ektor garcia, who received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2016, approaches sculpture and installation through experimentation with a wide range of craft techniques, from crochet and weaving to ceramics and metalwork.
Inner Changes: A Conversation with Tadáskía
There’s a joy and lightness to the work of Tadáskía, a fantastical celebration of nature and metamorphosis, as well as fragility and precariousness. The Brazilian artist, who caught the eye of Thelma Golden and other curators at the 2022 Bienal de São Paulo, made her New York solo debut last year with a show at
Animismo, arquitectura y materialidad: Una Conversación con Mariela Vita
Con una obra que explora múltiples disciplinas, pero poniendo el acento en el “animismo, la arquitectura y los materiales,” la artista visual Mariela Vita construye espacios de convivencia entre seres y criaturas cuasi fantásticas. Y si bien muchas obras son contenidas en lo bidimensional, son las esculturas y las instalaciones donde se expande su ámbito
It Doesn’t End With the Image: A Conversation with Letha Wilson
In Letha Wilson’s sculptures, photographic images (many taken during her forays into the American wilderness) act as transformative skins. As much façade as form, her assemblages involving concrete and metal are physically activated by the scenic views applied to them and conceptually charged by the associations and myths of those distant landscapes.
From Absence: A Conversation with Carlos Herrera
Carlos Herrera’s work does not permit indifference. His intimate installations, sculptures, performances, and photographs reflect on life and death, madness, sexuality, rites of passage, and spirituality as he tries to make the visible and material into the “stuff of memory” and emotion.
Enchanting Traps: A Conversation with Valeska Soares
For over 30 years, Brazilian artist Valeska Soares has used the tools of Minimalism and conceptual artto create sculptures and installations imbued with emotion and humanity, that explore love, intimacy, and desire, loss and longing, memory and history.
Earthly Paradise: A Conversation with Saad Qureshi
With a sensitive and empathetic eye, Saad Qureshi explores the essence of what it is to be human. Seeking out people of all faiths and none, he gathers their stories and weaves them together like silken threads, rendering memories and imaginings into otherworldly sculptural “mindscapes” that give a spatial presence to the narratives that help to make sense of life.
Monumentos vivos: Una Conversación con Alexis Minkiewicz
Nacido en Villa Cañás, Santa Fe, Argentina, el escultor Alexis Minkiewicz transita la urbanidad con una mirada que construye escenarios donde monumentos y estatuas son protagonistas de un recorrido artístico que lo lleva a esculpir a gran escala en materialidades tanto convencionales y académicas como más contemporáneas.
Little Capsules: A Conversation with Jorge Satorre
Working across sculpture, drawing, and installation, Mexican artist Jorge Satorre weaves complex, subversive narratives around a variety of themes, including labor, value, memory, and desire. As these diverse strands become fruitfully entangled, they create unforeseen meanings and serendipitous synchronicities.
Kapwani Kiwanga: Material Equivalence and Exchange
Kapwani Kiwanga’s research-driven sculptures, installations, videos, and performances tie together objects from particular locales, evidence of economic and political power, the global African diaspora, and the history of colonialism to idiosyncratically reread established histories, often focusing on disruptions centered around belief, mythology, and impermanence.
