NEW YORK Whitney Museum of American Art For curators Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, the show forms a “dissonant chorus,” as 71 artists and collectives deploy a range of strategies and often hidden or subversive narratives to explore the challenges of our mediated contemporary experience.
Exploring Corbanscale
Corban Walker operates within a wide range of media, from photography and painting to installation, digital art, sculpture, and public art.
This Season in Sculpture Parks and Gardens
Summer is a season of abundance, not least for experiencing art beyond galleries and museums. Below, see an international list of sculpture parks and gardens—plus a few less traditional outdoor venues—worth visiting this summer, along with details on current temporary exhibitions.
Territorio de libertad: Una Conversación con María Causa
Nacida en Villa Mercedes, San Luis, la escultora María Causa se inicia en el campo de las artes con apenas 14 años cursando la Escuela de Bellas Artes Nicolás Antonio de San Luis y luego de migrar a la ciudad de Buenos Aires, cursó estudios superiores como Profesora de Dibujo y Pintura en la Escuela
Default Barometers: Restoring Finland’s Eco Art Icons
We followed a well-trod path through straight rows of 12- to 15-foot-high pines, some scraggly, some ailing or dead, before approaching the apex, where the rows evolve into a spiral pattern.
Tony Cragg
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.
