New York-based sculptor Lori Nozick installed wooden structures in galleries in Italy last year, mounted a show in Berlin over the summer, and then flew to Israel to initiate a future project. Her indoor gallery installations play with perspective and demand interaction.
Ayse Erkmen: Plan B and Other (Not So) Futile Gestures
Ayse Erkmen’s site-specific sculptures activate the materials found in a particular place to shed light on the factors and histories that have lent it shape. She will often work with evanescent substances such as water or air or use pre-existing objects collected from a site only to return them to their place of origin at
A Conversation with Blane De St. Croix: Uneven
Since the early 1990s, Blane De St. Croix has focused his sculpture on the various tensions underlying disjunctive communication. The theme first appeared in Excavation (1994) and Bed of Wicker, Bed of Straw, Bed of Clay (1995), which brought elements of outdoor environments into the gallery.
Thomas Hirschhorn: Irresistible
Is resistance possible? Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn still thinks so, according to the texts that permeated his giant cave of an installation at the 54th Venice Biennale. That Switzerland chose Hirschhorn as its official representative demonstrates a remarkable rapprochement, or at least détente, between an artist whose stated aim is to provoke and a government
Eunsuh Choi: Crystal Clear Dreams
Glass is rarely the medium of choice for large-scale sculpture. Yet Korean artist Eunsuh Choi defies expectations and assumed limitations, exploiting this fragile material at a grand scale to achieve qualities unimaginable in marble, bronze, clay, or wood.
James Surls: Paradox Is All We Have
James Surls is an artist of remarkable power and mystery. His wood, bronze, and steel sculptures evoke a sense of ancient, present, and future worlds, from earthly landscapes to outer space, from visible nature to the inner eye.
Four from Miami: McKnight, Sardi, Thiele, and Vapor
Put aside Miami’s devotion to epidermality. Ignore the swan migrations of its art fairs and a current, hyped art scene stenciled, in setting and content, from Manhattan templates. That Sargassopolis should have lifted precariously from a low-lying wetland beside a stormy sea will be seen as a high watermark in the history of urban vanity.
Christopher Janney: Defying Dimensions
Christopher Janney knows few limits in his work beyond the speed of light and our ability to hear sound. He defies the idea of dimension, though in almost every case, his interventions help shape, or at least define, the space they inhabit—not really a contradiction in terms.
Lin Emery: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space and Time
Originality has an inside and an outside. Understanding the nature of originality in sculpture requires an understanding of both—of the inside, what it is in the sculptor’s life that created her artistic personality, and the outside, what sets her work apart from that of other artists of similar inclination.
Classicism, Romanticism, and Other Sculptural Ideals at Gibbs Farm
Just north of Auckland, around a stretch of land known as Gibbs Farm, hills pronounced by endless gullies command a vast stretch of majestic coastal flatland. The landscape, known as the Kaipara Harbor, bears the mark of countless sojourns by past inhabitants, its steep, lolloping hills holding memories of sanguinary battles.
