Author Archives: jolanta
Zoe Strauss – Danielle Jackson
Zoe Strauss’ star has risen. After garnering notice in her native Philadelphia, Strauss was selected by curator Chrissy Iles for “Day for Night” at the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Remarkably, Strauss continues to make her work as accessible as possible, even amid a flurry of media attention, with affordable prints (every print sells for $5 each); […]
The Powerful Works from a Truncated Life – Anne Swartz
Two exhibitions of Eva Hesse’s drawings and sculptures are on view in New York City, one uptown at the Jewish Museum and one downtown at the Drawing Center. Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at The Whitney Museum of American Art, co-curated both: the Jewish Museum exhibition with Fred Wasserman, Henry J. Leir […]
Grey Flags – Rebecca Lossin
At about five in the evening the skylight is brutal and I am momentarily blinded as I round the corner of a temporary wall. As I turn away from that awesome beam of light and my eyes regain focus I find myself looking at a wall covered in yellow Post-it notes. Or rather, a wall […]
Liz-N-Val Selected ArtSites 2006 – Chris Twomey
The Stairs to Somewhere can be found in Liz-N-Val’s “Selected Artsites 2006” on view at Henrybuilt in Soho, NYC. Even though these 6 inch-tall stairs, folded like an aluminum fan, do lead their tiny protagonist teetering somewhere 6 inches above the floor, the real “somewhere” to the success of this installation is the austere space […]
Aleksandra Jarosz Laszlo
Relationships between the characters in my pictures depict the power games we play with each other, games which end with tears as often as with laughter. Relationships between the characters in my pictures depict the power games we play with each other, games which end with tears as often as with laughter. They show people’s […]
Mary Emma Hawthorne
My collages evolve from a combined attempt at referencing nostalgia, and, from more recent instances, observations and experiences. My collages evolve from a combined attempt at referencing nostalgia, and, from more recent instances, observations and experiences. I take my love for those significant to me and fine-tune my senses toward those introspective images that won’t […]
Maura Holden
In a dense phosphorescent fog, I have been searching for things which can never be found: the journals of Adam and Eve; In a dense phosphorescent fog, I have been searching for things which can never be found: the journals of Adam and Eve; a photographic record of the cities of the interior; a map […]
Peter Dench
Peter Dench lives in London travelling world-wide to complete projects. Dench is a keen and astute observer of human nature Peter Dench lives in London travelling world-wide to complete projects. Dench is a keen and astute observer of human nature and in particular some of the more quirky aspects of life. His project ‘Drinking of […]
Peter Wu
With controlled gestural drips, Peter Wu makes abstract paintings that on first approach appear like Rorschach tests under the influence of hallucinogenics. With controlled gestural drips, Peter Wu makes abstract paintings that on first approach appear like Rorschach tests under the influence of hallucinogenics. Informed by his multi-media and video training, Wu’s paintings are like […]
Peter Wu
With controlled gestural drips, Peter Wu makes abstract paintings that on first approach appear like Rorschach tests under the influence of hallucinogenics. With controlled gestural drips, Peter Wu makes abstract paintings that on first approach appear like Rorschach tests under the influence of hallucinogenics. Informed by his multi-media and video training, Wu’s paintings are like […]
