Recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award In 1973, Deborah Butterfield received her MFA from the University of California, Davis, where the faculty included Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, William T. Wiley, and Wayne Thiebaud, artists committed to a hands-on approach, who combined the traditional and experimental in their work.
Circularidad Infinita: Una Conversación con Paulo Riccobene
Nacido en Buenos Aires, el artista visual Paulo Riccobene, formado en la carrera de Edición y Diseño de Imagen y Sonido en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, se siente, según sus palabras, “convocado al mundo de la creación, en todas sus formas, de manera temprana.”
Subject To Change: A Conversation with Joan Hall
Joan Hall’s layered, monumental sculptures address how the climate crisis affects human bodies and bodies of water. Her processes and forms start with handmade paper and evolve organically. Part of the mystique in Hall’s work stems from the fact that she uses dry pigments and paper to create water-like surfaces.
Cracks in the System: A Conversation with Agustina Woodgate
Agustina Woodgate, who divides her time between Buenos Aires, Miami, and Amsterdam, sees the human landscape—its spaces, systems, and representation of values—as a conceptual geography open to questioning and improvement.
Stillness in the Midst of Chaos: A Conversation with Masaomi Yasunaga
Masaomi Yasunaga pursues “fundamental beauty.” A student of Satoru Hoshino, Yasunaga continues the experimental ethos of Sodeisha, or “crawling through the mud association,” a postwar Japanese art movement (1948–98) that explored the sculptural possibilities of ceramics.
Margherita Raso
NEW YORK Italian Cultural Institute in New York Interdisciplinary artist Margherita Raso has literally changed the atmosphere for “Vizio di Forma,” an exhibition-cum-installation that marks her U.S. institutional debut. Inside a small room occupied by three new bodies of sculptural work, the temperature has been lowered to a consistently cool degree.
About Potential: A Conversation with Asim Waqif
Recipient of the 2021 Innovator Award Asim Waqif embraces multiple mediums and materials. Ranging from invented archaeological sites to multisensory and interactive, architecturally scaled environments created from reclaimed timber, demolition salvage, or bamboo, his work cannot be confined by formal parameters or defined by subject matter.
Robert Indiana
WEST BRETTON, WAKEFIELD, U.K. Yorkshire Sculpture Park For Indiana, numbers were autobiographical, and he related key moments in his life to specific digits, painted in symbolically resonant colors.
Marc D’Estout
SAN FRANCISCO Jack Fischer Gallery D’Estout is an incredibly patient, old-school kind of sculptor, employing a slew of mad skills to fabricate, manipulate, and orchestrate his materials into shapes that imply rather than declare their points of reference.
Roxanne Jackson
NEW YORK The Hole By asking how we can reclaim monstrosity, Jackson’s work becomes an explosive combination of Grand Guignol, Jungian philosophy, and the poetry of Carmen Giménez Smith, extracting and exploiting the tissues that bind the sexual and the grotesque.
