“Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.” * Spiked Egg , 2003. Transparent paper, packing tape, and pins. 25 cm. long. Elisabeth Weissensteiner’s sculpture describes the body’s seemingly parallel universes of inside and outside. The very act of viewing her sculpted skins is a process that describes the forms’ oscillation between fragile beauty and something more
April 2005
Careers: Artists as Directors and Curators of Art Spaces, College Galleries, and Museums
Most artists don’t know what kind of career they will have, or if they will even have a career, but sculptor Jock Reynolds knew he was making a career-changing decision in 1983 when he took over the directorship of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), a nonprofit multi-disciplinary art space in the District of