The notion of thing-ness is central to Nina Nowak’s interdisciplinary practice, yet, for her, a thing is never just one thing. In her works, which are often composed as symphonies of objects and situations, the social and historical meanings of things—carpets, wood, dust—converge with their physical realities and properties.
Object Lessons: Raven Halfmoon
The Caddo Confederacy was formerly located in a vast area centered around the great bend of the Red River, which is the modern-day boundary between Texas and Oklahoma. Within the Tribe, the Caddo women traditionally held great prominence, managing agricultural elements of the villages, including crop production, and producing the beautiful and popular Caddo pottery vessels, as well as many other important duties.
Sense of Suspension: A Conversation with Grace Woodcock
Fabrications of future fossils, pre-human remnants, or abandoned exoskeletons of as-yet-unknown present-day species—Grace Woodcock’s baffling sculptures belong to all times and no time in particular. Anomalies, they represent a culmination of organic objects from across pre-, current and post-human histories, where body morphosis, necessary for environmental adaptation, shapes physical form and determines who and what
Lateral Thinking: A Conversation with Shiho Kagabu
Japanese artist Shiho Kagabu employs industrial and organic materials, often installing her work in rough, run-down environments. In many ways, she shares the contemporary predisposition for the fragment rather than the whole, but her positioning of these parts in space is unique.
La experimentación curiosa: Una Conversación con Jimena Croceri
Artista multidisciplinaria, Jimena Croceri trabaja en el campo de la performance, el video, la producción de objetos, el dibujo y la escritura. Con la mirada puesta en los cuerpos, observa la interacción entre materialidades diversas y sus afectos en dichos cuerpos.
Bruce Beasley: Process of Becoming
Just about everything Bruce Beasley has sculpted over the last 60 years circles around one fundamental question: How can an unmoving object—made of enduring materials such as cast iron, aluminum, bronze, stainless steel, granite, acrylic polymer resin, and maple—seem to be in the shape it takes only momentarily, either having recently come to rest in
Life Stories: A Conversation with Carla Gimbatti
Carla Gimbatti, who divides her time between Buenos Aires and New York, begins her work with obser- vation. Interested in origins, she wants to know what lies behind the patterns and textures of the world—the marks of time and experience written into everything from immense sedimentary land formations to the tiniest details of human handprints.
Passion To Connect: A Conversation with Bhajan Hunjan
Bhajan Hunjan was born and raised in Kenya. After moving to the U.K. to study fine art at Reading University, she went on to gain a postgraduate degree in printmaking from the Slade School of Fine Art and to study ceramics at the former Central School of Art in London.
Controlled Explosions: A Conversation with Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew’s massive wall-bound tableaux, objects, and installations engage the cyclical nature of existence. Made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, his abstract, emotionally charged compositions possess a metaphorical weight, transcending time and place to approach the infinite through the discarded and finite.
Memory Is a Weapon: A Conversation with Ricardo Brey
Assemblage sculptor, installation artist, and draftsman Ricardo Brey attended art school in his native Havana and went on to join the experimental art group Volumen Uno, which distanced itself from the precepts of Cuban socialist realism.
