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
Category: Clay sculpture
Clay Figure Critique at New York Studio School with Garth Evans and Bruce Gagnier
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
A Reminiscence: The Venus of Willendorf
by Laura Mattioli. Among so many whom COVID-19 has taken from us this year is my old friend Graziano Ghiringhelli. I met Graziano as a child, when he worked at the Galleria Il Milione in Milan, where my father frequently acquired works of art. Graziano had inherited this historic gallery after the death of his … Continue reading A Reminiscence: The Venus of Willendorf
Handling Sculpture: Emanuele Becheri’s Creatures in Clay
by Choghakate Kazarian I met Emanuele Becheri about ten years ago, in his studio in Tuscany. He was then known for works that I would qualify as gestural conceptualism: drawings made “blindly” by folding paper in total obscurity or letting snails run on paper. I was also very interested in his videos that captured with … Continue reading Handling Sculpture: Emanuele Becheri’s Creatures in Clay