ektor garcia, who received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2016, approaches sculpture and installation through experimentation with a wide range of craft techniques, from crochet and weaving to ceramics and metalwork.
Barry Le Va
EDINBURGH Fruitmarket Viewing the work of Barry Le Va (1941–2021) requires a lot of looking down. While that may seem an obvious point to make regarding an artist for whom the gallery floor was a site of exploration, and a performance space for staging sculptural dramas, it also applies, metaphorically at least, to his beautifully minimal drawings.
Whitfield Lovell
SAN ANTONIO McNay Art Museum This is a large suite of gallery spaces, and Lovell fills it comfortably with fastidiously rendered drawings that push out into three dimensions. His work is at once visual, auditory, and even olfactory.
Inner Changes: A Conversation with Tadáskía
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.
