Was it a trick on the audience for Yoshihiro Suda to open his second American museum solo, at Honolulu’s Contemporary Museum in 2009, with a space that seemed completely empty? You might have thought that you’d stumbled into a gallery closed for installation, except that there was no equipment sitting around, the floor was clean,
The Site Generates the Sculpture: A Conversation with Haesim Kim
Haesim Kim is one of Korea’s more adventurous sculptors. Having studied at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, she went on to the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London in 1999. Kim’s involvement with the art/nature group Yatoo and its earlier manifestation, known as the Four Seasons, led to some very innovative sculpture and performance
Struggling for Centimeters: A Conversation with Christiane Löhr
The organic element in Christiane Löhr’s sculptures first captures the viewer’s attention. All of her constructions are made of seeds, stalks, and horse and dog hair, stuck to each other or directly nailed to the wall or support pedestal.
Everyday Monuments: A Conversation with Jean Shin
Known for her labor-intensive installations of everyday accumulations, Jean Shin broke new ground in Everyday Monuments, a commission begun in 2007 at the invitation of Joanna Marsh, curator of contemporary art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
Loose Ends: A Conversation with Tariq Alvi
London-based Tariq Alvi is quick to admit his penchant for pop culture. He recycles riotous effigies from advertisements, pornography, and consumer magazines in his installations, often reconfiguring them into collages. Through his paper-based art, Alvi meticulously digests generic and overlooked icons of our disposable culture, visually calling for a re-appraisal of material worth.
The Scale of Perception: A Conversation with Katrín Sigurdardóttir
Icelandic artist Katrín Sigurdardóttir uses scale to explore notions of land, space, and memory as well as the body’s place in a world that seems to be shrinking. Her popular High Plane V installation at P.S.1
Nothing Outlives Mortality: A Conversation with Kristen Morgin
Kristen Morgin makes shells of things. She embraces breakdown and wear and tear, traces of which constitute evidence of past longings and actions. Her subject is manmade objects produced in a distant or not-so-distant past: cellos of unspecified date, a piano that belonged to Ludwig van Beethoven, carousel horses with whiffs of the Belle Époque,
Ceal Floyer’s Special
A light bulb, a bag of air, a bucket, colored markers—these are some of the commonplace items that Ceal Floyer makes us rethink as we contemplate her understated, multimedia installations. Curiously expansive and lingering in their effect, these conceptual, perceptual time-release capsules are far more ponderous to describe verbally than to “get” visually; they inspire
Leonardo Drew: Epic Mythologies of Detritus
“You don’t find art, art finds you,” explains Leonardo Drew, who began creating things at an early age. At age 48, Drew is the subject of a traveling survey that presents 26 of his most significant sculptures and drawings to date.
William Tucker: From the Formal to the Primeval
William Tucker was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2010. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Emperor, 2002. Bronze, 65 x 78 x 41 in.
