Author Archives: jolanta

I remember my first time online well. It was my first year living in the United States and an acquaintance who was ordered to keep me entertained for a couple of hours sat me in front of a library computer, opened a browser window for me and told me to look up something… anything? I […]

I've always been fascinated by how dreams and their repressions shape personal and social crises. My installation, photography and sculptural work is inspired by mythological narratives, present day imperialism, queer politics, lyric poetry and erased moments in South Asian history. Taking these stories and integrating them with my own mythic imagery, the hybrid world of […]

Helen Brough is a British painter, drawer, sculptor and installation artist whose work transforms light and its transparencies into ebullient abstractions, as well as sharp social commentaries. In May 2006, she installed Emulated Flora at 70 Washington Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn. Jane and David Walentas commissioned the work through the Triangle Arts Association, an organization that […]

Born January 23rd, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, American-Italian Sante D’Orazio has captured the imagination of wide-ranging audiences. Glamorous fashion photographer and pioneer icon-maker, D’Orazio’s work is often listed as art, but why? “Photographs,” which ran at the independent art space Kunsthauswien in Vienna, highlighted what it called “a retrospective of the superstar” by exhibiting […]

Born Leah Borliawsky in the Ukraine in 1899, Nevelson emigrated with her family from the Ukraine to a Rockland, Maine, at the age of six. On being the only Jewish immigrants in their Maine town, Nevelson once said, “They needed immigrants like I need ten holes in my head.” Her father worked in the lumber […]

In an age of increasingly paperless information, the loss of the central role of bound and unbound text has potent implications. Books have tangible, physical properties that trace time and histories through the turning of each page. Information can be transparent and alert us to a particular culture and time, or else it is opaque, […]