Finkelpearl shares his experience in local, global, and public art arenas …see the full feature in April’s magazine.
Regina Frank: Nurturing a Sculptural Encounter
Whether bathed in blue light in a darkened room or enclosed in a glass-fronted display, German installation and performance artist Regina Frank seeks ways to humanize our digital universe. Her meditative, often interactive performances sculpt space, sometimes creating physical objects that document the temporal relationship between virtual and real experience.
High, Low, and In-Between
Jyung Mee Park, view of installation at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999. All works made of rice paper. Anyone who has ever been to New Orleans during Mardi Gras has heard this cry, as crowds rush the parade floats begging for beads, plastic cups, toys or, perhaps, a coveted “Zulu coconut.”
Steve Tobin: The Event Itself is the Only Truth
“The true underground is where the power flows. That’s the best kept secret of our time…Power flows under the surface, far beneath the level you and I live on.” – Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street Matzoth House, 1998.
Peter Voulkos: Clay, Space, and Time
Untitled plate, 1999. Woodfired stoneware, 4.5 x 19 x 21.75 in. Time has vindicated the pioneering efforts of contemporary clay sculptor, Peter Voulkos. In the ’50s, before the emergence of conceptual or process art, he stunned the art world with his finished sculptures of clay.
The First Lady’s Sculpture Garden at the White House
Richard Hunt, Icarus, 1957–58. Bronze, steel, and copper, 32.5 x 17 x 11.25 in. In early 1994, as chair of the Committee for Preservation of the White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton raised the idea of showcasing contemporary American sculpture on the White House grounds.
