For Mary Mattingly, art is about life and survival. Her interlinked earth-, water-, food-, and community- centered projects attune us to the planet’s basic rhythms and needs (as well as our own), helping us to understand the complex ecosystems that sustain us.
Systems, patterns, strata, bodies, and machines are among the preoccupations of British sculptor Holly Hendry. Turning things inside out and breaking their inner workings down into individual, often corporeal, parts, she reveals boundaries that are often more porous and permeable than we might imagine.
London-based Nika Neelova excavates new perspectives from found objects and reclaimed architectural materials, transforming them into intriguing forms filled with memories and echoes of history.
Karen and Robert Duncan, Chairman Emeritus at his family-owned business Duncan Aviation, are longtime collectors and supporters of art, particularly contemporary art. Their sculpture collection, which includes works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Carl Andre, Jim Dine, Richard Long, Sophie Ryder, Antony Gormley, and Annabeth Rosen, among many others, fills the house and grounds of their 40-acre estate in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The notion of thing-ness is central to Nina Nowak’s interdisciplinary practice, yet, for her, a thing is never just one thing. In her works, which are often composed as symphonies of objects and situations, the social and historical meanings of things—carpets, wood, dust—converge with their physical realities and properties.
The Caddo Confederacy was formerly located in a vast area centered around the great bend of the Red River, which is the modern-day boundary between Texas and Oklahoma. Within the Tribe, the Caddo women traditionally held great prominence, managing agricultural elements of the villages, including crop production, and producing the beautiful and popular Caddo pottery vessels, as well as many other important duties.
Japanese artist Shiho Kagabu employs industrial and organic materials, often installing her work in rough, run-down environments. In many ways, she shares the contemporary predisposition for the fragment rather than the whole, but her positioning of these parts in space is unique.
PRATO, ITALY Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci Massimo Bartolini explores sculpture in a field so expanded that he looks beyond form. An alternative point of view to the familiar is typical of his approach, and in the case of sculpture, that alternative is to make an object into an event, a stage where metamorphosis from one state to another is followed and expectations shifted.
SAXMUNDHAM, U.K. The Art Station Hanging inside a cupboard, a wool sweater proclaims “Escape Artist.” A statement of intent or of being?
BERLIN KW Institute for Contemporary Art Putting forth a haptic otherness that nods to classical sculpture’s concern with the human form while simultaneously underpinning it with a sly, understated humor, David joins the company of those the late literary critic Hugh Kenner deemed “the stoic comedians.”
