New York Fiona Banner is a sculptor involved with language…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Phong Bui: Reviving a Sense of Wholeness
At a party sometime in the late ’80s I heard a critic proclaim that it was improper to discuss an artist’s personality in relation to his work: the focus should be on the art alone. T.S.
Universal Resonances: A Conversation with Berlinde de Bruyckere
Berlinde De Bruyckere does not pull punches. When many artists of her generation more or less loudly proclaim their emotional detachment, she feels compelled to tackle weighty universals such as loneliness, pain, and death. The fact that few other artists explore this terrain as creatively and successfully explains in part her impressive exhibition history.
Iole Alessandrini: Shaping Light and Space
The Italian architect Iole Alessandrini, who has lived in Seattle since 1996, has completed eight temporary installations in Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellevue, Washington, as well as in Brooklyn, New York. By transforming recycled or disused building sites, the 35-year-old artist has distinguished herself from other architects who have jumped on the public art bandwagon in
Doing What I Don’t Know: A Conversation with Anthony Caro
Anthony Caro (b. 1924), one of the world’s greatest sculptors, first achieved widespread recognition in the 1960s by revolutionizing accepted sculptural concepts. Although he is best known for his large-scale abstract works in steel, his more recent sculptural language has evolved into powerful installations of numerous components, as seen in works like The Barbarians and
Rachel Stevens
Santa Fe Rachel Stevens’s use of metal brings to…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Grabbing Emotions: A Conversation with Richard Deutsch
In contrast to many artists of his generation, Richard Deutsch fearlessly embraces beauty. Whether designing sculpture on a grand scale or producing pieces in his studio on the California coast north of Santa Cruz, he aims for work infused with feeling and meaning.
William Christenberry: The South of Fact and Dream
Any consideration of William Christenberry’s wide-ranging production during the past four decades must take into account the simultaneity of the American South as place and as idea. This odd cultural situation, in which both modes of being co-exist without exact delineation or differentiation, has lodged itself in the regional mind and in a larger cultural
Alexander Calder
San Francisco Peggy Guggenheim once told me that she wore…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Henrik Håkansson
Boston Human greed and our assumption of superiority…see the full review in March’s magazine.
