Dylan Mortimer is both an artist and an active Christian pastor, but just where one identity begins and the other ends is difficult to tell. He mixes Christian iconography with pop culture to create glitter-covered relief sculptures, more reminiscent of neon casino signs than church altarpieces.
October 2017
Driven by the Body: A Conversation with Malcolm Cochran
In 1992, while I was an undergraduate focusing on sculpture at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, I helped to install Malcolm Cochran’s In Maine (1989) in the galleries. The work consisted of, among other things, the still-operating guts of 19 refrigerators.
Tal Hwa Goh: Indeterminate Order
Contemporary art by Asian artists in New York occupies an often marginal position in relation to the mainstream. In the ’90s and early aughts, Chinese art captured the attention of the New York art world, but its moment is now over.
Gabriel Dawe: Light Threads
The Toledo Museum of Art’s classically inspired Great Gallery, home to a muscular collection of Baroque masterworks by artists such as Rubens and Poussin, might seem a daring place to install a massive contemporary fiber art installation.
