ARCATA, CALIFORNIA Goudi’ni Native American Arts Gallery Benson’s approach to found timbers that have been preshaped by natural forces is consonant with the way that trails get inscribed, step by step, into the land. Address to materials is guided by a perception of latent form.
Sense of Suspension: A Conversation with Grace Woodcock
Fabrications of future fossils, pre-human remnants, or abandoned exoskeletons of as-yet-unknown present-day species—Grace Woodcock’s baffling sculptures belong to all times and no time in particular. Anomalies, they represent a culmination of organic objects from across pre-, current and post-human histories, where body morphosis, necessary for environmental adaptation, shapes physical form and determines who and what
James Lee Byars and Seung-taek Lee
LONDON Michael Werner Gallery Unlike Lee, who grew up in a unified Korea under Japanese rule and whose work demonstrates a complicated, ambivalent attitude toward what had been an oppressive culture, Byars welcomed it, immersing himself in traditional Japanese arts and the aesthetic traditions of Shinto and Zen.
Lateral Thinking: A Conversation with Shiho Kagabu
Japanese artist Shiho Kagabu employs industrial and organic materials, often installing her work in rough, run-down environments. In many ways, she shares the contemporary predisposition for the fragment rather than the whole, but her positioning of these parts in space is unique.
Louise Nevelson
NEW YORK Galerie Gmurzynska Presenting myriad mixed-media collage works executed throughout the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, the exhibition demonstrates that collage was not only a passing fancy for Nevelson, but the mooring to her entire enterprise.
Peter DeCamp Haines, Eric Sealine, Jocelyn Shu
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Boston Sculptors Gallery, the only sculpture collaborative in the country, is currently hosting three solo exhibitions to cap its fall season.
La experimentación curiosa: Una Conversación con Jimena Croceri
Artista multidisciplinaria, Jimena Croceri trabaja en el campo de la performance, el video, la producción de objetos, el dibujo y la escritura. Con la mirada puesta en los cuerpos, observa la interacción entre materialidades diversas y sus afectos en dichos cuerpos.
Bruce Beasley: Process of Becoming
Just about everything Bruce Beasley has sculpted over the last 60 years circles around one fundamental question: How can an unmoving object—made of enduring materials such as cast iron, aluminum, bronze, stainless steel, granite, acrylic polymer resin, and maple—seem to be in the shape it takes only momentarily, either having recently come to rest in
Millicent Young
STONE RIDGE, NEW YORK merge Entering Millicent Young’s site-specific retrospective “Alter Altar: 20 Years,” on view in merge’s two newly refurbished barns, is like entering a concise representation of human history.