Today, with a few notable exceptions, the craft and scope of figuration have been overrun by other kinds of art: conceptual work, high-tech videos, photo-based images. The humanist concerns typically addressed through realism have also been pushed aside, if not rejected outright.
Sigalit Landau: Surviving in a Hostile Environment
“My art is not meant to be provocative. It is simply a quest for some truth, justice, and order in a chaotic world,” says Sigalit Landau, an Israeli artist whose socially themed installations, performances, and video works have attracted international interest.1 In 1994, when installation art was still regarded with suspicion in Landau’s home country,
Heidi Kumao
Grand Rapids Heidi Kumao doesn’t consider herself rebellious…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Boris Orlov
Moscow Boris Orlov’s recent retrospective initiated a…see the full review in Jan/Feb’s magazine.
“Here & Now”
Washington, DC “Here & Now” a two-space exhibition featuring…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Adrienne Outlaw
Henderson, Tennessee ln a world of burgeoning technology coupled with…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Claudia Aranovich
Buenos Aires Claudia Aranovich’s work is a battlefield…see the full review in Jan/Feb’s magazine.
Will the Economic Turmoil Affect Public Art Programs?
Karin Wulf had some good news to report: a proposal made by a member of the Board of Estimates in early October to eliminate the City of Madison’s (Wisconsin) $30,000 expenditure on public art, part of an effort to trim the municipal budget, was soundly defeated.
Waltz of the Apparitions: A Conversation with Saint Clair Cemin
Saint Clair Cemin’s sculpture is often imponderable. Because the works are rarely wholly abstract, they seem to want to mean something, to hint at allegory—but do they really have to be something other than what they are as things, as untainted lyric?
