Author Archives: jolanta

John Currin’s Blade Jennifer Reeves         John Currin, Park City Grill, 2000. Oil on canvas, 38-1/16 x 30 in, Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Justin Smith Purchase Fund, 2000. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York and Sadie Coles HQ. Photograph by Andy Keate. � John Currin           It […]

KnitKnit: Shaped By Touch Sabrina Gschwandtner Coming into itsthird issue, KnitKnit currently exists as a numbered, limited edition artist’sbook that provides a forum for the growing movement in contemporary art thatloves to craft. Not concerned so much with defining boundaries between fineart and craft – or fashion, architecture, and other seemingly disparatefields – this movement […]

Spring Equinox Jamie Dalglish “Around and around she goes Where she stops Nobody knows" The third eye bleeds. Parsifal blinks into the cold potential Reclaimed eclectic arenas, periphery Excavated by complex artists Dancing to the smearing sound Eggs stand up Pushing hard frames per second Contradictions Searing truths in jest, just FPS, rich Solutions sold […]

City Without Walls: New Ark Tony Zaza In 2004 it willbe 338 years old. It is the largest city in New Jersey. Only Paris has a widermain street. Newark was the last effort of the Puritans to establish a theocracy,to create a “Kingdom of God on Earth”. The Mayflower people had wantedto settle in the […]

PessimismCedar Lewishohn             It’s December 15, 2003. Saddam Hussein has just been captured, caughthiding in a hole somewhere south of Tikrit. The world is watching and waitingin anticipation to see what happens next. Meanwhile, back in Glasgow I’m looking at the work of Polish painterPiotr Janas. Sloppy yet refined, his […]

Visions of Emprisonment Michael Cohn       John Adams, Lone Star Hell     “Inner Visions” featuredthe work of artists incarcerated at prisons around the country. Many of theexhibits, which appeared at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park South, havea political bent, demonstrating that while these artists are confined, theyremain engaged with the […]

Marusela Granell. El paisaje de la emoci�n.Ferran Bono Marusela Granell, la luz de aquella tarde. El paisajesiempre ha estado presente en la obra de Marusela Granell. A lo largo de su trayectoria,esta artista valenciana ha transitado por diversos caminos art�sticos que lehan llevado a diferentes t�cnicas y soportes, pero su mirada siempre se hadetenido en […]

Gentle Intoxication – Stars Like Fleas, Sun Lights Down on the Fence Stephanie R. Myers           Stars Like Fleas wasformed by Montgomery Knott (vocals) and Shannon Fields (multi-instrumentalist)in 1998 and their first record, Took the Ass for a Drivestyle=’font-family:Verdana’> remains unreleased. For Sun Lights Down on theFence, Stars spent almost twoyears […]

Illuminated Brush Strokes Pamela A. Popeson Sky Pape, Thesis, 2003. Sumi Ink on Kozo paper, 72.5�x48�. You knowthe feeling you get standing under a star-studded night sky where all at onceyou’re struck by the overwhelming enormity of life and the unsubstantialfragility of your own puny existence? Where you want to weep at theinconceivable beauty of […]

Nadia Russ: NeoPopRealism Olga Chemokhud Doty     Nadia Russ, His Inner, 2002, Acrylic on canvas, 30�x40�.         "Fivethings I like the most: 1.    Music; 2.    Sex with man I love; 3.    Art; 4.    Lobsters; 5.    Cuban cigars, especially Cohiba Everyday switch the numbers.”   style="mso-spacerun: yes"> "Some people have brains, otherpeople […]