As a sculptor, Oliver Jackson is almost free of what we typically call “style.” His work frustrates attempts to establish an overall order based on appearance alone. In many instances, his production begins from a specific mode of resistance, and as these change, so does the work.
June 2008
June 2008
Charles Searles
New York ln this colorful, animated show the sculptures…see the full review in June’s magazine.
“India: New Installations”
Pittsburgh Michael Olijnyk, the Mattress Factory’s curator…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Liliana Moro
Los Angeles Liliana Moro, who rose to international prominence…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Norm Magnusson
Ridgefield, Connecticut Norm Magnussen’s outdoor installation On This Site Stood…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Thomas Schütte: Model Figures
Model for a Hotel, recently installed in London’s Trafalgar Square, and a major exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds have generated significant interest in Thomas Schütte, one of Germany’s pre-eminent artists. Meeting him after the official launch of Model for a Hotel, I found him exhausted by his four-year commitment to the project, clearly finding
Richard Long
Edinburgh It was in the 1960s when Richard Long, as…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Balancing Families in Stone: A Conversation with Boaz Vaadia
A sculptor who grew up on a farm, Boaz Vaadia is inspired by the nature around him. Vaadia says, “I work with nature as an equal partner. The strongest thing I address is that primal connection of man to earth.
The Machines Have Not Taken Over: A Conversation with Richard Dupont
Richard Dupont’s sculptures are essentially warped-out, three-dimensional photocopies of himself. These eerie, distorted, hi-tech self-portraits seem stretched by the time/space continuum to varying degrees, from barely recognizable blurs to attenuated or distended humanoid oddities. As viewers, we physically enter that same disconcertingly surreal realm, like a cinematic fantasy of traveling through a worm hole.