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Jessica Calderwood is an image-maker and sculptor that works in obscure craft media. Trained as a metalsmith and enamelist, her objects and images make statements about contemporary life.
- Marisa Takal. B. 1991, Montclair, New Jersey. Lives and works in Los Angeles. Advertisement. Can you tell us about the work you made in 2020? Ironically, 2020 has been the year that I’ve made the least amount of work.
- Michaela Yearwood-Dan. B. 1994, London. Lives and works in London. Can you tell us about the work you made in 2020? Life continues to inspire me, so the work I’ve been making still reflects life, both on a personal and a wider, society-encompassing level.
- Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) B. 1976, Chicago. Lives and works in Los Angeles. How did the events of 2020 impact you as an artist? Initially, 2020 was to be a creative explosion for me and a time to prepare for my next decade-long sub-narrative for my historical epic.
- Erin Armstrong. B. 1990, Canada. Lives and works in Toronto. Can you tell us about the work you made in 2020? The work I have been making this year is in reflection of the current human condition, through the individual experience of being alive in a time of isolation, chaos, and uncertainty.
Alexander Calder is known for inventing wire sculptures and the mobile, a type of kinetic art which relied on careful weighting to achieve balance and suspension in the air. Initially Calder used motors to make his works move, but soon abandoned this method and began using air currents alone.
Sep 21, 2022 · These 10 emerging and mid-career artists are redefining the canon, centering female perspectives and histories in their works but in ways that eschew the—until now—rigidly patriarchal definitions of feminist art.
Nearly 45 years after his death, Calder's expansion of the realm of sculpture in new directions of form, color, and engineering remains a subject of voluminous discussion, including critic Jed Perl's Calder: Open Culture, openculture.com.
Jan 8, 2018 · Calder was a pioneer of 20th-century sculpture, among the first to endow his works with a fourth dimension: movement. Duck (1909), which rocks back and forth on its curved underside, can be considered the artist’s first kinetic sculpture.
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Gagosian is pleased to present a selection of sculptures and paintings by Alexander Calder at the rue de Ponthieu gallery. The exhibition complements both the public installation of Calder’s monumental sculpture Flying Dragon (1975) at Place Vendôme as part of FIAC Hors les Murs and Calder: 1975 and “Flying Dragon,” the inaugural ...
