Michelle Stuart: Charting Time and Space
Joyce Beckenstein, Sculpture Magazine
September 2013
In a quiet corner of Michelle Stuart’s SoHo studio, a sculpted Buddha presides over a Wunderkammer of curiosities. Pre-Columbian sculptures, African ceremonial beads, a seaman’s log, rocks, and odd pods comfortably cohabitate with other exotic oddities. Like Stuart’s Specimens (1968–ongoing) —stacked wooden boxes stocked with bottles of earth samples from Peru to the Sahara—the room elicits precious clues to life’s infinitely grand scheme from infinitesimally small nuggets. […]