NEW YORK Hauser & Wirth While these works inspire free association and advocate for the importance of the imagination—implying that the grid’s rubric of rules and orderliness can be disrupted—other sculptures inquire into the nature of art-making and the desire to break completely free of formal boundaries.
Katie Hubbell
PHILADELPHIA Cherry Street Pier Katie Hubbell works across sculpture, new media, and installation, often using fantastical, high-key colors in combination with biomorphic or subtly anthropomorphic forms to trace the tension between the grotesqueness and beauty of the human body.
“Moment of Perception”
VENICE, CALIFORNIA King Studio Taking almost diametrically opposed approaches, Mahoney and Johnson demonstrate rigorous, meticulous control of their selected materials and processes. In fact, the level of craft they achieve plays a major part in the appeal of the wall-based works presented here.
Joanna Malinowska
NEW YORK CANADA In Malinowska’s case, a casual arrangement of objects enables her to suggest interpretive links from one work to the next—a highly efficient way of creating an open field in which the artist’s decisions are placed to the side in favor of the viewer’s imaginative connections and intelligence.
Hugh Hayden
DALLAS Nasher Sculpture Center Hayden’s use of wood is nostalgic, since such workmanship on an object of public utility has largely been replaced with metal and plastic. It is also a testament to his craftsmanship and skill.
Elina Autio
HELSINKI Forum Box After years of producing wall-dependent compositions—works that resemble hangings, misaligned Venetian blinds, wooden screens, and rows of exposed pipes—Elina Autio has turned to the floor. While the departure seems unexpected, these new works also recall furnishings, specifically small tables or beds, and closely relate to earlier projects.
Nicole Eisenman
NEW YORK Madison Square Park Nicole Eisenman, in her artist statement for Fixed Crane, muses about the ways that an urban landscape might sustain the mental and physical health of its citizens, imagining a future in which open-air green markets, public pools, dog runs, community greenhouses, and affordable housing would replace luxury apartment buildings.
Jean Tinguely
MILAN Pirelli HangarBicocca There is a balletic quality to many of the works, as their constituent parts twist, turn, ascend, and descend, accompanied by aural cacophony.
Barry Le Va
EDINBURGH Fruitmarket Viewing the work of Barry Le Va (1941–2021) requires a lot of looking down. While that may seem an obvious point to make regarding an artist for whom the gallery floor was a site of exploration, and a performance space for staging sculptural dramas, it also applies, metaphorically at least, to his beautifully minimal drawings.
