Sal Non Sal 124, 2009. 3,600 salt blocks and salt mortar, tower: 8 x 17 x 10 ft.; columns: 6 x 1 x 1 ft.; wall: 24 x 216 x 4 in.

Lori Nozick: The Girl Who Liked to Smell Dirt

New York-based sculptor Lori Nozick installed wooden structures in galleries in Italy last year, mounted a show in Berlin over the summer, and then flew to Israel to initiate a future project. Her indoor gallery installations play with perspective and demand interaction. Outdoors, she builds with salt blocks, cast cement, steel, screening, and LED lights. She recently received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award. …see the entire article in the print version of January/February’s Sculpture magazine.