Fernando Botero was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2012. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Popular recognizability is Fernando Botero’s worst enemy, feeding the rejection of his work by many elitists who favor the age’s paradoxical taste for the smugly obscure combined with the profoundly superficial.
Syncretic Improvisations: A Conversation with Sanford Biggers
While working in Japan, Italy, Germany, Poland, Brazil, and the United States, Sanford Biggers honed his view that art may simultaneously embrace diverse cultures. For example, he sees the tree as a symbol of growth and connectedness to earth, as the natural form under which Buddha found enlightenment, and as slavery’s lynching post.
Sophie Ryder’s Creatures of Determination and Dexterity
There is little doubt that 20th- and 21st-century British sculpture has been one of the defining forces of contemporary art. From public enthusiasm for Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth to current fascination with today’s illuminating figures, a tradition has persisted nearly without interruption.
William King’s Etruscan Days
William King is a keen observer of human experience. His sculptures can be amusing or acerbic, combining wit and satire in a choreography of social affectations and gestures. Recently King has been working with fabrics such as Naugahyde, burlap, and vinyl, which he fashions loosely, sews together, and attaches to metal armatures.
2012 Outstanding Student Achievement In Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2012 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards. This year’s program attracted a large number of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
Robert Irwin
LOS ANGELES L&M Arts / J. Paul Getty Museum In “Way Out West” at L&M Arts, Robert Irwin was concerned with “light,” illumination, and chance combinations of color. Nine related, but independent works rendered in fluorescent light coalesced in an installation that responded to its site, but could exist in any space, including, Irwin says, the domestic.
(e)merge art fair
WASHINGTON, DC Capitol Skyline Hotel From clever branding to a brassy roster of artists, the debut edition of (e)merge delivered on its promise to shake things up. Showcasing artists with no gallery representation and galleries that take on new artists, the art fair offered a rowdy alternative to its blue-chip cousins.
Amanda Dow Thompson
BROOKLYN Causey Contemporary Amanda Dow Thompson’s installation Ghost Moth filled the center of Causey’s vast, elegant, and well-lit space with about a dozen narrow spiral shapes. Dangling from a ring of suspended aluminum tubing, these vertebrae-like forms tapered and twisted down for about five feet, nearly reaching the floor.
Anne Ferrer
NEW YORK The LAB Gallery Anne Ferrer’s Billowing Beauty (2011) first appeared in May at The LAB Gallery in Midtown Manhattan; in October, it filled the front window of Rupert Ravens Contemporary in Newark.
