“Lucio Fontana. Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948–1968,” which opened on February 13 at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles (the gallery is closed until further notice), is the first comprehensive presentation in the U.S. of the late Italian master’s groundbreaking Ambienti spaziali (Spatial Environments).
Fleeting Little Thoughts: A Conversation with Katie Paterson
On paper, the works of Scottish artist Katie Paterson might sound fanciful, overambitious, even unachievable. She has connected a telephone line to a glacier so listeners could ring up and hear it melting; beamed Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” to the moon and back via Morse code and fed the altered version, distorted by craters and other
Alienating Effects: A Conversation with Guillaume Leblon
Guillaume Leblon’s works are difficult to categorize, occupying the space in between things. He considers his sculpture and installations to be like “fleeting memories, blurring the boundaries of real and surreal,” with “a strong and seductive material presence.”
States of Flux: A Conversation with Jes Fan
Jes Fan’s work unspools complexities, unifies diversities, and creates new forms of beauty. His unique vision includes abstract systems that allude to gender and racial distinctions as well as to outer/inner structures, merging art, science, philosophy, and cultural histories.
Generative Proliferation: A Conversation with Martha Russo
Boulder, Colorado-based Martha Russo pushes the boundaries of ceramics, using abstract forms freighted with references to biology, anatomy, and the purely fantastical. Three years ago, her retrospective “Coalescere,” at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, summed up 25 years of art-making.
Engañar a los Sentidos: Una Conversación con Paulina Webb
Paulina Webb hace honor al ejercicio del trabajo constante. Su obra se gesta allí mismo, en ese espacio entre el concepto, el no saber y la práctica. Con la mirada centrada en la investigación sobre la desmaterialización y liviandad de las masas, su trabajo apela a la luz y el color combinados con una vasta cantidad de materiales y soportes formales en pro de su búsqueda.
Human Here and Now: A Conversation with Millicent Young
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.
