai 2005 and carrying on in Singapore 2006 and Venice Biennale 2007, Migration Addicts project still works on negotiating migration concept today through discussions with curators, artists, and other people in the art world.   Susanne Winterling, Between Heaven and Hell. Courtesy of the artist. Starting in Shanghai 2005 and carrying on in […]

My work is personal in that it reflects my personality and draws on my everyday experiences. Interior scenes of my personal space are a reoccurring subject matter. These “interior portraits” are often informed by Feng Shui. I like the idea in Feng Shui that objects and how they are arranged have the power to alter […]

Gillian Sneed: In the Floating Worlds exhibition, both you and Japanese photographer Kanako Sasaki explored dream-like/childhood worlds and you both have discussed a sense of displacement from your family’s culture and history. How do you use your work as a way to establish connections to your past? Fay Ku: I can’t separate the past from […]

Inspired by ancient art and their textures which are imperfect and variegated, combined with his love of modernism which is polished and smooth, artist Richard Hoey combines simple form and textures through his unique skill of layering metal leaf, earth pigments, plaster, and waxes. Inspired by ancient art and their textures which are imperfect and […]

The second installment of the New York-based biennial of performance art, PERFORMA, took place this past November at various locations throughout the city. The brainchild of the eminent performance art scholar and curator, RoseLee Goldberg, PERFORMA boasted a tremendous program of performances, exhibitions, films, lectures, and symposia. Gillian Sneed The work of Allan Kaprow, the […]

With his new body of work entitled Jpeg at David Zwirner, Thomas Ruff continues his engagement with the production of images in the Internet age. Named after the compression files for Internet images that Ruff mines from the web, the ongoing series explores how these online pictures are perceived by the public. He locates the […]

Expression—artistic expression—is a common enough trait in New York City.  Not that location defines creativity, hardly. But New York can “’stamp”’ art as either getting through the gate or getting banished to the land of obscurity. It’s interesting then, that the first museum exhibition of Bob Dylan’s paintings was held in a small German city. […]