Author Archives: jolanta

The title of this exhibit organized by the British Council and the Capital Museum should be, “Cultural Détente in an Age of Delicate Official Cross Cultural Exchange.” To be fair, the show’s organizers were caught between a rock and a hard place—offending official sensibility would have resulted in no show at all, so the result […]

At the glass façade of one of the more exposed, storefront-like white spaces in Chelsea, springtime gallery goers found themselves window shopping a colorful collage of rare and eclectic examples of early 90s cassette tapes, and right alongside a decent number of felt warrior characters reminiscent of Jim Henson’s The Labyrinth or of the Nickelodeon […]

I came to this art thing pretty late in life. Even though I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil, somehow I ended up in corporate America for 15 years bouncing from cubicle job to cubicle job. I was fast tracked into the typical American life: job, marriage, kids and a picket fence. […]

Whitney May: Your latest body of work was recently on view at Art Agents Gallery in Hamburg under the (appropriate) exhibition heading “Hover.” How does this architectural and highly intricate portion of your sculptural oeuvre compare to the rest? Do you consider this sculptural style new or old news? Eric Eley: My work has always […]

If Clement Greenberg wanted flatness, artist Jared Lindsay Clark has accomplished it. The problem is that he is building that flatness from kitsch. Jared Lindsay Clark’s show at ADA Gallery in Richmond, then, is one of contradiction and subtlety. This is not quite painting, but it is about painting. It is not quite sculpture, but […]

Appealing to the senses and evoking emotional states, wonder is the principal effect that the objects that I make incite. My work consists of three interrelated ventures: floral relief carvings in wax, floral paper cut-outs and drawings of exotic fowl. The exotic fowl series, in its earliest stages, was exclusively of cocks and cockerels, but […]

Los Angeles-based artist Kirsten Stoltmann recognizes the suburbs as ground for major pathological unrest, and her new exhibition at Allston Skirt Gallery, “Rough Bush: Artifacts and Heirlooms,” takes as its icon the tumbling tumbleweed—seen through Stoltmann’s eyes as a roving plant making its way through the isolated desert and into the decorum of the suburban […]

Two concurrent exhibitions at Solvent Space in Richmond, Virginia—one a vibrant outdoor fabric installation by Richmond artist Rachel Hayes, the other a hushed, indoor installation by Icelandic artist Margrét Blöndal—work together, persuasively, to create meanings beyond the intentions of either artist. Taken together, the two installations become a metaphor for external and internal experience. Hayes […]

There is something unsettling in Lordan Bunch’s recent paintings at Schroeder Romero. His painstaking reproductions of tombstone photographs are, on one level, a tribute to the dead and to grieving. He performs a ritual remembering that is likely to survive longer and travel further than the original memorial photos ever could. The photorealistic details of […]

“Suburban sprawl” is a familiar term of general degradation in a contemporary society where green solutions and densely packed diversity are increasingly prized. Green is sexy and the suburbs, with their tract housing, two car garages and strip malls as far as the eye can see, are decidedly un-sexy. The suburbs are a necessary evil […]