LOS ANGELES Marian Goodman Tony Cragg’s main objective as a sculptor has been to erode distinctions between the natural and the fabricated, between the handcrafted and the industrial.
Hair Turns: A Conversation with Isabelle Plat
Across a four-decade-long career, Isabelle Plat has upended art genres addressing people, places, and things by (re)constructing and (re)assembling familiar materials and then inviting viewers to interact with them. She calls these works sculpture d’usage (“usable sculpture”), but metaphor runs riot as this Parisian artist channels the stuff of everyday life into art.
Dorothy Dehner
NEW YORK Berry Campbell Gallery Dehner’s sculpture can be viewed within the framework of postwar Modernism. All of the influences brought to bear on American artists of the time can be seen in her work—Surrealism, Constructivism, and abstraction, as well as avant-garde dance and music.
Out of Very Little: A Conversation with Helen O’Leary
An artist of shreds, remainders, and lost objects, Helen O’Leary, like the great memoirist Joseph Cornell, infuses scraps of the forgotten and overlooked with the poetry of recognition. Channeling the latent energy concealed in wood fragments, scraps of fabric, and pigments, she translates detritus into objects that bear the aura of previous lives.
Sculpture Makes the Space: A Conversation with Didier Vermeiren
For nearly five decades, Didier Vermeiren has been producing works that deal with sculpture’s long-term subordinate—the plinth. His approach, which is rigorous, investigative, and hinges on traditional materials and processes, involves exploring structure, placement, distribution, and links with the history of sculpture.
Beautiful Returns: A Conversation with Amanda Williams
Artist and architect Amanda Williams grew up in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. On a map produced by the federally sanctioned Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), this area was colored red, designating residents as ineligible to receive federal housing loans—a discriminatory, racially motivated practice known as “redlining.”
We Have Always Been Here: A Conversation with Jonathan Baldock
Baldock’s interests are rooted in the unseen, places where myth manifests itself. “Touch Wood,” his current exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Weston Gallery, draws on beliefs and rituals that have brought people together from time immemorial.
Like a Sculpture: A Conversation with Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto makes little distinction between the two- and three-dimensional. Photography, sculpture, and architecture are all part of his project to find “a creation of human consciousness.”
Gary Simmons
MIAMI Peréz Art Museum The artist’s questioning of how our shared past is remembered and which histories we’ve been taught to forget—why and by whom, and what is at stake—was especially timely in its presentation in a state whose governor and extremists have been leading the charge for the destruction of education and a war on truth through censorship, book banning, and whitewashing how American history is taught.
Ryan Villamael
SINGAPORE AND MANILA Esplanade Singapore and Silverlens Gallery Villamael inflects spaces, locations, and structures. Like a form of drawing in space, his work is sculpture and non-sculpture; architecture and non-architecture.
