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.
Sunil Gawde: Minimal Approach, Maximum Impact
“Blind Bulb etc.”: the title of the show is intriguing, perplexing. Perhaps, just as the artist intended. It makes one contemplate the strange juxtaposition of words, wondering what it denotes. Perhaps, just as the artist wished.
Eva Kwong: Love Between the Atoms
At first impression, “Love Between the Atoms,” the retrospective of Eva Kwong’s ceramics at the Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, is far from the atomic. Other qualities strike me—playfulness, organic formalism, and color.
Transmogrifications: A Conversation with Bryan Crockett
Bryan Crockett was born in Santa Barbara, California, in 1970 and grew up in a home attached to the family business; his father was the local mortician. He dropped out of high school in his junior year to attend Santa Barbara City College and graduated with a BA from Cooper Union in New York City
