Author Archives: jolanta

Pre-eminent in his field, Zhang Lin Hai’s collection of new works shows how he is evolving stylistically as an artist as he further develops his scope of imagination, and his motif of bald young boys against a backdrop of a post-industrial arid wasteland. More so now than ever before, Zhang Lin Hai’s onus is placed […]

Spearheaded by an increasing cultural globalization and, more specifically, by the West’s ever-expanding multiculturalism, large exhibitions such as the Taipei, Gwangju and Shanghai biennials have introduced contemporary Chinese art and artists to the global stage. Although this may appear to have been an overnight phenomenon, it is actually a gradual one that parallels the political […]

In our modern societies, transparent materials outshine opaque materials, bearers of traditions and sometimes obscurantism.  Either vehicle of political liberty or inevitable means for a capitalism which must maintain trust, this change from the opaque to the transparent is one among the many that a China of the 21st century is experiencing—but probably the one […]

Liu Jian Hua’s artworks present an unflinching illumination of the all too intimate relationship between materialism and humanity.  These questions and issues that are raised in his artworks are, for instance, evident in works like Do You have an answer? This work is a mixed-media piece wherein Liu Jian Hua uses both stainless steel sculpture […]

Amy Bennett is a Brooklyn-based artist who builds dollhouse-sized models of neighborhoods to stir up her imagination and to begin to create intricate and detailed stories of the families within it. Her paintings are striking, allowing the viewer to take a look into compelling and often dark homes, and reflect an extremely well-polished craft.Jenny Ziomek: […]

In recent works I have been committing myself to the development of an individualistic discourse in and from the fountainhead of the painting. In an attempt to establish a new set of languages for ink and wash painting, I have tried to bring the ornamentality, allegoricity, and narrativity of the painting into play; making ink […]

Leah Oates: What was your progression as an artist? Did you always know you wanted to be a painter? Please talk about how you developed to where you are now. Carlo Maria Mariani: I knew I wanted to be an artist when I was six years old. I started to draw and then began painting […]

Jeff Soto’s current show at the BLK/MRKT gallery in Los Angeles features a new series of paintings on canvas, panel and paper. “Cold Ice Age” continues Soto’s intrepid exploration of his private imaginary world, but with a twist—the amplified conscience of a new parent; the show’s title refers to his intensifying apprehension about the future […]

Fuse Gallery’s “Draw” art exhibit recently made a huge mark with its New York debut. As a result, galleries around the world have come calling to host the show too.  “Draw,” curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey, opened at New York City’s Fuse Gallery last fall with over 1000 media, celebs, artists, musicians and […]