Author Archives: jolanta

From a Table on Avenue C: Ergogenics 101 Austin John Marshall Sitting at myvantage point at the corner of 7th St and Ave C with Uberbabe, my #1 model, Iwas reading  War Against theWeak, Edwin Black’sscary/brilliant new book (Four Walls Eight Windows) which reveals attempts inthe 1920’s to breed a blue-eyed, blonde master-race in the […]

The Little Things Carmen Bethencourt       Megan Cump, Snowball Fight, 2003, C-print. The concept behindthe current Berliner KunstProjekt exhibition, “BiNo-ScApEs”, is the importanceof different perspectives. The curator, David Adamo, invited around eightyartists to create miniature paintings in mixed media formats which were thenarranged at the far wall of the gallery to be viewed […]

John Perreault Seascapes Daniel Rothbart John Perreault seascapes capture something very essentialabout the sea. They are works that embody the quicksilver changes of the ocean,encompassing both its spatial and metaphorical complexity. Through calligraphicmarks with sand and binder, painted on found seascapes and plywood panels,Perreault evokes natural rhythms of the tide, brine on the crest of […]

The Art Couple John Perreault       Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, The Empty Museum, (inside view) 2004. Installation, sound, light.       When an established artist becomes an artist couple, whatdoes this mean? Does the work change? Why is it always the wife who gets addedon to the famous husband’s career, and when […]

Artist Statement Carol Caputo     Carol Caputo, EFFUSE, acrylic, 68″ x 68″.       As avisual scavenger of the city, I’m interested in capturing the moment. My workis about random opportunities, adventures and discoveries. It’s aboutconnecting the visual, emotional and organic entities that share ourenvironment.   Myprocess begins by collecting textures and shapes […]

James Little: Reconsideration of an Engagement Horace Brockington Over thelast twenty years James Little has exhibited extensively in group and soloprojects at museums and galleries around the United States and Europe. He hasis the recipient of several awards and honors, including the prestigiousPollack-Krasner Foundations Award. The artist over the years has held true to arather […]

Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation Allan Graubard             Potentiallyautarkic solitary sexual pleasure touches the inner lives of modern humanity inways that we still do not understand. It remains poised between self-discoveryand self-absorption, desire and excess, privacy and loneliness, innocence andguilt, as does no other sexuality in our era. […]

German Sculptors Abroad Piri Halasz   David Evison. Silken Thread. 2002. Steel, 191″ x 152″ x 125″       In the U.S., constructivistsculpture is all too often considered beyond the postmodernist pale, since itallows (indeed, requires) the artist to impress his or her personal vision uponthe material, instead of eliminating the human touch through […]

A Crown a Day, or The Heavy Burden of the Pom-pom Matthias Harder       Sati Zech, Krone 2     When something surprises or fascinates us, it has adifferent way of sticking in our minds than something familiar; it is imprintedonto our subconscious and is then constantly processed and reworked. Oneexample of this […]

The Ends of Art Kirk Hughey       “Frankly,if you’re investing in art in order to make money, you’re a fool… from aninvestment point of view, you’d be better off putting your money in lotterytickets.” (an anonymous London art-dealer)   Increasinglywe can see the art-world as a purely commercial enterprise fueled by strategiessimilar to […]