San Francisco 111 Minna Street Gallery Ronald Ganiques, Overpopulation/The Crux of the Malter 1, 1995. Cast bronze, 23.75 x 9 x 18in. Ronald Garrigues’s artistic vision is undeniably bleak. A recent solo exhibition brought together the body of work that has consumed Garrigues for the past decade.
On the Ball
Lincoln, MA DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park The prototypical, the original three-dimensional form-the sphere-was the theme of “On the Ball,” last winter’s exhibition at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park… see the print version of July/August 1999’s Sculpture magazine for the full review.
The Artist in the Museum: “At Home in the Museum”
This exhibition at the Betty Rymer Gallery invited three artists to respond to the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago….see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Cultured Deserts: Off-Center in Arizona and New Mexico
With its dramatic geography and cinematic past, the Southwest is a place where myth and reality are often indistinguishable. Replete with saguaro cactus, howling coyotes, playful roadrunners, and colorful natives of all ethnicities, it’s also cliché land.
Rob van Erve
New York First New York Gallery Bob van Erve’s recent installation in New York included a tilting castle floating on both sides of a wall, a sugar crater with a sugar violin, and a nest of moon rock photograms made from sugar and light… for the full review see the print edition of July/August’s 1999
New Territories: An Interview with Mary Miss
Mary Miss invites the public to participate in sifting the layers of a site by walking through it, viewing it from different perspectives, and reading its topography…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Kazuhito Kobayashi
Seattle Greg Kucera Gallery ln his debut solo exhibition at Greg Kucera Gallery, 32-year-old Kazuhito Kobayashi presented 18 dyed-wool felt sculptures… see the print edition of July/August 1999’s Sculpture magazine for the full review.
Michael Murrell
City Gallery East Atlanta Sculptor Michael Murrell shapes metaphors. Causing wood and metal to bloom, fly, sail, and pray, he coaxes the animistic essence from his materials. ln “Sanacenia” at City Gallery East, he creates quietly abstract interpretations of nature and the body that comment on our relationship with the world.
Merrill Wagner
William Traver Gallery Seattle Merrill Wagner has lived in New York since 1953, but grew up in and still spends part of each summer near Tacoma, Washington, She followed her 1997 Tacoma Art Museum retrospective with this recent Seattle showing of three large-scale, painted slate sculptures.
