For 25 years, the Québec City-based collective BGL (Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère, and Nicolas Laverdière) was a dynamic force in the Canadian art scene, exhibiting widely in the artists’ home province, as well as across the country and in Europe.
Healing Instruments: A Conversation with Guadalupe Maravilla
New York-based Guadalupe Maravilla left his homeland as a young boy during the height of El Salvador’s civil war. That traumatic past and a more recent bout with cancer have directed the course of his life and work.
Spencer Finch: Seeing and Knowing
Spencer Finch is interested in shifting light, both as a subject and as an artistic method. He is fascinated with changes in light at different times of the day and year, from one location to another, and with how light shifts as it is refracted through atmosphere, clouds, and windows, or reflected in different surfaces.
Love and Spirits: A Conversation with Anne Samat
I Love You for the Wrong Reasons #1, 2021. Rattan sticks, kitchen and garden utensils, beads, ceramic, metal, and plastic ornaments, 98 x 42 x 8 in. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Marc Straus. Anne Samat creates brilliantly colorful totemic sculptures using humble everyday materials.
Una Reflexión sobre la Metamorfosis del Estado de las Cosas: Una Conversación con Cecilia Nigro
Inicialmente con estudios en el campo de las relaciones publicas (UADE, Buenos Aires), la artista Cecilia Nigro se incorpora al mundo de las artes pláticas a través de la cerámica.
Wonderment and Reflection: A Conversation with Coral Penelope Lambert
Recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Educator Award Coral Penelope Lambert, Professor of Sculpture and Director of the National Casting Center Foundry at Alfred University, produces process-based, often performative and site-specific work that combines her background as a formalist steel sculptor with her passion for iron casting.
Material Histories: A Conversation with Anoli Perera
Anoli Perera, a self-taught artist who divides her time between New Delhi, India, and Colombo, Sri Lanka, is not afraid to range across different mediums and materials. The lack of a formal art education has given her the courage to experiment, veer off into new directions, and express herself freely.
Object Lessons: Kenneth Tam
The title, Why do you abuse me, comes from a book of English-language phrases given to Chinese laborers who were traveling abroad in the mid-19th century. I was struck by the directness of the question and how matter-of-factly it presented an uncomfortable truth.
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Carving Routes Toward Liberation
Recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award With their architectural aura, their weaving between fluid and solid, supple and clenched, Barbara Chase-Riboud’s sculptural works stage convergences that unsettle while inducing awe. Her intimate juxtaposition of unlike substances triggers creative friction, sparking an alchemy that feels strategic as it fractures narrow categories.
Feeling the World Push Back: A Conversation with Joseph O’Connell
Life, death, the heavens, and beyond: artist Joseph O’Connell addresses them all while redefining what it means to be a sculptor in the 21st century. O’Connell has created works for public spaces all over the world, including the world’s largest acrylic sculpture and human-powered kinetic sculpture.
