Christopher Saucedo, Temple-Arcade, 1/4 scale replica (unassembled), 2004. Cast aluminum, 22 x 57.5 x 6.5 in. Ludic in temper, New Orleans sculptor Christopher Saucedo makes art that might be described as Postmodernist fun. While nodding respectfully at Rodin, Brancusi, and a host of others, he draws from wide-ranging sources both popular and learned, posing mischievous queries
The Body Disembodied: New Directions in Modernist Sculpture
The four sculptors united by this article- Vincent Barré, Willard Boepple, Clay Ellis, and John Gibbons-do not constitute a group in the usual sense….see the full review in October’s magazine.
A Diagram of Forces: Michael Rees
Michael Rees describes himself as a new media sculptor. The phrase brings to mind a jumble of kinetic objects interwoven with monitors and loudspeakers, but that’s not what Rees means….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Shaping Sensation: A Conversation with Jon Isherwood
ln the 1980s Jon lsherwood made multi-part sculptures in steel and cast concrete. Modernist in spirit, these early assemblages of rusted steel and swathes and swirls of cast concrete carry on an interesting dialogue with the works of Caro and Smith…see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Site “Shore/lines”: Responding to Place in Barrie, Ontario, Canada
About an hour’s drive north of Toronto, Ontario, the city of Barrie (pop. 103,000) is a place that seems to exist for the benefit of any reason other than itself. To some people, it’s little more than a bedroom community for Toronto-bound commuters.
Forum: Sculptors Groups
While chatting over dinner almost 10 years ago, fellow sculptor Knox Cummin and I discussed the possibility of starting a sculptors group in Philadelphia. I had become aware of the growing number of such groups around the country and thought that the time had come for Philadelphia sculptors to make a more visible appearance on
Uncontrollable Curiosity: A Conversation with Gino Marotta
Gino Marotta is a lively and ironic artist who has practiced in lucid autonomy that which in the United States was once known as Pop, creating environments out of refined images conceived according to the rules of perfect design….
