A fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT for 25 years, professor in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) at MassArt, and co-founder of the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Lowry Burgess traveled the world making and investing objects into the earth.
Mindful Vandalism: A Conversation with Hew Locke
Hew Locke is a self-confessed “maximalist.” His sculptures, installations, drawings, and photographs overflow with miscellanea, their materials ranging from plastic toys and beads to brass etchings and golden filigree. This physical profusion mirrors an abundance of thematic references—voodoo, slavery, migration, colonialism, globalization, media voyeurism, and corporate greed, to name a few.
Diseño Orgánico: Una Conversación con Mariana Brea
La artista plástica Mariana Brea produce una obra inicialmente inspirada en su ámbito de su infancia en la provincia de Misiones, donde se cría rodeada de una profusa naturaleza.
Beyond Physicality: A Conversation with Adejoke Tugbiyele
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Nigeria, Adejoke Tugbiyele now lives and works in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, exploring a practice “charged with symbolic meanings.” As an artist and advocate, she bridges multiple cultures and synthesizes stubborn oppositions—masculine/feminine, dark/light, nature/culture.
A Conversation with Jennifer Steinkamp
Jennifer Steinkamp was one of the first to adopt digital animation software Maya over 30 years ago. Since then, she has used the program to develop a diverse body of digital animations, often at monumental scale, projected onto the walls of museums, galleries, and in public spaces.
Bruce Nauman: Endurance Act
Ever since the emergence of the avant-garde in the 19th century, artists have taken creative risks, explored unknown territories, thrust us out of our comfort zones, and upset the status quo. No American artist, however, has used a more wildly eclectic range of methods, materials, images, and ideas than Bruce Nauman to answer the question, “Can this, too, be art?”
El jardín de las delicias: Una Conversación con Carolina Antoniadis
La artista plástica rosarina Carolina Antoniadis produce una obra de un impacto visual destacado. Los variados soportes que utiliza para construir espacios lúdicos, ensoñadores, saturados de información cual estética barroca, siempre llevan detrás un eje conceptual vinculado a imágenes de su infancia y su legado familiar como discurso de género.
Object Lessons: Roberley Bell
“Still Life with Table consists of pieces, without a hierarchy. It’s not just an arrangement of objects; the thing that it sits on is also part of the sculpture. I have all these forms and parts—things that I make, things that I’ve collected and altered—and they sit around, sometimes for years.”
Cutting Silence: A Conversation with Pablo Lehmann
For more than two decades, Pablo Lehmann, who teaches at Argentina’s National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, has produced obsessively complicated works in which patience, attention to detail, and technical knowledge come together in dense overlays that defy distinctions between text and image.
Material Space: A Conversation with Sheela Gowda
Claude Monet saw painting entirely as an act of abstraction, even with his easel rooted en plein air, saying of representation, “Try to forget what objects you have before you—a tree, a house, a field.
