EUREKA, CALIFORNIA Barn Gallery The artists conjure big effects from modest means, fixing textured masses of excelsior—also known as wood wool—to the gallery walls. Thousands of coiled shavings mass together into a tangled pelt that rambles like kudzu, blurring the room’s edges.
In the Same Boat: A Conversation with Romuald Hazoumè
A master of appropriation and transformation, Romuald Hazoumè uses found materials from his native Benin and beyond, with particular emphasis on plastic gasoline containers. In his sculptures and installations, these ordinary objects become pointed indictments of what he has called “Coca Cola culture,” a global plague of exploitation, division, corruption, desire, and conflict.
Christina A. West
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY University of Kentucky Art Museum It is a concentrated, but quietly diverse, look at the male form, conveying, as West says, “vulnerability with strength and beauty with awkwardness.”
Alexis Granwell
PHILADELPHIA Fleisher Art Memorial “Weather Watching,” Alexis Granwell’s current exhibition, includes several large-scale sculptures that she began in response to “Shift. Breathe. Expand: Painting in Space, ” her 2023 two-person show at SUNY, Old Westbury.
Connections Beyond the Tangible: A Conversation with Otobong Nkanga
For Otobong Nkanga, human life is inextricably connected to the natural world—the water we drink, the air we breathe, the land we live on. For more than 20 years, the Nigerian-Belgian artist has pondered questions about resource extraction and replenishment through her multidisciplinary practice.
Toshiko Takaezu: Food For the Searching Soul
The belated celebration of Toshiko Takaezu’s work comes as no surprise, considering how Western art history has downsized the achievements of groundbreaking women artists.
Dreaming Material: A Conversation with Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape’s engrossing biography embeds her birth into a matrix of same-year events in a diffusion of the self that shows how each one of us is irrevocably intertwined with and, in essence, the product of a kaleidoscopic coincidence of circumstances.
Whitney Biennial 2024
NEW YORK Whitney Museum of American Art For curators Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, the show forms a “dissonant chorus,” as 71 artists and collectives deploy a range of strategies and often hidden or subversive narratives to explore the challenges of our mediated contemporary experience.
Exploring Corbanscale
Corban Walker operates within a wide range of media, from photography and painting to installation, digital art, sculpture, and public art.
This Season in Sculpture Parks and Gardens
Summer is a season of abundance, not least for experiencing art beyond galleries and museums. Below, see an international list of sculpture parks and gardens—plus a few less traditional outdoor venues—worth visiting this summer, along with details on current temporary exhibitions.
