Picasso, Sculpture, and Picasso’s Women
Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909, plaster. I believe that Pablo Picasso, in terms of the history of art, is as important for his sculptures as he is for his paintings. His inventiveness, his radical reappraisal of what sculpture was and could become, and his ability (rather like Henry Moore’s) to seize on the discoveries
Idea-Based Sculpture: Jno Cook, Dennis Kowalski, and Frances Whitehead
Chicago artists Jno Cook, Dennis Kowalski, and Frances Whitehead exploit the relationship between concept and the object that embodies it, examining and commenting on the social systems around them….see the full feature in March’s magazine.
Extended Ephemeral: The South Carolina Botanical Garden’s Living Laboratory of Botanical Sculptures
The South Carolina Botanical Garden is a place where nature and culture meet. Yoga camps, clean-up activities, and school class visits enhance public awareness of nature and culture …see the full feature in March’s magazine.
Forum: Roughing It: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Sculpture Symposia
Brian Monaghan, Chicagoscape, 2003. Steel, 12 x 20 x 10 ft. Symposia are filled with the energy that artists often need to refresh their creative “batteries.” These experiences force us into unique situations that require the kind of “out of the box” thinking conducive to the creation of new sculpture.
Martha Jackson-Jarvis: The Process of Discovery
The obsessions that awaken mixed-media artist Martha Jackson-Jarvis each day emanate from her love of family, her passion for cooking, and, she’s the first to admit, from her unabashed fascination with the elastic dimensions of clay.
A Question of Perspective: Sculpture by Charles Ginnever
Charles Ginnever was on vacation in Maine in 1993 when he went to work on a design that had already been in his mind for a while. He started, as he often did, by tinkering with shapes cut from foam core; when he was done, he had produced an object that could stand freely in
