A few months back, we sat down with Mark Whalen on Radio Juxtapoz to talk about making sculpture and his upcoming solo show, Night Lights, at Harper’s. The show opened this weekend, featuring Whalen’s eclectic works, works of glass, aluminum, bronze, and marble within these freestanding and wall-hanging sculptures. As the gallery notes, “Whalen captures the complexities of human emotion across seven heads juxtaposed with assorted materials and form,” and much of what Whalen told me in our podcast was the absurdity of life and how sculpture should be, and can be, a vehicle to show this. Listen to the conversation below.—Evan Pricco
