Millicent Young uses poor materials—horsehair, in particular—to create lyrical abstractions that resemble ancient artifacts or inspired attempts at joining the timeless elements of nature to a contemporary point of view. Educated at Wesleyan University and the University of Virginia, with an MFA from James Madison University, she has always followed her own path.
The Sensation of Science: A Conversation with Laurent Grasso
French conceptual artist Laurent Grasso recaptures something of the exciting uncertainty that characterizes scientific theories at the nexus of knowledge and belief. Inspired by the history of brilliant and beleaguered attempts to apply science to social well-being, he has been particularly influenced by Buckminster Fuller and the German physicist Winfried Otto Schumann.
Remastering Masterworks: A Conversation with Barry X Ball
Celebrated for his striking sculptural portraits of art world figures and exquisite remakes of art historical masterpieces, Barry X Ball dynamically connects the past to the present in his sophisticated and sensitive work. Employing computer technology and immeasurable hours of handwork, he carves precious stones into extremely expressive works of allegorical art.
Susan Collis: Looking at the Overlooked
At first glance, Susan Collis’s “Without you the world goes on,” at the Des Moines Art Center last year, looked more like an after-hours jobsite or an installation in progress than a finished art exhibition. Bundles of wood, a pair of worker’s overalls, a table, ladder, and chair, brooms, some drop cloths, a storage bag, even a tattered blue plastic tarp lay scattered about or were haphazardly pinned to the walls.
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña and Glenn Adamson in Conversation
“There Must Be Some Way Out of Here,” on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum through May 25, 2020, is artist Zoë Sheehan Saldaña’s most comprehensive exhibition to date. It consists of some 50 handmade objects—“artistic camouflage,” as the museum puts it—that appear to be ordinary items one might find in any home.
Ave Fénix: Una Conversación con Silvia Battistuzzi
Silvia Battistuzzi está formada en el campo del psicoanálisis, dibujo y pintura en los talleres de la Asociación Estímulo de Bellas Artes en Buenos Aires, así como tomando seminarios internacionales y clínicas de arte con curadores y críticos.
A Conversation with Vibha Galhotra
“Beyond the Blue,” Vibha Galhotra’s current solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, imagines a narrative of interplanetary migration to Mars in the wake of the (human-made) destruction of our planet.
Citizenship Through Art: A Conversation with Carolina Caycedo
Los Angeles-based artist and activist Carolina Caycedo works primarily in the area of social justice. Her practice spans a variety of media and largely concerns itself with the problematics of river rights in Latin America, where hydroelectric dams are causing hardships for local and indigenous cultures.
Place of Memory: A Conversation with Andres Paredes
Andres Paredes, who was born in Argentina’s Misiones Province and graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Misiones, has made his home region a distinctive factor in his work. Driven by a systematic search to keep memory active by reworking the past, he creates an intimate imaginary world in works that
Fabricating History: A Conversation with Future Retrieval
Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker have collaborated as Future Retrieval since 2008. In 1999, after meeting as undergrads in ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute, the pair earned graduate degrees from Ohio State University; they now lead the ceramics department at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP).
