International Sculpture Day 2016

The second iteration of International Sculpture Day (IS Day) was celebrated on April 24, 2016 by an estimated 10,000 participants in more than 20 countries around the world. Since the initial event in 2015, these numbers have more than tripled, which confirms the enthusiasm for IS Day and the foresight of Johannah Hutchison, executive director

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Chin Chih Yang: Human Body Sculpture

Chin Chih Yang is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses sculpture, performance, installation, video, photography, computers, lighting, painting, and other media to create his own brand of human body sculpture/performance art. Yang, who was born in Banciao, Taiwan, has lived in New York for over 30 years, earning a BFA from Parsons in 1986 and an

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Hélio Oiticica: Be an Outlaw, Be a Hero

During his lifetime, Hélio Oiticica exhibited in major art centers in London and New York, including Whitechapel Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art, where he took part in the 1970 exhibition “Information.” That same year, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and settled in New York for the following eight years.

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Sweat Equity: A Conversation with Ruben Ochoa

Sandra Wagner: You frequently use cement slabs lifted from gallery floors, some raised on tall rebar legs, as in the exhibition “Crooked Under the Weight” at SITE Santa Fe (2009). The site-specific photomural Fwy Wall Extraction (2006–07) alludes to what lies beneath a massive retaining wall, and Extruded Masses (2013) consists of a tower of

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Heroic Inventions: A Conversation with Lewis Colburn

Philadelphia artist Lewis Colburn creates whimsical objects and installations that embrace a histrionic sensibility of character- with materials playing the starring role. From elaborately staged photographs and performances to meticulously sculpted objects and museum simulations of Americana, his work exudes fabricated stories and generalized dictations of history.

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