Author Archives: jolanta
Milenaââ¬â¢s Demands – Gregory Christie
Milena Jovicevic Popovic demands more of the viewer than a casual glance or the passive attention involved in viewing a more narrative-based painting. The artist, raised in Montenegro and schooled in France, gives the viewer fragments to consider—a series of crude geometric shapes, the silhouette of a shitting dog, dead cigarettes ritually piled in an […]
Sticking to the Story – Brooks Salzwedel
It all started with tape. While in my last term at the Art Center, I became obsessed with an old, weathered spool of tape. It was a yellow ochre and was almost falling off of its cardboard inner tube. It was toxic and unhealthy looking and so I was drawn to using it. This object […]
Found & Alive or Search & Destroy – Jill Blagsvedt
It’s easy to get trapped in doubt, laziness and a false sense of pride in this fast-paced culture. My work and life are an attempt to be direct and honest with myself, which automatically translates onto the canvas. Picasso said, “I do not seek. I find.” The finding is having confidence in every mark, color […]
Jaime Dalglish interviewed by Ann Wilson
Ann Wilson: You’re from New York. Would you call these nature paintings? Jaime Dalglish: I would call them Unitarian paintings. AW: Why? JD: Because it’s my work, and I believe in work, you know? I believe in the work that I create and make available. I also listen to a lot of music, you know? […]
Al Johnson
“…… A contemporary master with an unusually broad range of styles, and a seemingly fearless penchant for experimentation. “…… A contemporary master with an unusually broad range of styles, and a seemingly fearless penchant for experimentation. Unassumingly bold.” Light, and darkness. Wealth and squalor. Joy and pain. Compassion and complacency. When I can get it […]
Henk Roozendaal
Since 1999 the artist lives and paints on the Dutch Caribbean island Bonaire, where he discovered his ‘stylized realism’. Henk Roozendaal Since 1999 the artist lives and paints on the Dutch Caribbean island Bonaire, where he discovered his ‘stylized realism’. www.henkroozendaal.com
Narrative Artworks and Experiential Abstraction – Julie Wills
In preparing for any discussion concerning the merits or characteristics of installation-based artworks—their physical and aesthetic properties and their ideological origins—it first seems necessary to elaborate upon the ways in which such works are experienced. This discussion relies upon an understanding of the different experiences encountered through narrative artworks and artworks belonging to a second […]
New Narrative Energizes New York Performance – Lisa Paul Streitfeld
In a New York performance season in which the controversial London import “My Name is Rachel Corrie” took center stage, there occurred something new and exciting around the periphery: multiple examples of new narrative, energizing a wide range of live downtown performance. This is not the sophistic navel gazing of the past but an authentic […]
The City of the Future: An Interview With Painter Chris Dorland – Leah Oates
Leah Oates: When did you know you wanted to be an artist? I read a bit about you beforehand, and you came from an artistic and bohemian family in Montreal, where you were raised. You had originally wanted to become a lawyer. What was your progression?Chris Dorland: I have always been an extremely visual person, […]
Kristian Burfordââ¬â¢s ââ¬ÅRebeccaââ¬Â – Chris Gregga
Peering through a barely open doorway, the viewer is presented with a nude woman lying at a rakish angle across her bed—nearly drooping onto the floor. The scene is an old-fashioned bedroom strewn with significant looking objects—a carefully placed mirror, roses and other objects loaded with ambiguous meaning. Fortunately we are provided with a written […]
