For more than 40 years, Raymon Elozua has maintained a career largely outside of the commercial art world, forging his own path in creative and enduring ways.
Come For the Experience: A Conversation with Richard Jackson
There is a churlishness about Richard Jackson that hasn’t diminished with age. One of America’s most radical artists, he has expanded the definition and practice of painting, taking it into previously unthought-of dimensions.
Shifting Sand: A Conversation with Connie Zehr
When Connie Zehr arrived in Southern California in the 1960s, she joined a loosely connected community of young artists whose experiments with unorthodox materials and environments defined what became known as the Light and Space movement.
The Garden of Waste: A Conversation with Lucila Gradín
Lucila Gradín, who was born in Bariloche, Argentina, and now lives in Buenos Aires, develops her work around nature, specifically investigations into tinctorial and medicinal plants. Recently she has also been working with native plants that have all but disappeared.
This Changes Everything: A Conversation with Blue McRight
For Blue McRight, making art involves immersion in science and natural history; her inspirations range from arcane botanical illustrations to her personal experience as a scuba diver. Drawing from diverse sources, she has skillfully assimilated an amalgam of visual, cultural, and scientific ideas.
Beyond the Art/Science Duality: A Conversation with Ellen K. Levy
Ellen K. Levy, curator, scholar, and artist, directs her boundless curiosity through complex realms of science and technology. Where, she wonders, do the patterns and structures hidden within the natural world intersect with artistic creation? D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms (Bloomsbury Press, 2021), which she co-edited
Progressive Destinations: A Conversation with Dawn DeDeaux
For multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux, “between” is a place. Toggling media (video, performance, installation, sculpture), dimensions (two and three, object and experience), and time (past, present, and future), her work occupies spaces between things, ideas, and people.
Object Lessons: Lily Cox-Richard
“Weep holes” is such an evocative phrase. Many people aren’t aware of its architectural meaning. They might think of leaking orifices or crying eyeballs, which also work in terms of relieving pressure or finding equilibrium. I was thinking about this as an example of how energies flow through a space to heal and rebalance a
From the Smallest Scraps of Nothing: A Conversation with Alice Momm
Delight in the natural world permeates Alice Momm’s work. Transitory and ephemeral, her creations often consist of things that she finds around New York City and works with on site or in her Harlem studio.
El Re-encuentro del Hombre con la Naturaleza: Una Conversación con Federico Bacher
Dice el artista, “La re-unión del hombre con la naturaleza sería una forma de salvación, la única diría.” Esa búsqueda lo llevó a desarrollar una carrera internacional en China, donde su trabajo es reconocido, aceptado y apreciado.
