Daphne Wright’s work maneuvers things into what her biographical statement calls “well-wrought but delicate doubt.” Shifting between “taughtness and mess,” it sets “imagery, materials, and language in constant metaphorical motion.” Using a wide range of materials and techniques—plaster, tin foil, video, printmaking, found objects, and performance—she creates beautiful and rather eerie worlds that feel like
Saya Woolfalk: The Harmonics of Dislocation
A kaleidoscopic transformation unfolds to the soft and soothing drone of a narrator as she guides the viewer through a marvelous land where humans, plants, and objects engage one another. Barriers break down. Identities cross-fertilize. Linear time loses all relevance.
We Are the Landscape: A Conversation with Steven Siegel
Using pre-consumer and recycled materials—discarded newspapers, crushed soda cans, empty milk containers, and shredded rubber—Steven Siegel creates public art and site-specific installations in natural and urban contexts that reinvent the role of sculpture for an eco-conscious planet.
Working By Any Means Necessary: A Conversation with Mel Chin
Mel Chin refuses to be pinned down, hemmed in, or otherwise restricted from pursuing whatever concept fires his imagination—in whatever medium seems appropriate. The Houston-born artist began his career making sculptures based on research into ancient cultures, social issues, and geopolitical subterfuges.
Being the Void: A Conversation with Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley understands the human body as a place of memory and transformation. Most of his early works are based on the process of casting his own body, which functions as subject, tool, and material. His more recent works deal with the body in abstracted or indirect ways and are concerned with the human condition.
Dispatch: Shanghai
For many followers of contemporary Chinese art, Beijing is the hub of a dynamic world…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Ryoji Ikeda
Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Ryoji Ikeda is a multifaceted artist who blends music, art, technology, and mathematics. Some people remember him as an electronic music composer who worked for the performance group Dumb Type, which toured the U.S.
Tere Recarens
Barcelona Galeria Toni Tapies Tere Recarens was born in Arbucies, Spain, and lives and works in Berlin. Her early work, which was shown at P.S.1 in 1999, already demonstrated a yearning to distinguish a terrain of her own, intimately related to personal experiences and her travels to foreign lands, where she investigates people and place.
Rebecca Warren
London Serpentine Gallery Rebecca Warren likes to play with established ideas about the nature of sculpture and the formal ways in which it is displayed. She appropriates ideas from the work of others—Rodin, Degas, Beuys, and Morris—and reworks them.
Deborah Sigel
Lancaster, Pennsylvania Lancaster Museum of Art Walking into ceramic sculptor Deborah Sigel’s recent exhibition, “Suspended Visions,” was like walking into a candy shop, or more accurately into the type of confectionary where candied violets and crystallized rose petals dream of taking their rightful place atop a…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
