Author Archives: jolanta

I am in love with the swamp. The city is so different, that it is a challenge to reconcile that they might inhabit the same reality. In drawing, I try to take people to a place where they never go—or hardly ever get to go. But then it seems this is the purpose of a […]

“Fun” is the “therapeutic reward of art” that Yayoi Kusama has finally reaped, according to one critic. In this sense, the trajectory of Kusama’s oeuvre echoes that of Niki de Saint Phalle. Childhood suffering and/or illness as well as art as therapy remain essential elements of both artists’ deft mythmaking, while their passage from aggression […]

Critics writing about the work of Shirana Shahbazi often insist on interpreting it through the lens of her diasporic identity. Shahbazi was born in Tehran, studied photography in Dortmund and lives in Zurich, while the subjects of her photographic series stem from locations as diverse as Iran, China, USA, Mexico, Lebanon, Zimbabwe, Switzerland, Germany and […]

In his latest show at Clementine Gallery, Robert Pruitt leaves all traces of bling behind. Foregoing rhinestones for conté crayons and handguns for butcher paper, Pruitt chooses the appropriately quieter path of drawing for his exploration of African-American secrets. The secrets appear in the form of traditional African garments worn by Pruitt’s models (friends from […]

I like receiving art invitations in the mail. Postcards are best because you don’t have to open them—and on the other end, they’re less expensive to mail than envelopes. Sometimes I play games with the invites, games that you can’t play with e-mail invites. I mean, once in a while I print out a press […]

En una línea opuesta a la espectacuralidad que se anuncia éxito –y que tanto daño ha hecho a la comprensión pública del arte- el estadounidense Lance Dehné planteó en Valencia una posible concentración de la mirada a partir de pequeños formatos contenedores de universos que hacen del exterior visual un interior desnudamente intimista.Centrado en la […]

      This is a series of self-portraits with my family members, a project I have been working on for a couple of years. With this series, I want to express love, unity and self-awareness through the bridging of generations. We live in a fast-evolving time, and I find it very important to always […]

I am a painter, but I have roots in comics and illustration. I decided at some point that I needed to merge these modes of expression into one hybrid form. Since I want to make paintings and drawings of a linear, serial nature, I have created recurring characters and adapted the narrative format of the […]