Public art isn’t what it used to be. As we remove historical monuments associated with racism and ethnic disenfranchisement from the American landscape, we force ourselves to rethink the goals of public art and to reconsider who we are as a people.
Fragile and Beautiful Complexity: A Conversation with Masimba Hwati
Masimba Hwati, who was born and raised in Zimbabwe, constructs intriguing assemblages of objects that comment on the country’s contemporary landscape with a mixture of traditional, colonial, postcolonial, and imported pop culture imagery.
A Conversation with Chris Schanck
Born in 1975 in Pittsburgh, Chris Schanck grew up in Dallas. He received a BFA in sculpture from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Since 2011, he has lived in Detroit, where he founded a studio employing more than a dozen artists, students, and craftspeople.
Like a Rock: A Conversation with Nari Ward
Because Ward’s work can’t be reduced to a mere collection of materials, he enlists viewers in a process that recharges typical interactions with objects. We see something over and above a process and collection of things—a particular lived history of race, poverty, and consumer culture.
Materiales que Construyen Percepciones: Una Conversación con Marcolina Dipierro
Su trabajo se despliega en instalaciones, objetos o conjuntos escultóricos, muchas veces jugando con la dinámica del espacio que los contiene para generar la idea de que esos espacios son habitables en la realidad.
Life and Spirit: A Conversation with Juan Martinez
Detroit-based Juan Martinez, who describes himself as a “kinetic metal sculptor,” was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and grew up in New Orleans. He was educated through a traditional Mexican trade school and an informal apprenticeship model in which he offered to assist people whose work he enjoyed.
A Conversation with Baseera Khan
Baseera Khan’s multimedia practice engages with intertwined social, political, and economic histories and their effects on the diasporic body, often through acts of deconstruction and collage.
Cause and Effect: A Conversation with Sarah Oppenheimer
Sarah Oppenheimer challenges the limits of sculpture and architecture in order to investigate how spaces shape behavior and how behavior can, in turn, impact inhabited space.
La Omnipresencia de los Cuerpos: Una Conversación con Ariadna Pastorini
Uruguaya de nacimiento, viviendo desde hace décadas en Buenos Aires, la artista multidisciplinaria Ariadna Pastorini trabaja abordando la pintura, la escultura, las artes visuales y especialmente los textiles trasladados al lenguaje de la instalación y la performance.
Shapes of Silence: A Conversation with Edmund de Waal
Gathered in large-scale installations and enclosed within minimal structures, Edmund de Waal’s porcelain vessels become vehicles for human narrative and emotion, objects of almost ritual significance haunted by memory.
