New York-based sculptor Don Porcaro makes intriguingly shaped, highly enjoyable art from industrial mixed media—concrete, metal, and paint. His whimsical, off-beat forms speak to a humorous view of life, a combination of what he has described as “the monster and the child.”
Salvatore Romano: The Poetic Counterpoint in American Sculpture
There is a certain quality of the existential bon vivant in the work of Salvatore Romano, or maybe he is just a good American pragmatist whose sculpture suggests playfulness in the inventive manner of Arp and Calder.
Hakone Open-Air Museum: Sculpture in the Mountains of Japan
Hakone Open-Air Museum, established in 1969, was the first sculpture park in Japan and the second outdoor collection of sculpture in the world (the first being the Middleheim Museum of Sculpture at Arnheim, Belgium, founded in 1950).
In the Open Air: The NMAC Foundation
The discovery of open-air contemporary art in a region as magnificent as Spain’s Costa de la Luz is indeed a unique experience. For five years, the Fondación Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo (NMAC) has opened its doors to the general public, offering a chance to view in-situ works from its collection all year round.
Modern Sublime: A Conversation with Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor’s extraordinary projects have captured the imagination of the world. The sculptures that brought him to international attention in the 1980s were geometric and biomorphic configurations, covered with intensely colored powdered pigment. Since then he has developed a distinctive body of work using a wide range of materials, from natural substances to products of
Robert Bielat: Absorbing Sculpture
In a contemporary art world seemingly devoted to the dictates of the market and the novelty that feeds it, the slow process of aesthetic maturation too often goes under-appreciated. Now pushing 60, Detroit sculptor Robert Bielat makes the case for recognizing the importance of mastery gained through material practice in the development of an artist’s
Shaking Up History and Nature: A Conversation with Bill Woodrow
Born near Henley, Oxfordshire, in 1948, Bill Woodrow studied at Winchester College of Art, St. Martin’s School of Art, and Chelsea School of Art. He had his first solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1972.
Rick Parsons: The Salient Point
Rick Parsons’s sparely poetic sculptures combine the elements of earth with the simple alchemy of evaporation and oxidized steel. This confluence yields poignant statements about corporeal and environmental conditions. Their infused surfaces and surroundings imply memory altered and obscured by time; however, encrypted below the salt-encrusted forms, referencing chromosomes or crucibles, is a quiet outrage
Alan Michelson: Light on Shadowed Ground
Sifting through layered realities, Alan Michelson locates critical junctures in the life of occupied sites. His visual enigmas, both substance and illusion, probe the most elemental of relationships—the link between human beings and place. Encompassing a range of media, Michelson’s work has evolved from his beginnings as a painter grounded in the pristine panoramas of
Jan van Munster: Sculpture as Energetic Process
When faced with “difficult,” non-objective art, viewers most commonly want to know what the artist was thinking while making the work. Only rarely has an artist so openly documented his thoughts as Jan van Munster has with his Brainwaves.
