Born in County Sligo, Eileen MacDonagh studied art at the Institute of Technology, Sligo and Limerick School of Art. In 1982, she attended an International Sculpture Conference in San Francisco, where she was first introduced to the idea of sculpture symposia.
Political by Nature: A Conversation with Nnenna Okore
Sometimes an artist’s use of materials is in itself political, as in the case of Nnenna Okore. Born in Australia and raised in Nsukka, a town in southeastern Nigeria, she explores a range of artistic materials and influences, creating installations and sculptures made of clay and found as well as handmade paper.
Sculpting the Void: A Conversation Lucía Vallejo
Lucía Vallejo began her career as an art historian. The subject of her research, Giorgione, foreshadowed the path of her later artistic trajectory, which follows a deep interest in symbolism and late Renais?sance and Baroque color.
Joan Danzinger
Washington DC Katzen Arts Center at American University The two-story atrium of the Katzen Arts Center, aggressively bisected by a large staircase that leads to the upper galleries, has always been a challenge for exhibiting painters and sculptors.
Jason Meadows
Los Angeles Marc Foxx Now hitting mid-career and mid-stride, Jason Meadows is a sculptor’s sculptor who often invokes the lexicon of 20th-century Modernism with his skilled choreography of volumes and materials while emphatically embracing a postmodern love of cultural pastiche.
Blue McRight
Los Angeles Samuel Freeman Gallery Blue McRight’s recent exhibition, “Quench,” featured a semi-installational aggregation of nearly 50 individual pieces. These objects emerge from a loosely linked set of concepts involving nature, personal experience, and environmental reality, following Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of “rhizomatic thinking.”
Cheryl Ekstrom and JD Hansen
Los Angeles Leslie Sacks Fine Art Blue McRight’s recent exhibition, “Quench,” featured a semi-installational aggregation of nearly 50 individual pieces. These objects emerge from a loosely linked set of concepts involving nature, personal experience, and environmental reality, following Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of “rhizomatic thinking.”
William Kentridge
Rome MAXXI Much has been written about William Kentridge’s epic installation, The Refusal of Time, which was produced for Documenta XIII. After Kassel, the piece was reconfigured and moved to MAXXI, Rome’s still relatively new Museum of the Art of the 21st Century… see the entire review in the print version of July/August’s Sculpture magazine.
Damien Hirst
London Tate Modern When I walked into Tate Modern for Damien Hirst’s retrospective, I was very positive and full of expectations, but I left with contradictory thoughts—not about Hirst’s work per se, but about the value of an anthological exhibition devoted to his work.
Adriana Varejão
Buenos Aires Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires Adriana Varejão is one of Brazil’s most important contemporary artists. “Histories at the Margins,” her recent survey exhibition, featured her entire universe of thoughts and concerns, including paintings, installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, and objects.
