“I like that performance is slightly more provisional. Not such a beautiful finished object. Unlike an object, it is a process that invites people to ask questions and get involved.”
Interview with Tim Etchells: Collector of Language
Mark Barker and A Return to the Body in Sculpture
Pat Steir: “I made my paintings big because the nature of the image had to be big. I want to make a large doorway, not a small window”
Corporate Art Patronage Makes Business Sense
Studio Visit with Yelena Popova “The idea would be to make a work that disintegrates”
Yelena Popova (b. 1978 Urals, Russia) is based in Cambridge for the year ahead at the Girton College residency. Her paintings are quickly associated with constructivism given the formal quality of her translucent geometric layers. These elusive paintings, however, are the entrance doorway to a distinct practice encompassing video and installation.
Studio visit with Caragh Thuring
Caragh Thuring’s (b. 1972) exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery opens today. A few weeks ahead of the opening, Thuring welcomed a small group into her studio. Her work was still in the final stages before completion. I was impressed to see an artist being open and candid about her working and thinking process at that nerve-wracking stage when things are coming together. A few paintings still unfinished were in the studio.