John Rainey is a young Northern Irish artist whose work I first saw in 2016, when I marked him down as “one to watch.” Unlike many Irish artists, he was largely trained in England, at Manchester Metropolitan University and at the Royal College of Art in London.
Arte con Fundamento Científico: Una Conversación con Pablo La Padula
Doctor y Licenciado en Ciencias Biológicas de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pablo La Padula desarrolla una obra donde arte y ciencia se retroalimentan como dos partes inseparables e indiscutibles en su intervención creativa para llevar adelante cada proyecto.
Absorbing Stories: A Conversation with Kris Lemsalu
Kris Lemsalu’s work explores the mysteries, wonders, and absurdities of birth, life, and death. Like artists past, she considers these themes (the stuff of art since the beginning of human time) and poses the same existential question: What’s it all about?
The Object Looks Back: A Conversation with David Altmejd
Employing an invented language of the human form that re-articulates heads, hands, ears, limbs, and sexual organs, David Altmejd’s figures present an assemblage of dispersed parts that give the impression of a body shattering and shuddering into being.
“Waterfronts”: Sculpture Along England’s Edge
A gigantic worm burrowing through a museum, bouncy sea barriers, a statue of an Iraq War veteran, and a walking map silhouetting a woman’s profile: these are some of the temporary sculptures currently installed along England’s southeastern coast as part of “Waterfronts,” a project exploring ideas of borders and nationhood.
Truer Forms: A Conversation with Yasue Maetake
The Wind, 2016–19. Forged steel, cast polyester resin, resin-coated soil on Plexiglas, and drawing on found plywood, 90 x 113 x 106 in. Photo: Courtesy the artist. Yasue Maetake, a Japanese sculptor who has been living in New York for more than 10 years, creates small to life-size works with found materials, blending abstract and
Taking Turns: A Conversation with Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow
For over 30 years, British sculptors Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow—both internationally recognized for their individual work—have engaged in intermittent collaboration. To date, they have produced more than 60 “shared sculptures,” and they are now showing their first-ever collaboratively made drawings, created between 2019 and 2020.
Object Lessons: Maya Lin
I knew I wanted to create something for Madison Square Park that would be intimately related to the park itself, the trees, and the state of the earth. Throughout the world, climate change is causing vast tracts of forested lands to die off.
The Frayed Edges of Things: A Conversation with Cerith Wyn Evans
In the neon works of Welsh conceptualist Cerith Wyn Evans, “real light” (as Dan Flavin called electric light) appears like an un-flickering flame, creating brilliant and bizarre spatial drawings. His sculptures resonate with an amalgam of illusion and fact, interacting with the spaces that they occupy, disappear into, and dissolve.
Cuando la fotografía toma el espacio: Una Conversación con Esteban Pastorino
Técnico Mecánico y con estudios en ingeniería mecánica en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, el artista visual argentino Esteban Pastorino focaliza su producción en el campo de la fotografía.
