But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
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Nari Ward
Two Sculptures by Heide Fasnacht
- Roni Horn by Mimi Thompson
- Isabel Toledo by Elizabeth Cannon
- Craig Lucas by Billy Hopkins
- Guy Gallo by Betsy Sussler
- Gary Indiana by Max Blagg
- John Ford Noonan by Stuart Spencer
- David Kapp by Georgia Marsh
- Mary Ellen Mark by Allen Frame
- Richard Edson by Lynn Geller
- Roland Legiardi-Laura by Bob Holman
- Bobbie Ann Mason by Craig Gholson
- Patrick McGrath by Bradford Morrow
Interviews
- Kunyenyeza Ezikhotheni (Voices In The Wilderness) by Duma Ndloru
- Three Poems by Frank M. Chipasula
- Between Planes by Jon Robin Baitz
- Two Poems by Keith Adams
- A Dedication for H. J. B. by Amelia Blossomhouse
- Another Winter by Klaus Kertess
- Sidewinder by Liza Béar
- Her Story With Mine by David Means
- Three Poems by Rashidah Ismaili
- Four Poems by Waithira Mbuthia (Karanja)
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Heide Fasnacht, Scientific American, (work in progress) 43 × 140 × 140 inches. Photograph by Lisa Kahane. Inset: Heide Fasnacht, Two Views, Reel, 1988, wood, paint 31 × 45 × 37 inches. Courtesy of Germans Van Eck.
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Pacale Marthine Tayou is a Cameroonian artist based in Belgium. His work has appeared in documenta11 (2002) in Kassel, two Venice Biennales (2005 and 2009), and numerous international exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions took place at the Serpentine Galleries, London, and Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, both in 2015.
Gabriele Beveridge has quite the eye for sad-looking models in posters—the kind of women who hawk things like hair dye and shampoo.
Originally published in
BOMB 28,
Summer 1989
Featuring interviews with Patrick McGrath, Craig Lucas, Mary Ellen Mark, Isabel Toledo, Guy Gallo, Gary Indiana, David Kapp, Bobbie Ann Mason, Roland Legiardi-Laura, John Ford Noonan, Roni Horn, and Richard Edson.
