Colleen Wolstenholme

Grand Prix

2004

Colleen Wolstenholme’s work has the ability to engage and provoke viewers by piquing the social conscious. She’s a prolific artist with of an impressive oeuvre of intriguing art work...

For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...

Beyond Sociology: The Act of Seeing a Person Text by Edwin Janzen It is hardly surprising that in our society perceptions of homeless persons remain two-dimensional, stereotypical, inadequate. Even for the rare administration tackling the problems of homelessness in an effective, meaningful way, the homeless person’s humanity is buried beneath a mountain of endless statistical markers: mental illness, substance abuse, soup-kitchen attendance, etc. The enormous negativity lingering about the resultant profile permits scant room for other, arguably important accoutrements of the human experience—character, emotion, intellect, beauty, relationship to divinity—and leaves homeless persons basically where they already are: on the street, the objects of middle-class loathing or pity. Struck by this depressing determinism, artist Bevan Ramsay set out to cast portrait busts of homeless persons (one woman, the others men), producing an edition in fine, white statuary Hydrocal plaster mounted on mahogany bases. These portraits, titled Lesser Gods...

Text by Terence Sharpe There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...

The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...

Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...

"Father and Son Used Tires" is a wall-hanging paper sculpture by American artist Drew Leshko measuring 12”h x 22.125”w x 8”d. It is made from paper, enamel, acrylic, basswood, wire,...

This sculpture titled "Diamond Pawn" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of a variety of paper, acrylic, pastel, plastic, wire, plaster, inkjet prints, basswood. This piece me...

This orange figurative sculpture titled "Nostalgia" is an original artwork by Jedediah Morfit made of plaster, paint, resin, foam, plastic, wood, hardware. This piece measures 61.25”...

This sculpture titled "Cash Loans" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of a variety of paper, acrylic, pastel, plastic, wire, plaster, inkjet prints, basswood. This piece meas...

This figurative sculpture titled "Deepfake National Monument" is an original artwork by Jedediah Morfit made of plaster, paint, pins, epoxy, adhesive, wood, rope, and hardware. This piece measures 32"h x 11"w x 27”d. Please note: Artwork will be on display at SHOWFIELDS NY (11 Bond St, New York, NY 10012) through the end of November. BIO Jedediah Morfit received his MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005, where he was awarded the Sylvia Leslie Herman Young Scholarship and the Award Of Excellence. He was a Fellow at the Center For Emerging Visual Artists from 2007-2009, and received a New Jersey Council On the Arts Fellowship for sculpture in 2009. He received the Louise Kahn Award for Sculpture from the Woodmere Art Museum in 2006, and was awarded the Dexter Jones Award for Bas Relief from the National Sculpture Society in 2011 and 2012. In 2013, he was commissioned to create a series of new work for Artlantic:Wonder, which was named one of the 50 best...

This figurative sculpture titled "Straight Man" is an original artwork by Jedediah Morfit made of plaster, paint, foam, and wood. This piece measures 19.75”h x 8"w x 11.75"d. Please...