(Foreground) Lucas Samaras, Chair Transformation Number 20B, 1996, patinated bronze and brass; (background) Sol LeWitt, Four-Sided Pyramid. More than 30 years in the making, the National Gallery Sculpture Garden opened on May 23. From the outside, it looks like a picturesque garden restrained by a Neoclassical girdle.
Made for Each Other: Storm King’s Vistas and Sculpture
Mark di Suvero, Pyramidian, 1987–98. Steel, 65 ft. high. Pyramidium, the massive, 65-foot sculpture, begins to take on its final shape, towering over a valley at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York. Mark di Suvero and his trusted two-man crew have just attached a second horizontal I-beam to a central inner circle so
“Where a Soul’s at Ease” Gardens, Museums, and the Urban Fabric: An Interview with Martin Friedman
Aerial view of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. During Martin Friedman’s 32-year association with Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center (30 as its director), he transformed what began as a regional arts institution into a major national and international cultural resource.
Within the Poetry of Motion: George Rickey
George Rickey was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 1999. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. One Up One Down Excentric with Acute Angle IV, 1983.
Cy Twombly, 10 Sculptures
Rome American Academy in Rome As a painter, Cy Twombly is best known for his childlike scrawls and monumental, sprawling canvases. Twombly the sculptor is less well known… for the full review see the print edition of September 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
“Archetype”:
Don Prince, Michael Warren,
and John Ford
Belfast Ormeau Baths Gallery According to the gallery handout, this exhibition “explores the way in which three sculptors have used maquettes and working drawings to illustrate ideas and themes in their art practice… see the full review in the print edition of September 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
Cathy Carman
Dublin Templebar Gallery Cathy Carman is a mature lrish sculptor, one of hundreds in the Republic of lreland, yet one of the few with a substantial and coherent oeuvre… for the full review see the print edition of September 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
Robert Hess
Salem, OR Hallie Ford Museum of Art Sculpting and teaching in Oregon since 1973, Robert Hess is a veteran in the world of Pacific Northwest sculpture who is primarily known for his metalwork… for the full review see the print edition of September 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
Nils-Udo: Nature Works
Red Rock Nest, 1998. Bamboo, earth, oranges, limes, and lemons, view of site specific work at Red Rock Canyon, California. Active in the field of environmental art since the 1960s, Nils-Udo creates significant structures that play with lanscape scale, planting or montaging materials to establish links between a specific landscape site, horticulture, and art.
Sculpture Moves Outdoors
In 1987, when the International Sculpture Center published its first Directory of Sculpture Parks and Gardens, it contained 97 entries. By 1996, with the second edition of the directory, this number had climbed to 195, an extraordinary increase.
