What do bees want? The fact that Jarrett Mellenbruch has spent seven years trying to find the answer tells you a lot about him. Haven, his most extensive project to date, features a series of pole-mounted, Corian, wood, and steel beehives designed to provide a safe environment for wild honeybees imperiled by colony collapse disorder
Jaewook Lee: Space As Window
Jaewook Lee’s work deals with the perceptions and theories that define our sense of place, humanity, and nature. Consisting of video, installation, and performance, his practice assumes that all relationships in space are sculptural, hence form, weight, volume, scale, and negative space create material extensions and possibilities of physical and sensorial space.
Arnaldo Morales: What Humans Do
Arnaldo Morales’s studio is a machinists dream come true. Points of pride are a 1977 variable speed Bridgeport milling machine, a 1966 Logan lathe, and not just a Clausing table saw, but also a Delta Rockwell horizontal band saw.
Uncertain States: A Conversation with Bharti Kher
If science is determined by a body of facts, then art is closer to fiction, moving between states of certainty and uncertainty in order to create visual parables of our lives as they are now, and are likely to be in the future.
Real Consequences: A Conversation with Tania Bruguera
In October 2016, at the Creative Time Summit in Washington, DC, Tania Bruguera, whose projects merge social reality, culture, and politics, announced her candidacy for president of Cuba in the 2018 election. She encourages others to follow her example—to speak up and empower themselves—because the clock is ticking on free speech around the world, as
Boaz Vaadia: Finding Equillibrium
Serenity and a pervading stillness characterized Boaz Vaadia’s recent retrospective at Grounds For Sculpture. Admirably displayed both outdoors and in two major buildings, 125 works spanning over 40 years of the artist’s career fostered a psychological centering for the viewer.
The Void Is Never Empty: A Conversation with Gaspar Acebo
Gaspar Acebo, who trained in the fields of painting and drawing, combines these mediums with other techniques and disciplines, including photography. His work is perhaps best defined by its reflection on the interaction of plane and volume, the concept of emptiness serving as an engine that generates not neutral space, but a balance of forces
Michael Gitlin: Minimalist Lyricism
While the work of American Minimalist masters such as Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, and Donald Judd has begun to seem slightly dated, it has not lost its impetus, and the early- and middle-period sculptures of these artists continue to challenge us.
Why Did Petah Coyne’s Work Make Me Cry?
Eleven years ago, I wept openly in the middle of Petah Coynes touring survey “Above and Beneath the Skin.” Within compulsory, regulated social systems the ones that determine what options are available for a subject’s action and identification uncontrolled crying is a breach of those mores, a breakdown and demonstration of the effects of life
Brian Dettmer: Paging Through Time
How can history, memory, and cultural knowledge become the materials of sculpture? In Brian Dettmer’s hands, books that have lost their original function do just that. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference volumes represent the physicality of gathered knowledge with their moving pages, solid bindings, and words and illustrations.
