Giovanni Anselmo’s works are predicated on action. As a result, they always seem to exist in the present moment—dynamic presentations of materials that resist aesthetic resolution, with each encounter constituting a perceptual experience that empowers individual outcomes and discoveries.
Finding Hybridabad: A Conversation with Osman Khan
More than two years in the making, “Road to Hybridabad” marks the culmination of an interwoven narrative that Detroit-based artist Osman Khan has been building for his entire life. Drawing on literary classics like One Thousand and One Nights and Waiting for Godot, the exhibition (currently on view at MASS MoCA) employs ordinary, familiar objects—telephone
Soul Mirror: A Conversation with Sali Muller
Contemporary conceptual artist Sali Muller produces multimedia works which not only explore light and its impact on the objects, installations, and sculptures she creates, but also as a soul mirror that reflects her own spirituality as well as social matters that highlight individual and collective experiences and relationships.
Gaming Precarity: A Conversation with Cathy Della Lucia
While much contemporary art deals with questions of materiality, the things that make up an artwork, and how artists collaborate with material properties to locate spaces of aesthetic ease, Cathy Della Lucia’s work directly opposes her materials.
Charisse Pearlina Weston: Interior Life
I spend a lot of time walking through New York and often find myself in front of condo construction sites, gawking at high-end living exemplified by floor-to-ceiling expanses of glass.
New Beginning: A Conversation with Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Neto’s surprising, multi-part installation at Le Bon Marché, a department store in central Paris, was inspired by the story of Adam and Eve—before and after the bite into the apple. Reweaving the Genesis narrative with other mythologies, he creates an immersive and interactive meditation on life and our place in the natural world.
Infinite and Infinitesimal: A Conversation with Randy Polumbo
Boundaries between nature, living space, and fine art dissolve in Randy Polumbo’s universe. His works glow with a startling mix of materials—airplane and trailer parts, silvered upholstery, glittery cast and blown glass, LEDs, mirrored and metal sheets, baked mycelium, and looping videos.
Un electroshock creativo: Una Conversación con Fernando Poggio
Hace varios años escribí sobre la obra de Fernando Poggio. Leyendo mis propias palabras, encuentro que siguen respetando el espíritu de su trabajo. Dije entonces, y me cito: “Diseñador y artista visual, Fernando Poggio crea objetos de diseño y pinta obras apasionadas de pura materia, explosivas visualmente que impactan en la percepción del espectador por su
The Text Is in the Textile: A Conversation with ektor garcia
ektor garcia, who received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2016, approaches sculpture and installation through experimentation with a wide range of craft techniques, from crochet and weaving to ceramics and metalwork.
Hybrid World: A Conversation with Yese Astarloa
Yese Astarloa, who lives and works between Argentina and Spain, investigates today’s technical-technological landscape. Questioning the logic and mechanics of digital media and devices, as well as their elusive materiality, she tries to glimpse the convergence of virtual and physical realities by bridging the digital/analog divide.
