Author Archives: jolanta

Cindy Sherman’s retrospective exhibition by French curators Régis Durand and Véronique Dabin straightforwardly shows the career of a very un-straightforward artist. In Sherman’s photographs, what you see is not what you get. Or, what I get takes me through complex notions of postmodern theories of (female) identity. This is not to say that the curators […]

With all the new forms of technology affordably available to consumers and artists alike in today’s age, one would think that the realm of sound art is more accessible than ever before and overwhelming in its possibilities. But how far has this new technology allowed artists to reexamine sound as an artistic medium? Have the […]

Gallery director Jonathan Shorr tells me that all of these most recent works by Selma Hafizovic on display in his gallery were inspired by one work, THE BEST OF FRIENDS. Depicted in this oil on canvas are two dark, gray heads closely tucked together. They appear to be emoting, whispering their most intimate thoughts to […]

Melanie Pullen’s collection of more than 100 photographs that comprise “High Fashion Crime Scenes” is based on vintage crime scene images that she mined from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department, the County Coroner’s Office and other primary sources. Drawn to the rich details and compelling stories preserved in the criminal records, she […]

Anyone who has seen dialogue emerge from the writing on a bathroom wall understands our ability to respond and react to language and its implications. We assimilate a huge amount of information daily—that information comes in many forms. Sound bites, song lyrics, advertisements, blogs, profiles, overheard conversations, the media, etc. This deluge of information serves […]

Seven years since its last production, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Fase: Four Movements on the Music of Steve Reich, has been resurrected just in time for the 70th birthday celebrations of American composer Steve Reich. Shown as a limited engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Fase was inspired by Reich’s early experimental musical compositions […]

What we experience in the moment is ultimately possessed by superior tides of an invisible captor. The present is repeatedly handed over to the past, as a fossil of memory, and traded for a future of intangible predictions and expectations. The moment, now, is an opaque curtain that conceals the appearance of history. Behind its […]

Accepted. Breathing. Every element breathing at its own rate, not tied into a master regulator. All sounds, images, objects and people breathing according to their own rhythms. Cacophony. Having more going on than can be taken in at once, allowing infinite points of entry. Not to be confused with noise, as cacophony’s proper use requires […]

Assuming the methodologies of construction workers, Alicia Frankovich cobbles together a critique of objects and familiar sites that refer to an architectural site of daily living. Her installations include shonky remakes of Gymnastic apparatus and examine spatial boundaries and the way in which we interact with designated spaces. Frankovich takes on diverse roles within the […]