Over the course of four decades, Mildred Howard has created rich and evocative work, taking common objects of daily life and infusing them with a spark that illuminates the underlying significance and historical weight of cultural forms.
Entering A Somewhat Random Universe: A Conversation with Renee Butler
Anyone who’s entered a darkened room and experienced a camera obscura might feel some deja vu inside a Renee Butler installation. Her work illuminates a wall or a structure with elements akin to that ancient optical effect real-world color, incremental movement, photographic detail, and in some cases, ambient sound.
Amy Stacey Curtis: Planning the Last Biennial
The potluck supper after the opening of Amy Stacey Curtis’s 2014 exhibition in Parsonsfield, Maine, was held by candlelight, not to set a mood, but because the building didn’t have electricity. Curtis’s self-produced shows don’t happen in typical gallery settings.
The Will To Live: A Conversation with Siobhán Hapaska
Siobhán Hapaska’s Untitled (Intifada), an installation shown at Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, does what any good artwork does: sculpt a mental space for consideration and reconsideration of a subject, encouraging discussion. Over the last 20 years, Hapaska has created a large body of thought-provoking forms and symbols with diverse materials.
Dark Matter, A Conversation with Katie Paterson
The work of Katie Paterson is ever expanding like the cosmos, opening up wonder and inquiry into the primordial density of our universe—a gravitational mass of the visible and the unseen, held together by dark matter.
The Oneness of an Endless Universe: A Conversation with Mariko Mori
Mariko Mori has the tact of a Swiss diplomat and the drive to pursue ambitious artistic goals. Her work, which promotes oneness and global consciousness, explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology.
Maren Hassinger: Winds of Change
Over the last 40 years, Maren Hassinger has built a body of work that explores identity politics and the goal of human equality. Yet she differs from many artists of her generation in that her approach has not been confrontational or continually self-referential.
Eun Jin Jang: A Natural History of Sculpture
In the work of Korea-born, New York area-based sculptor Eun Jin Jang, we see the refinement of thought and materials that we have come to expect from Asia; moreover, we sense the exploratory decision-making that accompanies innovative sculpture in Western culture.
Caroline Achaintre: Aesthetic Osmosis
Caroline Achaintre’s work is replete with uncertain likenesses; despite multiple levels of abstraction, it’s full of resemblances. Grounded in a trove of images borrowed from pop culture and art history, these chimerical combiÂnations result in unlikely, uncomfortable aesthetic marriages.
Dean Snyder: Between Flight and Entrapment
A shrewd manipulator of skin and surface, Dean Snyder draws us along the edges of a scatological, yet organic beauty: tumescent orchids hanging on fragile vines, drooping leaves, impotent cigarette butts, almost recognizable organs swallowed up in circuitry and webs.
