Anne Samat creates brilliantly colorful totemic sculptures using humble everyday materials. Deeply informed by Malaysian culture, her work combines traditional Pua Kumbu weaving, which she studied at the Mara Institute of Technology in Malaysia, with familiar objects taken from modern life such as gardening and kitchen utensils, plastic ornaments, and hardware.
Una Reflexión sobre la Metamorfosis del Estado de las Cosas: Una Conversación con Cecilia Nigro
Inicialmente con estudios en el campo de las relaciones publicas (UADE, Buenos Aires), la artista Cecilia Nigro se incorpora al mundo de las artes pláticas a través de la cerámica.
Wonderment and Reflection: A Conversation with Coral Penelope Lambert
Recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Educator Award Coral Penelope Lambert, Professor of Sculpture and Director of the National Casting Center Foundry at Alfred University, produces process-based, often performative and site-specific work that combines her background as a formalist steel sculptor with her passion for iron casting.
Material Histories: A Conversation with Anoli Perera
Anoli Perera, a self-taught artist who divides her time between New Delhi, India, and Colombo, Sri Lanka, is not afraid to range across different mediums and materials. The lack of a formal art education has given her the courage to experiment, veer off into new directions, and express herself freely.
Object Lessons: Kenneth Tam
The title, Why do you abuse me, comes from a book of English-language phrases given to Chinese laborers who were traveling abroad in the mid-19th century. I was struck by the directness of the question and how matter-of-factly it presented an uncomfortable truth.
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Carving Routes Toward Liberation
Recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award With their architectural aura, their weaving between fluid and solid, supple and clenched, Barbara Chase-Riboud’s sculptural works stage convergences that unsettle while inducing awe. Her intimate juxtaposition of unlike substances triggers creative friction, sparking an alchemy that feels strategic as it fractures narrow categories.
Feeling the World Push Back: A Conversation with Joseph O’Connell
Life, death, the heavens, and beyond: artist Joseph O’Connell addresses them all while redefining what it means to be a sculptor in the 21st century. O’Connell has created works for public spaces all over the world, including the world’s largest acrylic sculpture and human-powered kinetic sculpture.
Relaciones Multiespecie: Una Conversación con Romina Orazi
Romina Orazi, artista plástica, ambientalista y jardinera oriunda de Chubut, Argentina, se autodefine como “partícipe de la cultura libre.” Estudió la Licenciatura en Artes Visuales en el Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte y jardinería en la escuela Carlos Thays.
From the Ruins: A Conversation with Raymon Elozua
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.
