SAN FRANCISCO Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Both artists describe engaging in a direct dialogue with materials, without preconceived ideas of the outcome. Lopez has talked about the pleasure she derives from the experiences engendered by such directness—the physicality of exerting force, finding form through interaction.
Stepping Into Who I Am: A Conversation with Nick Cave
Nick Cave’s recent work is forging new directions, merging art, nature, and self into vehicles for loving, meaningful connections. “Amalgams and Graphts,” his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery’s new Tribeca location, debuts two bodies of work that challenge viewers to open themselves to love, emotion, and connection.
Richard Shaw and Reniel Del Rosario
SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA Marin Museum of Contemporary Art As described by Natasha Boas, co-curator with MOCA director Jodi Roberts, part of the impulse behind the exhibition was the “idea of artistic transmission and influence across generations.” The show also investigates how the tangled messes of our everyday lives can engender transcendent art.
Cuando la luz pinta: Una Conversación con Juan Ignacio Cabruja
Licenciado en Bellas Artes de la UNR en la ciudad de Rosario, donde nació, y cursando una Maestría en teoría y estéticas de las artes electrónicas en UNTREF, Juan Ignacio Cabruja trabaja con la luz como materia prima, indagando cómo opera y afecta el espacio que habitamos tanto con su presencia como en su ausencia.
Here Is Elsewhere: A Conversation with Johan Muyle
Belgian artist Johan Muyle found his voice 40 years ago with La Modification (1984), an aptly named assemblage sculpture that borrows its title from Michel Butor’s celebrated 1957 novel. Consisting of a recliner attached to ropes and nooses, with a crate suspended between bicycle wheels placed behind, the entire ensemble evokes an instrument of torture or execution.
Camille Henrot
NEW YORK Hauser & Wirth While these works inspire free association and advocate for the importance of the imagination—implying that the grid’s rubric of rules and orderliness can be disrupted—other sculptures inquire into the nature of art-making and the desire to break completely free of formal boundaries.
Katie Hubbell
PHILADELPHIA Cherry Street Pier Katie Hubbell works across sculpture, new media, and installation, often using fantastical, high-key colors in combination with biomorphic or subtly anthropomorphic forms to trace the tension between the grotesqueness and beauty of the human body.
Disruptor of Objects: A Conversation with Bharti Kher
Transformation—both material and metaphysical—lies at the heart of Bharti Kher’s career-long project to deconstruct the details of everyday life and rearrange them into more honest, if brutal truths. Like the literary masters of metamorphosis Ovid and Kafka, she moves between certainty and uncertainty in order to construct parables of contemporary life and of the body.
Giovanni Anselmo: Entering the Work
Giovanni Anselmo’s works are predicated on action. As a result, they always seem to exist in the present moment—dynamic presentations of materials that resist aesthetic resolution, with each encounter constituting a perceptual experience that empowers individual outcomes and discoveries.
