In a 1972 Artforum essay, Robert Smithson observed that “when a finished work of 20th-century sculpture is placed in an 18th-century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.”
The ISC Remembers John Seward Johnson, Jr.
John Seward Johnson, Jr., sculptor, creator of Grounds For Sculpture and the Johnson Atelier, ISC 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and ISC Chair Emeritus died on March, 10, 2020, at the age of 89. Though a well-known and successful artist, he was not content just creating his own work; his generosity to fellow artists led
Practical Creativity: A Conversation with Peter Fink (Part 2)
PF: In the early 1980s, opportunities for artists to engage with projects out of the gallery system were few, and the public art movement was at its very beginning. With no textbook, I started to explore how to initiate, negotiate, secure funding for, and organizationally deliver public art projects.
Practical Creativity: A Conversation with Peter Fink (Part 1)
Peter Fink, who was born in London and grew up in Czechoslovakia before returning to England’s capital city, is known for large-scale interdisciplinary collaborations. His public art projects, which have been realized around the world, draw on environmental design, architecture, and urbanism in order to show how art can reimagine cities.
Biografía Social: Una Conversación con Hernán Marina
Hernán Marina es por cierto un artista plástico y visual cuyo trabajo impacta por su pregnancia cromática, lo etéreo y al mismo tiempo grandioso de sus piezas, por una contundente carga conceptual y una figuración que no hace más que dejar escuchar la voz del artista.
Signe Lidén: The Sounds of Place
Last year, the Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) unveiled an expanded program of four international and Norwegian artist residency projects in small villages across the stringy, mountainous northwestern archipelago of islands. With a stupendous, overpowering landscape, the Lofoten Islands evoke particular qualities of light, ambience, and atmosphere, making them a place of places and a
It’s Personal: A Conversation with James Surls
Winner of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award It’s been a long, strange trip over the last six decades for James Surls. His wood, bronze, and steel sculptures evoke a sense of ancient, present, and future worlds, from earthly landscapes to outer space, from visible nature to the inner eye.
Inhabiting Resilience: A Conversation with Rita Simoni
Rita Simoni produces the kinds of works that don’t fit into ordinary spaces. Her multidisciplinary practice covers the entire spectrum of visual art, from painting, photography, video, and digital design to sculpture and site-specific installation. Originally trained as an architect, Simoni, who is based in Argentina, focuses her attention on the creative possibilities of color and space.
Object Lessons: Mildred Howard
When I got this commission from the County of Sacramento and the Sacramento Airport, they requested a house—something consistent with my many previous house-shaped sculptures and installations. I began by conducting research, reading the letters of those who came to California during the Gold Rush.
Anxious Objects: A Conversation with Anna Reading
The futuristic blends with the primordial in the work of British sculptor Anna Reading. Her otherworldly forms call to mind remnants of a crashed space capsule overgrown with foreign matter or submerged manmade structures that have succumbed to marine accretions.
