Confronting Sculpture
Recorded April 2022. Led by Sculptor Garth Evans, and joined for the talk by Sculpture Forum regulars, sculptors Jock Ireland and Brandt Junceau, Sculpture Forum confronts the works of Michael Heizer and Juan Munoz at Gagosian and David Zwirner Gallery respectively. A short walk from one gallery to the next, but the distance between the … Continue reading Michael Heizer & Juan Munoz: Two Shows in Chelsea
Recorded November 2021. Led by Sculptor Garth Evens, and joined for the talk by Sculpture Forum regulars, sculptors Jock Ireland and Brandt Junceau, and guest sculptor Lee Tribe. Sculpture Forum visits Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, to examine recent works by American sculptor Joel Shapiro. Video and editing by Rachael Bohlander. https://youtu.be/7ocsuDs8Cy4 “I think it's … Continue reading Joel Shapiro: A Material Question
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 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
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 Garth Evans. This is the first sculpture I ever made. It is a carving. This sculpture contains the seeds of much that I have done in the sixty-four years since I made it, although I never made another carving. It is about twelve inches in hight, the wood is oak. I made it at … Continue reading The first.
https://youtu.be/tkuJtDxjz2U Sculpture Forum 7: “Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes” 17 October 2019 – 13 June 2020 at The Center for Italian Modern Art, New York. Participants: Garth Evans, Brandt Junceau, Jock Ireland, Choghakate Kazarian (video by Maud Bryt). ©SculptureForum2020 Special thank you to The Center for Italian Modern Art for allowing us to videotape the exhibit. … Continue reading Marino Marini at The Center for Italian Modern Art, NYC
https://youtu.be/P_BUw0Cw22w January 3, 2020 Sculpture Forum 6: "Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence" September 18, 2019 - January 12, 2020 at The Frick Collection, New York. Participants: Garth Evans, Bruce Gagnier, Jock Ireland, Karen Wilkin (video by Maud Bryt). Special thank you to The Frick Collection for allowing us to videotape … Continue reading Bertoldo di Giovanni at The Frick Collection, New York
https://youtu.be/39c7_IQQXNw Bruce Gagnier exhibit at Thomas Park Gallery and New York Studio School Gallery NYC. Discussion with Garth Evans, Jock Ireland, Brandt Junceau (video by Maud Bryt). If you’re a figurative sculptor, if you’re making figures and you’re a sculptor, the issue has to be—one of the issues has to be—it seems to me—you’re in … Continue reading Bruce Gagnier at Thomas Park Gallery NYC
https://youtu.be/AMMg3Tk53cE Jonathan Silver exhibit at New York Studio School Gallery January 19, 2019. Garth Evans, Brandt Junceau (Video by Maud Bryt) I’m interested because the head seems such a sculptural lump to begin with, but it raises all those issues of recognition. . . The whole arena of portraiture, which is, of course, very, very … Continue reading Jonathan Silver at New York Studio School
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