MILAN Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro For “Italian Sculpture of the XXI Century,” curator Marco Meneguzzo selected works by 80 artists, ranging from elder statesmen (Nunzio and Dessì) to mature artists of the next generation (Cattelan, Bartolini, Dynys, Arienti, Moro, Beecroft, Cecchini, Sissi, Demetz, and Cuoghi), to younger, up-and-coming artists (Sassolino, Simeti, Previdi, and Gennari).
John Beech
NEW YORK Peter Blum Gallery Favoring simple constructions that look back to the heyday of New York Minimalism in the 1960s, John Beech works just a bit differently from the artists whose work has so strongly influenced him.
Ayano Ohmi
NEW YORK Ceres Gallery Ayano Ohmi, a long-time resident of New York City, originally comes from Japan. Her recent show featured groupings of slender totems that belong to neither the Western nor the Asian tradition; instead, they relate to the now worldwide experience of modernity.
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
TORONTO Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Originally featured at Documenta 12, Phantom Truck by Chicago-based Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle recently made its North American debut.
“Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art”
PITTSBURGH Mattress Factory In 2004, the Mattress Factory presented “CUBA: Artists in Residence,” an exhibition that included site installations by 11 Cuban artists who were denied visas to the U.S.
Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
MIAMI Bass Museum of Art Two of Miami’s most intriguing sculptors, wife and husband Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, recently collaborated on an exhibition at the Bass Museum.
Mags Harries
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Mags Harries is interested in starting conversations through sculptural chairs. Occasionally she builds them so people can sit in them and talk, but more often, at least in the works in this show, people will talk about them rather than in them.
Sarah Kabot
AKRON Akron Art Museum In The Matrix, Neo bends and folds the world, wrapping it around to fit his will.
Melissa Pokorny
SEATTLE Platform Gallery Melissa Pokorny’s recent show offered a startling and unexpectedly beautiful selection of her mid-scale, found-object, assemblage sculptures.
Marianne Weil
NEW YORK Kouros Gallery There’s a palpable human presence in Marianne Weil’s bronze sculptures. The incisions, hatchings, and symbols scratched into her early totem-like figures reflect 10 years spent exploring and researching archaeological sites, from Neolithic cairns in Brittany to Bronze Age settlements in Spain.
