Kenneth Snelson: The Lyricism of Structure
Kenneth Snelson was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 1999. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. View of Kenneth Snelson’s studio, 1981 The sculpture of Kenneth Snelson holds a place at the core of one of the principal concerns of 20th-century visual art.
Memorial for Anonymous: An Interview with Christine Borland
English Family China (detail), 1998. Bone china, 5 groups consisting of 2 to 5 pieces, dimensions variable. A prominent member of the group of artists frequently described as “Young British Artists” (YBAs), Scottish-born Christine Borland lives and works in Glasgow.
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
(Foreground) Lucas Samaras, Chair Transformation Number 20B, 1996, patinated bronze and brass; (background) Sol LeWitt, Four-Sided Pyramid. More than 30 years in the making, the National Gallery Sculpture Garden opened on May 23. From the outside, it looks like a picturesque garden restrained by a Neoclassical girdle.
Made for Each Other: Storm King’s Vistas and Sculpture
Mark di Suvero, Pyramidian, 1987–98. Steel, 65 ft. high. Pyramidium, the massive, 65-foot sculpture, begins to take on its final shape, towering over a valley at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York. Mark di Suvero and his trusted two-man crew have just attached a second horizontal I-beam to a central inner circle so
“Where a Soul’s at Ease” Gardens, Museums, and the Urban Fabric: An Interview with Martin Friedman
Aerial view of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. During Martin Friedman’s 32-year association with Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center (30 as its director), he transformed what began as a regional arts institution into a major national and international cultural resource.
Within the Poetry of Motion: George Rickey
George Rickey was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 1999. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. One Up One Down Excentric with Acute Angle IV, 1983.
Nils-Udo: Nature Works
Red Rock Nest, 1998. Bamboo, earth, oranges, limes, and lemons, view of site specific work at Red Rock Canyon, California. Active in the field of environmental art since the 1960s, Nils-Udo creates significant structures that play with lanscape scale, planting or montaging materials to establish links between a specific landscape site, horticulture, and art.
Sculpture Moves Outdoors
In 1987, when the International Sculpture Center published its first Directory of Sculpture Parks and Gardens, it contained 97 entries. By 1996, with the second edition of the directory, this number had climbed to 195, an extraordinary increase.
