The Italian architect Iole Alessandrini, who has lived in Seattle since 1996, has completed eight temporary installations in Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellevue, Washington, as well as in Brooklyn, New York. By transforming recycled or disused building sites, the 35-year-old artist has distinguished herself from other architects who have jumped on the public art bandwagon in
Doing What I Don’t Know: A Conversation with Anthony Caro
Anthony Caro (b. 1924), one of the world’s greatest sculptors, first achieved widespread recognition in the 1960s by revolutionizing accepted sculptural concepts. Although he is best known for his large-scale abstract works in steel, his more recent sculptural language has evolved into powerful installations of numerous components, as seen in works like The Barbarians and
Grabbing Emotions: A Conversation with Richard Deutsch
In contrast to many artists of his generation, Richard Deutsch fearlessly embraces beauty. Whether designing sculpture on a grand scale or producing pieces in his studio on the California coast north of Santa Cruz, he aims for work infused with feeling and meaning.
William Christenberry: The South of Fact and Dream
Any consideration of William Christenberry’s wide-ranging production during the past four decades must take into account the simultaneity of the American South as place and as idea. This odd cultural situation, in which both modes of being co-exist without exact delineation or differentiation, has lodged itself in the regional mind and in a larger cultural
Collapse: A Conversation with Ledelle Moe
Born and raised in Durban, South Africa, Ledelle Moe graduated with a degree in sculpture in 1994 from Technikon Natal and became a founding member of the FLAT Gallery, an artist initiative and alternative space in Durban.
Making the Public Art Selection Process Artist Friendly
Many who work professionally in the public art field are asking if the commissioning process is needlessly discouraging to artists. Is it too burdensome, overly constrictive, and bureaucratic? The question establishes an objective: that selection practices be designed to serve the highest ambitions of the field—to create compelling works of art that stimulate and challenge
Takashi Soga: Meditations on Gravity
“The earth we all rely on is, in fact, an unsteady ball floating in space,” wrote Haruhiko Fuji. Takashi Soga gives visual form to this maxim. His disorienting monumental structures disrupt our reliance on terra firma, our expectations of spatial relationships, our assumptions about the very ground of what we call reality.
Pietrasanta: The View from the Outside
To say that Pietrasanta resembles the Vatican sounds—and indeed is—absurd. But consider this: Pietrasanta, like the Vatican, is a small community that stands at a distinct remove from the rest of the world. Yet Pietrasanta is—again like the Vatican—the center of an empire that spans every continent of the globe.
Sculpture Space: Celebrating 30 Years
Although Utica, New York, seems an unlikely place for a utopian-style artist residency, it is nonetheless home to Sculpture Space, a unique urban retreat for those interested in working in three dimensions. While most residencies are founded in the belief that a rural setting far from the din and distractions of city life provides the
Mel Kendrick: Extended Time
The sculptures of Mel Kendrick are remarkably various: they twist and rotate and pulse as engaging experiments in positive and negative space. From the start of his career, in the early 1970s, Kendrick has taken a strong interest in piecing together parts and planes of wood, sometimes painting his work to accentuate the relationship between
