"This body of work represents my journey as an immigrant child. The heat, the fire and firm yet fragile material used to make these sculptures represent the struggle and fragility of trauma and pain being processed. What I seek is healing and a reconciliation with my younger self. What I heal is not only for me, but for those who still are growing through their pain. May we all find peace, healing, reconciliation." — Andrés Bustamante, April 2023 Andrés Bu...
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Wesley Roden: The scale of your work coupled with the attention to detail allows viewers to either look closely or from a distance. How do you anticipate your works to be viewed and how do you create them with this dynamic in mind? Do you expect the works to be viewed personally, impersonally, or somewhere in between? Bethany Carlson Coffin: I definitely put a lot of emphasis on the experience and the encounter. That dictates, to a large degree, the...
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Rachel Bubis: Your recent exhibition at the Parthenon, The Odyssey: A Retelling (2022), takes inspiration from Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of Homer's epic poem, and highlights the “hospitality of the overlooked identities that made Odysseus’ long journey home possible.” Were you a fan of Homer before this exhibition? Lisa Bachman Jones: I was not a fan before, but I was interested in how Homer’s work was a foundation for Greek education. What propelled selecting Homer and The Odyssey for this project wa...
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