Grisha Bruskin
New York Marlborough Gallery Grisha Bruskin, Woman with Lenin’s Mausoleum, 1999. Porcelain, 8 in. high. Staring straight ahead with blank, unseeing eyes, Grisha Bruskin’s perfect figures are identifiable only by the objects they carry. Like a blank slate waiting to be written on, they stand motionless, soulless, and powerless awaiting orders: gray, robotic, expressionless people
“I and My Circumstance: Mobility in Contemporary Mexican Art”
Montreal Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Gabriel Orozco, Blue Sandals, Cibachrome print, 31.5 x 47.3 cm. This group show of contemporary Mexican art breaks the stereotypes of Mexico as a folklore culture lost in time and of Mexican art as magic and/or social realism.
Gabriele Stellbaum
New York Florence Lynch Gallery ln her first solo exhibition, Gabriele Stellbaum, a German artist living in New York, showed strong and exciting new work. A young artist experimenting with new media to great effect, she uses computer-generated imagery to create sculptural installations.
Critique & Compliance: Artists on Display
The museum is a conflicted and confounding territory for critique by artists…see the full feature in May’s magazine.
“Acoustic Architecture—Architectural Acoustics”
Amsterdam De Veemvloer lnstallation view of “Acoustic Architecture- Architectural Acoustics,” at De Veemvloer. Amsterdam’s Stichting Vedute (Vedute Foundation) recently held the exhibition “Acoustic Architecture- Architectural Acoustics, ” which required works to meet specifications set by guest curator Frans Bevers: “[Artists should] visualize their personal preoccupation with sound and space into the confines of 44 by
Sculpture and Architecture
Atlanta “Architecture?”Vaknin Schwartz Gallery“From Our House to Your House”Nexus Contemporary Art Center“Landscape-City: Photographs by Arwed Messmer”Goethe-Institute Atlanta“thinking loud/cutting through: architecture.art.film”Space 1 181 Kerry Schuss, 838 S. Broadleigh/Two Views, 1999.
“What are you looking at?” The Sculpture of Tony Oursler
Oursler animates the inanimate and explores both real and imagined space…see the full feature in May’s magazine.