Author Archives: jolanta

One night in the early 70s, young Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki and a fellow colleague took a walk through Chuo Park in Shinjuku, and encountered “something amazing”—a couple full on doing it.  It was this incident that launched one of Yoshiyuki’s most controversial projects: a series of grainy black-and-white photographs called The Park. Made during […]

The iconoclastic stance Charles Merrill takes as both an artist and activist goes far beyond the formalized calls of civic duty. “There is only so much you can do with paint on canvas,” he says. Nonetheless, Merrill continues to lay paint on canvas to express his perception of the violence permeating the increasingly intolerant attitudes […]

Circles were everywhere—red, blue, black, yellow, green—across the floor, on the walls, near the ceiling. Hung from the roof were five bicycle wheels painted the same colors through which a yellow dragon was flying. Below the dragon on the floor was a huge piece of white canvas splashed with similar circles. Another long piece of […]

Matilde Digmann: Thank you for taking the time to talk to me. I would like to start by asking you about the title of the work Love Songs? How does it correspond to the content and expression of the work? Mary Kelly: Well, the title is kind of unusual for me: in the past I’ve […]

Less Than Day, Or Night, my recent sculptural installation at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, continues to explore what I call “homemade futurism.” The piece is inspired by the final Cantos of Dante’s Inferno in which Dante, led by Virgil, enters the freezing central pit of hell. At the end, as the pair climb their way […]