New York Daniel Buren gave the title…see the full review in December’s magazine.
Ingo Ronkholz: Beyond the Image
What motivates a young painter to turn his back on painting and apply his efforts to sculpture? In the case of Ingo Ronkholz, a growing feeling of the insufficiency of the “reality conveyed by painting” caused him to shift more and more to sculpture as the focus of his interest:…see the full feature in December’s
All 5 Senses: A Conversation with Terry Allen
Terry Allen is a visionary artist who expresses himself as a poet/songwriter, musician, playwright, sculptor, filmmaker, and installation artist. His subject matter is a…see the full feature in December’s magazine.
For the Love of Horses: A Conversation with Deborah Butterfield
For 25 years, Deborah Butterfield has found artistic fulfillment in the horse, drawing on the animal’s physicality to express an array of emotional meanings. Her work confronts the delicate dichotomy of strength and fragility in an animal experienced by few in today’s society.
Naked and Nude Out in the World and in the Art School Curriculum
As old as art itself, the nude is still capable of giving viewers a jolt. The current governor of Vermont, James Richards, recently found it necessary to remove a lamp from his statehouse desk because it reproduced Hiram Power’s famous 1843 sculpture “The Greek Slave.”
Social Structures and Shared Autobiographies: A Conversation with Do-Ho Suh
After getting graduate degrees from Seoul National University (in Oriental Painting) and from the Rhode lsland School of Design and Yale, Do-Ho Suh has created a body of work since 1997 that focuses on issues of representing how we construct, but also are constructed by, our private and public notions of space….
Rules for Growth: A Conversation with Tara Donovan
In 1999, the year she was awarded an MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, Tara Donovan mounted her first solo museum show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Her poetic, beguiling installations, made from commonplace, mass-produced objects such as drinking straws, Styrofoam cups, and toothpicks, present a new type of sculpture
Identifying Noguchi
Identity was a personal issue for Isamu Noguchi throughout his life. Presumed to be Japanese by most Americans and American by most Japanese, he has only recently been recognized as…see the full feature in November’s magazine.
Kwon Jin-kyu
Seoul, Korea This was an extremely poignant and…see the full review in November’s magazine.
Contempora 2 and the Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture
Melbourne, Australia Recently the people of Melbourne were…see the full review in November’s magazine.