Fernando Ortega brings poetic attention to overlooked and seemingly inconsequential aspects of daily life. He has induced spiders to weave webs around various objects, including a harp denuded of strings and a television antenna, and expanded the notion of museum space by erecting a gigantic tower crane to hold a hummingbird feeder.
Fluid Perspectives: Ellen Driscoll
Ellen Driscoll, the recipient of the ISC’s 2018 Outstanding Educator Award, applies a unique approach to storytelling and an inventive use of materials to her public artworks and smaller studio sculptures. In her practice, drawing and sculpture are interconnected and cross-pollinate to open up new ideas and forms.
Sarah Maloney: A New Image of Landscape
For the last 10 years, Halifax artist Sarah Maloney has been pushing her work toward a sculptural version of landscape. This may seem like an unusual move since the very idea of “landscape” is an intellectual construct, a way of seeing premised on an image rather than a way of being, and hence almost the
Special Effects: A Conversation with Sofía Táboas
Sofía Táboas, who lives and works in Mexico City, employs a wide range of unconventional elements, including edibles, plant life, fire (which has the potential to communicate not just with humans but also with extraterrestrial life), welded steel cages that are both decorative and disturbing, and swimming pool “chunks” shaped into sculptural forms.
Place as Threshold: A Conversation with Cristina Iglesias
Fluidity is the key to Cristina Iglesias’s work. Her monumental public projects, whether involving the flow of water, the play of shadows, or the ritualized movements of bronze doors, lead viewers into places where architecture morphs into a hybrid of the natural and imaginative worlds.
Susanna Bauer: A Poet in the Woods
Small, intimate, and nuanced, the sculptures of Susanna Bauer express the intent of an artist thoroughly engaged with nature. In her hands, humble materials are reimagined into objects that resemble the familiar, only modified beyond expectation.
Shape-Shifter: A Conversation with Rina Banerjee
Our world is more connected now than ever before. Yet most of our experiences of art take place through virtual means, accompanied by broad strokes of information. As we try to classify objects without meaningful spatial interactions, our perspectives are irrevocably shifting.
Jason Ellis: Arresting the Wheel of Mortality
Jason Ellis, a sculptor of English and German parentage who moved to Ireland in the early 1990s, is a stone carver of considerable accomplishment. As a guitar player, he likens the process of carving stone to that of playing pop music: every now and then, something new seems to “just happen,” defying a limited, rule-bound
Walking the Edges: A Conversation with Claudia Fontes
Claudia Fontes, who represented Argentina at the 2017 Venice Biennale, has been living in Brighton, England, for the last 12 years. She studied art at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires and art history at the University of Buenos Aires.
To Cut Your Own Flesh: A Conversation with Johan Creten
If art is a reflection of an artist’s psyche, then Belgian-born, Paris-based Johan Creten reveals a soul enamored by corrosive beauty. His colorfully glazed, edgy ceramic works appear to be slowly hemorrhaging, riddled with imperfections that almost defy the static nature of objects in space.
