Author Archives: jolanta

In these new paintings, I am attempting to realize the “unreal” through the use of mythical references. Utilizing witches to explore the depths of sexuality, mysticism and power, I compose the paintings as conceptual cinematic storyboards and tell a story from multiple points of view. Invoking, at times, sexually explicit subject matter, while looking to […]

I’ve always been fascinated with mythology: Metamorphoses, the Kalevala, Popol Vuh, the epics of Gilgamesh, it doesn’t really matter from which era or location. Mythology is the imagination’s primordial attempt to overlay a structure onto life, to give an architecture to things only seen obliquely and sensed peripherally. These mythological works—which purportedly arise from the […]

During the opening of the Preview Berlin Art Fair, Ryan was serving vodka cranberry mixers out of Dixie cups to friends and collectors in his solo booth. The drinks were hard (he called them “Cape Cods”), and all around people were swilling down the blend amidst ten of McLaughlin’s newest paintings. Representing him at this […]

Delicately painted portraits of famous females form the delicious content of the works of Alika Cooper who was recently featured in the project room at LightBox. A Master of Fine Arts graduate from the California College of the Arts, Alika investigates the socially infectious personas of a handful of celebrities, classic and contemporary, including women […]

Après avoir ausculté les méandres de la pathologie physique de la mode et du corps, en tant que styliste, Nicole Tran Ba Vang montre aujourd’hui le revers du culte de la perfection et de la valeur statutaire du vêtement. Une série de collections de Prêt à Porter qui se cale volontairement sur la temporalité de […]

What if you could never make anything beautiful?  And what if you wanted to be an artist but no one would help you, support you, or encourage you?  These are two of the many dynamics underscoring Phyllis Rosser’s intent in making art. I met with Rosser recently in her studio on the edge of Soho, […]

Suddenly it seems that Andy is everywhere, in galleries, in bookstores and on T.V. Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties, by Steve Watson, was recently published by Pantheon Books; Andy Warhol, a documentary film by Ric Burns, played on PBS; and three New York City exhibits (“Sculls, Hammer & Sickles” at the Perry Rubenstein gallery […]

Cecilia Muhlstein: Mary Kelly, whose infamous book, Post-Partum Document, is a seminal work of conceptual art, which addresses the role of science, feminism and how the various significations of the body become re-imagined as performance. It seems that in your pieces like The Reliquarium, Mean Body and Rest there is a certain relationship to these […]

“Wax Works” brings together a brief, albeit multifaceted, survey of wax-based art. Most compelling are the two works of Michael Zansky. His art, which is beyond sense or sensibility, exists as bold hyperextensions of his subconsciousness. In The Nature of Matter and Beyond the Standard Matter, Zansky gouges and paints, adding convulsing forms that bob […]

The six figure paintings in the show at DCKT Contemporary explore my interest in the physical forces of nature and the possibilities of how these can interact with, intersect and fragment the body. My work reflects my love of physics and the phenomenon of these unseen natural forces around us. Natural phenomena such as light, […]