From the Chair
I have been thinking a lot about failure and, in particular, contemporary art as a constant and positive field of failure. To be an artist seems to be implicitly at the edge of failure; to be pushing ideas and material toward their inevitable tipping point. Similarly,...
Anna Hepler, United States Artists 2016 Fellowship Winner
UW-Madison Alumni Anna Hepler (MFA, ’94) is a sculptor based in Eastport, Maine. Her work, which is both hand-held and architectural in scale, overturns first impressions – wire forms flatten into drawings, clay impersonates metal, plywood coils like rope,...