For British duo Julia Crabtree and William Evans, sculpture and the sculptural experience are less about fixed forms than an irrepressible interest in materials and matter that might appear uneasy or ugly, that might crack under the weight of expectation.
July/August 2022
Studio Morison: Designing Pathways To Nature
Silence—Alone in a World of Wounds (2021), created by Studio Morison (Heather Peak and Ivan Morison), resembles a medieval building, or perhaps a shelter from some apocalyptic future in which humans have returned to the land.
Unknowable Objects: A Conversation with Niamh O’Malley
Niamh O’Malley, from County Mayo, in the Republic of Ireland, is part of a generation of artists who benefited not only from the pioneering work of artist-led organizations like the Association of Artists in Ireland (AAI) and the Society of Sculptors in Ireland (SSI), but also from the economic boost of the so-called Celtic Tiger, which pumped money into the arts.
Unsettling Outcomes: A Conversation with Liz Larner
Liz Larner embodies Isaiah Berlin’s classic hedgehog vs. fox dichotomy. As the fox, her view of the world can’t be reduced to a single reading; but like the hedgehog, she has the patience and temperament to follow a singular vision.
Object Lessons: Sandra Eula Lee
Change is constant—everything in the material world is always in flux. Living in different cultures, I’ve observed how materials and objects cycle through everyday space in different ways and at different speeds. What can they communicate about the conditions we’ve created?
Marianne Berenhaut: To Change Is Human
A chance encounter with two of Marianne Berenhaut’s evocative sculptures—Pour la troisième fois on l’a sorti du tiroir (For the third time it was taken out of the drawer, 2010) and Fleur électrique (Electric flower, 2020)—proved a watershed moment for me.
Yuriko Yamaguchi
WASHINGTON, DC Addison Ripley Fine Art Yamaguchi’s sculptures, like elegant Rorschach inkblots, tease with allusion even as they morph to dazzling abstraction.
Improvising and Transforming: A Conversation with Abraham Cruzvillegas
Many of Abraham Cruzvillegas’s projects are linked by the notion of autoconstrucción, or self-construction—a concept that draws from the ingenious and collaborative building strategies used in his childhood Mexico City neighborhood.
Jesse Darling
OXFORD, U.K. Modern Art Oxford The vulnerability of the bodies suggested in the sculptures is, at times, almost too much to bear, but there are one or two lighter moments amid the seriousness.
Phyllida Barlow
LOS ANGELES Hauser & Wirth Every view of Phyllida Barlow’s current exhibition takes on a filmic quality—the work seems to shift, to be in the process of constantly transferring weight.
