Naomi Campbell’s work fuses the art of science and the science of art. Starting with nature’s sculpted forms, she introduces new definitions of the organic and the synthetic through fragmented objects and hybridized systems that follow the concepts and connotations of natural systems.
Out From the Shadows: A Conversation with Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Tim Noble and Sue Webster are, like their contemporaries Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, and Damien Hirst, defined by their subversiveness, as artists and individuals. The pair have collaborated since their college days in the late 1980s.
Monika Sosnowska: Misdirecting Reality
There is a system of interconnected concepts expressed through steel–the skyscraper, the automobile, modernity itself. Bearing its own language and history, it’s also the “steel trap,” the “steel hand in the velvet glove,” the “city forged from steel.”
Imaginary Spaces Within: A Conversation with Soo Sunny Park
Starting with ordinary materials such as chain link fencing, Soo Sunny Park’s sculptures and installations “catch” and interact with natural light. In a radical twist, changing light, rather than the work itself, is central to the viewer’s experience.
Sinead McKeever: There But Not There
Though artists rarely develop in a straightforward manner, Modernist thought likes to pretend that there is an “onward and upward” ascent toward some kind of perfection. In reality, however, most artists make small incremental moves (sometimes forward, sometimes back), while, every now and then, experiencing a sudden spurt ahead–a jump that, without the benefit of
Lines of Connection: A Conversation with Chiharu Shiota
Chiharu Shiota’s work comes from a very spiritual place. Though she followed an unusual path to arrive at her now-recognizable style, this history is vital to her installations. In these environments, line, in the form of yarn, and the human body, represented by shoes, keys, suitcases, or beds, are woven together in visually stunning displays.
Second Skins: A Conversation with Marcela Astorga
Marcela Astorga, an Argentine artist born in the province of Mendoza, creates work with both visual and conceptual impact. For the last 20 years, she has used art as a means to face issues of importance to her: violence, memory, identity, and construction/deconstruction as represented through architecture, as well as the marks that we leave
A Conversation with Sam Durant: Political Art Has Consequences
Los Angeles artist Sam Durant is accustomed to shining a spotlight on the sins of the world in his installations, sculptures, and gallery-sized drawings and photographs, but recently the spotlight turned on him. The creator of End White Supremacy (2008) and Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions (2005) found himself under attack by
In Search of Resonance: A Conversation with Susan Philipsz
Scottish artist Susan Philipsz has worked with sound for years, but her background is in sculpture. For her, the two fields have been intertwined from the beginning. When studying sculpture at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, in the early 1990s, she contemplated the physicality of producing sound, how
Working the Devil Out: Mitch Mitchell
Historically, sculpture has been an influence more than it has been influenced, though that changed with Modernism, when sculptors began to turn to other media, primarily painting, for inspiration. From Picasso, with the collage and Cubism, and Marcel Duchamp, with the readymade, to a host of color field and Abstract Expressionists, 20th century abstract sculpture
