Valay Shende’s resourceful and meaningful works reflect his personality as a simple man who conveys his thoughts without ambiguity in a direct manner. His ability to bring together diverse mediums and materials to tell a story-steel combined with graphic videos, for instance-stands out for its forcefulness.
A Japanese Thing: A Conversation with Gabriel Orozco
Many expats who have lived in Japan acknowledge its deep impact, and Gabriel Orozco is no exception. For the past two years, he has resided in Tokyo, which he describes as offering “a new discovery every day,” a refreshing experience that he says is “influential in many ways.”
The Universe in a Pot: A Conversation with Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta, who has been compared to Damien Hirst, has adopted something of the attitude of that art world enfant terrible, employing the same charismatic swagger and courting the same kind of international attention with provocative works of a grandiose scale.
The Narrative is in the Unknowing: A Conversation with Tim Shaw
Tim Shaw, who was born in Belfast, has lived in the south of England for the past 25 years, on a farm that serves as both his home and studio. In 2013, he was elected to the Royal Academy and to the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Regina José Galindo: Acts of Endurance
Regina José Galindo’s performances are often shocking and degrading. Sometimes naked, she is tasered, hit, bloodied, anesthetized, urinated on, or left for dead. “Bearing Witness,” at North Carolina’s David son College last fall, was Galindo’s first solo show in the United States.
Linda Fleming: At the Edge of the Unknown
Linda Fleming is always thinking about light—how it moves through, over, and around her work. In conversation, she points out how the play of cast shadows echoes and enlivens the complex, latticed surfaces and curving forms of her sculptures, which range from paper and wood maquettes only a few inches across to powder-coated, lasercut steel
Gisela Colón: Light Effects
It’s a hot, California autumn day when I make the trek out to a Los Angeles valley to meet the second-generation Light and Space artist, Gisela Colón. Her studio, located in an industrial park, is a warehouse space, once home to a plastic manufacturer and a befitting locale for an artist whose preferred medium is
Andrew Lyght: Charting Spatial Wonders
Guyana (which means “land of many waters”) is a small tropical country of variegated rivers wedged between Venezuela, Suriname, and Brazil. Its capital, Georgetown, is perched on the nation’s broad northern coastline, facing a vast expanse of sea and sky.
Nothing is Static: A Conversation with Richard Van Buren
What are these exquisite, abstract forms? What are the materials? How were they made? What are their visual references and influences? These are some of the questions that came to mind when I first saw Richard Van Buren’s mysterious sculptures.
Submerged: A Conversation with Jason deCaires Taylor
Disillusioned with the rat race, sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor chose to dive into an altogether different pursuit. His poetic underwater installations comment on environmental issues, climate change, and rising sea levels while providing new habitat for sea life and foundations for underwater growth.
