Birmingham, Alabama, has recently emerged as a significant contemporary art center within America’s South. Leading the transformation are Scott and Kelly Miller, who bring an interest in grunge music, street art, and gothic skateboard culture to the local art scene.
The Underbelly of Beauty: A Conversation with Giordano Pozzi
Giordano Pozzi was born in New York in 1968. He studied architecture and industrial design, and his early work was influenced by American Minimalism. Now his artworks circumscribe, frame, and delimit complex space. The sculptures tell micro-stories, using a language that falls between abstraction and narrative construction.
Appreciating the Physical World: A Conversation with Donald Lipski
Donald Lipski’s work embraces principles of democracy and inclusiveness. With the freedom to make art out of anything at all, he embodies American ingenuity and resourcefulness. For almost 40 years, beginning with the acclaimed Gathering Dust (1979) at the Museum of Modern Art, he has taken pieces of detritus and cast-off objects and miraculously transformed
Clay Ellis: Mass, Time, and Memory
As his 40th birthday approached, the Canadian sculptor Clay Ellis discovered he no longer wanted to make the massive steel objects that had established his reputation in the 1990s. These mysterious works, notable for their authoritative presence, seductive forms, and complex allusions, staked out new and personal territory for construction in metal.
William King: Recipient of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award
William King was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2007. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Now 82, William King has been showing figurative sculpture on a regular basis in New York for over 50 years.
Heide Hatry: Skin Does Not Lie
Heide Hatry’s SKIN has landed in the center of an international dialogue with remarkable speed. The project, a multi-dimensional multimedia exploration of pigskin, has been exhibited in the artist’s native Germany, Spain, and Canada, as well as in Los Angeles and at the Goethe Institut in New York City.
If This is Venice (Kassel, Münster), It Must Be Now
I ran into the dealer from the Gagosian Gallery at the foot of a very large, very real, and aggressively mangy stuffed giraffe. This was at Documenta, the 12th incarnation of the every-five-years survey of contemporary art in Kassel, Germany.
The International Sculpture Center 2007 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2007 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. This year’s program attracted hundreds of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
John Armleder: Tasting the Pudding
Products, sounds, images—contemporary culture swamps us with sensory overload. “Too Much, ” opines John Armleder, “is not Enough.” (The quirky capitalization in the show’s title is Armleder’s.) In his first solo U.S. museum installation, Armleder took over the entire 10,000-square-foot exhibition space at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, and filled it with a
Icons and Monuments: Olympic Sculpture Park
The Seattle Art Museum’s new Olympic Sculpture Park is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it provides Seattle with the downtown central park it never had. That, and the fact that landscape architecture plays a greater role than in many other urban sculpture parks, suggests that, while OSP
