

Focus on Materials
These artists foreground texture, surface, and substance from raw pigment to unconventional mediums. The material itself becomes message, revealing process, tactility, and transformation.
Featured artists

Ai Weiwei
Chinese, b. 1957

Ai Weiwei
Chinese, b. 1957

Anish Kapoor
British, Indian, b. 1954

Anish Kapoor
British, Indian, b. 1954

Antony Gormley
British, b. 1950

Antony Gormley
British, b. 1950

Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese, b. 1957

Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese, b. 1957

Chiharu Shiota
Japanese, b. 1972

Chiharu Shiota
Japanese, b. 1972

Cornelia Parker
British, b. 1970

Cornelia Parker
British, b. 1970