Liz Larner’s mid-career survey, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from December 2, 2001 through March 10, 2002, covered the last 15 years of the Los Angeles-based artist’s work. Larner graduated from the California Institute of Arts in 1985 and rose to international prominence during the 1990s.
Sol LeWitt: Systemic Art Made Visual
These works demonstrate that the mind and the body do not have to be separated…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Controlled Passion: A Conversation with Petah Coyne
“This looks like art,” a tough-talking policeman pronounced, looking around at the fairyland of wax-bathed figures, birds, chandeliers, scarlet and blue feathers, worldly and otherworldly forms. Petah Coyne’s “White Rain” exhibition had a visceral immediacy not easily communicated in photographs.
Stephen De Staebler’s “Figure Columns”
The fractured human figure has been the subject of Stephen De Staebler’s sculpture for many years. In a 1998 exhibition at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery in New York he reduced this image to only the human leg.
The Game as a Narrative of the Self: The World of Alex Pinna
Milan doesn’t seem like an Italian city. The austerity of the architecture, the fog, the frenetic work pace reminds one more of a cold Northern European metropolis. In Milan, people have no time to waste, and they are definitely in no mood to fool around: the financial centers set their rules, political potentates organize their
The Doors of Expression:The Work of Art in the Age of Quantum Processing Power
Forecasting the future of art is probably the most unmerciful of disciplines and the one, among other prophetic practices, that has consistently proven a historical impossibility. Hegel, the father of modern aesthetics, also happens to be the author of the most flagrant misreading of art history.
Armed and Disarming: The Haute Bricolage of Tom Sachs
Sachs uses controversy, fashion, consumerism, and duct tape in his edgy sculptures…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Juan Muñoz: Negotiating Belief
These works center on difference, the distance this condition creates, and longing….see the full review in May’s magazine.
Spiritual Materiality: Contemporary Sculpture and the Responsibility of Forms
There is a history of forms, structures, writings, which has its own particular time—or rather, times: it’s precisely this plurality which seems threatening to some people.” —Roland Barthes1 With the introduction of the notion of artistic will or urge, the Kunstwollen, which he believed to be an expression of the spiritual conditions of the time, the
The Emptiness of Space: A Conversation with Gio’ Pomodoro
Gio’ Pomodoro was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2002. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Gio’ Pomodoro’s work is widely known in Europe, the United States, South America, Israel, and Japan.
