Author Archives: jolanta

Fitting into spaces is what people who dwell in cities, especially NYC, do. We fit a lifetime of accumulated matter into minuscule apartments, bodies into subway cars, varying degrees of education and talent into varying degrees of annoying jobs. We fit booze into lunch hours and miniature dogs into purses. We structure lives around a […]

The origins of these paintings began with my black and white “Nowhere” paintings, which depicted the lonely haunted backwoods in a non-specific time and place. I have always been heavily influenced by black and white horror movies, which presented a subtle yet palatable vision of anxiety and suspense. The environment itself is culled from such […]

Artist Irina Nakhova exists in the liminal space between places and identities.  She is a Russian artist now living primarily in America who still spends extended periods in Europe and Russia. She was raised under the Soviet system, a member of the close-knit avant-garde there who experienced the freedom that followed Perestroika. She is an […]

Birgir Snaebjörn Birgisson (b. 1966) is an Icelandic figurative painter whose work hints at minimal thoughts as presented by Kasimir Malevich in the 1920s. An artist that over a period of time took his works through a cleansing process by rejecting duality and embracing absence of color, pure white, pure light. Yet, different from the […]