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.
Antropología del Concepto: Una Conversación con Martín Legón
Instalaciones, dibujos, pinturas, fotografías intervienen en la obra del argentino Martín Legón quien se apoya en los textos, la poesía, la literatura y los estudios de disciplinas tales como la sociología, la antropología y la historia del arte, para desarrollar una obra cuyo fundamento, sea cual cure el formato que cobre, es de base conceptual.
Domestic Tensions: A Conversation with Usha Seejarim
Usha Seejarim works with ordinary, domestic objects in a somewhat Dadaist way, reinterpreting them into sculptural forms rooted in today’s South Africa but with broader resonance. Her materials include such staples of female labor as clothes pegs, irons, brooms, cleaning sponges, and serving trays.
The Tree Within: A Conversation with Foon Sham
Foon Sham’s sculptures, made from blocks of salvaged wood, fit together like pieces of intricate puzzles, with gaps inviting the play of light.
Honest Shapes and Arrested Motion: A Conversation with Mary Shaffer
Mary Shaffer, since her early days at RISD, has moved from painting to installation and sculpture, from experimentation to mastery.
