There’s a joy and lightness to the work of Tadáskía, a fantastical celebration of nature and metamorphosis, as well as fragility and precariousness. The Brazilian artist, who caught the eye of Thelma Golden and other curators at the 2022 Bienal de São Paulo, made her New York solo debut last year with a show at
Animismo, arquitectura y materialidad: Una Conversación con Mariela Vita
Con una obra que explora múltiples disciplinas, pero poniendo el acento en el “animismo, la arquitectura y los materiales,” la artista visual Mariela Vita construye espacios de convivencia entre seres y criaturas cuasi fantásticas. Y si bien muchas obras son contenidas en lo bidimensional, son las esculturas y las instalaciones donde se expande su ámbito
Laurent Craste
WATERLOO, CANADA Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery The marriage of porcelain and a tire iron sounds conventionally surrealistic, but Laurent Craste’s work is much more subversive than that. In the Montreal-based artist’s current exhibition “Impertinent Abstractions,” (on view through January 5, 2025), the very medium of his work—clay—comes under attack.
It Doesn’t End With the Image: A Conversation with Letha Wilson
In Letha Wilson’s sculptures, photographic images (many taken during her forays into the American wilderness) act as transformative skins. As much façade as form, her assemblages involving concrete and metal are physically activated by the scenic views applied to them and conceptually charged by the associations and myths of those distant landscapes.
From Absence: A Conversation with Carlos Herrera
Carlos Herrera’s work does not permit indifference. His intimate installations, sculptures, performances, and photographs reflect on life and death, madness, sexuality, rites of passage, and spirituality as he tries to make the visible and material into the “stuff of memory” and emotion.
Grant Mooney
MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University “calcis,” Grant Mooney’s current exhibition, features sculptures that challenge our assumptions about materiality by exploring the enmeshment of the organic and industrial.
Enchanting Traps: A Conversation with Valeska Soares
For over 30 years, Brazilian artist Valeska Soares has used the tools of Minimalism and conceptual artto create sculptures and installations imbued with emotion and humanity, that explore love, intimacy, and desire, loss and longing, memory and history.
“Around the Table”
WASHINGTON, DC de la Cruz Gallery, Georgetown University What struck me most about “Around the Table” was the limited presence of food as material and image, a surprising approach for a show exploring food as a social connector. But curator Vesela Sretenović makes a strong case for her conceptual focus on global threads associated with sharing, including patterns of consumption and labor.
Phyllida Barlow
SOMERSET, U.K. Hauser & Wirth Over the course of a long career, Phyllida Barlow consistently challenged the possibilities of making with pieces that were experimental, audacious, and even seemingly impossible.
Earthly Paradise: A Conversation with Saad Qureshi
With a sensitive and empathetic eye, Saad Qureshi explores the essence of what it is to be human. Seeking out people of all faiths and none, he gathers their stories and weaves them together like silken threads, rendering memories and imaginings into otherworldly sculptural “mindscapes” that give a spatial presence to the narratives that help to make sense of life.
