Confronting Sculpture
Experience seven of the most important sculptures from David Smith's final years. Led by sculptor Garth Evans, joined by guest art critic, historian and author Michael Brenson and sculptors Jock Ireland and Brandt Juneau. Recorded February 2024.
Recorded April 2023. Led by sculptor Garth Evans, joined by sculptors Jock Ireland, Brandt Junceau, and Lee Tribe. Sculpture Forum visits Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, to see Harold Cousins: Forms of Empty Space January 28 - March 25, 2023. (Video and editing by Mallary Marks) https://youtu.be/fcSkF1BZUOE Please use the REPLY button at the … Continue reading Harold Cousins at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery NYC
Recorded October 6, 2022. Garth Evans, Karen Wilkin, Jock Ireland, and Brandt Junceau discuss the "Head On" exhibit at LGDR Gallery, New York, NY through October 15, including works by William Tucker, Lucio Fontana, Thomas Schütte, Anthony Caro, Joel Shapiro, Joan Miró, Willem de Kooning, Jean Fautrier, André Derain and others. (Video and edit by … Continue reading “Head On” curated by Dieter Schwarz at LGDR Gallery, New York City
The human figure is an essential touchstone of sculpture, remade generation by generation as it must be today, by contemporary artists. Over three decades working together at the New York Studio School, Garth Evans and Bruce Gagnier conducted life-size figure critiques that are now legendary. Those had been undocumented, but the recent Figure Marathon, taught by Brandt Junceau, provided … Continue reading Clay Figure Critique at New York Studio School with Garth Evans and Bruce Gagnier
by Maud Bryt. Bruce Gagnier talks about the new figure sculptures and watercolors in his studio. He has started incorporating color in his sculptures and altering them after the plaster casting point, a departure for him. "I think formalists are empiricists; I'm definitely in the metaphysical camp. What you really see is not there," he … Continue reading A Studio Visit with Bruce Gagnier
by Choghakate Kazarian I had heard about the Ordre Monastique Vaisnava for some time. The members of the congregation, whose temple of Vraja Bhavan is in the suburb of Rouen (near Paris), are followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a branch of Hinduism initiated by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534) in Bengal. Their practice is focused on devotional worship, … Continue reading Natural Sculptures: Ten Thousand Shalagrama-shilas
Recorded (via Zoom) July 2, 2020. Sculptors Garth Evans, Jock Ireland, and Brandt Junceau discuss the current crisis surrounding Civil War monuments. (Video by Maud Bryt) Please add your voice to the discussion by making comments in the area lower on the page where it says "Leave a reply." https://youtu.be/WG2v70K9RhU Here are some excerpts: We … Continue reading Monuments
by Brandt Junceau. Elie Nadelman left hundreds of small plasters at his death in 1946. I’ve been staring at, thinking about and occasionally writing about “the Dolls” for years. I sometimes think of them all as a single thing, but recently, as my notions of legacy and authorship have changed, I no longer think they … Continue reading While I See Her Face
by Choghakate Kazarian. “Poetry, music, architecture, like ancient languages, have been translated into new idioms, by clinging to life. Only sculpture has remained immobile across the centuries, a courtly language, the language of the liturgy, a symbolic writing, incapable of making its mark on daily acts” and “sculpture has remained what it is, a dead … Continue reading Sculpture, Language of the Dead
https://youtu.be/Qei8Dxu5Am4 Sculpture Forum 9: Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, May 1, 2020 Sculptor Brandt Junceau talks about the arch, based on his memory of it and new video footage of the memorial. (Video by Maud Bryt) (To make a comment on this post, please go to "Leave a Reply" … Continue reading Eakins and O’Donovan at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
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