For years, Mary Early’s modus operandi has been to plot the placement of objects on floor plans and architectural elevations. Spaces, she insists, “activate” the art that occupies them. She began, more than 15 years ago, by making cast concrete and wood works sealed in a coating of beeswax.
Material States: A Conversation with Marcela Cabutti
Argentine artist Marcela Cabutti creates simple, elegant, and subtle works of fantasy and magical transformation based on a strong connection between forms and materials, particularly blown glass and fired clay. While some viewers may think of a Surrealist legacy, her sculptures and installations also draw on the literary tradition of Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar,
Creating a Way Back: A Conversation with Martin Soto Climent
Using found objects such as pantyhose, purses, bras, beer cans, and shoes, Mexican artist Martin Soto Climent creates sensual, anthropomorphic sculptures with minimal intervention. Easily dismantled (with the objects returned to their original state), these poetic, continually evolving juxtapositions raise questions about ephemerality, consumption, destruction, and desire.
The Evolution of a Four-Legged Table: A Conversation with Nahum Tevet
From his childhood on a Socialist-Zionist kibbutz to his present studio workshop in south Tel Aviv, the innovative Israeli sculptor Nahum Tevet views his world, and the things in it, in a very specific manner. Driven by an independence of thought and action, he has parlayed a limited Minimalist ideal into extensive installations and discerning
Kerry James Marshall Discusses A Monumental Journey
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.
