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).
Athena Tacha: Natures of Abstraction
Athena Tacha seeks out natural wonders: slot canyons in Utah, volcanoes in Hawaii, mudboils in New Zealand, glaciers in Patagonia, and, always it seems, water and the magnificent patterns, forms, and effects it has wrought the world over.
Esoteric Practices: A Conversation with Brian Catling
Brian Catling (b.1948) is Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford and Head of Sculpture at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. He recently won the commission to create a permanent memorial for the Tower of London Site of Execution, which was unveiled in September 2006.
Gerda Steiner + Jörg Lenzlinger: Visions of Paradise
Falling Garden (2003), an enchanting installation at the Venice Biennale, turned Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger into instant international celebrities. The Swiss Art Commission had invited the young Swiss artist couple to create an work in the church of San Stae.
