Giuseppe Penone addresses the contact between man and nature. His conceptual and poetic work starts from tactile experience and attempts to understand and reflect on reality; it aims to use and reveal already existing forms and natural materials, such as wood and stone, in new ways.
Caoimhghin Ó Fraithile: Ritualizing Place
The Irish artist Caoimhghin Ó Fraithile (Quee-veen O Fra-ha-la) makes sculptures and drawings all over the globe—in Asia, Europe, and America. A reticent, monk-like personality, he maintains his peripatetic lifestyle by taking on residencies in different parts of the world.
Allison Hunter’s Zoosphere
A transposition from still photography to full video installation, the latest installment in Allison Hunter’s staging of human/animal associations has as much to tell us about relations between discrete images and installation work as it does about relations between humans and other animals.
Mei-Ling Hom: Cultural Voyaging
Mei-Ling Hom’s work is distinguished by her affinity with cultures often under-represented in contemporary art. Though she is based in Philadelphia, her world travels have led to rich social interactions that have enhanced her work. She is an astute observer who pays attention to details often overlooked by others, as well as a versatile artist.
Presidio Habitats: Living with Nature
A multi-part, site-specific sculpture installation in a national park? As improbable as this sounds, such an exhibition has been on view in the Presidio of San Francisco since May 16, 2010 and continues through May 2011.
Forum: So You Want To Go To Art School
Deciding to go to art school seems like an answer, but it is only the start of a series of questions. Do art schools care (and, if so, how much) about my grade point average? Should I go to an independent art school or to a liberal arts college or university that offers a studio
Ved Prakash Gupta: Telling It Like It Is
Ved Prakash Gupta is not afraid to speak his mind. This young, Baroda-based Indian artist creates blatantly satirical works intended to mock, provoke, and parody. For Gupta, art is a way of commenting on a contemporary India struggling with corruption and greed, caught in the whirlpool of rapid globalization.
Finding Resonant Details in a Big Picture: A Conversation with Ellen Driscoll
A professor of sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ellen Driscoll is known for complex installations such as The Loophole of Retreat (Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, 1991) and Passionate Attitudes (Thread-waxing Space, 1995), as well as a variety of public art projects including As Above, So Below, a suite of mosaic and glass works for Grand Central
Leading Into the Unknown: A Conversation with Bob Trotman
Bob Trotman lives in the foothills of the North Carolina mountains, surrounded by his materials—60 acres of rolling woods from which he occasionally extracts a dead poplar and restores it to life in comic-tragic human images.
Corban Walker: Perceptual Encounters
It could be argued that Corban Walker, who will represent Ireland at the 54th Venice Biennale this year, stands as one of Minimalism’s most talented heirs. Take, for example, his “Grid Stacks” series (2007), glass works that echo Robert Smithson’s Glass Stratum (1967).
