Recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s 2023 Educator Award For more than three decades, Shirley Tse—longtime CalArts faculty member, Guggenheim Fellow, and Hong Kong representative to the 58th Venice Biennale—has created sculptural interventions that interrogate notions of place, politics, and ecology.
Anne Wu
BROOKLYN Smack Mellon Descendants of Bauhaus or De Stijl interiors, Wu’s sculptures assert bright, clean lines and use commonplace industrial materials. They evoke Fred Sandback’s 1999 description of his geometric yarn sculptures as “drawing that is habitable” and prompt associations or recollections.
Radical Honesty: A Conversation with Shary Boyle
Shary Boyle has had a dynamic international career, yet, somehow, the United States is just catching on to her captivating interdisciplinary work. Boyle, who represented Canada in the 2013 Venice Biennale, works fluidly across many modalities.
Crossed By Time: A Conversation with Hugo Aveta
For Hugo Aveta, who works and lives in Córdoba, Argentina, time, ghosts, and memories become conceptual raw material. In his devastated, dehumanized scenarios—realized through photographs, videos, sculptures, models, drawings, sound installations, and immersive, site-specific works—what persists is the echo of what was and will never return.
Rhea Dillon
LONDON Tate Britain Metaphorical storytelling lies at the core of Dillon’s work, and in “An Alterable Terrain,” she applies that approach to sculpture, overlaying expressive narrative onto the language of minimal abstraction.
Georg Baselitz
LONDON Serpentine With their alarming height and imperfect, seemingly unfinished surfaces, which lend a strangely animated quality, Baselitz’s figures present a perplexing dichotomy. They are clumsy and anatomically skew-whiff, yet winningly vulnerable.
Pensar el mundo desde los márgenes: Una Conversación con Grupo Bondi
Hablar del Grupo Bondi—nombre que sale del lunfardo para referirse a los colectivos públicos de Buenos Aires—es, ante todo, hacer referencia a un colectivo de artistas que se vinculan bajo una bandera común para pensar propuestas creativas, operando en el campo del diseño industrial en su interacción con la vida cotidiana, asumiendo una mirada artística.
Cynthia Lahti
NEW YORK James Fuentes Lahti uses a range of clays, from dark red to porcelain, and she also varies her sculpting, glazing, and firing methods (which include raku and salt firing). Her approach to building heads and figures seem to reference a wide swath of art history.
Repetition & Endurance: A Conversation with Mary Mattingly
For Mary Mattingly, art is about life and survival. Her interlinked earth-, water-, food-, and community- centered projects attune us to the planet’s basic rhythms and needs (as well as our own), helping us to understand the complex ecosystems that sustain us.
Elizabeth Turk
NEW YORK Hirschl & Adler Placed in translucent Plexiglas boxes, the three-dimensional furrows are galvanized with the whispers of an otherworldly, impenetrable language, to be navigated without literacy or understanding.
