The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2009 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. This year’s program attracted a record number of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
The Great Equalizer: James Florschutz
For three decades, James Florschutz has been a gatherer, primarily collecting organic debris from the woods near his Vermont home. The last couple of years have found him tossing detritus culled from more urban areas into the trunk of his car as well.
Winifred Lutz
Philadelphia The beauty of Winifred Lutz’s vision resides…see the full review in September’s magazine.
José Luis Cuevas
Mexico City José Luis Cuevas (Mexico City, 1934) is well known…see the full review in September’s magazine.
The Topography of Being: A Conversation with Merav Ezer
Merav Ezer is an Israeli artist living and working in New York. Her multi-disciplinary work references the relationship between identity and environment, both natural and created, using a mixture of styles, voices, and media. Ezer describes the dialectic that informs her practice as “inspired by the personal conflict of possessing a nomadic inclination while also
“British Sculptors’ Drawings”
London Shown in conjunction with the popular…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Jerry Ross Barrish
Santa Cruz and Fresno, California ln 1986, filmmaker Jerry Ross Barrish walked…see the full review in September’s magazine.
“Global Warming at the Icebox”
Philadelphia Any group show of regional and international artists…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Human Nature: A Conversation with Michele Oka Doner
Oceanic myths and images inform Michele Oka Doner’s grand public art projects and sculptural forms. She has embedded miles of terrazzo floors at Miami International Airport’s North Terminal with bronze shells, pearls, starfish, and other sea-life forms and has created terrazzo floors with botanical and scientific motifs for other institutions.
Celebrating “Misfits”: A Conversation with Silvia B.
Dutch artist Silvia B. creates striking figures that cross the boundaries of gender, species, and age. Beyond their high-fashion gloss, however, her hybrid beings aim to question constructions of beauty and value. Silvia B. has had various solo exhibitions in the Netherlands, at venues such as 5-MM, the Five Minute Museum in Eindhoven (2009), and
