Diego Santanelli – Resilience

By Jill Thayer, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, ARTPULSE Magazine, Miami, June, 2016 8 April – 25 June 2016, Canale Diaz Art Center, Coral Gables “My work is precisely the result of that interaction between the artist and the medium with which he works, between the individual and the world that surrounds him. Through this gesture, I attempt to recount my personal story, presenting it […]

Codification and Form: Semiotics Revisited – The Works of L’Atlas

By Jill Thayer, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, ARTDISTRICTS Magazine, Florida, December, 2015 [See: http://artdistricts.com/codification-and-form-semiotics-revisited-the-works-of-l’atlas/] Writing is the first abstraction of reality. Man has created a symbolic geometric abstraction that extends from the phoneme to the ideogram in order to convey its mental representation of the world. – L’Atlas In today’s media-driven culture, hypermedia, digital convergence, and ubiquitous information […]

Helidon Xhixha – Sculpting Light

Helidon Xhixha_Sculpting Light by Jill Thayer PhD See also: “The Aesthetic of Reflexivity–Interview with Helidon Xhixha.” 5 September – 7 November 2014, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany By Jill Thayer, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, ARTPULSE Magazine, NO. 21, VOL. 6, 2015 My sculptures mirror and converse with the surrounding landscape and their complex vitality becomes inexhaustible sources of reflections, […]

Tm Gratkowski: NOTHING SHOCKING

Tm Gratkowski_Nothing Shocking by Jill Thayer PhD See also: “Word Play: A Conversation with Tm Gratkowski.” By Jill Thayer, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, ARTPULSE Magazine, Miami, Dec. 2014 – Jan. 2015 Issue. Review: Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, 10 Sept. – 1 Nov. 2014 In our quest to assimilate mass communication in a 24/7 news stream, […]

The Cultural Contexts of Arnold Mesches

Arnold Mesches: A Life’s Work at Miami Dade College Museum of Art + Design and MDC’s Kendall, Wolfson, and North Campus Galleries reveal the life and times of the prolific artist and activist in an ambitious retrospective. By Jill Thayer, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, ARTPULSE Magazine MIAMI – During the Great Depression, artists portrayed the plight […]