Lydia C. Thompson’s ceramic and mixed-media sculptures combine architectural form with layered storytelling, exploring the porous, transitional nature of “home” as physical space and social construct. Her hand-built, perforated structures invite reflection on thresholds of movement, vulnerability, and resilience amid gentrification and migration.
Embodied Listening: A Conversation with Marc Vilanova
The work of Spanish visual and sound artist Marc Vilanova occupies the intermediate spaces between art, science, nature, and technology. His sculptures, installations, and performances are designed to “promote active listening to the often-unnoticed voices of the world around us.”
No Hierarchies: A Conversation with Karla Black
Karla Black’s current exhibition at the Kunstraum Dornbirn places a magical art experience in a magical landscape, with the picturesque region near Lake Constance in western Austria serving as an integral backdrop.
Appeasing Ancestral Spirits: A Conversation with Kwoma Artists Matthew Kuarchinj, Tobi Borungai, and Shiva Lynn Burgos
In a ceremony beneath the newly re-installed Kwoma Ceremonial House Ceiling in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chief Matthew Kuarchinj, Tobi Borungai, and Shiva Lynn Burgos performed a series of rituals to appease and release ancestral spirits within the work.
Visibilizando la incomodidad: Una Conversación con Tomás Espina
Con un vasto recorrido creativo, producto de su experiencia viviendo en distintos países latinoamericanos—México, Chile y Argentina—el artista Tomás Espina genera un tipo de obra que no pasa desapercibida por su contundencia material y capital simbólico, pudiendo desplegarse tanto en pequeños formatos bidimensionales como grandes instalaciones donde esculturas y objetos construyen un recorrido que lleva
June Crespo: Constructive Lessons in Looking
June Crespo’s sculptures make use of the wall and ceiling as much as the floor. They jut, protrude, hang, and, at one point in “their weft, the grass” (2024), her recent show at 1646 Experimental Art Space in The Hague, they penetrate.
Thinking Made Visible: A Conversation with Monika Grzymala
Berlin-based Monika Grzymala listens to line, orchestrating its shifting intimations into space, plane, landscape, performance, and sculpture. Her Raumzeichnung (Space Drawing) works—which she defines as thought guided by the hand—always push boundaries, reconsidering how we define artworks and their parameters.
Lines Between: A Conversation with Indriķis Ģelzis
Intricate connecting lines flow through Indriķis Ģelzis’s sculptures, installations, and drawings. The Riga-based artist grew up in the post-Soviet moment, the son and grandson of prominent architects who helped to shape Latvia’s built environment, so it’s not surprising that his work harnesses line and geometry not only to organize form, but also to convey information, both concrete and abstract.
Places Are Not Empty: A Conversation with Maksud Ali Mondal
Maksud Ali Mondal is interested in the transformation of organic matter. His research- and process-based sculptures such as Synthesized Forest (2024), You Are What You Eat (2023), and Autonomous Habitat (2022) do not so much grow as decay, following the disintegrative processes of nature.
Wild Eye: Art and Nature on the North Yorkshire Coast
Can contemporary art heighten our awareness of the natural world, bringing the beauty and jeopardy of what surrounds us into sharper focus? The curators of the recently completed Wild Eye coastal art and nature trail in North Yorkshire, England, believe so.
