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.
Guerra de la Paz: Re-Fabricating Fashion
The two artists collectively known as Guerra de la Paz both began their careers as painters. Known today as sculptors who also create installations, they still maintain a connection with their history. While form and composition are important elements of their pieces, color takes precedence above all else.
Subtle Power: Alfredo Jaar’s Recent Installations and Permanent Public Interventions
Alfredo Jaar’s body of work continues to be widely discussed in terms of the theory and politics of images. He often critiques the use and ownership of well-known photographs and raises topics largely ignored by the media.
Isa Genzken: Balancing Beauty and Brutality
Mannequins in thrift-store finery, backsides blackened with spray paint, are propped in an overturned warehouse trolley. Another mannequin lies on its back, hands in plastic mitts, neck strangled with a cheap tie, and face smothered by an overturned vase strapped in place with gingham ribbons.
