Author Archives: jolanta
Riikka Soininen
Painter Riikka Soininen has studied art in Italy and arhitecture in Finland, and now builds her spaces, places, faces of the houses, doors, and staircases with oilcolour. Riikka Soininen Painter Riikka Soininen has studied art in Italy and arhitecture in Finland, and now builds her spaces, places, faces of the houses, doors, and staircases with […]
December 12, 2007
NY Arts + Art Fairs International: The Daily Newsletter Wednesday, December 12 Stolen Items; Beyond Basel; Irrational Action; Larry Carlson talks to Ry Fyan; Palm Trees and Rollerblades: Wrap-Up To see the NY Arts Newsletter in Chinese please click here International Top News Stolen Items More than 100 ancient artifacts, including ancestral statues, have been […]
Irrational Action
Somewhere between the shrouded depths of color and mended layers of texture lies the expression of energy, freed from rational control, and yet still clinging to the outline of a simple object. Automatic drawing and action painting developed by the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionist movements were in essence, journeys into the chaotic subconscious and the […]
Larry Carlson talks to Ry Fyan
Larry Carlson: As artists who use the assemblage process, we both sample fragments from the world of media streaming around us. I spend a lot of time collecting images, sounds, and videos on the internet as well as thrift stores and garbage cans. This process of searching for and categorizing media samples is an important […]
Palm Trees and Rollerblades: Wrap-Up
I came to Miami for the art fairs, but I stayed for the circus. If you’ve ever been to the circus you know that the best part is never the main attraction. What you remember a year it’s done is the thrilling smell of animal feces and exploding gunpowder. You remember that it’s about eating […]
Overheard in Miami
“How much longer do I have to pretend to be interested in this?” —15 year old at Art Positions “If you come to Miami to buy art, you’d think you’d get a call girl, and not a Collins Avenue lady of the night.’” —Artist “Have you been to the bathroom at the Deuce? It’s the […]
Palm Trees and Rollerblades Day Four
As the week wears on and the sand starts to fuse with my brain all the art here starts to look the same. This five day long party seems to hit it’s apex around day three, so by the fourth day there are collectors passed out on lawn chairs at NADA, and the gallerists look […]
December 11, 2007
NY Arts + Art Fairs International: The Daily Newsletter Tuesday, December 11 Basel Draws Record-High Crowds; French Fight Back To see the NY Arts Newsletter in Chinese please click here International Top News Basel Draws Record-High Crowds Art Basel Miami Beach closed its sixth annual installation Sunday reporting higher overall attendance, more gallery participation and […]
Palm Trees and Rollerblades Day Three
Overheard in Miami “If you get bored, just look up.” –Artist referring to the ceiling at the Miami convention center The hierarchy of the Miami art fairs is basically that of a medieval city. The hotel fairs (Aqua, Flow, Bridge) are the masses of plague-riddled serfs creeping around the city walls, gazing up at royalty. […]
Never Never Always Always
Irina Urumova has a knack for conveying the liminal in experience and culture; this talent was abundantly evident at a recent exhibition of her work at the Broadway Gallery, her first solo in New York City. This show, aptly titled kids:cute:sinister, offered a portrait of prepubescent desire as a Never Never Land where innocence, violence, […]
