Memorial to a Marriage, 2000–01. Carrara marble, 83 x 40 x 27 in. Photo: E.G. Schempf, courtesy Grand Arts, Kansas City. Patricia Cronin’s three-ton marble mortuary sculpture Memorial to a Marriage is heroic in size, scale, and theme.
Tony Smith: In the Ether of Solids
Smith perpetually explored the variations of the invention of space through form…see the full review in December’s magazine.
Swept Away: Carl Andre’s Grave and Early Earthworks
The “quintessential Minimalist” also participated in the fracturing of that order….see the full review in December’s magazine.
Eva Redux or What Do We Owe Eva Hesse?
A retrospective presents Hesse’s idiosyncratic materials and emotionally nuanced forms….see the full review in December’s magazine.
Cosmological Shadows: A Conversation with Bill Vazan
Mirages (Delta de Métis), 2002. Granite, 5 boulders, 15 ft. high. Site-specific work at the juncture of the Mitis and St. Lawrence Rivers. Physically imprinted on the land surfaces of five continents over the past 30 years, Bill Vazan’s land art projects originated in the conceptual and Minimalist art tendencies of the 1960s.
Assaulting the Surface: A Conversation with Sarah Lovitt
Stairway, 2002. Wax suspended by filament, 32 x 10 X 8 in. each. Photo: Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Georges Bataille described eroticism as “life ascending to the point of death.” Sarah Lovitt traces that ascent, crafting embodiments of physical distress redeemed through spiritual hope.
Interior/Exterior Vision: A Conversation with Howard Ben Tré
Ben Tré discusses moving his work from the privacy of the studio to the public realm…see the full review in November’s magazine.
Exposed: A Conversation with Tracey Emin
Her recent works, like Self-Portrait are sculptural objects built on simple metaphors….see the full review in November’s magazine.
The Art of Happenstance: The Performative Sculptures Of James Lee Byars
Byars travels to Oxford University to discover which questions exist in the Faculty of Philosophy. He meets the expert on Wittgenstein, J.I.M. Anscombe at home with her children. He speaks to two doctoral candidates who are studying event identity and the difference between extraordinary event and miracle.
Into the Light: A Conversation with James Turrell
The retrospective exhibition “James Turrell: Into the Light,” on view through April 2003 at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, showcases Turrell’s life-long investigations of light, space, and perception, including three pieces from the Mattress Factory’s permanent collection and models from his monumental Roden Crater Project.
