Boston When Niho Kozuru was a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, she happened upon an early 19th-century house that missionaries had transported, board by board, from New Engtand, so they could have a “civilized’ place to live.
April 2006
James Cook
Columbia, Missouri The flickering shadows of Plato’s puppeteers animate the deep recesses of James Cook’s found-object assembtages. …see the full review in April’s magazine.
Fred Wilson
Ridgefield, Connecticut As the 2002 recipient of the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, Fred Wilson pursued a passion for a new medium (in collaboration with a glass blower). …see the full review in April’s magazine.
A Leap into the Unknown: A Conversation with Sol LeWitt
When approached to do an interview with Sol LeWitt, I immediately recalled a moment in the late ’70s during my graduate research on conceptual art when I felt compelled to have a conversation with the artist.
Action and Reaction: A Conversation with Nunzio
For more than 20 years, an inexhaustible curiosity has driven Nunzio to provoke accidents in the process of making that force him to look for different, unexplored ways of proceeding and to find new solutions. His 2005 exhibition at New Galleria Persano in Turin surprised everyone.
Sunil Gawde: Minimal Approach, Maximum Impact
“Blind Bulb etc.”: the title of the show is intriguing, perplexing. Perhaps, just as the artist intended. It makes one contemplate the strange juxtaposition of words, wondering what it denotes. Perhaps, just as the artist wished.
Eva Kwong: Love Between the Atoms
At first impression, “Love Between the Atoms,” the retrospective of Eva Kwong’s ceramics at the Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, is far from the atomic. Other qualities strike me—playfulness, organic formalism, and color.
Transmogrifications: A Conversation with Bryan Crockett
Bryan Crockett was born in Santa Barbara, California, in 1970 and grew up in a home attached to the family business; his father was the local mortician. He dropped out of high school in his junior year to attend Santa Barbara City College and graduated with a BA from Cooper Union in New York City
