Engaging critically with precarity, power, and history, Catalina Ouyang challenges images, image-making, material assumptions, and dominant narratives with humility as well as deep visceral and theoretical conviction. Rather than signaling finite meaning, their sculptures engage the flow and erosion of ideas and intensities harbored in any constellation of things.
Archetypal Things: A Conversation with Martin Boyce
Scottish artist Martin Boyce draws on the imagery of everyday urban living to create sculptural and wall-based works that conflate and confuse notions of exterior and interior, natural and manufactured.
Lift and Fold: A Conversation with Mimi Herbert
Mimi Herbert and her fraternal twin were only 12 when their father, a portrait photographer, paid them a quarter a head to tint his sepia prints with oils. Their mother had studied at Pratt, and an uncle, a New York artist, marched them through museums with pictures that gave Herbert nightmares.
La trama de la memoria colectiva: Una Conversación con Claudia Santanera
Nacida en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina, la poeta y artista visual Claudia Santanera se vincula con el campo de los cruces interdisciplinarios desarrollando su obra en diferentes soportes y medios que van desde las video instalaciones hasta las esculturas blandas trabajadas con fibras naturales, pasando por los libros de poesía.
Resting Places: A Conversation with Steve Dilworth
For over five decades, Steve Dilworth has been making art inspired by the wild, windswept landscape of the Outer Hebrides, the sparsely populated chain of islands located off the northwest coast of mainland Scotland. He uses natural materials found there, including deceased animals, for which he often creates memorial-like works.
Approximation to Form: A Conversation with Dolores Furtado
Dolores Furtado, who was born in Argentina and moved to New York a decade ago, constructs objects that evade easy characterization. Simple in form, sensuous in texture, her sculptures possess a simplicity that links them to archaic artifacts.
Melvin Edwards: “You don’t play around with that power”
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Melvin Edwards began his now mythical “Lynch Fragments” in Los Angeles in 1963, when he was 26, and he has continued welding and forging them in New York, New Jersey, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Brazil, and elsewhere.
Petah Coyne: Illuminating the Blind Spots
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Petah Coyne’s spacious studio is located in a tight-knit, working-class neighborhood in northern New Jersey, a community she loves.
Construyendo identidades específicas: Una Conversación con Samantha Ferro
Con amplia formación práctica en talleres, seminarios y clínicas de perfeccionamiento en el campo de las artes visuales, fotografía y diseño de indumentaria, la obra de Samantha Ferro opera en torno a la problemática del cuerpo como territorio donde se definen las construcciones de identidades específicas a partir del uso, mal uso y abuso del cuerpo.
Part Of It: A Conversation with Ranjani Shettar
Every aspect of Ranjani Shettar’s artistic practice is rooted in the natural world. Her studio, where she often works out of doors, is located in rural Karnataka in India. That local context is important since she draws on established craft traditions to find the tools and techniques that might be adapted to contemporary sculpture.
