“Forest of the Mind,” the title of Laura Thorne’s 2012 exhibition at Brentwood Arts Space in Maryland, suggests not only her location—she recently returned to the Rocky Mountains—but also her interest in the creative process, language, nature, and science.
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Rogue Sculpture in Polite Society: Lee Littlefield
For nearly 20 years, along certain stretches of highway and other unexpected places, there have been sightings of curiously elegant and quirky creatures known to art world insiders (and a few public officials) as “pop-ups.” These more-or-less public sculptures created by Lee Littlefield (who died in June 2013) testify to his sculptural persona: rangy, appealing,
Seeing the Light: A Conversation with Heinz Mack
A pioneer of light, land, and kinetic art, Heinz Mack, who lives and works in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and in Ibiza, Spain, has been pursuing his utopian synthesis of aesthetics and science since the 1950s. After graduating from the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he teamed up with Otto Piene in 1957 to establish a new artistic direction;
Power Alignments: A Conversation with Peter Downsbrough
Born in New Jersey in 1940 and based in Brussels since 1989, Peter Downsbrough has pursued a multifaceted practice featuring books (more than 75 since 1968), films, maquettes, photographs, sound pieces, wall pieces, and “room pieces,” which he calls “minimal stage sets.”
Anne Lilly
New York Galerie Swanstroem Anne Lilly, a sculptor from Boston, recently put on a terrific show of tabletop kinetic works set in motion by hand. Created to necessarily exacting specifications, the various components weave in and out through her steel forms, just missing small disasters of entanglement or collision.
Jonathan Kirk
Hamilton, New York Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University The works featured in “Machines: Fragments and Reveries” present Jonathan Kirk as a creative spirit in love with mechanisms and an artist who revels in working out ideas through materials.
Linda Huey
Brockton, Massachusetts Fuller Craft Museum The former Fuller Art Museum, now the Fuller Craft Museum, retains its dedication to craftspeople who also produce art. Dark Garden, a recent installation by veteran ceramicist Linda Huey, was a case in point.
Richard Jackson
Newport Beach, California Orange County Museum of Art Richard Jackson, who emerged during the 1970s and ’80s, is best known for environments, mazes, corridors, painting machines, and wildly extravagant dioramas that reiterate iconic artworks from the Romantic period to the present.
Christopher Miles
Pasadena Pasadena Museum of Art Christopher Miles’s biomorphic sculptures have life, one that’s visible in the marks, dents, and patterns that inform their surfaces. Bridging humor and the grotesque, they speak to the aesthetics of painterly abstraction and trash art, with an awkward beauty that tips over into elegance.
2013 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2013 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.
