Media & Communications Arts, Design & Architecture
Some, like Christopher Kurtz, are nonetheless honing conventional woodcraft techniques, and others, like Alison Elizabeth Taylor, are reinvigorating methods of sculpting wood that date back to the Renaissance. This new technology continues to push the bounds of wooden, using a dizzying number of conceptual and technical approaches. Below, six artists describe their robust relationships to the material, despite its challenges. This centuries-old medium—a mixture of pigment with hasov-Yar clay and industrial carbon—is at present relatively well-known in Russia and nowhere else. It performs just like the youngster of Conté and soft pastel, having a chalky however velvety, almost silky texture.…