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.
Konstantin Dimopoulos: Sinuous Color
Konstantin Dimopoulos refers to his sculpture as dynamic rather than kinetic: for him, the term “kinetic” implies a mechanism with moving parts—and “mechanical devices always break down.” Since 1998 he has been exploring movement with his sculpture and has devised an ingenious way of harnessing wind power in works that flex and bend, vibrate and
Flexible Logististics: A Conversation with TODT
It would be difficult to find an art group with a greater influence on contemporary installation art than TODT. The collaborative goes back to 1978, and I can distinctly remember being moved viscerally the first time I saw Womb Wars.
The Legacy of Julio González
“The work of González is one of the most solid and most beautiful elements in the future edifice the younger generation is building, though generally unrecognized in Spain, where only his imitators are known.”1 This observation about Julio González’s lack of recognition in Spain could until very recently have applied to most countries.
Pushing the Structure: A Conversation with Nancy Rubins
Nancy Rubins, born in Naples, Texas, and now living and working in Topanga Canyon, California, has been creating gigantic sculptural installations since the early ’80s using various discarded objects such as airplane parts and cut-up boats.
Looking at the Overlooked: 19th-Century Italian Sculpture
Sculpture always lags behind painting in the mind of the art-interested public. We have been brainwashed into Monet-theism, and the mere mention of Impressionism makes our hearts beat faster. But with the exception of Rodin, French sculpture of the Impressionist period is still ignored by all but a small handful of specialists.
Beauty is the Will for Truth: A Conversation with Thomas Hirschhorn
Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, who was born in 1957, ranks among the most distinctive sculptors of his generation. He gained attention in the mid-1990s with his walkable thought-and-event spaces. He does not appreciate his works being referred to as installations.
Intraculture Sculpture: A Conversation with Chris Booth
Born in Kerikeri, New Zealand, in 1948, Chris Booth has pursued sculpture associated with the land, earth forms, and indigenous peoples of the regions where he has worked. He received his initial education at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and then branched out to study with various sculptors in Europe, including Barbara Hepworth,
