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A Man Called Horse — Nic Fiddian-Green
To my shame, before speaking with the sculptor Nic Fiddian-Green sometime last week, I had little idea who he was. I knew that most of his work was horse-based, large pieces of art commissioned to stand in landscapes, urban and rural, some private, others very public. I’d seen pictures of his studio, the artist himself,…
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For the brave — The North Face Summit Series
It can be rough out there. Cold, hail, rain, gale – the weather is as unforgiving as it is unpredictable. The extremes of which are often deadly and debilitating and never to be taken lightly. It’s human nature, however, to play with fire and, with three other elements up for grabs; the outside world makes…
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The Frozen Vignettes of Alex Prager
For much of her career, photographer Alex Prager has sought minute meaning in large, crowded compositions; often deftly nudging the viewer’s eye to a mischievously planted detail. Signatures on the cast of a high school football player, a bandage on the nose of a woman running in terror, the face in the reflection of a…