Author Archives: jolanta
Eddie Martinez
Eddie Martinez is a Brooklyn-based artist who has attracted rapid attention over the past two years following solo-exhibitions at ZeiherSmith… Eddie Martinez is a Brooklyn-based artist who has attracted rapid attention over the past two years following solo-exhibitions at ZeiherSmith, New York; and Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden. In both his drawings and paintings, Martinez strives […]
Nicolas Sauliere
I work by stratifications, from the floor to the wall. Gestures, releasing writings or crude signs, alternate with minutely designed computer work. I work by stratifications, from the floor to the wall. Gestures, releasing writings or crude signs, alternate with minutely designed computer work. Nicolas Sauliere
Mad Cow: Absurdity and Anxiety in Contemporary Culture – Joelle Jensen
Truth being stranger than fiction, the outbreak and ensuing panic of a deadly madness epidemic spread by farm animals provides an apt theater for the absurd metaphor for our times. The title’s use is broad as it refers less directly to the meat-induced disease and more directly to a play on the word mad. The […]
New Jersey Artists: Identity – Kathryn Klanderman and France Garrido
This group exhibition showcases 36 artists from a New Jersey statewide call for entries addressing the concept of identity in an engaging and diverse spectrum of interpretation, regardless of medium. The artists were presented with this premise: “Identity in the 21st century speaks of both our contemporary culture and our heritage. ‘Identity theft,’ cloning, pop […]
Exploding Pop Art Myths – Lisa Paul Streitfeld
Mickey Mouse became a universal icon in the 1950s. Pop artists grew up with Mickey on their neighborhood movie screens, their toothbrushes and bubble gum wrappers. A later generation of artists became familiar with Mickey as a character on a television show and in the Disneyland theme park. How could such a mass-produced American image […]
Lauren Luloff – Rodney Dickson
I recently visited the inaugural exhibition at Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn and was delighted to see some of the best paintings I have seen in a long time. These large, abstract canvases are by Lauren Luloff, a young artist living in Williamsburg, NY. On first sight, Lauren’s work looks like an explosion in a […]
Traumulus – Kristen Schiele
I have nine large-scale oil paintings and six collages currently on exhibition in Berlin, where they were first painted. I lived in Berlin from 1998 to 2001, and moved to New York City the week before the fateful September 11th. My boyfriend, who was flying with my work from Berlin a week later, landed in […]
Artist to Artist: Strange Brew – Alejandra Villasmil and D. Dominick Lombardi
Curator Claudio Gonzalez began a visual dialogue between Alejandra Villasmil and D. Dominick Lombardi when he asked them both to exhibit together in his gallery. Both artists write about art as well, so the potential for an interesting linear dialogue between the two was too good to pass up. Here are a few excerpts form […]
America Fantastica – Valery Oisteanu
At the recent inauguration of MoMA’s Education and Research Building (which marked the grand finale of architect Yoshio Taniguchi’s vision for the museum), I was struck by the power of symmetry and how the open glass bookends now framing the sculpture garden create an illusion of larger space. Designed to mirror the gallery building on […]
Lydia Bradbury
I create art because there’s nothing else I’ve ever really wanted to do. As far back as I can remember, art has always been my passion. I love getting to the end of an illustration in order to take in how it looks as a complete piece. To see it completed is an achievement, and […]
