Seeing is believing. In Alwar Balasubramaniam’s case, seeing and believing are two separate acts, depending on your discernment and perception. His prints, paintings, and sculptures, with their constant plays on the visible and invisible, illusion and certainty, challenge notions of the real and the unreal.
Sculpture as a Symphony: A Conversation with John Henry
John Henry is a prominent sculptor with large-scale outdoor installations on five continents and work in many museums and private collections. His sculptures recall Constructivism, but while the Russians made visionary drawings and models, Henry has built more than 2,000 architectonic structures from long shafts and hollow plates of steel.
Meg Webster’s Nature/Technology
Long before it was fashionable, when green was more commonly associated with the color of golf pants, Meg Webster was making work that reflected her interest in ecology, recycling, and the environment. In the late 1980s, taking a cue from Land Art and Minimalism, she began to explore the complicated relationship between nature and technology
Richard Deacon: Beyond Explanation
Last winter at L.A. Louver, Richard Deacon, in association with Matthew Perry, premiered Dead Leg (2007), a new large-scale sculpture composed of twisting, elongated sections of oak and custom-fabricated, stainless steel couplings, and the work later traveled to the Portland Art Museum.
Excavating Land Art by Women in the 1970s: Discoveries and Oversights
In New York in the 1970s, widespread desire for anti-traditional forms of behavior and art, surging feminist solidarity, and nascent environmentalism moved innovative women sculptors who worked in nature into a new presence in the art world.
Richard Serra’s Te Tuhirangi Contour: Time in the Space Between
Stretching for almost 800 feet and standing just under 20 feet high, Te Tuhirangi Contour is Richard Serra’s largest sculpture to date. Like most of Serra’s works situated in outdoor, natural landscapes, Te Tuhirangi Contour has received scant critical attention since its completion in 2001.
The Sculpture Olympics 2008
Along with the Olympics came the sculpture games—the International Olympic Sculpture Symposium in Beijing 2008. One of numerous activities held in conjunction with the Olympics this year, the symposium was sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Government and administered by the Beijing Urban Sculpture Office (BUSO) and the China Sculpture Institute (CSI).
Valérie Blass: It’s a Surface Situation
Valérie Blass turns everyday matter into an exposure of the psychic drift of our times. By building a hybridity into the things she fabricates, she causes us to question our perception of what is there. Deux assemblages crédibles à partir de mon environnement immédiat (2007), shown in the first Quebec Triennial at Montreal’s Musée d’art
Phil Price: Shape-Shifting Sculpture
Robert Irwin once stranded an East Coast art critic alongside a southern California roadway for obstinately refusing to consider hot rod building an art form. Irwin, a custom car builder in his youth, considers the Go & Show hot rod the apex of car customization art.
Christchurch: Sculpture as Urban Design Strategy
There is a new vogue in the traditional Garden City of Christchurch—art in public spaces. Public sculpture is all the rage, on the minds and agendas of artists, curators, gallery owners, urban designers, landscape architects, and the press and public alike.
