In New York, in 2010, Monika Grzymala installed Untitled (skeleton of a drawing) at one of the entrances to the Museum of Modern Art’s major survey exhibition “On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century.” Balancing precariously on a boom lift above the museum’s Marron Atrium, she assembled thin sticks of lightweight, polymer modeling compound (hand-prepared
A Conversation with Allan McCollum: Mass-Producing Individual Works
Born in Los Angeles, Allan McCollum has lived and worked in New York City since 1975. He has spent more than four decades exploring how objects accrue meaning through their manufacture (the handmade versus mass-produced), modes of display, and means of exchange.
Judy Pfaff: Evolution of an Innovator
Judy Pfaff was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2014. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Lo, Laramie, 2012. Honeycomb carboard, expanded foam, plastics, and fluorescent light, 60 x 60 x 20 in Judy Pfaff’s fierce independence has put her in an exalted but precarious position.
Place as a Condition of Time: A Conversation with Winifred Lutz
Winifred Lutz’s work crosses the boundaries of seemingly divergent disciplines and encompasses many angles of thinking. In this interview, we knew that we could only touch on one aspect of her work, so we chose to look through the lens of the garden since we share a deep interest in the dynamic processes of the
David Henderson’s Soaring Space
David Henderson’s A History of Aviation-Part 2 circumvents the dominant movements of postwar art. The soaring white fiberglass and Dacron installation, which filled an entire gallery, is neither conceptual nor politically driven. It does not reference the gestural painting or sculpture of Abstract Expressionism.
Artistic and Social Renewal: A Conversation with Piero Gilardi
Piero Gilardi began his artistic activity in the 1960s and participated in the birth of Arte Povera. After achieving fame in the 1970s, he turned away from the art world and began investigating the phenomenon of collective and spontaneous creativity in various social contexts.
Vibha Galhotra: Hidden in Plain Sight
Vibha Galhotra’s first exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery began dramatically with Neo Camouflage (2008), an installation in which four mannequins dressed in military garb stood guard before a large photo mural of Old Delhi rooftops. The panoramic vista, seen from a tower of the Jama Masjid mosque (the city’s highest spot), casts a god-like omnipresence
Turning Dross to Gold: Zeke Moores
Zeke Moores’s work interrogates the mass-produced object and the hand-crafted work of art. Focusing on the detritus of contemporary life, he replicates dumpsters, cardboard boxes, wooden pallets, pylons, and the leftovers of our modern industrial society in materials that challenge and confound how we assign value and gauge aesthetic beauty.
Inspired by the Faroe Islands: Tróndur Patursson
The birds were soon to migrate across the Atlantic, from the village of Kirkjubø on Streymoy Island to North America—their destination, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Created by Faroese sculptor Tróndur Patursson, these birds are made of glass.
Futility and Enchantment: A Conversation with Sudarshan Shetty
“The setting of the installation plays out the falseness and futility in the objects, the artificial. Our engagement with the world of objects is very connected to our own mortality. In our making and gathering of objects, there is a sense of futility.
