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.”
Deborah Butterfield: It All Adds Up
Recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award In 1973, Deborah Butterfield received her MFA from the University of California, Davis, where the faculty included Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, William T. Wiley, and Wayne Thiebaud, artists committed to a hands-on approach, who combined the traditional and experimental in their work.
Circularidad Infinita: Una Conversación con Paulo Riccobene
Nacido en Buenos Aires, el artista visual Paulo Riccobene, formado en la carrera de Edición y Diseño de Imagen y Sonido en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, se siente, según sus palabras, “convocado al mundo de la creación, en todas sus formas, de manera temprana.”
Subject To Change: A Conversation with Joan Hall
Joan Hall’s layered, monumental sculptures address how the climate crisis affects human bodies and bodies of water. Her processes and forms start with handmade paper and evolve organically. Part of the mystique in Hall’s work stems from the fact that she uses dry pigments and paper to create water-like surfaces.
Cracks in the System: A Conversation with Agustina Woodgate
Agustina Woodgate, who divides her time between Buenos Aires, Miami, and Amsterdam, sees the human landscape—its spaces, systems, and representation of values—as a conceptual geography open to questioning and improvement.
Stillness in the Midst of Chaos: A Conversation with Masaomi Yasunaga
Masaomi Yasunaga pursues “fundamental beauty.” A student of Satoru Hoshino, Yasunaga continues the experimental ethos of Sodeisha, or “crawling through the mud association,” a postwar Japanese art movement (1948–98) that explored the sculptural possibilities of ceramics.
About Potential: A Conversation with Asim Waqif
Recipient of the 2021 Innovator Award Asim Waqif embraces multiple mediums and materials. Ranging from invented archaeological sites to multisensory and interactive, architecturally scaled environments created from reclaimed timber, demolition salvage, or bamboo, his work cannot be confined by formal parameters or defined by subject matter.
Gregor Schneider: A Sense of Distance
By the time Gregor Schneider was a teenager, he had already begun speculating about alienation and the place of death in life, as well as the deep-seated relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit.
Explorando los Límites de lo Habitual: Una Conversación con Alejandra Tavolini
Licenciada en Bellas Artes por la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, la artista plástica Alejandra Tavolini desarrolla una obra que, según sus palabras “explora el límite de lo habitual, valiéndome de diversos soportes.”
Real Light and Real Angles: A Conversation with Larry Bell
Larry Bell has been pursuing abstract art for over six decades. He is known for his surface treatment ofglass, using it to explore light and space, reflections and shadows, in sculptures that usually take the form of cubes and nesting boxes.
