Many artists of importance associated with postminimal/maximal aesthetics emerged during the late ’60s and early ’70s in New York. Artists such as Jackie Winsor, Keith Sonnier, Alan Saret, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Barry Le Va, Joel Shapiro, Bruce Nauman, Lynda Benglis, and John Duff were not only dedicated to extending the principles of literalness into
Jene Highstein: Rooms, Columns, Impossible Buildings
Making sculpture can be a simple and pragmatic matter, an attractive way of delivering a piece of defined space to a viewer using all the ingredients of the classic spatial package—media of a certain color, texture, and dimension.
Jun Kaneko: Scale and Topography
Imagine looking northwest, through the polarized glass expanse of the entryway of the Phillip Johnson-designed Art Museum of South Texas into the gray light of a winter morning in early 1985. There, at the end of a 10,000-square-foot sidewalk separating the entrance stairs of the museum from the park road, three huge, weighty objects, adorned
Richard Stout: Inflections of Modernity
For a long time, I could not detect the swallow that would herald a sculptural spring in Houston. The best artists always emigrated; some gave excuses—no propitious climate, no inspiring culture, no public understanding. In the last few years, however, this city, and its environs, has taken me by surprise.
Collisions: A Conversation with Roxy Paine
Roxy Paine’s work addresses complex issues involving human interactions with nature and with machines. As an artist, Paine has an incredible grasp of a concept that he describes as the language of systems, which he applies to computer programs, physics, science, chemistry, and botany and then translates into art.
Time, Space, and Memory: A Conversation with Francisco Gazitúa
Born in Santiago in 1944, Francisco Gazitúa is considered one of Chile’s most accomplished sculptors. With a succession of commissions and individual exhibitions, he has been a major voice in establishing a particularly Chilean branch of contemporary sculpture.
Nick Cave: Massive Intensity
Nick Cave’s “Soundsuits” embody sculpture in motion. For the past decade, the Chicago-based artist, who has art degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute and Cranbrook Academy of Art, has operated on the boundaries of visual and performance art, but his work transcends artistic categories.
The Art of Seeing: A Conversation with Devorah Sperber
Art is primarily a visual medium, yet most artists take the experience of sight for granted. Devorah Sperber does not. The New York-based artist probes the optical, social, and historical reasons for why we see what we see.
A Leap into the Unknown: A Conversation with Sol LeWitt
When approached to do an interview with Sol LeWitt, I immediately recalled a moment in the late ’70s during my graduate research on conceptual art when I felt compelled to have a conversation with the artist.
Action and Reaction: A Conversation with Nunzio
For more than 20 years, an inexhaustible curiosity has driven Nunzio to provoke accidents in the process of making that force him to look for different, unexplored ways of proceeding and to find new solutions. His 2005 exhibition at New Galleria Persano in Turin surprised everyone.
