Carolyn Healy is an installation artist who began her career with an exhibition of small, abstract sculptures made of found objects at the Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, in 1979. Since 1987 she has created numerous large site-specific installation pieces, some for performance events and many in collaboration with sound and video artist John Phillips.
July/August 2007
Nevelson’s Dawn’s Wedding Feast: Re-Finding the Found Object
“The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend” (on view at The Jewish Museum in New York through September 16, 2007 and traveling to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, October 27, 2007–January 13, 2008) presents 66 works including sculpture, drawings, and two room-size masterworks by the towering 20th-century sculptor.
Karl Stirner
Allentown, Pennsylvania Like the African and oceanic artifacts that…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Art as Expedition: A Conversation with Lita Albuquerque
As a child, Lita Albuquerque was mesmerized by the vault of nighttime stars visible from the Catholic convent that was her home in Carthage. Occasionally she would visit her mother in a small seaside village, where the Mediterranean lapped the Tunisian shore.
Fred Sandback
New York Located close to the entrance of the David…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Louise Bourgeois
Worcester, Massachusetts One has to wonder about Louise Bourgeois’s early years…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Chicago’s Agora
The southwestern corner of Grant Park, often referred to as Chicago’s “front yard,” had been a conspicuous open space in a 320-acre park that dates to the 1830s and faces a more than mile-long skyscraper wall along Michigan Avenue.
Martha Posner
Kutztown, Pennsylvania The more time you spend with Martha…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
The Perils of Public Art: Louise Nevelson Plaza
Even as a retrospective of Louise Nevelson’s work opens at The Jewish Museum in New York, one of her most important public artworks is being redesigned beyond recognition. Nevelson was the first woman to gain fame in the U.S.
