Jukhee Kwon, who has been making three-dimensional, paper-based works for over a decade, uses discarded books as her primary material, carefully slicing, cutting, and otherwise manipulating their pages to create a variety of unexpected forms—from intimate, small-scale objects to large-scale installations.
Endless Inventory: A Conversation with Florian Slotawa
Conceptual artist Florian Slotawa does not make his work from scratch. Instead, he assembles his sculptures and installations from what already exists, rearranging and recontextualizing found material with a keen sense of form and color.
Materializando Certezas: Una Conversación con Marina De Caro
Artista visual y Licenciada en Historia del Arte (UBA), la marplatense Marina De Caro ha recorrido una larga carrera en el campo de las artes interesada siempre en un cruce multidisciplinario donde dibujos, textiles, instalaciones, esculturas, cerámicas, videos o performances, se desplieguen sin reglas fijas sin “ningún tipo de ortodoxia.”
Out of the Ocean: A Conversation with Duke Riley
The junk-based sculptures and film installations in “DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash,” Duke Riley’s current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, take aim at the environmental villains, past and present, responsible for the destruction of the world’s oceans.
David Baskin
NEW YORK Freight+Volume The work imparts a futuristic, retro, popsicle feel, like standing signage in an alien script from a corny, camp version of the 1960s cartoon show “The Jetsons.”
Rose B. Simpson
NEW YORK Jack Shainman Gallery Simpson’s figures are arranged toward each other; entering their presence feels like interrupting a conversation between old friends. Most of the exhibition’s dozen sculptures are life-size or larger, which adds to the sense of stepping through or meeting their gaze.
Mean Functionality: A Conversation with Irina Kirchuk
Irina Kirchuk’s works walk a fine line between abstraction and figuration. The Argentinian artist, who lives and works in Buenos Aires, observes the urban landscape and recovers objects from it, collecting and classifying them, exploring what she calls “their material obsolescence and mean functionality.”
David Mach
LONDON Pangolin David Mach made a dramatic entry into the world of public art in 1983, when he used 6,000 car tires to construct a life-size replica of a Polaris submarine on the South Bank of the River Thames, near London’s Royal Festival Hall.
John Henry: One Idea Leads To Another
A life is not a timeline. The supposed linear movement, building one moment adjacent to another, is a false construct. Adding another dimension gives a planar view of bright moments, scattered like diamonds on a field of velvet.
Henry Jackson-Spieker
SEATTLE MadArt Jackson-Spieker creates visual blind spots and distortions that he hopes act as a metaphor for the things we don’t see or question in our everyday surroundings.
