As an artistic medium, glass is an anomaly— at once sturdy and then vulnerable to the elements.  Eric Franklin‘s handmade borosilicate glass and ionized neon sculptures enliven and illuminate the anatomical model.  While sculptures in the Skull and Embodiment series are loaded with a post-mortem theme, they are in fact celebrations of life.     To […]

Chandler McWilliams first appeared on our radar when attending the CalArts MFA 100×100 fundraiser sponsored by For Your Art.  A one-day event offering 100 pieces of artwork from 35 graduate students, McWilliams’ work immediately stood out.  In fact his Aphorism titled Great Distance is a current fixture in the Installation office.  McWilliams approaches his practice […]

There are several raw canvases that have been stretched by hand, drying on the lawn in the mid afternoon sun.  Several overturned, empty white gallon buckets support either side.  A makeshift assembly line that would only be possible in Southern California.  Seated outside of his converted garage studio, Miller Updegraff wrings his hands, stained from […]

Jeremy August Haik, artist and contributing editor at Conveyor Magazine, explores the impression that books have on our personal environments.   Installation Magazine: Describe your journey towards becoming an artist. Jeremy August Haik: I was actually in a media studies program as an undergraduate and was working with a photojournalist.  His agency had started to retrofit […]

We are pleased to share TODD BARONS’s poetry for the second time in Installation Magazine, but you will notice that his Think contribution is rather different from previous issues.  A mediation on the completion of his recent book of poetry AS YET, published by Chax Press, Baron opens a portal inside his creative process and […]

Science and art have long been relegated to the left and right brain respectively: two distinct modes of theory that confound the possibility for coexistence.  Pragmatism is pitted against creativity and order contends with unpredictability.  Although the technical practice of fine art is often analogous to a scientific one, art is consumed as though it […]