Mariana Castillo Deball works with a range of materials and processes bearing a strong relationship to archaeology and history. Her transformative approach and deep visual understanding result in rich and resonant works that merge historical accounts and personal experience.
Albert Paley
TACOMA, WASHINGTON Museum of Glass “Complementary Contrasts,” a survey of Albert Paley’s glass and steel sculptures since his initial residency at Pilchuck Glass School in 1998 (on view through September 3, 2018), brings together a body of work that bolsters his reputation as a maker of more than large-scale public art. The 29 works on show reveal a surprising intimacy of scale and delicacy of line and mass.
John Greer
CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANDADA Confederation Centre Art Gallery Nova Scotia sculptor John Greer is primarily known for large works in stone and bronze, including several public commissions in Canada, Italy, South Korea, Switzerland, and the U.S. A major figure in Canadian sculpture for over four decades, he was recently the subject of a retrospective at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. For the first few decades of his career, however, he was primarily a conceptual artist, using humor, ephemeral or humble materials, photography, and text to create wry, intelligent, and disconcerting objects and installations.
Ishmael Randall Weeks
NEW YORK Van Doren Waxter
Solange Pessoa
LOS ANGELES Blum & Poe Dictionaries define a fetish as a spirit attached to a material object; if nothing else, the oddly configured, misshapen, and obsessional pieces made by the Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa count as such. Her sculptures look as if they have a job to do in the service of divination or magic. The work is deeply suffused with metaphysics, mystery, loss, and sorrow.
Jason J. Ferguson
HAMNTRAMCK, MICHIGAN Public Pool Art Space You go through a door, and you’re faced with the very same door. When you pass through that second door and turn into a room, you see what appears to be an anatomically perfect skull, but as you approach, you gradually realize that it is, in fact, horribly distorted. This is not a dimly remembered dream, but the initiation into “One-man (freak) show,” Jason J. Ferguson’s fascinating exhibition situated at the intersection of technology and the uncanny.
“Age of Terror: Art since 9/11”
LONDON Imperial War Museum In order to reach the Imperial War Museum’s landmark “Age of Terror” exhibition, you had to negotiate its astonishing atrium, complete with a suspended jet plane and rocket. Underfoot, James Bridle’s Drone Shadow lurked as a white outline on the floor. IWM has commissioned contemporary artists to go to war zones since its founding 100 years ago. Its collections include 20,000 works of art, in addition to thousands of war-related artifacts that combine a big-picture view with intimate personal stories.
Reflecting on Space: A Conversation with Sharon Louden
Sharon Louden is best known for room-size, site-specific installations constructed from thousands of small components. She uses a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and animation, aiming to capture movement and light. Within these works, industrial materials (her favorite is aluminum) are transformed into something more closely resembling forms in nature, even the human
Elizabeth Michelman
RUTLAND, VERMONT Clastleton Downtown Galler Pandora, the first installation in Elizabeth Michelman’s recent exhibition, “Notes from Underground,” consists of things one might find forgotten in a basement, unearthed after the passage of years. An oversize steamer trunk made of dark gray-green metal provides an anchor. Propped up against it is a cello, its generous curves contrasting with the trunk’s linearity.
Christopher Wilmarth
NEW YORK Betty Cuningham Gallery
