The work of Swedish artist Roland Persson manifests a profoundly complex verisimilitude. This applies not only to the nature of his subject matter, which ranges from dreams and personal experience to considerations of the human condition, our relationship to nature, and the vagaries of urban life, but also to form and content, which are governed
Anya Gallaccio’s sculptures and installations encourage deep engagement with the natural world and its cycles of growth and decay. Since the 1990s, she has been using organic materials, including apples, flowers, trees, chocolate, wax, ice, and chalk, that undergo radical transformation during the lifetime of the work.
Recipient of the 2024 Educator Award For 25 years, Christopher McNulty, director and professor in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee, has examined the fragile equilibrium between humans and their surroundings.
Dresden-based Stefanie Hollerbach is interested in materials and materiality, as well as paradoxes. After initially training as a wood sculptor, she went on to study with Alicja Kwade at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Hollerbach’s works deal with the world of things, particularly ordinary, often overlooked details.
PHILADELPHIA Cherry Street Pier Katie Hubbell works across sculpture, new media, and installation, often using fantastical, high-key colors in combination with biomorphic or subtly anthropomorphic forms to trace the tension between the grotesqueness and beauty of the human body.
