Stories

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The Use Of Glass In Contemporary SculptureGlass occupies a distinctive place in contemporary sculpture because it is both present and elusive. It has weight, volume, fragility, and a physical surface,…
Speaking About Your Work With Clarity And PresenceAn artist interview is a meeting point between the work and the public. It gives viewers a route into an object, image, moving sequence, sound, or action…
The viewer’s body in the installation spaceAn installation is never encountered by vision alone. The viewer enters with a body that has weight, height, pace, balance, memory, and limits. A work can…
The strength of leaving a work openA finished artwork often arrives with the authority of a full stop. Its edges have been secured, its materials brought into agreement, and its meaning placed…
The archive as a form of resistanceAn archive is often imagined as a quiet storehouse: a place of records, dates, images, and documents preserved for later consultation. In visual art, however,…
The Artist’s Voice: Finding Your Visual LanguageAn artist’s voice is the recognizable presence that develops through repeated choices: a particular relationship with material, a way of framing the body, a…
Where Sculpture Meets the Living LandscapeA sculpture garden is never simply a gallery without walls. It is a changing environment in which form, weather, light, soil, sound, and movement participate…
How to Prepare for a Residency as a Visual ArtistA residency can give an artist time, space, equipment, research access, and a community that are difficult to sustain in ordinary working conditions. It can…
The ethics of sound: amplifying the unheardSound carries bodies, histories, and relationships through space. It can reveal a voice that has been ignored, preserve a fragile trace, or make an audience…
The Artist’s Website as a GalleryA contemporary artist’s website can function as far more than a digital business card. It can become an exhibition space, a research archive, a viewing room,…