Author Archives: jolanta

Rebecca Gordon: I am watching your video Electricity in the Air (American Beauty) as we speak. I see a digitalized recreation of the definitive scene in the 1999 film American Beauty, in which a plastic bag dances in a winter wind against a brick wall. In your video, the bag and the wall fill the […]

Leah Oates: When did you know you where an artist? What do you think an artist is now that you have been one for many years? Conor McGrady: A definitive moment was when I started primary school and the class was asked to produce self-portraits. The sense of achievement and accomplishment that I felt upon […]

Skye Thorstenson: In regards to the grotesque, I’m not sure how to talk about that. I don’t actively seek out taboo topics or try to solidify the grotesque. Normally what I plan to do is a bland reiteration of something—a memory, a scene from a TV show, or film that sticks with me. I think […]

Most art is about memory in a way that doesn’t deserve elaboration. Art simply records. But there is a more profound truth at work. Art elevates aspects of life to make it unforgettable. This memorial function is becoming obsoltte as the machine, the computer, rememebrs more and more for us. Memory though becomes a troubling […]

Minimalist artists Peter Weber and Bill Thompson create accessible art by deceptively simple means. Both artists have a singularly controlled vision defined by visually compelling abstract elements that send an immediate message. There is nothing in the art of either left to chance. That the works are well crafted and fully resolved adds to their […]

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. […]