Korean-born sculptor Won Lee lives and works in Toronto. For his studio, he uses an older house with a salon-style workspace, a back porch, and a sizable storage basement (the house where he and his wife reside is on the other side of town).
Es ist alles gut/Everything’s Fine: Peter Fischli and David Weiss
The adventuresome and optimistic skeptic Peter Fischli was producing exciting concert posters and album covers when he met the laid-back and melancholy nerd and inventor David Weiss. That was back in 1979. The two artists from Zurich have been working together ever since.
Anne Wilson: New Labor
Anne Wilson’s impeccably executed sculpture is grounded in an aesthetic revolution forged by Post-Minimalists, feminists, and fiber artists who took up malleable, expressive, fibrous materials in the late 1960s and ’70s to challenge the intellectual and physical rigidity of Minimalism.
Alain Kirili: The Sculptural Body
Artists are urban creatures, especially in youth, and they nearly always choose one metropolis in preference to every other—the grainy immediacies of New York, for example, or the refinements of Paris. Alain Kirili is perhaps the only artist of his generation to belong to the art worlds of both cities.
Chicago: Sculpture in Burhman’s “Paris on the Prairie”
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy brought Modernism to Chicago in 1937 when he founded the New Bauhaus, later the Institute of Design, where Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Nathan Lerner, and other important photographers taught. For a long time, Chicago was a photo town.
Once Upon a Time: A Conversation with Andrea Loefke
German-born Andrea Loefke lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, constructing complex conglomerates of material and form, working from innumerable materials, both decorative and everyday. These supplies overflow from the categorized shelves and bins of her studio.
Vulnerable Beauty: A Conversation with Cathy de Monchaux
Cathy de Monchaux made her imprint on London’s YBA scene with sculptures that evoked the chic, sadistic eros of The Story of O and the desires that Lou Reed sang about in his homage to Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs.
Manfred Müller: Contingent Space
German-born, Los Angeles-based Manfred Müller is best known for his installations: church pews in Mexico, painted soot-black and reconfigured so that the seats collide elegantly, or a “desk,” reconstituted from found office materials, jutting out of one window and re-entering through another.
Playing with Light and Space: A Conversation with Soo Sunny Park
Soo Sunny Park’s light-filled installations are simultaneously visceral and immaterial. They encourage viewers to explore the sensual effects of light and shadow, geometry, the natural landscape, and the wonders of physics. Her 2007 exhibitions included solo shows at the Fire House Gallery in Burlington, Vermont, the Knowlton School of Architecture in Columbus, Ohio, and Reeves
San Francisco: Sculpture in the Bay Area
Situated on the edge of San Francisco at Pier 14, flanked by the Bay Bridge and the Ferry building, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s unmistakable bow and arrow monument, Cupid’s Span, and Mark di Suvero’s 70-foot kinetic sculpture, Sea Change, Louise Bourgeois’s Crouching Spider is poised and seemingly ready to march into the city.
