Richard Wentworth’s way of seeing requires a spatial intelligence that perceives the world as a system of interlocking signs. He habitually walks the streets of London observing minutiae often missed by the untrained eye, and these observations then provide the nucleus for new ideas.
Arlene Shechet: Body-to-Body Experience
Arlene Shechet seems to be having a moment. “All At Once,” a 20-year survey of her work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, received critical acclaim last year. “Slip” (2013), a solo show at Sikkema Jenkins in New York, also caused a stir.
Kneading the World From Scratch: A Conversation with Adrián Villar Rojas
Born in Argentina in 1980, Adrián Villar Rojas has taken the contemporary art world by storm. Working in high-profile places (from Venice, Istanbul, and Sharjah to London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery and New York’s High Line), he transforms his sites with temporary works that lean toward extreme performance.
Melvin Edwards: Liberation and Remembrance
Melvin Edwards has been welding sculpture for more than five decades and bearing witness to the continuing history of race relations in the United States. His recent works include incisive new examples of his iconic “Lynch Fragments” series and monumental public projects installed in various locations, including Japan, Senegal, Cuba, and the U.S.
Bananas and Bamboo: Yi-chun Lo
In the hands of Taiwanese artist Yi-chun Lo, bananas and bamboo become the primary ingredients for large indoor and outdoor sculpture installations. Lo received her MFA in sculpture from Taipei’s National Taiwan University of the Arts in 2010.
Disruption: ISC Chapter Groups at Grounds for Sculpture
We’re living through a storm of disruption, time moving so quickly we can hardly catch up before the universe moves on to the next thing. Changing weather patterns, from droughts to floods, add to the chaos.
Simple Actions: A Conversation with Phyllida Barlow
Phyllida Barlow, one of the U.K.’s most prolific sculptors, creates large-scale installations that involve a process of crushing, wrapping, stretching, stacking, and rolling. Her practice is one of production and deconstruction, and she uses readily available materials, often discarding or recycling them for new projects.
Anne Chu: Making Sense of Cultural Chaos
Anne Chu is a mid-career, New York-based sculptor and painter whose work reflects many years of familiarity with the city’s art museums. Her parents came from China—her father was a mathematics professor at Columbia University—yet she does not identify closely with Chinese culture.
Context as Material: A Conversation with Jon Rubin
Socially engaged art considers site, history, and the public as equals, the artist’s vision working in concert with the audience’s reality. Jon Rubin has been a defining force in this arena, creating and blurring boundaries within a very young practice that carries huge implications.
Weaving Time and Place: Roger Rigorth
Roger Rigorth’s sculptures integrate cultural variables with natural materials to create a sense of history and of place and time. There is a suggestion that these hybrid quasi-craft forms could have had a function. They might even have a symbolic purpose, but what, and for what culture?
