Elena Engelsen In Conversation With Tone Ørvik
Elena Engelsen is Norway’s foremost sculptor of animals. Modeled in clay, and executed in stone or bronze, Engelsen’s animal sculptures invite us to look at the physical particularities of their species – the shell of the armadillo, the stance of a watchful lizard – and to experience the singular animal’s existence and vulnerability at the […]
Boris Spivak
Remembering Our Teacher, Mentor, Friend Boris Spivak 1938-2007 Boris immigrated to the USA in November 1980. He talked to us about it at one of the early Symposia. Not knowing English, he worked here first as a janitor, and the self-portraits that he painted at the time, show someone almost invisible. How do you start a new […]