Artist and architect Amanda Williams grew up in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. On a map produced by the federally sanctioned Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), this area was colored red, designating residents as ineligible to receive federal housing loans—a discriminatory, racially motivated practice known as “redlining.”
We Have Always Been Here: A Conversation with Jonathan Baldock
Baldock’s interests are rooted in the unseen, places where myth manifests itself. “Touch Wood,” his current exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Weston Gallery, draws on beliefs and rituals that have brought people together from time immemorial.
Like a Sculpture: A Conversation with Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto makes little distinction between the two- and three-dimensional. Photography, sculpture, and architecture are all part of his project to find “a creation of human consciousness.”
Courting Contradiction: A Conversation with Catalina Ouyang
Engaging critically with precarity, power, and history, Catalina Ouyang challenges images, image-making, material assumptions, and dominant narratives with humility as well as deep visceral and theoretical conviction. Rather than signaling finite meaning, their sculptures engage the flow and erosion of ideas and intensities harbored in any constellation of things.
Archetypal Things: A Conversation with Martin Boyce
Scottish artist Martin Boyce draws on the imagery of everyday urban living to create sculptural and wall-based works that conflate and confuse notions of exterior and interior, natural and manufactured.
Lift and Fold: A Conversation with Mimi Herbert
Mimi Herbert and her fraternal twin were only 12 when their father, a portrait photographer, paid them a quarter a head to tint his sepia prints with oils. Their mother had studied at Pratt, and an uncle, a New York artist, marched them through museums with pictures that gave Herbert nightmares.
La trama de la memoria colectiva: Una Conversación con Claudia Santanera
Nacida en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina, la poeta y artista visual Claudia Santanera se vincula con el campo de los cruces interdisciplinarios desarrollando su obra en diferentes soportes y medios que van desde las video instalaciones hasta las esculturas blandas trabajadas con fibras naturales, pasando por los libros de poesía.
Resting Places: A Conversation with Steve Dilworth
For over five decades, Steve Dilworth has been making art inspired by the wild, windswept landscape of the Outer Hebrides, the sparsely populated chain of islands located off the northwest coast of mainland Scotland. He uses natural materials found there, including deceased animals, for which he often creates memorial-like works.
Approximation to Form: A Conversation with Dolores Furtado
Dolores Furtado, who was born in Argentina and moved to New York a decade ago, constructs objects that evade easy characterization. Simple in form, sensuous in texture, her sculptures possess a simplicity that links them to archaic artifacts.
Melvin Edwards: “You don’t play around with that power”
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Melvin Edwards began his now mythical “Lynch Fragments” in Los Angeles in 1963, when he was 26, and he has continued welding and forging them in New York, New Jersey, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Brazil, and elsewhere.
