Author Archives: jolanta

The work of Kenyan-born British artist Sneh Mehta (b.1954) is now going through a significant mutation, both in terms of aesthetics and content. Oscillating between painting and sculpture, digital photography, film and animation, the work manages to retain a powerful link to Mehta’s dominant subject-matter: the biological mysteries of human life. The new work healthily […]

Large, sweeping art fairs tend to elicit a mixed bag of emotions from Miami’s art viewing miscellany: curiosity from cultured locals eager for the opportunity to see work of a global scale; cynicism from seasoned pundits huffily moaning at the vacuous mechanism of the art market; gluttonous excitement from collectors, well-heeled art honchos and the […]

Boris Mikhalevkin is a master of black-and-white photography. Hie does not require a complex color scheme to convey his thoughts and feelings with the viewer. He expresses, in simple words his thoughts on life and man. "I find black-and-white self-sufficient," says Mikhalevkin. "Moreover, it is a philosophic conception. It is less distracting and easier to […]

The 2005 art fair season has been in Florida. Following the third year of Art Basel/Miami, several smaller fairs took place: the Connoisseur Fair in West Palm Beach, held at Kravis Center; the 15th year of Art Miami; then followed the very newest concept in art fairs, Palm Beach 3. Redesigned and renamed, it really […]

Staring’s radiant, vibrantly colorful abstract paintings, are inspired by water, nature, and New Spirituality. He has shown in the US, Asia, Europe and Brazil. Of his paintings, Staring comments: "Behind a painting is my life, my travels through Asia, the Pacific and Latin America–all those colors, all those impressions. Not just beautiful things; I have […]

W. G. Sebald died in December of 2001 in a car accident in Norwich England during a particularly bad winter when the roads had turned to ice. "I don’t think you can write from a compromised moral position," he had said in an interview earlier that year. His commitment to this position put him at […]

In New York, where anything interesting in the overpopulated expanses of the art world is hard to come by, exists a subculture with a vocabulary rooted in graffiti, tattoo art, hot rod detailing, comic book illustration, punk rock and hip-hop. It’s practitioners look down on Andy Warhol as a vapid rip-off artist who took their […]

Ritchard Rodriguez was a realist painter for a good fifteen years before deciding to make the dramatic switch to abstract art. He attributes the change to a trip to Germany in 1981 to see the Neue Sachlichkeit paintings especially those of Otto Dix. Being in Germany pried his eyes open and made him hungry for […]