Joshua Tree, California and New York Hosted annually by Andrea Zittel, HDTS began…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Making the Public Art Selection Process Artist Friendly
Many who work professionally in the public art field are asking if the commissioning process is needlessly discouraging to artists. Is it too burdensome, overly constrictive, and bureaucratic? The question establishes an objective: that selection practices be designed to serve the highest ambitions of the field—to create compelling works of art that stimulate and challenge
Lee Boroson
New York Lee Boroson has been recognized for his…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Takashi Soga: Meditations on Gravity
“The earth we all rely on is, in fact, an unsteady ball floating in space,” wrote Haruhiko Fuji. Takashi Soga gives visual form to this maxim. His disorienting monumental structures disrupt our reliance on terra firma, our expectations of spatial relationships, our assumptions about the very ground of what we call reality.
Bonnie Collura
New York “A Symptom of Beauty (obsessions on an ideal)”…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Pietrasanta: The View from the Outside
To say that Pietrasanta resembles the Vatican sounds—and indeed is—absurd. But consider this: Pietrasanta, like the Vatican, is a small community that stands at a distinct remove from the rest of the world. Yet Pietrasanta is—again like the Vatican—the center of an empire that spans every continent of the globe.
Sculpture Space: Celebrating 30 Years
Although Utica, New York, seems an unlikely place for a utopian-style artist residency, it is nonetheless home to Sculpture Space, a unique urban retreat for those interested in working in three dimensions. While most residencies are founded in the belief that a rural setting far from the din and distractions of city life provides the
Mel Kendrick: Extended Time
The sculptures of Mel Kendrick are remarkably various: they twist and rotate and pulse as engaging experiments in positive and negative space. From the start of his career, in the early 1970s, Kendrick has taken a strong interest in piecing together parts and planes of wood, sometimes painting his work to accentuate the relationship between
Hilda Morris
Portland, Oregon The Portland Art Museum’s comprehensive…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
