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Rich with associations to my hybrid autobiography, American and Jamaican folk culture, music, art history and world culture, my human-scale sculptures radiate a playful and serious inquiry into concepts of origin and transformation. My art is to a…

Emerging as one of the most influential sculptors of his generation, Peter Buggenhout (b. 1963, Dendermonde, Belgium) creates works of art that touch upon the paradoxes of meaning. As on par with the ideas of Constructivism in the 1910s, Buggenhout's…

Carolee Schneemann (1939- 2019) activated the female nude with a multidisciplinary practice that spanned sixty years and included painting, assemblage, performance, and film. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and a Master…

The theme of self-depiction and identity has been a driving force behind Lucas Samaras' practice, which, at its onset in the early 1960s, advanced the Surrealist idiom yet proposed a radical departure from the presiding themes of Abstract…

Canadian artist Steven Shearer (b. 1968) has developed a painting practice that weds canonical art history to the contemporary moment, specifically its more plebeian or subterranean expressions. His work, which also includes drawing, assemblage,…

Ball, whose heritage is a mix of Black, Modoc, and Klamath, lives and works in her ancestral homeland of Southern Oregon and Northern California. Her hybrid approach to art-making slyly mixes codes, allowing many narratives to circulate.

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Working in an array of techniques—including hand-sewing, appliqué, carving, and assemblage—Lewis honours the materials and creative modalities intrinsic to communities of the African diaspora.

Using found, inherited, and secondhand cloth and…

Far from confining herself to a single medium, Nina Beier plays with materials, perceptions, images and means of communication. Working in and between a diverse range of media – sculpture, installation, assemblage and performance – she nevertheless…

Virginia Overton (b.1971, Tennessee, United States) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She creates sculpture and installation re-purposing materials commonly associated with factories, farms and construction. By means of both subtle and drastic…

"The sculptural practice of Yeni Mao engages in issues of fragmentation through a series of assemblages and architectonic arrangements. In a manner of material fetishization, the works imply abstracted, unraveled bodies; cyborg constructions of…