In Leone Contini’s performative sculptures and installations, the artist also acts as farmer and caregiver, tending living works that require skill and attention to survive.
The Heart of Matter: A Conversation with Maud Cotter
Maud Cotter, one of Ireland’s most inventive artists, has almost four decades of work behind her, and she continues to change while still remaining, essentially, herself.
Michael Murrell: A Life Lived in Art
Murrell’s sculptures—in bone, wood, iron, resin, and stone, handled with consummate skill and a deep respect for the material—hang from the ceiling, float above the honeyed maple floor, and repose on the floor, arranged in relationships that may seem random at first glance, though they are anything but.
The Measure of Modernism: A Conversation with Leonor Antunes
Inspired by Modernist outliers (from Carlo Scarpa, Anni Albers, and Lenore Tawney to Lina Bo Bardi and Egle Trincanato), Antunes follows extensive research into their work with acts of extraction and artistic translation.
El Resto de los Sueños: Una Conversación con Rodrigo Díaz Ahl
Con el ojo puesto en el estudio del cuerpo, la materia y el tiempo en las llamadas realidades poscoloniales, el artista argentino Rodrigo Díaz Ahl, especializado en escultura e instalaciones, comienza moldear su carrera desde muy joven formándose en dibujo, cerámica y escultura, trabajando en talleres de artistas y en paralelo, estudiando la carrera de Sociología.
A Heart Trying To Break Free: A Conversation with Kendell Geers
Kendell Geers has spent years examining his personal experience, crisscrossing between life and art in order to create provocative and confrontational forms that challenge us to look closely and think deeply.
Sonia Gomes: Radical Intimacy
Sonia Gomes has been making radically intimate, fabric-based sculpture for three decades, in defiance of racism, ageism, and misogyny. Her story is the stuff of which art world myths are made, a story in which, against all odds, rags turn to riches, obscurity to worldwide recognition.
Sheila Hicks: The Irrepressible Trajectory of Lines and Color
Recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award The investigation of line, color, and fiber has been Sheila Hicks’s lifelong pursuit. She ignores borders, learns languages, and discovers materials as she migrates from painting to weaving to sculpture.
Object Lessons: Jeffrey Gibson
I’ve been working with fringe as a main element of the work for at least 10 years. Fringe was seen as an accessory, found on fancy dance shawls in powwow dances, and initially I was thinking of it in that context, using it on punching bags and wall hangings.
Sheila Pepe: Claiming Space
Sheila Pepe takes a gender-bending approach to process and material while also blurring the distinction between art and craft.
