The junk-based sculptures and film installations in “DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash,” Duke Riley’s current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, take aim at the environmental villains, past and present, responsible for the destruction of the world’s oceans.
Mean Functionality: A Conversation with Irina Kirchuk
Irina Kirchuk’s works walk a fine line between abstraction and figuration. The Argentinian artist, who lives and works in Buenos Aires, observes the urban landscape and recovers objects from it, collecting and classifying them, exploring what she calls “their material obsolescence and mean functionality.”
John Henry: One Idea Leads To Another
A life is not a timeline. The supposed linear movement, building one moment adjacent to another, is a false construct. Adding another dimension gives a planar view of bright moments, scattered like diamonds on a field of velvet.
Prohibido Olvidar: Una Conversación con Leo Nuñez
“Exhibo en mis trabajos los contextos económicos y políticos que atraviesan los países de mi región. Desde el espacio llamado de ‘subdesarrollo,’ trabajo la obra tecnológica a partir de los conceptos de las últimas tecnologías pero utilizando materiales territorializados.”
BGL: When Art Feels Free
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.
