Inspired by the heroic women who worked in intelligence during the Second World War, Nina Levitt has produced a trilogy of related works, beginning with Little Breeze (2002–04), an installation based on Camp X, a secret wartime facility for training intelligence officers in Oshawa, Ontario.
Random Observations Regarding Futurist Sculpture
Futurism is 100 years old this year, yet there is barely a sign of the rambunctious movement having mellowed with age. Exhibitions in Paris, Milan, Venice, and London celebrating the centenary have only added to the many open questions that still remain to be answered.
Physical States of Being: A Conversation with Carole Feuerman
Carole Feuerman has been working and exhibiting at “full speed ahead” for four decades. Over the last 10 years, with the growth of international biennials and art fairs, her international reputation has grown by leaps and bounds.
Thinking Through Objects: Malia Jensen
Malia Jensen has emerged from a generation of younger sculptors who express content through a language of hybrid objects, rather than continuing last century’s aesthetic exploration of art about art. Her recent exhibition “Conjunctions,” at the Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago, forged adroit combinations of materials and meanings to fabricate sculpture of physical, conceptual, and
Mobile Homes: A Conversation with Casey McGuire
Casey McGuire combines moving imagery of her own body, often in vulnerable positions, with architectural and animal forms to create installations whose atmosphere is both alluring and disconcerting. An Honorable Mention recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards for her “Sand Mandala Series” (Sculpture, October 2005), McGuire was an
2009 Outstanding Student Achievement In Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2009 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. This year’s program attracted a record number of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
The Great Equalizer: James Florschutz
For three decades, James Florschutz has been a gatherer, primarily collecting organic debris from the woods near his Vermont home. The last couple of years have found him tossing detritus culled from more urban areas into the trunk of his car as well.
The Topography of Being: A Conversation with Merav Ezer
Merav Ezer is an Israeli artist living and working in New York. Her multi-disciplinary work references the relationship between identity and environment, both natural and created, using a mixture of styles, voices, and media. Ezer describes the dialectic that informs her practice as “inspired by the personal conflict of possessing a nomadic inclination while also
Human Nature: A Conversation with Michele Oka Doner
Oceanic myths and images inform Michele Oka Doner’s grand public art projects and sculptural forms. She has embedded miles of terrazzo floors at Miami International Airport’s North Terminal with bronze shells, pearls, starfish, and other sea-life forms and has created terrazzo floors with botanical and scientific motifs for other institutions.
Celebrating “Misfits”: A Conversation with Silvia B.
Dutch artist Silvia B. creates striking figures that cross the boundaries of gender, species, and age. Beyond their high-fashion gloss, however, her hybrid beings aim to question constructions of beauty and value. Silvia B. has had various solo exhibitions in the Netherlands, at venues such as 5-MM, the Five Minute Museum in Eindhoven (2009), and
