ln the 1980s Jon lsherwood made multi-part sculptures in steel and cast concrete. Modernist in spirit, these early assemblages of rusted steel and swathes and swirls of cast concrete carry on an interesting dialogue with the works of Caro and Smith…see the full feature in September’s magazine.
“Fantastic”
North Adams, Massachusetts MASS MoCA With the ascension of high speed internet the low-rent cultural outskirts – where hermetic, criminal, religious, sexual, paranormal, utopian & alt.tech eidolon once came together – a region heretofore known principally to initiates and ‘fanboys’ – are now (due to info-geek triumph) high traffic real estate.
Creighton Michael
Beacon, New York Creighton Michael’s aptly named…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Site “Shore/lines”: Responding to Place in Barrie, Ontario, Canada
About an hour’s drive north of Toronto, Ontario, the city of Barrie (pop. 103,000) is a place that seems to exist for the benefit of any reason other than itself. To some people, it’s little more than a bedroom community for Toronto-bound commuters.
Thomas Schütte
New York A student of Postmodernist painter…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Forum: Sculptors Groups
While chatting over dinner almost 10 years ago, fellow sculptor Knox Cummin and I discussed the possibility of starting a sculptors group in Philadelphia. I had become aware of the growing number of such groups around the country and thought that the time had come for Philadelphia sculptors to make a more visible appearance on
Brant Schuller
Lancaster, Pennsylvania Brant Schuller is an artist who…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Christopher Wilmarth
New York Christopher Wilmarth said, in…see the full review in September’s magazine.
“Texas Uprising: Indoor and Outdoor Sculpture”
San Antonio Blue Star Contemporary Art Center “Texas Uprising,” which focused exclusively on the state of contemporary sculpture in Texas, clearly showed just how diverse contemporary art is here. The exhibition boasted over three dozen artists, most of whom submitted outstanding works.
Uncontrollable Curiosity: A Conversation with Gino Marotta
Gino Marotta is a lively and ironic artist who has practiced in lucid autonomy that which in the United States was once known as Pop, creating environments out of refined images conceived according to the rules of perfect design….
