Artista visual, diseñador industrial, curador, investigador y emprendedor en el campo de la tecnología y la biotecnología, el argentino Sebastián Tedesco desarrolla su obra desde una perspectiva que entiende al arte como una idea en elaboración de manera constante.
Diana Al-Hadid
SEATTLE Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Realized through extraordinary material accretion, Al-Hadid’s works assemble countless fragments that struggle to coalesce into a complete whole.
Anicka Yi
LONDON Tate Modern It is impossible not to marvel at these floating entities—Yi calls them “aerobes”—programmed using Artificial Life software, which employs biologically inspired processes to give machines perception, motivations, and decision-making tools that allow them to respond independently to changes in their surroundings.
Moffat Takadiwa
LOS ANGELES Craft Contemporary The Anthropocene is the skeleton in the closet of 21st-century imagination. The consequences of more than a century of hyper-consumerism are everywhere apparent, inescapable, part of the environment and the air we breathe.
Abandoned Utility: A Conversation with Sean Donovan
Sean Donovan, an emerging artist living in Brooklyn, uses sculpture, video, and printmaking to call attention to environmental degradation. His works, which repurpose—and sometimes replicate—abandoned objects, including chemical containers and plastic bags, expose the myopic thinking and avaricious behavior that result in unchecked consumer and industrial waste, pollution, and a poisoned planet.
Everyday Matters: A Conversation with Jean Shin
Jean Shin has long operated in the intersection of public art and civic engagement. Site-specific and often temporary, based in community and collective collaboration, and focused on sustainability, her work invites awareness and activism. Through a labor-intensive process, she transforms raw, “crowd-sourced” material— often gathered through open calls for contributions—into immersive, large-scale sculptural installations.
Stephen Shaheen
HUDSON, NEW YORK Hudson House Stephen Shaheen’s imaginative exhibition “Let’s Eat Columns” (on view through January 30, 2022) features works that blend a material approach to stone with metaphysical ruminations.
Lucy Pullen
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA The Blue Building Gallery Pullen’s work expresses a poetics of numbers, a seeking for knowledge expressed in a language of abstract description that, for those conversant with it, expresses hope and wonder as much as any certainty.
John Van Alstine
GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK The Hyde Collection The 17 small-scale bronze and stone works in this intimate show revisit some of his dominant themes—including the myth of Sisyphus and the figure of the juggler, as well as his “Pyxis Awry” and “Portals and Passages” series—now repurposed to bring meaning to this unusual and politically charged time.
Desde el Cuerpo: Una Conversación con Florencia Almirón
Florencia Almirón, joven artista visual nacida en Buenos Aires, desarrolla sus actividades entre Europa y Argentina, contando con una amplia trayectoria expositiva en galerías, ferias, bienales y museos de Alemania, Holanda, Islandia, Grecia, Inglaterra, Argentina, entre otros.
