New York The Jewish Museum In 1966, Kynaston McShine presented “Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors” at the Jewish Museum. The show introduced barely known artists, including Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Sol LeWitt, who worked in a pared-down visual language soon dubbed Minimalism.
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2014 Outstanding Student Achievement In Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2014 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards. This year’s program attracted a large number of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
Solidity is Always Undermined: A Conversation with Bella Feldman
Bella Feldman, a veteran creator of innovative sculpture, recently exhibited 85 pieces at the Richmond Art Center in a 50-year survey. The daughter of hard-working Polish-Jewish immigrants, Feldman was born in the Bronx, where the only picture on the wall of her family’s tenement apartment was a photograph of Lenin.
Courtney Egan – Botanical Light Sculpture
Short Term Memory 2009 single channel video installation, looping, silent in the group show Frontier Preachers at the Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN. Curator: Jayme McLellan Visitors to a satellite exhibition that accompanied the Prospect.2 New Orleans International Biennial in 2011 were startled to discover a clawfoot bathtub filled with oversize night-blooming cereus flowers in the
Bodies and Buildings-A Conversation with Emily Speed
Emily Speed works between performance and sculpture, exploring the body, architecture, and their interrelationship—with surprising results. Since graduating with an MA from London’s Wimbledon College of Art in 2006, she’s been quite active, working on various projects and exhibiting in a number of international group shows.
Roxy Paine-Dendroids, Replicants, and Sculpture Machines
Roxy Paine has won considerable attention from the art world for various bodies of work, including stainless steel tree forms (dendroids); arrangements of psychedelic and poisonous mushrooms, as well as artificially made, weedchoked gardens (replicants); and machines that make drawings, paintings, and sculptures.
Eli Bornstein
Saskatoon and Winnipeg, Canada Mendel Art Gallery and the School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba Perception lies at the heart of Eli Bornstein’s 60-year career, spent in unwavering fidelity to the trinity of color, light, and structure.
The Power of Objects: A Conversation with Aristotle Georgiades
While in law school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I decided to pursue an MFA in sculpture at the same time. I needed an advocate in the art department who would supervise my ad hoc joint degree, and thankfully, I found Aris Georgiades, who eventually became the chair of my graduate committee.
Susan Philipsz
Dusseldorf Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Standhaus Fraught chords and choked notes from unseen instruments fill three galleries. In two of the spaces, recorded string sounds emerge from black electronic speakers mounted in a serpentine line across a long white wall, while a floor-level speaker offers unexpected horn noises.
