Mella Shaw

DUNDEE, U.K. The McManus Shaw’s large-scale sculptural forms, which take the whale’s tiny inner-ear bones as their point of reference, are made from a clay body that incorporates whale bone ash, processed much like the cow bones that have been used in bone china for centuries.

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Ro Robertson

SUNDERLAND, U.K. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art In such interstitial spaces—temporarily land and temporarily water—Robertson has found a natural corollary for their sense of self, an identity in similar motion, once condemned as being against nature.

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Jessi Reaves

MINNEAPOLIS Walker Art Center Much of the material in these works, including cotton batting, velvet, sewing pins, mink fur, and hangers, points to classic markers of the domestic feminine. But Reaves’s approach to destruction and repurposing does not completely refute these themes and tropes; instead, it feels more like an acknowledgement and remixing.

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