I stood surrounded by hundreds of strange beings, fantastical creatures arrayed around me in every direction. …see the full feature in April’s magazine.
The Weight of Memory: Zero Higashida
Sculpture has likely served a memorial purpose since its beginnings. It fulfills the melancholic ritual of acknowledging the dead, whose claim on us is as much physical as metaphysical. …see the full feature in April’s magazine.
“Public Art is Dangerous”: Dennis Oppenheim
Over the course of a much-honored, 40-year career, Dennis Oppenherm has created sculpture, conceptual art, Land art, and public art, with a long string of public art successes installed throughout the United States and Europe. …see the full feature in April’s magazine.
Tom Otterness: Public Art and the Civic Ideal in the Postmodern Age
One Sunday in late November near dusk, a family walks down Broadway toward Lincoln Center on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. As they approach 65th Street, the mother, a casually but stylishly dressed woman, says, “There’s a sculpture over here I don’t quite understand, but I think it’s hysterically funny.”
Jessica Stockholder: Redefining the Frame
Ever since Jessica Stockholder nailed a red mattress to the weathered exterior of her father’s garage (without his permission) and titled it Installation in my Father’s Backyard (1983), her deliberately ramshackle work has been praised by critics for demolishing the boundaries between painting, architecture, and sculpture …see the full feature in May’s magazine.
Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia Within Without: Elisabeth Weissensteiner Chapman & Bailey Gallery
“Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.” * Spiked Egg , 2003. Transparent paper, packing tape, and pins. 25 cm. long. Elisabeth Weissensteiner’s sculpture describes the body’s seemingly parallel universes of inside and outside. The very act of viewing her sculpted skins is a process that describes the forms’ oscillation between fragile beauty and something more
Careers: Artists as Directors and Curators of Art Spaces, College Galleries, and Museums
Most artists don’t know what kind of career they will have, or if they will even have a career, but sculptor Jock Reynolds knew he was making a career-changing decision in 1983 when he took over the directorship of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), a nonprofit multi-disciplinary art space in the District of
EU Accession Exhibition of the Hungarian Sculpture Society
Budapest Since the fall of Communism, the city…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Massimo Ghiotti, Mindaugas Tindziagolskis and Gintaras Karosas
Vilnius, Lithuania Europos Parkas Open Air Museum of the…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Cristin Millet
Utica, New York After a three-month residency at Sculpture…see the full review in March’s magazine.
