Author Archives: jolanta

To quote Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex would be a distant feminist reference, but sometimes it is necessary to go back to the roots if one feels like understanding the present condition of feminine representations. Beauvoir writes: “Every subject achieves liberty only through a continual reaching out toward other liberties. Every time transcendence falls back […]

I was born in suburban Ohio—it was a great place to grow up. I played outside, watched a lot of TV and played a lot of video games. I also drew pictures all the time. I liked making up creatures and drawing animals out of the Encyclopaedia. After receiving my bachelor of fine arts, I […]

They are still dying. They are still there, dying. Tom’s leg and arm are missing. He doesn’t look happy. He has lost some weight. He has grown a beard. He likes to watch those movies. He seems okay, but I can’t say the same for his sister. She keeps crying. Don’t know why though. Doesn’t […]

My mother took me weekly to the Cleveland Museum of Art at the age of three. This was my first formal introduction to a large and diverse collection of fine art in one building. One particular work of art that captured my attention most was Henri Matisse’s Woman with Etruscan Vase. I can never get […]

A.I.R. Gallery and Chashama present “Pink Kid Gloves,” a group exhibition of A.I.R. Gallery artists, curated by Jinnine Pak, a 2005-06 Fellowship recipient.Susan Bee, Sarah Blackwelder, Fay Ku and Deborah Wasserman each address the complexities of childhood or adolescence in their work. The artists approach the topic through a personal and cultural context and challenge […]

My current works are wall-mounted or hang from chains. They adopt the visual language of western road signs of a bygone era of American idealism, much like the famous Mobil gas Pegasus sign, which Warhol reinterpreted. Spare, glossy and minimal in appearance, my work strives for symbolic complexity by combining images to create layered meaning. […]

Gescheidle recently presented “Ruination, New Works on Paper,” an exhibition of recent drawings by Chicago-based artist Mark Adkins. The artist earned his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and his BFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Adkins currently works as a museum specialist at the Art Institute of Chicago. Adkin’s […]

Compound Gallery contacted me in the middle of the year. They said they had an opening in their calendar for December and that they would love to feature my work in a solo show. Because I had previous commitments for shows in October and November, I had to decline. I would simply not have enough […]

“Naughty or Nice” was Thinkspace’s holiday group show featuring new works from 16 of the new contemporary art movement’s hottest young artists, including a large-scale installation from Los Angeles’ Jaime “Germs” Zacarias in our front gallery. Stepping into our space, you walk into Germs’ floor-to-ceiling mural installation to marvel at two large works that compliment […]