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).
A Poet and His Muses: A Conversation with Jim Dine
When the staff at the J. Paul Getty Museum invited Jim Dine to visit the Getty Villa and develop a contemporary work related to the collection, they may have been expecting a suite of drawings. Although Dine began his career by creating Happenings in New York City during the late ’50s, since the ’80s, he
Adam Walls: Animated Steel
Adam Walls’s intimate engagement with steel links the divergent forms of his work. His sculptural output moves back and forth along a fairly broad spectrum of possibilities. At one end is the manipulation of raw steel into human-scaled, simplified forms, unfinished and left to rust (Mother and Child, Figures, Rings I and II).
Mary Early: Complexity in Simplicity
Mary Early views her spare configurations as records of objects, spaces, and impressions. While these sculptural distillations bear traces of things seen and remembered, they upend expectations, giving their own version of the truth as it might apply to appearances, materials, and processes.
