SEATTLE Platform Gallery Seattle-based Matt Sellars is known in the Northwest for meticulously carved minimal forms that suggest structures no longer in their prime.
Micha Ullman
JERUSALEM The Israel Museum This impressive retrospective brought together 40 of Micha Ullman’s sculptures selected from different periods in his 50-year career.
Andrea Zittel
WEST HOLLYWOOD Regen Projects With postmodern savvy, Andrea Zittel’s new works study frontierism as a phenomenon whose legacy continues to reverberate within the American imagination.
Sofia Donovan
SANTIAGO AND BUENOS AIRES Stuart Contemporary and Federico Towpyha Arte Contemporáneo Sofia Donovan, a multifaceted young Argentine-born artist living in Chile, works in photography, video, painting, and sculpture.
Bettina Landgrebe
MARFA, TEXAS Chinati Foundation Beaten with a Hammer, a multimedia installation by Bettina Landgrebe, offered a poignant and powerful elegy for the nearly 1,000 women who have been brutally tortured and murdered in the borderlands around Juárez, Mexico, since 1993.
Wilhelm Mundt
BERLIN Buchmann Galerie Wilhelm Mundt’s boulder-shaped sculptures are immediate, yet they seem to be all about process and duration. They are also physically polished and perfect. Mundt has been making these brightly colored “Trashstones,” as he calls them, since 1989.
Mike Rathbun
BOISE, IDAHO Boise Art Museum The muscular arc of Mike Rathbun’s The Situation He Found Himself In became visible as soon as one entered the foyer of the Boise Art Museum.
Jongsun Lee
UTICA, NEW YORK Sculpture Space During her two-month residency at Sculpture Space, Jongsun Lee, a peripatetic artist and social sculptor, produced thousands of hand-shaped rice bowls in the studio by day and presented several interactive performances off site in the evening.
La Wilson
HUDSON, NEW YORK John Davis Gallery Now in her mid-80s, Ohio-based, primarily self-taught La Wilson has long made resonant, even transgressive-feeling assemblage works. Her signature form is the box, which she uses to hold compositions made up of everyday objects, very much like a conventional frame provides a border for a painting’s pictorial space.
James O. Clark and Forrest Myers
QUEENS, NEW YORK Regina Rex Western, particularly American, artists will never cease in their quest to find the aesthetic in common objects, to be inventive with found and discarded materials.
