It came as no surprise to anyone familiar with the complex webs she has woven - from Woodruff Park to Sydney, Australia, to Atlanta’s Atlantic Yards, where her most recent commission for Microsoft will be unveiled at the end of May.ĪrtsATL caught up by phone with the hard-working artist in Venice, where she was installing her piece “Letterale” at Palazzo Bembo. Last year she was invited to present at the European Cultural Centre’s Personal Structures exhibit coinciding with the Venice Biennale.
But then, I decided I had two choices: I could either stay in that bed and rot, or I could get back up top and go to work.”īy any measure, her journey since then has been charmed. “It felt like a double whammy because I was dying and nobody thought I was going to make it. “Initially, learning about Justin’s death depressed the hell out of me and I lost my drive,” she says. She also suffered the loss of her beloved friend and colleague Justin Rabideau, then-director of the Zuckerman Museum of Art, who died in October 2018.
