Cuban-born artist Glenda León came of age during Fidel Castro’s regime, so she learned early on to make art from mostly free and cheap stuff. Now dividing her time between Havana and Madrid, León remains a media egalitarian whose odd assortment of materials includes everything from her fingernails, hair, and the sound of her breath to pianos and mountains of sand.
Monumental Trickery: A Conversation with Krzysztof Wodiczko
In a career spanning more than 60 years, Krzysztof Wodiczko has made statues, buildings, and monuments almost magically come to life.
Perfume de Mujer: Una Conversación con Paula Zaccaria
Profesora de Educación Especial con orientación a la enseñanza de niños y adolescentes con disminución auditiva, Licenciada en Artes Visuales con especialización en escultura y profesora universitaria, la artista plástica Paula Zaccaria establece, desde sus comienzos, un vínculo fundamental con los sentidos, llevándolos directamente al plano de la composición como protagonista, especialmente el olfato.
You Get Out What You Put In: A Conversation with Patrick Strzelec
“You get out what you put in” could be a textbook definition of mold casting. I did learn how to make a proper mold from Patrick Strzelec in the 1990s, but this working-class American adage also sums up his integrity and transparency—as a maker, an educator, and a thinker.
Restless and Alive: A Conversation with Jennifer Tee
Dutch artist Jennifer Tee works across sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and collage. Her experiments with space, form, materials, and imagery (particularly her development of floor pieces and her fascination with curving lines and their associations) all focus on evoking “the soul in limbo.”
Qualities of the Unsaid: A Conversation with Kiyomi Iwata
Kiyomi Iwata, who was born in Kobe, Japan, is a textile artist whose work explores the relationship between geographies—East and West, North and South— through cultural signifiers, text, and materiality.
Truth of the Real: A Conversation with Anna Maria Maiolino
A Brazilian artist of Italian descent, Anna Maria Maiolino immigrated to Rio de Janeiro in 1960 and became associated with the New Figuration and New Brazilian Objectivity movements after attending the Escuela Técnica de Artes Visuales Cristóbal Rojas in Caracas and the Escola de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.
Maria Lai: Geographies of Memory
If birthplace is a determinant of fate, then Maria Lai (1919–2013), who was born in Ulassai on the island of Sardinia, embraced hers willingly, mining a profound cultural heritage made personal. For her, geography truly was destiny, and her work is defined by what was native to her experience.
My Mother’s House, My Father’s House: A Conversation with Jeanne Silverthorne
For more than 30 years, Jeanne Silverthorne has investigated the psychological and physical space of the studio, as well as its successes and failures. For her, the studio is reality and more than reality. She identifies with its beat-up chairs, wiring, floorboards spent light bulbs—even its flies.
Object Lessons: Lauren Fensterstock
For a long time, I have been looking at how we shape landscapes and project meaning through them, but now I’m thinking less about a site and more about an event. With this piece, you’re experiencing a vignette of something happening in time.
