Louise Gibson makes monumental sculpture from salvaged materials, pairing crushed and twisted metal with reclaimed fabrics. Her current exhibition “Beachheads,” at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop where she has been a resident artist, took around nine months to create and developed in parallel with her third child.
Where To See Sculpture Outdoors This Year
Below, see an international list of sculpture parks and gardens—plus a few less traditional outdoor venues—worth visiting this summer and fall, along with details on current temporary exhibitions. What’s Missing? Artworks in the Olana LandscapeOlana State Historic SiteHudson, NYThrough November 2, 2025 Ellen Harvey, Winter in the Summer House, 2025.
Carlie Trosclair
ROCKLAND, MAINE Center for Maine Contemporary Art Carlie Trosclair, the 2024 recipient of the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation’s Visual Arts Fellowship, perceives nature as all-encompassing and regenerative, offering a lens through which to counteract our fears of annihilation and feel connected to each other.
Tobias Bradford
HELSINKI Sinne “Health and Safety” demonstrates Bradford’s ability to scope out oxymoronic circumstances and construct scenarios that expose their shortcomings. In that regard, the blandness of the title is strategically deceptive.
Jaume Plensa: Timely and Timeless
For every artist who has earned and sustained widespread critical acclaim and captured devoted international attention, there comes a moment when the poetic consideration of their work within a larger, longer historical framework arrives: More than merely converse with, how might they be considered within the ambiance of the masters and monuments of eras past?
Family Matters: A Conversation with Emma Jääskeläinen
From the moment I first encountered Emma Jääskeläinen’s sculptures, I made a mental note to follow her progress. In works such as According to Shadow and Creator (New Potato and Olive) (both 2017), she mixes elements large and small, hard and soft, mineral and organic to create bold, visually poetic, and appealingly absurd juxtapositions.
Olivia Erlanger
NEW YORK Luhring Augustine In Olivia Erlanger’s recent exhibition, “Spinoff,” a disruptive volley of arrows piercing the upper wall of Luhring Augustine Tribeca’s entry hall and main space lent a mythic spin to intriguing simulacra of a not-quite-natural world.
Gilberto Zorio
NAPLES Galleria Lia Rumma By intertwining concepts of energy exchange in space and time, Zorio seeks to make intelligible an encounter between artistic practice and the fluid, dynamic forces that are the essence of being.
Cuando el tiempo lo es todo: Una Conversación con Santiago Colombo Migliorero
Oriundo de La Plata, Bs.As, el artista audiovisual Santiago Colombo Migliorero, se deja guiar hacia una exploración sensible que se apoya fuertemente en el concepto de la temporalidad como rectora y organizadora, estudiando al tiempo como un material cuasi plástico que lo condiciona todo.
Sami Tsang
NEW YORK Claire Oliver The best stories balance the personal with some sort of universal experience. In the case of sci-fi and fairytales, the mundane mixes with the fantastical, allowing protagonists to achieve their transformative or transcendent moment.
