Author Archives: jolanta
Making a Scene – Mandy Morrison
Douglas Rosenberg is an EMMY nominated director and the recipient of the Phelan Art Award in Video. He is well known for his collaborations with choreographers including Molissa Fenley, Sean Curran, Ellen Bromberg, Joe Goode, Li Chiao-Ping, Eiko and Koma and others. He is the Director and Curator of Dancing for the Camera: Dance Film […]
Thereââ¬â¢s Always Something Missing – Lila Polenaki
In the belief that my own words would be just marginal notes upon the truth within the canvas, I decided to approach the composition of a text about my personal relationship to my work in a way similar to the process of creating a painting. Surrounded by invented or found text fragments, I reorder and […]
Building the Natural World – Jessica Lott
Viewed from a distance, Kim Keever’s large photographs are of moody, damp environments—mist hovers over boggy ground, tropical plants crowd the embankment, streams snake across the dirt—and everything is oppressed by an uncommonly active sky with thick clouds that stretch for miles and then close off the view. Yet there is something disquietingly artificial about […]
Vito Campanella: Surrealism & Metaphysics – Valery Oisteanu
It was in Buenos Aires one year ago that I had a surprise encounter with Vito Campanella’s work at the MALBA Museum. Although surrealist art is in my bailiwick, I was glimpsing for the first time the work of a major artist—an entirely imaginary and fantastic world of creation crafted over more than half a […]
Robert W. Firestone: Feelings ââ¬â D. Dominick Lombardi
January is figure month at the Walter Wickiser Gallery. In one group show, Milton Avery’s daughter, March Avery, and grandson, Sean Cavanaugh, grace the walls with curious appropriations and realistic apparitions. In another nearby room hang the story tale narratives of Korean artist Deulnai Kim, which show a great mastery of aquatint etching. In the […]
Chris Gulick
Julia Ruecker, interior architect in Stuttgart, Germany, has said, “Space, subconsciously, is often mistaken as void or emptiness. Julia Ruecker, interior architect in Stuttgart, Germany, has said, “Space, subconsciously, is often mistaken as void or emptiness. Christopher Gulick’s art explores, occupies, emphasizes and stimulates space. By following the lines and bodies of Gulicks’ sculptures with […]
Richard Monge
Richard Monge depicts ideas not explicitly, but implies them through subtle hints and allusions, creating an ambiguous collage of fragments and details. Richard Monge depicts ideas not explicitly, but implies them through subtle hints and allusions, creating an ambiguous collage of fragments and details. His range of imagery deals fundamentally with the subject matter of […]
Whitney McVeigh
Through quick movements of the brush the images are formed. A dialogue begins as the ink hits the paper and chance sets the paintings in motion. Through quick movements of the brush the images are formed. A dialogue begins as the ink hits the paper and chance sets the paintings in motion. “You set up […]
Carl Hoare
My work is a symptom of my existence it is a dark sarcastic world that is personal as well as impersonal. My work is a symptom of my existence it is a dark sarcastic world that is personal as well as impersonal. I am interested in mans seeming need to destroy himself through control and […]
Sofi Zezmer, Vice Versa – E. K. Clark
In her second solo show, “Vice Versa,” Sofi Zezmer entices the viewer into her futuristic universe, magnified under a powerful microscope. The 18 objects in her exhibition are constructed from jazzy, color-saturated plastic, meticulously assembled, fitted with clamps and bits, and pieces culled from medical suppliers and toy factories. They vary in size from 12 […]
