Aaron T Stephan’s meticulously crafted works employ ordinary objects to communicate a deep underlying messaging that disrupts our normal approach to narrative and meaning, telling us more about the environment and society in which we live.
Family Matters: A Conversation with Emma Jääskeläinen
From the moment I first encountered Emma Jääskeläinen’s sculptures, I made a mental note to follow her progress. In works such as According to Shadow and Creator (New Potato and Olive) (both 2017), she mixes elements large and small, hard and soft, mineral and organic to create bold, visually poetic, and appealingly absurd juxtapositions.
Olivia Erlanger
NEW YORK Luhring Augustine In Olivia Erlanger’s recent exhibition, “Spinoff,” a disruptive volley of arrows piercing the upper wall of Luhring Augustine Tribeca’s entry hall and main space lent a mythic spin to intriguing simulacra of a not-quite-natural world.
Gilberto Zorio
NAPLES Galleria Lia Rumma By intertwining concepts of energy exchange in space and time, Zorio seeks to make intelligible an encounter between artistic practice and the fluid, dynamic forces that are the essence of being.
Cuando el tiempo lo es todo: Una Conversación con Santiago Colombo Migliorero
Oriundo de La Plata, Bs.As, el artista audiovisual Santiago Colombo Migliorero, se deja guiar hacia una exploración sensible que se apoya fuertemente en el concepto de la temporalidad como rectora y organizadora, estudiando al tiempo como un material cuasi plástico que lo condiciona todo.
Sami Tsang
NEW YORK Claire Oliver The best stories balance the personal with some sort of universal experience. In the case of sci-fi and fairytales, the mundane mixes with the fantastical, allowing protagonists to achieve their transformative or transcendent moment.
Unfolding Into the World: A Conversation with Tory Fair
The practice of Boston-based Tory Fair consists of a captivating blend of body and ecology. In her recent work, which involves casting live sunflowers, she is not bound by fidelity to natural forms; instead, she allows material and process to imprint on making.
Proportional Relationships: A Conversation with Franka Hörnschemeyer
German artist Franka Hörnschemeyer works with architecture and space, using arrangements of objects made with ordinary building materials to examine history and social structures. By casting the familiar in a new light, her installations, objects, and site-specific interventions open a range of temporal and spatial associations.
Pedro Gómez-Egaña
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS MIT List Visual Arts Center Virgo (2022), the central and most provocative work in “The Great Learning,” pays homage to Gordon Matta-Clark’s building cuts, but with a difference. Where Matta-Clark sought to reveal untapped potential, Gómez-Egaña instead explores our moment of too much potential.
Matter and Spirit: A Conversation with Luana Vitra
Materials matter to Luana Vitra. She uses iron, copper, wood, feathers, and clay—materials embedded in the history, culture, and geology of her home region of Minas Gerais in Brazil—to explore our connections to the earth, how we are at one with its offerings and how we exploit them.
