Author Archives: jolanta

JD White, 1966-2003 James Adam Dallas, Texas mourns JD White, an innovative sculptor, painter and collageartist who promoted area artists through his storefront gallery. White builtand designed film sets for major Hollywood studios; he also created the entrancearchway and dinosaur footprints currently showing at the Grace Cultural Museumin Abilene. His work showed a rare imaginative […]

K�an: Eelco Brand’s Painting / Not Painting Jeff Baysa The works of Eelco Brand are ultimatelyabout how we see, about looking and not looking. Cultural theorist Paul Virilio’sdiscussion of the “phatic” aspect of signs —- the way they standfor sheer presence, instead of any object or idea —- applies to Brand’sart. Instead of rendering, this […]

Chris Natrop: Drawing With A Knife Jamey Hacht “I have come to cut paper,rather than draw in the traditional way, because I find that creating imageryfrom hard-edged silhouettes satisfies my desire to maintain a steadiness withinline and form.” –Chris Natrop At its most austere, neo-classicalart consists only of outline with no modeling or spatial depth; […]

The Mercurial Artineering of Lance Dehn� James Adam Lance Dehné has a draftsman’sorientation to the way actual masses take up space. But he also has the unconsciousfreedom to create imaginary objects. This is an almost-rare combination, andhis self-presentation as a kind of engineer bespeaks a central concern with artmakingas a big deal, a place in […]

Marusela Granell A LA LUNA DE VALENCIA Jamey Hecht  TO BE LEFT INTHELURCH (A LA LUNA DE VALENCIA)  Many years ago my city was walled, at nights the ones that arrived lateused to find the wall closed and they should spend the night out of the city,just protected by the moon. With this project I […]

Monochromes of Siri Berg Jamey Hecht  Siri Berg’s monochromes are only comprehensible in this age of mechanical reproduction. They are the human version of a digital product so commonplace that we can barely remember how historically recent it is: just as every color television videotape of forty years ago begins with a  rainbow test-screen of solid […]

Siri Berg: Then and Now Heli Haapasalo Siri Berg: Then and Nowis an exhibition of geometric abstraction. It includes paintings, collages andassemblages created over a period of several years. Within these different techniquesa gradual but systematic exploration of color, form, pattern and texture developed.The repetition of geometric shapes is a method of art making which […]

Core Sample: Portland, Oregon as a Rebel Base Jeff Jahn You’ve heard about Portland; you havefriends who are moving there and you’re wondering what’s going on?Well, I have met your friends and we’ve taken over the place. Remember storiesof artists having the run of New York or Paris? That is what’s happeningin Portland now: art […]

Wallace Whitney Giordano Pozzi Wallace Whitney’s exhibition of newpaintings at Canada, an exiting new gallery space at 55 Chrystie Street in NewYork, is without a doubt one of the finest shows of contemporary painting thatI have come across in recent memory. The exhibition consists of twelve new workson canvas and panels that vary in size […]

FROM A TABLE ON AVENUE ‘C’ The care and feeding of angels AUSTIN JOHN MARSHALL  In the spirit of Arthur Schnitzler, fin-de-siecleViennese boulvardier, my vantage point is on the corner of Avenue C and East7th St at Zum Schneider, New York’s downtown Bavarian Beergarden.  Here,sporting my father’s RAF insignia on my cap but receiving no […]