Matthew Angelo Harrison met me at Stanford University’s Automotive Innovation Facility on a brisk day in February. Surrounded by oak trees on the edge of campus, the building is clad in green corrugated metal. Inside, it is a bright, clean space with six garage bays; it looks more like a lab than a body shop.
Relationships Between Figures: A Conversation with Claudette Schreuders
Claudette Schreuders is a South African artist based in Cape Town. Her work has been exhibited in many institutions internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Puzzling Perception: A Conversation with Tauba Auerbach
Tauba Auerbach, whose aesthetic investigations break the mold, has described her work as an attempt to reveal “new spectral and dimensional richness…both within and beyond the limits of perception.”
Helena Hamilton: Composing in Space
Helena Hamilton, a young Northern Irish artist based in Belfast, extends the scope of sculpture by eliding drawing, installation, performance, sonic art, and interactive digital media. Meditative, immersive, and atmospheric, her interdisciplinary work places everyday physical objects such as neon tubes in counterpoint with the immaterial and the intangible.
The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace
A Q&A with Noelle Kadar, Director of The Sculpture Park, Jaipur, India The Park’s second edition runs through November 1, 2019.
Components of Human Folly: A Conversation with Jacob Hashimoto
When Jacob Hashimoto entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he planned to become a Minimalist painter like Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, or Agnes Martin. At one point, he ran out of ideas and just sat by his easel.
Red Grooms: Benign Satire
It makes total sense to learn that Red Grooms was helped on his way toward his distinctive sculptural forms by an oddball comic strip. Smokey Stover, so named for the central character, featured a fireman who always wore his helmet back to front, and it got the attention of Charles Rogers Grooms, a Nashville schoolboy with a phobia about fire.
Object Lessons: Rachel Whiteread
Line Up—literally a line of these things—plays a bit with scale and the line that goes around a paper roll almost like a drawing.
Seward Johnson: Against Propriety
Recipient of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Seward Johnson, whose artistic and professional career as a sculptor spans more than 50 years, initially received wide critical acclaim in the 1960s for his first work, Stainless Girl.
Enrico David: Accomplice to the Unfinished
How do you lift a drawing off a page? This complex thought is at the heart of Enrico David’s work. His sculptures, installations, paintings, textiles, and collages are all rooted in a body of drawings. His practice is self-referential.
