Last January, Andy Goldsworthy’s colossal stone gateway Grand Rapids Arch was unveiled at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. In March, the Michigan city announced that Dennis Oppenheim would receive a $200,000 commission to create the spiraling aluminum and Lexan Journey Home for the new Rapid Central Station bus depot.
Accumulating Experiences: A Conversation with Mary Miss
In the 1970s, Mary Miss, who was educated as a sculptor, chose to turn from the gallery and museum scene and create art in the public realm. Her early works include temporary site installations and percent-for-art projects.
Art on the Green: Mad. Sq. Art
Madison Square Park, the 6.2-acre swath of green in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, faces some challenges after opening its third season of outdoor sculpture exhibitions. Initially teamed with New York’s Public Art Fund, the Madison Square Park Conser-vancy launched an independent contemporary sculpture program in June 2004.
Stacy Levy: Understanding Nature
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
