Playing with Light and Space: A Conversation with Soo Sunny Park

Soo Sunny Park’s light-filled installations are simultaneously visceral and immaterial. They encourage viewers to explore the sensual effects of light and shadow, geometry, the natural landscape, and the wonders of physics. Her 2007 exhibitions included solo shows at the Fire House Gallery in Burlington, Vermont, the Knowlton School of Architecture in Columbus, Ohio, and Reeves

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San Francisco: Sculpture in the Bay Area

Situated on the edge of San Francisco at Pier 14, flanked by the Bay Bridge and the Ferry building, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s unmistakable bow and arrow monument, Cupid’s Span, and Mark di Suvero’s 70-foot kinetic sculpture, Sea Change, Louise Bourgeois’s Crouching Spider is poised and seemingly ready to march into the city.

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Arnaldo Pomodoro: Within/Without

Arnaldo Pomodoro was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2008. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. For more than half a century, Arnaldo Pomodoro has been making prescient, penetrating observations about modern life with his sculpture, expressing the inherent intimations, tensions, and tenuous, fleeting joys of the postwar era

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Marisol: Stories of the Self

A lot has been written about Marisol Escobar, often focusing as much on her legendary eccentricities as on her art. In his recent memoir, Irving Sandler recalls her participating in a panel at The Club in the early 1960s, wearing a white mask; she was infamously known for “her silences and one-word responses to any

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