WASHINGTON, DC Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The body is paramount, manifesting as conduit and vessel, which makes the sculptural works highly effective agents of identification and empathy.
Bret Price
HAMILTON, OHIO Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum Price’s abstract sculptures revel in their setting. Rather than treating the environment as a handsome backdrop against which they might strut their stuff, they go out of their way to make you pay attention to every detail in your visual field.
Han Sai Por
SINGAPORE STPI Mulberry tree bark pounded out onto canvas, marble vessels re-imagined as fungi and bacteria, forest leaves sculpted from paper pulp—Han Sai Por’s works are populated by a menagerie that suggests we could look at nature as if it were art.
Tania Kovats
LONDON Parafin “Oceanic,” Tania Kovats’s recent exhibition of major sculptural installations and works on paper, continued her fascination with the natural environment as a vehicle to generate heightened emotional states.
Life and Spirit: A Conversation with Juan Martinez
Detroit-based Juan Martinez, who describes himself as a “kinetic metal sculptor,” was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and grew up in New Orleans. He was educated through a traditional Mexican trade school and an informal apprenticeship model in which he offered to assist people whose work he enjoyed.
A Conversation with Baseera Khan
Baseera Khan’s multimedia practice engages with intertwined social, political, and economic histories and their effects on the diasporic body, often through acts of deconstruction and collage.
Delia Prvački
SINGAPORE Institute of Contemporary Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts Drawing on the opulent art of the Middle Ages, the Romania-born, Singapore-based artist focused on storytelling, composition, and richness of effect, her aesthetic preference for visual abundance most evident in her use of ornamentation.
Brie Ruais
HOUSTON Moody Center for the Arts The ceramic medium completes a conceptual circle that begins with the fragility of the environment. The brittleness of the fired clay is contradicted by the force of Ruais’s work, its monumental scale and weight.
Cathy Wilkes
GLASGOW The Modern Institute Wilkes makes art engrained with memories—of childhood, of people no longer with us, of past events that weigh heavy on the present. Her work can be hard to unpick, but she prefers not to say much about it, instead allowing viewers to find their own paths through her beautifully considered, tightly bound inquiries.
Cause and Effect: A Conversation with Sarah Oppenheimer
Sarah Oppenheimer challenges the limits of sculpture and architecture in order to investigate how spaces shape behavior and how behavior can, in turn, impact inhabited space.
