Despite the radical openness and pluralism that characterize contemporary artistic practice, the phrase “ceramic sculpture” can still be interpreted as an oxymoron. There are exceptions, of course, such as Turner Prize nominee Rebecca Warren’s evocative figures and Ken Price’s colorful abstractions.
Fluidity and Fixedness: A Conversation with Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon deliberates over a conversation as though it could become a physical object pinned together by ideas, treating words almost like buildings blocks for a sculpture. He explains everything as part of a process and sees materials and language as the elemental skin and bones of his sculptures, allowing them to make contact with
Vincent Fecteau: Submerged Forces
In The Shape of Time, anthropologist George Kubler organizes a history of objects and ideas from the perspective of innovation, replication, and mutation from an original, a “prime object.” Such prime objects can’t be reduced to something else; they arise from deep needs, not fashion, and they are fundamental to their specific function.
Alice Aycock: Systems of Energy
Alice Aycock was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2018. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Alice Aycock’s recent works bristle with an iconic energy. Curving tendrils of aluminum in dynamic repetition, like Futurist force lines freed from the canvas, erupt from the earth with propulsive power.
Epiphanies of the Moment: Lisa Seebach
Lisa Seebach, a German artist whose home studio is about an hour away from Berlin, spent the better part of 2017 as a resident at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), a nonprofit space in East Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
Temporary Completion: A Conversation with Lizi Sánchez
As much about persuasion as indulgence, objects of desire depend on packaging and material matter for their allure. For London-based, Peruvian-born Lizi Sánchez, the careful design decisions made by conglomerates lead us to experience the world differently.
Time Sensitive: A Conversation with Silvia Rivas
Silvia Rivas graduated from the National School of Fine Arts as a sculptor, but she is interested in the capacity of video to capture visual ideas connected with the concept of time. Her first video installation was shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires in 1990; since then, she has been awarded
Evidence of Action In Progress: A Conversation with Isabel Nuño de Buen
Isabel Nuño de Buen’s installations explore architecture, urban planning, experience, and memories, with an emphasis on re-creating and tabling organizational systems. Blending drawing and sculpture, she builds her constructions through a complex layering process in which each level operates according to its own internal logic.
Chung Seoyoung: Unexpected Moments of Sculpture
What to make of large scrap-like pieces of metal strategically placed on the floor? Or a tabletop with a chunk cut out of the corner? These questions come to mind as one searches for appropriate tools to assess Chung Seoyoung’s sculpture and multi – media work.
Double-Takes: A Conversation with Alisa Baremboym
Alisa Baremboym’s eclectic and hermetic work is receiving a great deal of attention, judging by the number of exhibitions in which her objects have been featured and by the critical literature they have generated. Her sculpture juxtaposes materials and processes, opacity and transparency, lightness and weight, abstraction and figuration, the past and the future, the
