Bhajan Hunjan was born and raised in Kenya. After moving to the U.K. to study fine art at Reading University, she went on to gain a postgraduate degree in printmaking from the Slade School of Fine Art and to study ceramics at the former Central School of Art in London.
Controlled Explosions: A Conversation with Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew’s massive wall-bound tableaux, objects, and installations engage the cyclical nature of existence. Made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, his abstract, emotionally charged compositions possess a metaphorical weight, transcending time and place to approach the infinite through the discarded and finite.
Memory Is a Weapon: A Conversation with Ricardo Brey
Assemblage sculptor, installation artist, and draftsman Ricardo Brey attended art school in his native Havana and went on to join the experimental art group Volumen Uno, which distanced itself from the precepts of Cuban socialist realism.
Forms of Prediction: A Conversation with Gabriel Kuri
“Forecast,” Gabriel Kuri’s current exhibition at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, is his first institutional survey in the country where he grew up. Featuring more than 50 works, including three new pieces, the show centers around the idea of art as a “forecast” that might predict and imagine what is to come.
Into Cacophony: A Conversation with Michael Dean
Michael Dean’s work begins with words—his own writing, found phrases, nonsensical fragments, and repetitions—which he alters and twists into personalized typographies, then translates into forms in space. The sculptures that give flesh to his texts are as raw, streetwise, and mutable as the words themselves, rooted in his Newcastle-upon-Tyne upbringing and later years in London.
Coleccionista de huesos: Una Conversación con Gabriela Acha
Licenciada en Escultura de la Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, la artista visual y curadora Gabriela Acha produce un tipo de obra que toma como punto de partida el análisis de los métodos que aplican las ciencias y el arte para abordar la naturaleza como objeto de estudio.
Sculpture Eats Iron: A Conversation with Catherine Lee
Catherine Lee has explored abstraction in painting and sculpture, language and writing. Emphasizing materiality and process through idiosyncratic combinations of painting, installation, and sculpture, her works gather in large, familial groups placed on floors or walls.
Spiritual Labyrinth: A Conversation with Herman van Bergen
Recipient of the 2022 Innovator Award Herman van Bergen’s environmentally friendly Cathedral of Thorns, hovering between sculpture and architecture, consists of built-up acacia branches pressed into a mold and glued together to form airy building blocks.
From the Imagined World: A Conversation with Muhannad Shono
From ink drawings and photomontages born of inventive frustration to multidisciplinary installations that bring his private stories into the lived world—most dramatically in The Teaching Tree (Saudi pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2022)—he has devoted himself to reclaiming the line and the word, transforming them from tools of censorship and authority into expressions of free will.
Beginnings and Endings: A Conversation with Emily Counts
Seattle-based Emily Counts takes a personal approach to sculpture, creating ceramic and mixed-media works based on memories that also leave ample space for interpretation. Sea of Vapors, her immersive installation at the Museum of Museums in Seattle (on view through September 1, 2023), leans into the narrative potential of ceramics.
