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.
Fictions in the Natural World: A Conversation with Cristina Iglesias
Cristina Iglesias’s large-scale sculptures and installations expose the roots of the natural world and connect them to concepts that influence our perception of it, including memory, cultural narratives, and time.
The Geological Underbelly: A Conversation with Nina Canell
Nina Canell, who lives and works in Berlin, explores process as medium and concept, a means to reveal synergies, transferences, and entanglements while uniting immaterial forces and material form.
Intensities and Sensations: A Conversation with Juan Sorrentino
Sound and visual artist, musician, teacher, and curator, Juan Sorrentino seeks “to transmit the sensory through the corporeal.” His installations incorporate the viewer by appealing to multiple senses, motivating, as he says, “inquisitive interactions with objects and materials through sound, seduced by the phenomenology of the discovery.”
