Every time Erwin Wurm produces a sculpture from a real object—cars, shoes, pieces of clothing—he creates something strange and wonderful, inviting us to consider different possibilities for the ordinary and familiar.
Resistances: A Conversation with Louise Gibson
Louise Gibson makes monumental sculpture from salvaged materials, pairing crushed and twisted metal with reclaimed fabrics. Her current exhibition “Beachheads,” at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop where she has been a resident artist, took around nine months to create and developed in parallel with her third child.
Albert Paley: Humanizing Space
Recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award It is a good time to position the work of Albert Paley within the Modernist canon, and not only because for decades he has been understood internationally to be one of the most important artists whose workis centered on metal.
Formed in the Act: A Conversation with Courtney Smith and Iván Navarro
Can art activate intuitive, collective problem-solving? The collaborative projects of Iván Navarro and Courtney Smith, working together as Konantü, seek to answer that question, spanning media, disciplines, and contexts while honoring their roots in sculpture. Each artist brings a particular set of skills to this dynamic partnership.
Jaume Plensa: Timely and Timeless
For every artist who has earned and sustained widespread critical acclaim and captured devoted international attention, there comes a moment when the poetic consideration of their work within a larger, longer historical framework arrives: More than merely converse with, how might they be considered within the ambiance of the masters and monuments of eras past?
Collapsing Structures: A Conversation with Aaron T Stephan
Aaron T Stephan’s meticulously crafted works employ ordinary objects to communicate a deep underlying messaging that disrupts our normal approach to narrative and meaning, telling us more about the environment and society in which we live.
Family Matters: A Conversation with Emma Jääskeläinen
From the moment I first encountered Emma Jääskeläinen’s sculptures, I made a mental note to follow her progress. In works such as According to Shadow and Creator (New Potato and Olive) (both 2017), she mixes elements large and small, hard and soft, mineral and organic to create bold, visually poetic, and appealingly absurd juxtapositions.
Cuando el tiempo lo es todo: Una Conversación con Santiago Colombo Migliorero
Oriundo de La Plata, Bs.As, el artista audiovisual Santiago Colombo Migliorero, se deja guiar hacia una exploración sensible que se apoya fuertemente en el concepto de la temporalidad como rectora y organizadora, estudiando al tiempo como un material cuasi plástico que lo condiciona todo.
Unfolding Into the World: A Conversation with Tory Fair
The practice of Boston-based Tory Fair consists of a captivating blend of body and ecology. In her recent work, which involves casting live sunflowers, she is not bound by fidelity to natural forms; instead, she allows material and process to imprint on making.
Proportional Relationships: A Conversation with Franka Hörnschemeyer
German artist Franka Hörnschemeyer works with architecture and space, using arrangements of objects made with ordinary building materials to examine history and social structures. By casting the familiar in a new light, her installations, objects, and site-specific interventions open a range of temporal and spatial associations.
