Paula Winokur’s sculptures, which resonate with dignified authority and considered focus, take porcelain to its limits and transform it beyond expectations. Organic forms built with a sense of restraint declare her resolve through thoughtful attention to detail.
Trevor King: Understanding Utility
Trevor King’s ceramic sculptures aim to understand utility. Over the course of his career, he has quietly but steadily been building a body of work that is autobiographical, sure in its handling, and aware of the contemporary art scene.
Punto de Quiebre: Una Conversación con Carla Beretta
Desde la ciudad de Rosario, la artista plástica Carla Beretta trabaja un corpus de obra que trasciende los límites de lo bidimensional, experimentando con trabajos con una fuerte impronta del grabado y los textiles, superando los soportes tradicionales—por ejemplo la planimetría del papel—para invadir el espacio con objetos e instalaciones.
Passing Through Hands: A Conversation with Lenka Clayton
Lenka Clayton’s work is a network of connections based in the narrative and poetic potential embodied in objects. Each of her dynamic projects offers a tangible link to stories and geographic locations. She connects communities and individuals while offering a bit of magic, which can often be found in the smallest places.
Languages Not Yet Spoken: A Conversation with Fernando Casasempere
Fernando Casasempere has worked with porcelain and stoneware for four decades, introducing rich textures into his surfaces. His poetic, abstract forms are partly inspired by pre-Columbian art and partly by the landscape of his native Chile.
Building Andy Goldsworthy’s Walking Wall
A blanket of fine, dry snow greeted the wallers on their first morning of work in Kansas City. It was the beginning of March, and Andy Goldsworthy, with the help of a select crew led by four veteran U.K. wallers and two handfuls of local stone movers, was conjuring up his latest site-specific installation, Walking Wall, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Sarah Lucas: Naked Honesty
Sarah Lucas has a feeling for materials that quite simply takes your breath away, a formidable command over sculptural form, a knack for striking compositions and juxtapositions, an abiding interest in charged and often politically incorrect content, and a deliciously wicked sense of humor.
Supremacía Material: Una Conversación con Julia Clutterbuck
Desmaterializar, descartar, recuperar, romper, arrugar—palabras que nos acercan al trabajo de Julia Clutterbuck, una joven artista que plantea escenarios abstractos compuestos a partir de composiciones superpuestas de materia.
A Conversation with Luca Massimo Barbero on Lucio Fontana
“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
