Laura Aldridge builds colorful, multisensory environments infused with an atmosphere of freedom and play, and ripe with potential. In her work, textiles, ceramics, glass, and found objects come together to invite myriad interpretations and emotional responses.
The Domestic Grotesque: A Conversation with Kate Stone
Brooklyn-based Kate Stone constructs familiar, yet uncanny environments on the threshold between interior and exterior, the real and the supernatural, architecture and the body.
Solid Memories: A Conversation with Dominique White
In “Deadweight” (currently on view at London’s Whitechapel Gallery), Dominique White uses fugitive materials to imagine an abstract future.
Seeing the Real Thing: A Conversation with Peter Buggenhout
Peter Buggenhout sees all the “rubble” of our spoiled world as salvageable, remaking glass, plastic, stone, steel, and dust into the flesh and bones of unearthly sculptures born of defunct and abandoned stuff long dissolved into uselessness.
Where Things Intertwine: A Conversation with Shilpa Gupta
Shilpa Gupta explains art as a means of shifting and reshaping reality, manipulating it to excavate and introduce new, very different perspectives that encourage us to rethink the patterns and possibilities shaping our lives. The visual, in her hands, becomes an antidote, an intellectual attack even, on the inertia of acceptance and complacency.
Object Lessons: Yto Barrada
It all started with the holes in the wall. The courtyard walls at MoMA PS1 are cement, with small, structural holes for the wind to come through. And you can peek through them.
Una aventura energética: Una Conversación con Alicia Herrero
Dueña de una trayectoria destacable como artista plástica, la obra de Alicia Herrero se sostuvo vigente por décadas combinando el abordaje material y estético de distintos enfoques artísticos, con una profunda reflexión sobre temáticas de índole social y cultural.
The Truth of Everydayness: A Conversation with Claire Barclay
Claire Barclay approaches her installation-based work with a rigorous and playful eye. Looking askance at things, she turns quotidian objects into something else—useless, without any obvious function, but imbued with an emotive complexity that allows for physical and psychological effects just when we least expect them.
Boundary Crossing: A Conversation with Yinka Shonibare
“Suspended States,” Yinka Shonibare’s current show at the Serpentine and first solo exhibition in London in over 20 years, acts as a potent reminder of the legacies of colonial power, conflict, and displacement.
Mutaciones: Una Conversación con Ailén Ibarra
Profesora en Artes Plásticas y Licenciada en Artes Plásticas con especialización en Cerámica y Escultura (ambas carreras desarrolladas en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata), la joven artista visual Ailén Ibarra, transita una prometedora carrera, indagando en el campo de la escultura, las instalaciones y la video performance.
