On paper, the works of Scottish artist Katie Paterson might sound fanciful, overambitious, even unachievable. She has connected a telephone line to a glacier so listeners could ring up and hear it melting; beamed Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” to the moon and back via Morse code and fed the altered version, distorted by craters and other
“By the People”
WASHINGTON, DC Various locations In a city chockablock with monuments, “By the People” alternatively mounts ephemeral public art. Organized by the nonprofit organization Halcyon, which also sponsors residencies for social practice artists and social entrepreneurs, the 2019 “By the People” festival (its second installment) aimed to present “artwork that sparks dialogue and builds bridges within and across communities.”
Alienating Effects: A Conversation with Guillaume Leblon
Guillaume Leblon’s works are difficult to categorize, occupying the space in between things. He considers his sculpture and installations to be like “fleeting memories, blurring the boundaries of real and surreal,” with “a strong and seductive material presence.”
States of Flux: A Conversation with Jes Fan
Jes Fan’s work unspools complexities, unifies diversities, and creates new forms of beauty. His unique vision includes abstract systems that allude to gender and racial distinctions as well as to outer/inner structures, merging art, science, philosophy, and cultural histories.
Francesca DiMattio
LONDON Pippy Houldsworth DiMattio, who is based in New York, started out as a painter of monumental, boundary-pushing canvases that played with optical illusion and references to the history of art, design, and architecture. She translated this fluidity of approach to clay when she took up the medium in 2010.
Whitney Ramage
RUTLAND, VERMONT 77 Gallery Using a simplicity of means, Whitney Ramage achieved a magnitude of results in her recent exhibition “DisEmbodiment.” In her masterful installation A Prayer for Every Day You’ve Been Gone, more than 1,800 white origami paper boats seemed to float across the polished wood floor of the gallery.
Katie Paterson
EDINBURGH Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One Scottish artist Katie Paterson has described time as the “material” with which she creates her work. In this modest but significant survey—her first major exhibition in a public institution in Scotland—her playful, rigorously researched works tick with the passing of millennia as stars die, solar eclipses pass, and planets spin.
Elyn Zimmerman’s MARABAR Facing Demolition
In 1977, Elyn Zimmerman made her first trip to India. Inspired by her experience of historical and sacred sites there, she began to consider how to create similarly meaningful contemporary public spaces back in the U.S.
Video: Tour Allan McCollum’s Survey Exhibition at ICA Miami
“Allan McCollum: Works Since 1969” is American conceptual artist Allan McCollum’s first museum retrospective in the U.S. The exhibition, curated by ICA Miami Artistic Director Alex Gartenfeld and Associate Curator Stephanie Seidel, spans McCollum’s artistic output over the past 50 years and brings together more than 20 series across a range of media.
Generative Proliferation: A Conversation with Martha Russo
Boulder, Colorado-based Martha Russo pushes the boundaries of ceramics, using abstract forms freighted with references to biology, anatomy, and the purely fantastical. Three years ago, her retrospective “Coalescere,” at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, summed up 25 years of art-making.
