NEW YORK Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco-based light artist Jim Campbell, who studied math and engineering at M.I.T., began constructing interactive video environments in the mid-1980s.
Donald Judd
BIRMINGHAM, U.K. IKON Gallery Few opportunities exist to see Donald Judd’s furniture. Chronologically arranged and subtly installed, this exhibition introduced viewers to the renowned Minimalist’s lesser-known career through a comprehensive overview of his furniture design from 1966 to 1992.
Andy Goldsworthy
SAN FRANCISCO Presidio National Park and Haines Gallery Andy Goldsworthy has been a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 20 years. The Haines Gallery, which curated “California Projects,” Goldsworthy’s first U.S. show (1992), has also sponsored residencies for the artist to create work in the Sierra Nevadas and the Santa Barbara coastal area, as well as in Sonoma County.
Ronald Bladen
NEW YORK Loretta Howard Gallery In recent years, Ronald Bladen has been cited as a “Romantic Minimalist,” along with Robert Grosvenor and Robert Smithson.
“The Nameless Hour: Places of Reverie, Paths of Reflection”
RICHMOND Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University “The Nameless Hour” explored the oneiric imagination through a variety of sculptural and projection-based installations.
Betye Saar
NEW YORK Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Betye Saar spent four years preparing for this exhibition—not a small effort, considering that she is 84 years old.
Dave Beck
POTSDAM, NEW YORK Roland Gibson Gallery, State University of New York Dave Beck uses unconventional tools and systems to make art. He once recorded the movements of people during 24-hour segments—their changing geographical coordinates—to create a series of linear sculptures mounted in shadowbox frames.
Gabriel Dawe
DALLAS Guerilla Arts and Dallas Contemporary The large, taut string installations in Gabriel Dawe’s “Plexus” series create new spaces while transforming their surroundings. Such a powerful architectural effect makes them indeed site-specific.
Ib Geertsen
AARHUS, DENMARK ARoS Aarhus Kuntsmuseum In a lifetime of visiting galleries and artists’ studios, I can’t remember an exhibition provoking the immediate reaction of sheer joyousness prompted by “Ib Geertsen—Mobiler” with its multitude of extraordinarily colorful and imaginatively displayed mobiles.
