Stacy Levy transforms the invisible aspects of nature into visually seductive forms by acquainting us with the underlying structures of the natural world. Following in the footsteps of 1960s Land artists, she brings a fresh approach to her art-making, guided by her dual background in forestry and sculpture.
Expressive Identity: A Conversation with Willie Bester
Willie Bester is known for works relating to South African history, in particular to apartheid and the resistance to it. Since the end of apartheid in 1990, he has also incorporated personal themes into his work while still examining social and political issues.
Maya Lin’s Confluence Project
Maya Lin and the Northwest are having an exciting conversation. Lin is half-way through a decade of work on the Confluence Project, seven widely separated sites along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington that mark intersections of rivers, cultures, histories, and ecologies.
Obsessive Interests: A Conversation with Paul Edmunds, Walter Oltmann, and Gordon Froud
Fix It,, 2004. Mixed media, 4 x 6 x 10 meters. Photo credit: Nikos Evangelopoulos
Hills Snyder: The Story Doesn’t Tell Itself
Chances are that Hills Snyder was born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1950, although he may have been birthed on a Tennessee mountaintop. He grew up in the West Texas panhandle, where he co-mingled the trials of suburban Lubbock and the tribulations of a ranching legacy along the Texas/New Mexico border.
Jackie Matisse: Collaborations in Art + Science
New York- and Paris-based artist Jackie Matisse has been making and flying long-tailed, Asian-style kites for several decades. In 2002, through Ray Kass of the Mountain Lake Workshop of the Virginia Tech Foundation, she became involved in a radically new and technologically ground-breaking project, a collaboration with super-computer scientists to create simulated kites to fly
Measure the Distances: A Conversation with Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum defines physical and objective space by altering its reality. Her spaces do not refer to a specific or identifiable situation but allow us to perceive the psychic dimension within an environment. Confronting the conflicts and contradictions within power relationships, her sculpture deals with confinement, uncertainty, and fear—even the most ordinary everyday objects and
False Borders: A Conversation with Marcos Ramirez ERRE
Marcos Ramirez (aka ERRE) lives on the U.S./Mexico border, a place that inspires most of his work. For INSITE, the periodic art event in San Diego/Tijuana, he produced two important projects that attracted international attention. In 1994, he installed Century 21, a replica of the provisional dwellings that characterize Tijuana’s outskirts, on the plaza of the
“Iron Bridging Art + Technology: Past, Present + Future” The 5th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art
Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, Telford, U.K., April 5–9, 2006 From the speculative and visionary to the practical and applied, artists today use a wide variety of processes in their work. Cast iron embraces all of these diverse approaches to the practice of contemporary sculpture.
Stephen Daly: Sculpture as Witness
Many of us are familiar with the Stage Manager, in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, who observed and narrated the daily events in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Historically, references to this concept of a “witness” or “observer” appear in ancient writings as far back as the Old Testament (Genesis 31: 51–52).
