Dolores Furtado, who was born in Argentina and moved to New York a decade ago, constructs objects that evade easy characterization. Simple in form, sensuous in texture, her sculptures possess a simplicity that links them to archaic artifacts.
Melvin Edwards: “You don’t play around with that power”
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Melvin Edwards began his now mythical “Lynch Fragments” in Los Angeles in 1963, when he was 26, and he has continued welding and forging them in New York, New Jersey, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Brazil, and elsewhere.
Petah Coyne: Illuminating the Blind Spots
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Petah Coyne’s spacious studio is located in a tight-knit, working-class neighborhood in northern New Jersey, a community she loves.
Construyendo identidades específicas: Una Conversación con Samantha Ferro
Con amplia formación práctica en talleres, seminarios y clínicas de perfeccionamiento en el campo de las artes visuales, fotografía y diseño de indumentaria, la obra de Samantha Ferro opera en torno a la problemática del cuerpo como territorio donde se definen las construcciones de identidades específicas a partir del uso, mal uso y abuso del cuerpo.
Part Of It: A Conversation with Ranjani Shettar
Every aspect of Ranjani Shettar’s artistic practice is rooted in the natural world. Her studio, where she often works out of doors, is located in rural Karnataka in India. That local context is important since she draws on established craft traditions to find the tools and techniques that might be adapted to contemporary sculpture.
Making Contact: A Conversation with Andrés Aizicovich
Artist and inventor Andrés Aizicovich uses his objects and installations as a means to reimagine the dynamics of communication. Suspicious of the hyper-connectivity of modern life and concerned by the deterioration of the social fabric, he aims to restore the power of perception while encouraging collaborative encounters through alternative forms of contact and interaction.
Manual Dexterity Equals Freedom: A Conversation with Edith Karlson
Edith Karlson, who will represent Estonia at this year’s Venice Biennale, belongs to a generation of Estonian sculptors who, throughout the past two decades, have broken from the monumental austerity that enmeshed the medium for much of the previous century, when it was inevitably employed to propagate the ideology of the Soviet state apparatus.
Geometría infinita: Una Conversación con Valeria Seoane
Con el norte puesto en la exploración de la geometría mediante materialidades diversas, la artista visual y diseñadora gráfica Valeria Seoane, se vale de las técnicas mixtas, el collage, la pintura y el dibujo para transitar su búsqueda.
From the Outside: A Conversation with Shiro Masuyama
The practice of Shiro Masuyama, a Japanese artist currently living in Northern Ireland, is eclectic, ranging from installation, film, sculpture, and photography to performance. He uses these tools to create socially engaged art that often veers into the directly political.
Love, Hope, and Socialism: A Conversation with Camiel Van Breedam
Belgian artist Camiel Van Breedam launched his career in the late 1950s, when peinture informelle (abstract gestural painting) was still going strong. At an early stage, he made the leap from abstract geometric painting, with an emphasis on matter, to assemblage sculpture and collage—works, both formalist and historicizing, made from ordinary laborer’s tools and the remnants of shuttered factories, and often fraught with meaning.
