While much contemporary art deals with questions of materiality, the things that make up an artwork, and how artists collaborate with material properties to locate spaces of aesthetic ease, Cathy Della Lucia’s work directly opposes her materials.
January/February 2025
January/February 2025
Hugh Hayden
DALLAS Nasher Sculpture Center Hayden’s use of wood is nostalgic, since such workmanship on an object of public utility has largely been replaced with metal and plastic. It is also a testament to his craftsmanship and skill.
Charisse Pearlina Weston: Interior Life
I spend a lot of time walking through New York and often find myself in front of condo construction sites, gawking at high-end living exemplified by floor-to-ceiling expanses of glass.
Infinite and Infinitesimal: A Conversation with Randy Polumbo
Boundaries between nature, living space, and fine art dissolve in Randy Polumbo’s universe. His works glow with a startling mix of materials—airplane and trailer parts, silvered upholstery, glittery cast and blown glass, LEDs, mirrored and metal sheets, baked mycelium, and looping videos.
Hybrid World: A Conversation with Yese Astarloa
Yese Astarloa, who lives and works between Argentina and Spain, investigates today’s technical-technological landscape. Questioning the logic and mechanics of digital media and devices, as well as their elusive materiality, she tries to glimpse the convergence of virtual and physical realities by bridging the digital/analog divide.
Tarik Kiswanson
GLASGOW The Common Guild As [Kiswanson] moves “outwards,” he addresses wider realities of humanity, using a variety of strategies to explore ideas around what he has called the “constant instability” of identity, and the embedded narratives and meaning that objects can hold.
Olivia Bax
SALISBURY, U.K. New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park Bax does not represent the exterior of things; instead, she presents experiences from the inside. Given this context, her internal/external armatures make perfect sense. This is the experience of the body from the inside out in all its rawness and vulnerability.
The Truth of Everydayness: A Conversation with Claire Barclay
Claire Barclay approaches her installation-based work with a rigorous and playful eye. Looking askance at things, she turns quotidian objects into something else—useless, without any obvious function, but imbued with an emotive complexity that allows for physical and psychological effects just when we least expect them.
