Author Archives: jolanta
Andrew Kuo
I like to make simple things complicated. I joke and say this is the way I am as a person too. There’s a truth to everything. So, I like to say my work is about that, specifically, about making and looking. By making my work abstract, it reduces the levels at which someone can identify […]
Caroline Degroiselle
A steady traveller, Caroline Degroiselle holds exhibitions in Europe and throughout the world. Living in New Caledonia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Caroline Degroiselle A steady traveller, Caroline Degroiselle holds exhibitions in Europe and throughout the world. Living in New Caledonia, in the middle of the Pacific ocean, there she has found […]
David LaChapelle – Mary Hrbacek
Errant behavior, retribution and eventual redemption define the ingenious photographs in David LaChapelle’s current exhibition. The artist explores with humor, irony and imagination a spectrum that spans from socio-economic satire to religious and political commentary. In the monumental piece Deluge, American culture symbolized by Las Vegas undergoes Biblical consequences for bad behavior. LaChapelle stresses the […]
Ric Globus – Simone Cappa
In terms of both its popularity and its many developments over the past decade, the medium of digital art has experienced a rapid incline, and, through his expertly wrought experimentations within this particular art form, artist and visionary Ric Globus has consistently made it look easy. It is for this reason that artist and curator […]
Bedri Baykam – Sarah Masel
Like an endless labyrinth erratically winding and pushing towards new directions with no conclusive destination, Turkish artist Bedri Baykam transcends artistic progression. Developmental patterns do not exist within the artist’s prolific career; for Baykam resides in a world laden with gray, an environment in which x is y, and the very notion of dichotomies collapses […]
An Introduction to the Section – Arhan Virdi
Austria is a phenomenon between definitions. As a geographical, historical and lingual expression of this, we might ask whether the art of the country also represents its dichotomies. Landlocked to the north by Germany and the Czech Republic, to the east by Slovakia and Hungary, to the south by Slovenia and Italy and to the […]
The Protest Art of Charles Merrill – Milton Fletcher
Artist, gay activist and iconoclast Charles Merrill is enjoying a prolific period of creativity by addressing his social concerns in his art. A move last year to Palm Springs, California, with its brilliant sunlight inspired Merrill to integrate aspects of Cubism into his latest work, particularly the use of form and bright color. Like Picasso […]
Chen Fei – Whitney May
Chen Fei’s pink-skinned, sausage-bodied characters couldn’t be rounder, pudgier or more indulgent in the likes of food, material objects and sex. Each and every one of the aritst’s works makes a point to disgust and repel the viewer, yet each is also outfitted in baby pink and glossy pearls. To sum up the overall theme […]
Füge Demirok – Sarah Dotts/Tchera Niyego
Füge Demirok writes short poem-like inscriptions next to the works in her 2007 catalog. The third poem, placed next to an image of The Seal, reads, “Sealed, / From past eternity to eternity, / Can it be disregarded? / Not caring, not minding…” It doesn’t seem like the most ambitious request for attention on an […]
Heart Of the Leopold – Jamie Curtlydee
The Leopold Museum houses perhaps the most important collection of modern Austrian art in the world. It is, as much as it can be, the foremost representation of Austrian art. For example, the Leopold holds the largest Egon Schiele collection in the world and major works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokschka, Richard Gersti, Albin Egger-Lienz […]
