A rejection of politicized subject matter in favor of abstract, autonomous, and independent-object sculpture is the key to unlocking the art of Seattle-based sculptor Cris Bruch. In 1991, Bruch made a clean break with his performance-based installations and object-conglomerations addressing social issues.
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Humor, Sex, and Philosophy: A Conversation with Rachel Feinstein
Rachel Feinstein’s quirky humor and aesthetic playfulness made her recent show at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York a great change of pace. Humor is often the most direct way to confront the artist’s favorite issues, which include sex and religion.
Models of Things: A Conversation with Chris Burden
For over a decade, Chris Burden has been making sculptures that study the relationship between reality and imagination, exploring the nexus between the factual and its artistic twin, the fictive. With the unveiling in New York of his colossal skyscraper sculpture, What My Dad Gave Me (2008), Burden presents, for a second time, an artwork that literally
Consuming Beauty: A Conversation with Amie Dicke
Amie Dicke has been the subject of countless articles in the fashion press since she began to exhibit in her native Amsterdam. Ironically, her work is not, as many art critics argue, a traditional feminist denunciation of Western beauty standards.
Ranjani Shettar
Boston Ever lie back, look up at the clouds…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Steinunn Thorarinsdottir: A Lyric Isolation
Today, with a few notable exceptions, the craft and scope of figuration have been overrun by other kinds of art: conceptual work, high-tech videos, photo-based images. The humanist concerns typically addressed through realism have also been pushed aside, if not rejected outright.
Sigalit Landau: Surviving in a Hostile Environment
“My art is not meant to be provocative. It is simply a quest for some truth, justice, and order in a chaotic world,” says Sigalit Landau, an Israeli artist whose socially themed installations, performances, and video works have attracted international interest.1 In 1994, when installation art was still regarded with suspicion in Landau’s home country,
Heidi Kumao
Grand Rapids Heidi Kumao doesn’t consider herself rebellious…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Boris Orlov
Moscow Boris Orlov’s recent retrospective initiated a…see the full review in Jan/Feb’s magazine.
“Here & Now”
Washington, DC “Here & Now” a two-space exhibition featuring…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
