Author Archives: jolanta

A strikingly impressive mid-career retrospective of the artist Sky Pape’s work is currently on view at River Stone Arts, a 10,000 square foot gallery space in Haverstraw, New York, a small, arty blue collar town on the west bank of the Hudson river twenty-five minutes north of New York City. Pape’s work is widely exhibited […]

Leah Oates: When did you know you were an artist?  Stephanie Brody-Lederman: I knew that I was an artist when I was very young. At about five years of age, my mother and I would visit my grandparents and, while they talked in the living room, I would be given a piece of paper with […]

I consider myself a faux landscape photographer. I meticulously build miniature model landscapes and interior environments and photograph the results. As an artist, I have always looked to the physical world around me for inspiration. My work is a direct reflection of my own landscape, with a particular bent towards disaster and decay. By actually […]

On the way to Broadway Gallery’s newest group show, “Waiting,” I couldn’t help but reflect on the serendipitous correspondence of my own situation. Waiting for the bus. Then waiting for the subway. Waiting for the walk light. Waiting for the elevator. Waiting and waiting and waiting. As co-curators Raluca Corjan and Victoria Mayer—as well as […]

The title of this exhibition, “In the Age of Innocents,” brings to mind The Age of Innocence, a novel by Edith Wharton who writes about society, class and culture. However, I suspect Tony Moore is not making a reference, with his spelling of the word “innocents,” to the rules of this society. No. Instead, Moore […]

With the world in crisis, it is rare to find a painter who dares to enter the collective unconscious to explore a solution. Yet, this is precisely the monumental task that Michael Manning sets for himself in his dazzling “Contradictions,” exhibited at Pablo’s Birthday in New York this spring. At the turn of the millennium, […]

In the last 100 years, the male figure has been put into a closet, seen as too potent, homoerotic or even gay. Since long before the time of Michelangelo, the male form was seen as ideal. As Biblically described in Genesis 1:26, “Man was perfect, made in the image of God,” and E. Gibbons is […]

A friend of mine once remarked that, “honesty lives in the water.” I expect that what he meant by this was that when we are immersed in water we are more concerned with the preservation of the self than with the presentation of the self; water is not home to the ego. My “Underworld” works, […]

Butt Johnson’s work is obsessive to a degree that could overcome even our most severe expectations of an artist confined solely to his work. His elaborately detailed ballpoint pen drawings, some of which have taken as many as two years to complete, combine complex ornamentation from a range of historical repositories with various cultural iconographies; […]