ATLANTA Emory University John Grade’s Piedmont Divide installations at Emory University inhabited two very different areas of the campus. A constantly moving curtain of hundreds of individual parts was suspended over the Quadrangle, a grassy, tree-filled space briskly inhabited by students, faculty, dog walkers, and pecan gatherers.
Dianna Frid
CHICAGO devening projects + editions Five hundred years ago, Albrecht Dürer created a vivid woodcut of a rhinoceros not from first-hand observation but from hearsay. Now that we’ve closed the gap between the exotic and the observable, one can use Dürer’s method to describe the world retroactively.
William Dennisuk
INDIANAPOLIS White River State Park, The Herron School of Art and Design William Dennisuk’s vessels designed for outdoor display and his works meant for indoor exhibition were recently seen in tandem for the first time.
Esther Kläs
NEW YORK Peter Blum Chelsea Esther Kläs came to New York for graduate studies at Hunter College, and it looks like she is determined to stay. This is to the city’s advantage, for Kläs is an excellent practitioner of postmodern sculpture, a genre that offers considerable freedom and a respite from the burdens of traditional art.
“Factory Installed 2011”
PITTSBURGH Mattress Factory In 2006, the Mattress Factory introduced a new exhibition series devoted to site-specific work.
Matt Sellars
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.
