Coleen Sterritt’s odd and idiosyncratic work prods at the spaces between manufacture and nature, anonymity and authorship, art and craft. Offering an extended meditation on artifice, her objects teeter between variants of reality and their opposites.
June 2017
Extracting Art From Almost Nothing: A Conversation with Jose Dàvila
Born in 1974, Jose Dàvila was raised in Guadalajara, Mexico. While interested in art, he chose not to attend the classically focused fine art university, enrolling instead in the architecture department at the Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara.
The Dance of Beauty and Failure: A Conversation with Michelle Segre
Michelle Segre’s extraordinarily eclectic work juxtaposes forms, processes, materials, textures, colors, and ideas to exhilarating effect. Hers is difficult work that comes—as far as my own experience tells me—with a steep learning curve, because it pulls the rug from under one’s expectations regarding sculpture.
Unlikely Marriages: A Conversation with Gabriel Kuri
Contrast and juxtaposition are key principles in Gabriel Kuri’s work, guiding his treatment of formal and informal elements, texture, size, material, and color. Working with a range of materials, including found elements, Kuri takes a broad view of artistic process.