Author Archives: jolanta
Nightmares of Self-Destruct – Ben Frost
The nightmares first started when I was about eight. It didn’t help that the house I lived in at the time was haunted, and that, by this time, I had already experienced several apparitions and poltergeist events—from flying cutlery to my mother’s spinning wheel turning violently while home alone watching “Laverne & Shirley.” It’s true […]
Chen Yufei – Red Gate Gallery
Chen Yufei’s paintings provide commentary on the difficulties that contemporary China faces in terms of its rapid urbanization and industrialization. Chen studied painting in Germany in the late 90s, and his visual vocabulary recalls the angst-ridden, fractured compositions of the pre-World War I work of Franz Marc. The artist constructs behemoth transport vehicles (jeeps, SUVs, […]
Becca Durnin
Becca Durnin is interested in creating nonsensical narratives that are at once precious and over-the-top, personal and monumental, beautiful and grotesque. Her drawings may include elements of human anatomy, sullen, scantily-clad women, or decadent, overly-ornate interiors. While they may vary in subject matter and size—some are ten feet by ten feet, others are drawn on […]
Childlike and Mature – Whitney May
Whitney May: You were a toymaker and an industrial designer before you became a full-time artist. In what ways have your previous pursuits shaped your paint- and ink-filled oeuvre so far?Stella Im Hultberg: I don’t know if there is any direct influence from my having been a product designer to be found in what I […]
The Art House Gallery & Studio – Becca Durnin
The Art House Gallery & Studio is unique to Nashville as it is the only gallery focused solely on the work of local artists. While the definition the Art House assigns to “local” is a broad one—John Hung Ha, one of its top-selling artists, currently lives in Brooklyn, but grew up in Nashville—the Art House […]
Frank Dammers
Frank Dammers (Holland, Zwolle, 1951) shares with Mondriaan, and other artists who work in the spirit of the Bauhaus. His fascination for architecture is evident in the geometric and balanced nature Frank Dammers (Zwolle, 1951) shares with Mondriaan, and other artists who work in the spirit of the Bauhaus, the desire to give expression […]
The United States of Amnesiaââ¬âOrwellââ¬â¢s Invisible Flag – Paul D. Miller & Steven Psyllos
The KKK is after John Sims. In September of 2004, Sims installed his Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag at the Gettysburg College and the Mystic Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had a bit to say about his redefinition of this weighted symbol of the South and slavery. Why were the sheetheads so […]
WAKE UP MR. SLEEPY! YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND IS DEAD! – Joseph Nechvatal
In talking about artists who turn their life into art, one has to mention Richard Foreman’s new mixed media play WAKE UP MR. SLEEPY! YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND IS DEAD! purports to be a response to a world in which visionary sages and poets are replaced by specialists who make platitudes out of the immediately observable. […]
Paintings to Live In: Carmen Einfingerââ¬â¢s ââ¬ÅseeCEOseenââ¬Â at Broadway Gallery – Julia Draganovic
In talking about artists who turn their life into art, one has to mention Carmen Einfinger as a primary representative of our day. Without any artificial attitude, Carmen Einfinger transforms every aspect of her everyday life into an art piece: her clothes, her furniture, her whole Soho loft, everything she deals with gets that colorful, […]
Suvi Konttinen
Suvi Konttinen lives and works in Chicago and Helsinki. Konttinen’s work is conscious; she reacts to the things happening around her. Suvi Konttinen lives and works in Chicago and Helsinki. Konttinen’s work is conscious; she reacts to the things happening around her. She is currently working on a series of Story Paintings. Every painting tells […]
