Sydney-based Nola Jones has been making sculpture for five decades now. Her work of the last five or six years represents a striking synthesis whose eclecticism is vividly alive. In her current series of totemic columns, she places separate elements on top of each other.
Gelah Penn: Surface Tensions
Gelah Penn’s approach to sculpture is distinctly existential in character. In a career trajectory that moved across the country and back, from painting to sculpture, to drawing-like forms installed in architectural space, her progress as an artist has been driven by conscious decisions to step outside of convention.
Margaret Meehan: Certainty Short-Circuted
Whether full-blown installations or succinct sculptures, Margaret Meehan’s works embrace a unique sense of narrative. In a retroactive turn of media, applying filmic concerns to the sculptural, they seem like stills taken from longer stories. Meehan’s installation Innocence and Otherness (featured in “Pretty Baby,” a 2007 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth exhibition examining the
Liam Gillick: Deferrals and Detours / Discussions and Documentaries
Entering into Liam Gillick’s “Three perspectives and a short scenario” was like diving into a heavily footnoted seminar presentation. The single large exhibition space was dark, divided into sections and hallways by 10-foot-high slatted screens and dark gray industrial carpeting.
Robert Melee: The Magnetic Grotesque
During the summer of 2009, four large-scale bronze sculptures by Robert Melee bubbled to life in New York’s City Hall Park, their rough accretions materialized into hulking masses. Oozing rivulets of multi-colored enamel paint like queasy marbleizing, these abstract forms appeared extravagantly slimed or covered with flowing wounds.
Fierceness and Fragility: A Conversation with Leslie Dill
Lesley Dill’s sculptures made an impression on me some years ago at Graphic Studio in Tampa, particularly a tea-stained, paper dress that popped outward to become three-dimensional. A large traveling exhibition of her work—recently shown at the Saint Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and on view at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina
Figuratively Speaking: A Conversation with Thomas Houseago
Thomas Houseago’s expressionist sculptures, part of a renewed interest in figuration, are popping up everywhere, in one-person and group exhibitions in Brussels, Amsterdam, Milan, London, Glasgow, Paris, Berlin, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Marfa. This fall and winter, both the Rennie Collection in Vancouver and Modern Art Oxford are hosting shows of his idiosyncratically
The International Sculpture Center 2010 Outstanding Student Achievement In Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2010 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards. This year’s program attracted a record number of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
Jeff Lowe: Drawing Out and Enclosing Space
After the death in 1975 of the artist Roger Hilton, Jeff Lowe was driving in Cornwall, where Hilton had lived as a St. Ives artist. Lowe, who has collected the painter’s late gouaches, had been reading Hilton’s Night Letters, in which the largely bedridden artist wrote to his sleeping wife about his condition, his art,
Garth Evans: Transformer
To look back over Garth Evans’s 50 years of art production—sculpture plus drawings and watercolors—is to pursue a will o’ the wisp always vanishing out of the corner of one’s eye. Evans has repeatedly been exclaimed and admired, but the attention has never led to real fame—which seems to be something that he regularly courts
