Author Archives: jolanta

Moody, trashy, this whole exhibition’s world is a fucked up kinda neo-Dada installation with a freakish video; Cobra/Expressionist-type paintings extend to wall smears and splatters and some scale-model, hapless, habitats made of ripped Styrofoam, wood and whatever, are slapped together and painted—so I decided to stay a while. There was something else there: Some strong […]

Skeletons—they are a brand new for me. In an art gallery, no less. It’s been a while. I needed a break from 20 years of ugly old heads and nasty little puns on the mean streets.Here’s the deal: During the Black Plague in Europe, Hans Holbein the Younger did a series of 41 woodcuts of […]

In my work, I commonly create fictional stories with loose narratives, female protagonists and anthropomorphic imagery. Images of nature are romanticized, time and space are flattened and the mood is usually dreamy or whimsical. My work depicts snippets of imagined conversations, utopia and the possibility of a self-sufficient world.Occasionally, I create installations that involve other […]

      Upon entering Cheim and Read through its doors on 25th street this winter, one is almost immediately struck by the unlikely scent of topsoil on the far west side of the New York City grid. This affective sensory reminder of the natural world, of some prior habitat or even of some personal […]

      The mark is the simplest representation of human intelligence, it is the shared tool of all human production; the figure of our diagrams, designs and words. It shares its origin with the beginning of humanity’s memory. The difference between black and white reveals the written word. The line the pen makes generally […]

      www.we-make-money-not-art.com is one of the most popular web logs (Blog sites) on the web. Its focus is on web activism, architecture, augmented reality, body, cyborgs, design, entertainment, gadgets, games, installation, locative media, nanotechnology, politics of privacy, RFID, robots, sex, sousveillance, street telephony, festivals, transport  trends, ubiquitous computing, wearables and much more. I […]

Kozyndan is a Los Angeles-based team of artist/illustrators known for their digitally painted pencil drawings of contemporary urban cityscapes and surreal interior spaces. Comprised of husband and wife Dan and Kozue Kitchens, Kozyndan creates both fine art and commercial projects, and has been showcased internationally to much critical acclaim. The duo met in a painting […]

Since Katarzyna Kozyra’s 1993 diploma work, Pyramid of Animals, her name has been synonymous with controversy. Here, as in every subsequent project, she mines society’s social fabric and selects some of the most unsavory themes for dissection and presentation. Often her own body is her subject, as, for example, in its cancer-ravaged state in Olympia […]