Author Archives: jolanta

A lifetime before I moved to hipster-central, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I was a sorority girl at the University of Michigan. The salacious underbelly of this time-honored community still continues to fascinate me.  This world of friendship, camaraderie, sex and violence from my past became a kind of springboard for my career as a serious artist. I […]

I remember well when I first entered the small gallery of New General Catalog on Franklin Street in Greenpoint. The first thing that caught my attention was the beautiful space itself—not your typical white cube. I am positive that Darri Lorenzen can recall a similar encounter, how he must have been taken with its washed-out […]

Much of our work is made up of found objects, so first and foremost, collecting is the initial step. What we find eventually becomes our materials, so we have a preference for what we can get in abundance. At the moment, it is predominantly clothing. Acquiring vast quantities is the basis of our larger sculptures […]

In French, Les Fauves means “the wild beasts.” This is worth noting because French-Canadian painter Pierre Juteau has developed a highly intellectual approach to art making that has led him to build his work upon the joyous freedom and deceptively “primitive” style of the Fauves. This dénouement is the result of the ambitious goal Juteau […]

Entering the space, big black intertwining leaves, connected through aerial roots, hover in the air and take up the space, from wall to wall. The viewer is surrounded by Monstera, a beautiful and yet menacing work made out of paper, tape, wire and nylon; it is inspired by a tropical plant well known within 50s […]

As an artist, my approach to installation art is rational and intuitive at the same time. In this article, I have tried to briefly explain how certain ideas have developed from object-based architectural works to installation works with narrative qualities. The relationship between installation and architecture can be illuminated through consideration of two cases: when […]

Jeremy Fish was born in Albany, New York, in 1974. He moved west to attend the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994. Since then, he has called San Francisco home. His work is a balancing act of commercial illustration and gallery shows. His work concentrates on the balance of all things cute and creepy. His […]

One of my strengths as an artist is my ability to look at the world around me and find a strange beauty in things overlooked by most people. I can draw inspiration equally from the close-up character lines on a human face and a well-designed logo or ad. It is the culmination of these many […]

Working across the disciplines of art, craft and design, “Material Overtures,” set within a larger Harbourfront Centre programme entitled “Desire,” exhibits a playful skepticism directed towards an inheritance of exhibition practice that suggests that the very function of aesthetic objects is contemplation and consumption. Referencing Harbourfront Centre’s craft studios where, from a distance, the public […]