Author Archives: jolanta

Nicola Parente creates expressive abstract paintings from his studio in Houston, Texas. Born in Italy, he draws from a rich Italian heritage and a deep well of cross-cultural experiences to bring his art to life. Working in a variety of media and formats, Parente engages the viewer in dialogues regarding the universal phenomenon of human […]

If you’re making contemporary music, it doesn’t matter how big you are, you can’t not have a Myspace page. That the internet has profoundly changed the way music is made today is so evident that it’s almost embarrassing to state it. The availability of a huge archive of content online and cheap editing software, along […]

Batteries, pasta, cables, Q-tips, pencils, chopsticks, gum, nails, birth control pills, towels, ribbons, toothpicks, cans, candy, razors, straws—the list of materials in a Sarah Sze installation would take up most of this article. Sze chooses materials that are all variations on the same theme—the flotsam and jetsam of a modern capitalist lifestyle. They are the […]

We live in a three-dimensional environment. We can perceive depth because, when each eye sees a slightly different version of the same image, the brain combines both views into a single, three-dimensional “stereo” picture. It is a relatively simple process, one that stereoscopic photography, the method I use to make images, can successfully mimic by […]

Basel-madness may have come and gone from Florida in a single month, but an East Coast debut at SCOPE Miami was just the beginning of a longer road trip for one work of art. Andrew Junge’s Styrofoam Hummer (American Detritus), a piece that has made the 39-year-old artist a minor celebrity on the San Francisco […]

In two simultaneous shows, the St. Petersburg’s Arts Center, which divides its time and space between exhibiting local and member artists and organizing museum-grade shows of contemporary art, dips into the world of westerns. “The Wild Bunch: Cowboys in Contemporary Art” showcases cowboy kitsch in current paintings, sculpture and video by eight artists from around […]

Kerry Ware’s most recent exhibition at The Dorsch Gallery submerges the viewer in a realm of abstract seascapes. Inspired by electro-acoustic music, Ware’s conceptualized aesthetic unites the tangible and the intangible. Looking at his work, one can almost hear the staccato puncturing of the wooden dowels in the plaster panels, offset by the rhythmic flow […]

My camera’s viewfinder is a world of magic. When I look through it, everything changes and transforms into something different—lifeless things turn into living spirits, branches into arms of a ghost and people into scary souls and then I become someone different than who i was. Maybe I am a bird flying freely in the […]

So here’s my thing. I’m a lady who was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, with the exception of two years when I lived in Nevada as a child. I’m 37 and I live in South Philadelphia. I started to make photos when I was 30 because I was compelled to produce this long-term, gigantic-scale, […]

Victoria Mayer: How would you describe the main themes of your recent artworks?Tom Schmelzer: My art is about topics that are somewhat important to all of us: life and death, love and violence, truth, politics, religion, the environment. You’ve heard all of that before? It bores you? Well, this is why, in my work, you […]