Elmhurst, Illinois Nikki Renee Anderson models small forms in white clay…see the full review in October’s magazine.
Alison Foshee
Los Angeles Curiosity drives A[ison Foshee. Her inquisitiveness, combined with…see the full review in October’s magazine.
Ann Sperry
Long Island City, New York The work of the late Ann Sperry (1934 – 2009) is eclectic…see the full review in October’s magazine.
The International Sculpture Center 2010 Outstanding Student Achievement In Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2010 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards. This year’s program attracted a record number of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
Jeff Lowe: Drawing Out and Enclosing Space
After the death in 1975 of the artist Roger Hilton, Jeff Lowe was driving in Cornwall, where Hilton had lived as a St. Ives artist. Lowe, who has collected the painter’s late gouaches, had been reading Hilton’s Night Letters, in which the largely bedridden artist wrote to his sleeping wife about his condition, his art,
Garth Evans: Transformer
To look back over Garth Evans’s 50 years of art production—sculpture plus drawings and watercolors—is to pursue a will o’ the wisp always vanishing out of the corner of one’s eye. Evans has repeatedly been exclaimed and admired, but the attention has never led to real fame—which seems to be something that he regularly courts
The Metamorphosis of Tory Fair
Forty-one-year-old, Boston-based sculptor Tory Fair likes to think of herself as a “late bloomer,” and the evolution of her artistic career is allied with her varied experiences as an athlete, environmentalist, traveler, and spiritualist dreamer.1 For her second solo show at South Boston’s LaMontagne gallery in spring 2010, Fair created three life-sized, self-portrait figures designed
Robert Taplin: Recent Narratives
Among last season’s most haunting exhibitions, Robert Taplin’s “Everything Imagined Is Real (After Dante)” (2007–09) featured nine eerie “tableaux” enacted by small, life-like figures contained in massive wooden “shrines.” Like miniature dioramas with unstable perspectives, the equivocal “stages” were lit in various ways, their characters agile, oddly solid, simplified little ghosts, usually devoid of color
Doug and Mike Starn: Reveling in Chaos
Stately and symmetrical, the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens into rigorously ordered spaces that guide viewers systematically along a rectilinear path. But now, and through the end of October, those visitors who make their way to the elevator that leads to the Iris and B.
New Directions in Performance and Sculpture
Dispatch Performance art has become ubiquitous in New York…see the full review in September’s magazine.
