Justin Colt BeckmanBernadette BirzerDaniel A. BruceSamantha DoanPeter GoffJorda GriskaDennis HarperBenjamin HuntMyeongbeom KimChika MatsudaKimberly WalkerShai Zurim The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2008 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
Dennis Oppenheim: Public Action
Dennis Oppenheim’s iconoclastic inventions and interventions of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s would seem to be unlikely platforms for launching bureaucracy-laden public art commissions. By shaping remote landscapes, marking his own body, and making quasi-objects that galleries and museums found a challenge to exhibit, Oppenheim undermined every convention of the art world, let alone those
Follow Your Obsessions: A Conversation with Ron Pederson
“I’ve been making sculpture for 35 years and I still don’t know what I’m doing.” So confides Ron Pederson, who nevertheless has shaped a productive, influential career, working in a variety of materials while impacting hundreds, maybe thousands of students.
Searching for the Heavens When I Look Downward: A Conversation with Micha Ullman
In Germany, Israeli sculptor Micha Ullman achieved fame with his extraordinary memorial, the underground Bibliothek on Berlin’s Bebelplatz. The square room, its walls lined with empty shelves, is located exactly where the Nazis burned thousands of books on May 10, 1933.
Being There and Letting Go: A Conversation with Lincoln Schatz
Portraiture of all varieties is hot in the current art market. Just as traditional portraiture risks superannuation by alternative approaches like Facebook and Second Life, Chicago-based Lincoln Schatz is charting new ground. His interactive video portraits fuse likeness and identity with character probing and perpetual change.
Nathan Slate Joseph: Pure Pigment, Constructed Form
Pigment has played an important, if often overlooked, role in the history of sculpture. Ancient sculptures were once brightly colored, but weathering soon eroded almost all of their painted surfaces. Many medieval sculptures were stripped of paint in the 19th and 20th centuries, when most critics considered polychromy in sculpture to be unacceptable.
Melbourne: Alive with Sculpture
Only those Melbournians with long memories will be fully aware of the dramatic changes that have occurred in the field of sculpture here. Once a place of limited activity, Melbourne is now vibrantly alive with sculptural events.
Geoffrey Bartlett: Neither Easy, Nor Complacent
Unquestionably one of Australia’s leading sculptors, Geoffrey Bartlett was recently honored by a major survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne. Using an astonishingly diverse range of materials, he has evolved a highly personal style—a style that has continued to develop from his early student works of the late 1970s, when he
Anthony McCall: In the Flow
The French philosopher Alain Badiou once noted that art “must be as rigorous as a mathematical demonstration, as surprising as an ambush in the night, and as elevated as a star.”1 Few artworks live up to this aspiration better than the solid light films of Anthony McCall.
Linda Ridgway: Intimate Castings of Experience
Linda Ridgway decided to work in bronze 20 years ago, adding her printmaker’s point of view to an age-old medium. She has exhibited widely since 1974, with solo exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the El Paso Museum of Art, Dunn
