Author Archives: jolanta

Craig Willse: Because your work has these very clean, minimal, formal aspects, people have connected what you’re doing to Modernism. What was Modernism trying to do that you’re not trying to do? Jonah Groeneboer: Modernism has, among its goals, a sort of absolute idealism that it tries to achieve. Absolutism often is so entrenched in […]

There are no great gestures, no posing, no breaching of taboos, no reference to current topics. His images of alienation from reality exist outside of time. They portray mortality and losing one’s grip on reality in pictures that are unspectacular. Pictures in which what the beam of a pocket flashlight makes fleetingly visible only that […]

Astria Suparak: You have a serious history in academia: You hold a Masters in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz and are finishing your PhD in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, have written for various institutions and magazines, and teach a course on the evolution of technology at NYU. You also actively exhibit and […]

We are permanently standing at the intersection of Forever and Now, witness to the moment at which the two liquefy to become one path, only to separate again. The paths are lined and flowing with every last thing the perceptual apparatus is equipped to encounter, and it is our task to interpret each facet, sorting […]

New York-based artist Nadiyah Jinnah was brought up in Africa and is of South Asian descent. She draws on the depths of a long cultural history and from the inspirational surroundings in which she finds herself during her travels across the globe for bold-hued “lifescapes.” More specifically however, in her recent show at Broadway Gallery […]

Rita McBride: Yesterday you described your process as cyclical. You called it a circular practice. Where do all of your thoughts and your decisions begin and end? Melissa Gordon: In my work there are often representations of images with references to specific events, histories, and people. All of the subject matter that I work with […]