Belgian artist Camiel Van Breedam launched his career in the late 1950s, when peinture informelle (abstract gestural painting) was still going strong. At an early stage, he made the leap from abstract geometric painting, with an emphasis on matter, to assemblage sculpture and collage—works, both formalist and historicizing, made from ordinary laborer’s tools and the remnants of shuttered factories, and often fraught with meaning.
Grenville Davey: Duality Paradoxes
“People are not naïve in the way that they approach objects,” Grenville Davey told British cultural critic Tim Marlow in 1993, “but there are other possibilities, however oblique.” Davey’s sculpture deals with those “other possibilities,” particularly the place of the human within the physical world as material fact.
Object Lessons: Elizabeth Atterbury
Folding Fan is based on a fan that belonged to my maternal grandmother, Lily Lung-Yi Liu Wang. I have no memory of her using it, nor can I recall when I pulled it out of a box, hung it on my studio wall, and started thinking about it as a form.
Missing Pieces: A Conversation with Gabriel Chaile
Gabriel Chaile blends past and present in his poetic sculptures, uniting ancient ritual and function with a contemporary social consciousness. His colossal adobe oven-creatures inspired by pre-Columbian forms are regularly used for baking empanadas and bringing people together to share a meal.
Temporalities and Memories: A Conversation with Solange Pessoa
Solange Pessoa’s work deals in substances and relations between things that, for her, relate to the history of the earth and of humanity. She draws attention to states of matter and processes of change, giving meaning to material energies.
Between Narratives: A Conversation with Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran—who was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Australia—has created an underworld, or dreamworld, populated by idols for his first European exhibition, “Idols of Mud and Water.”
Tottering Monsters: A Conversation with Joseph Buckley
Joseph Buckley hails from Leeds, U.K., but since 2013, he has been developing his practice in the United States, first in Connecticut while studying for his MFA in Sculpture at Yale School of Art and now in New York.
Beyond Conventional Practice: A Conversation with Megha Joshi
Passionate and opinionated, a self-described feminist and atheist, Megha Joshi is unapologetic in her work and life, questioning misogynistic beliefs and practices. Her sculptures and installations, made with sacred items such as oil lamp wicks, beads, and incense sticks, often take an ironic turn as ritual function and subject matter collide.
Habitar los límites: Una Conversación con Andrea Nosetti
Realizadora de objetos que transitan los límites entre el adorno decorativo y las piezas de arte, la artista plástica Andrea Nosetti se apoya en el azar para dejarse llevar por sus dictados para construir pequeñas escenas cuasi teatrales o de gabinete de curiosidades.
Counter Images: A Conversation with Raphaela Vogel
Raphaela Vogel’s practice has evolved like the proverbial rolling snowball. As a student, she became interested in the performative aspects of painting, which led her to video (featuring herself and sometimes her dog as performers), to self-recorded music and what she calls “video sculptures,” as well as to large-scale installations combining all of these elements.
