In a world unwilling to struggle for ideals and search for value, in a consumer society governed by products, money, and power, a conversation with Nicola Carrino about what art means is a refreshing experience. For Carrino, a young artist aged 80, making art is not simply about the work but about the fact that,
Capturing Vitality: Ana Borzone
Ana Borzone is a young Argentinian sculptor with an already lengthy résumé. Selected for the Sculpture National Salon 2012 at the Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires, she has participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions in the United States, Uruguay, Spain, Puerto Rico, and Argentina over the last five years.
Maskull Lasserre
Toronto Centre Space Maskull Lasserre creates technically accomplished sculptures that achieve a delicate balance between familiar, everyday objects and fragile, often macabre forms. His curiosity and willingness to experiment lead him to push the limits of his materials, while his rigorous drawing practice gives him the ability to depict forms with almost scientific accuracy.
“It’s a Phase”
Bellaire, Texas Russ Pitman Park A phase is a division in time or space. “It’s a Phase,” a recent group show in Houston’s Russ Pitman Park, reflected and questioned the phasing between the natural and the artificial that defines the site itself.
John Van Alstine
Albany, New York Opalka Gallery When members of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Co. spun and piqued their way through John Van Alstine’s recent solo exhibition “Arrested Motion and Perilous Balance,” they underscored a resonant, though not always apparent theme in the sculptor’s work—the figurative.
Space Is a Living Thing: A Conversation with Beverly Pepper
“Critics frequently refer to my work as ‘spiritual.’ Yet I’m less interested in spirituality than in the unexplainable, which you feel more than see. To be clear, I’m not trying to be mystical, nor am I consciously avoiding it. And though I am very concrete and use very concrete materials, I do not intend my work to be ‘explainable.’ Feeling is more important for me than anything formulaic.”
“Subverting Modernism: Cass Corridor Revisited 1966–1980”
Detroit Eastern Michigan University Artists of the Cass Corridor movement, active in Detroit during the 1960s and ’70s, are known to have been a hard-living, hard-drinking lot. Their provocative works, often created from industrial materials and detritus, have been popularly seen as reflecting Detroit’s (and, by extension, America’s) decline as an industrial superpower.
Mags Harries
Boston Boston Sculptors Gallery Welsh-born sculptor Mags Harries comes from a long line of sea captains, and water, with its visual, aural, tactile, kinetic, and even olfactory properties, has long inspired her work. In 2012, together with her partner, artist/architect Lajos Héder, Harries was invited to create a permanent installation in China’s Xixi National Wetland
Benjamin Bellas
Chicago slow A church pew and cold beer greeted visitors at the entrance of Benjamin Bellas’s recent show. The beer was a basil ale, brewed specially by the artist, and the pew was Protestant, moved hundreds of miles from a small-town chapel to this storefront gallery in Chicago.
