Kerry James Marshall’s works lead viewers to a deeper awareness of integral and coactive relationships across material, form, and concept. Imagery and formal qualities, such as color and shape, depth and flatness, speak to ideas of race and power.
Corrupted Perfection: A Conversation with Eva Rothschild
Eva Rothschild, who will represent Ireland at the 2019 Venice Biennale, expands on the Modernist sculptural tradition, using a range of materials including jesmonite, wood, Perspex, steel, aluminum, polystyrene, fabric, leather, and beads. Her work often examines how objects acquire meaning peripheral to their material reality through the different beliefs, ideologies, and religions imposed on
Doing Is Thinking: A Conversation with John Gibbons
Not only is John Gibbons regarded as one of Ireland’s most significant artists (though he has lived in London since graduating from St. Martin’s School of Art), he is one of the few Irish sculptors to have achieved an international reputation.
Rage Against the Machines: A Conversation with Pedro Reyes
Pedro Reyes took a new direction in his recent exhibition at London’s Lisson Gallery, bringing the sociopolitical sensibility for which he is best known to an unexpected form—statuary. Many of these figures memorialize anonymous protesters. In other works, humans battle with robots and machines.
Fooling Reality: A Conversation with Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller met in college, and, over time, their individual practices developed into a collaboration in which each artist feeds off the thoughts and ideas of the other. At the heart of their practice lies a belief in the ability of sound to transport participants to alternate realities.
On the Edge of Being: A Conversation with Arcangelo Sassolino
The work you are about to encounter is like no other. Engineered for danger, Arcangelo Sassolino’s sculptural machines explore power relations and conflict by subjecting materials to extreme force. The realities of physics are employed to deliver action and transformation.
The Power of Irrationality: A Conversation with Fernando Ortega
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.
