Davina Semo is folded over her laptop, head in her hands, elbows on the table. She makes eye contact with the camera, with me, and we both laugh. There’s really nothing else we can do. We both have the lights on—she in her studio in San Francisco, me in my home a few miles away.
Engaging the Informal City: A Conversation with Martand Khosla
Martand Khosla’s sculptures capture the evolutionary forces at work in the modern city, with its constant churning, its shifting appearance and demographics, and the dynamics of the divide between rich and poor.
Things in the Margins: A Conversation with Chung Hyun
Chung Hyun, a professor at Hongik University in Seoul, is known for his flat, anonymous, mostly wooden, and slightly larger-than-life figures arranged in long processions, indoors and out. His work, which plays with existential questions, conveys a personalized vision that partakes of Modernism and installation art while remaining figurative in nature.
Unbreakable Spirit: Berengo Glass Studio
A set of deep blue glass sculptures sits in a window of Peggy Guggenheim’s unfinished palazzo, overlooking Venice’s Grand Canal. Made from sketches by Picasso, they are a rare relic of Guggenheim’s collaboration with Egidio Costantini, Murano’s “master of masters.”
Pura Intuición: Una Conversación con Valerie Rey
Nacida en París, con estudios en Bellas Artes, diseño gráfico, textil, decoración y arquitectura, la artista francesa Valerie Rey desarrolla su obra desde fines de los años 90 en Costa Rica, tierra con la cual conecta de forma inmediata, estableciendo con la naturaleza del entorno un diálogo creativo.
A Conversation with Graham Hudson
Just over a year ago, I noticed a then-new Instagram account called @physical_culture_philosophy, and, because all three of those words interest me, I began to follow it. Turns out it is the creation of the London-based sculptor Graham Hudson, who has shown throughout Europe and the U.S.
All the Dirt of Life: A Conversation with Sean Scully
For Irish-born, American artist Sean Scully, autobiography and experience serve as correctives to the dry determinism of Minimalism. By making Minimalism “emotional,” he advances the personal over formal concerns, emancipating his works from a Sol LeWitt-like cage and introducing a freedom refused by Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman in their day.
Inside Ideas: A Conversation with Nathan Coley
Nathan Coley, who was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2007, has been working in Glasgow, Scotland, for over 25 years. Like many artists, he avoids characterization and “dislike[s] most terminology that describes art practice in any way.”
Gambling Man: A Conversation with Adam Silverman
Adam Silverman’s work is a monument to risk. Once a producer of functional pottery, he now works at the edge of feasibility where principles of ceramic fabrication are concerned. Potentially ruinous firing techniques, uncontrollable glazing methods, and almost unsustainable forms all expose his work to the possibility of self-destruction.
Acting on Impossibility: A Conversation with Ignacio Unrrein
Architect and doctoral candidate at Argentina’s National University of Arts, Ignacio Unrrein explores highly theoretical terrain in very concrete terms. His works occupy gaps—in perception, art-making, and personal relations (whether between individuals or between citizens and the city)—sometimes closing them, sometimes widening them, but always drawing attention to their existence and promise of opportunity.
