Author Archives: jolanta

A Conversation with Kathleen Ash-Milby Jason Lujan Katheen Ash-Milby is the staff curator at the American Indian Community House Gallery in New York City. The AICH Gallery is non-profit, is the only Native American owned and operated art gallery/museum in New York City. The gallery presents a minimum of four exhibitions each year and presents […]

The Saatchi Gallery Moving and Shaking: Not-So-Young British Artists or Loc Charles Giuliano A dozen or so years ago, when I first visited the Saatchi Gallery, it represented real effort and commitment. The exhibition space, in a large, one-story industrial space, at 98A Boundary Road in St. John’s Wood, was difficult to reach by tube […]

CHANGING THE MAINSTREAM Kirk Hughey “Thepurpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers”James Baldwin One of the prevailing clichés of contemporary art is that art serves asa “mirror of its time”. How much truth underlies this assumption? Two shallow and seemingly contradictory conventions have subtended our view […]

Pop-cultural Immersion at Apex Cristina Colasanto Bringing the worksof Roberto Cuoghi, John Dogg, Nate Lowman and Kaz Oshiro together in Apexart’s2003 Summer Program is the result of a fortunate collaboration between art historianKaty Seigel and gallerists, Michele Maccarone and Mitchell Algus. Exhibitingfour young artists bound by a common interest in popular culture and media imagery,each […]

The Artistic Experiments of Patricia Piccinini Megan J. Doll The propelling force behind the works of Patricia Piccinini is that of pathos:mutant creatures, disembodied lumps of flesh and warped machinery are among themore frequent motifs of her sculptures, photographs, film clips and paintings.A prominent Australian artist with an evident ambivalence towards medical science,Piccinini deploys the […]

Ssamziespace and the Alternative Art Scene in Korea Hyunjin Shin While the numberof independent and alternative art spaces in the US is dwindling, Korea has witnessedthe proliferation of these types of art organizations. Between 1998 and1999, new art spaces such SSamziespace, Ilju House, Insa Art Center, ProjectSpace Sarubia, Pool and the Loop opened in Korea. […]

The Gryphons of Paris: A Reliquary of Photographs & Vignettes Ronald Hurwitz American concertviolist Ronald Hurwitz brings his emotional tuning to bear on the visual worldin Gryphons of Paris, the premier publication from Voirin Editions. Hurwitz’swork has taken a place in important Parisian collections including the BibliothèqueNationale, Musée Carnavalet, and the Maison Européenne de la […]

PRESERVATION OF OUTDOOR SCULPTURESCharles J. Hecht The preservation of an outdoor sculpture is important to the artist, the ownerand the persons who are to view and enjoy the sculpture for many years. But preservationrequires careful planning and an appropriate contract at the time the sculptureis commissioned or sold. It is incumbent on the artist to […]

Exhibitions of an Exhibition at Casey Kaplan Eduardo Costa Curator Jens Hoffmann recently presented his show of art works and curator’sproposals, Exhibitions of an Exhibition. Hoffman invited artists Meschac Gaba,Simryn Gill, Joseph Grigely and Amy Vogel, Roni Horn, Brian Jungen, Marepe, andRosemary Trockel to show works he had been interested in for some time, or […]

Group Sh/ Deep Down Todd Knopke Todd Knopke’s styleis eclectic; it combines painting, photography, quilting and sculpture with elementsof homespun craft. Many of the pieces are playful – or perhaps dorky isa more appropriate term. Some pieces give the impression that punk rock ceasedto be merely a past time occupation for the artist when it […]