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.
Art Basel Miami Beach
MIAMI Miami Sculpture Biennial/Pulse Art Fair South Florida is hit by a tidal wave of contemporary sculpture every December as Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), Pulse, Design Miami, the new Miami Sculpture Biennial, and a dozen other temporary art fairs and exhibitions come to town.
“Material Girls”
BALTIMORE Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture With an aesthetic rooted in the everyday, “Material Girls” featured work by eight emerging and established black women artists who translate the metaphoric properties of their media into fierce sculptures, immersive installations, and intricate assemblages.
Arne Quinze
MUNICH Galerie Thomas Modern Arne Quinze’s works are immediately recognizable—composed of multiple bright orange boards that flow together at seemingly arbitrary angles to make huge, organic, cloud-like shapes, meant as metaphors for cooperation between people.
John Clement
NEW YORK Causey Contemporary The very large, garage-like space of Causey Contemporary just barely had room for John Clement’s Oiler (2011), which consists of two curved tubes of 20-inch-diameter welded steel that reach more than 18 feet in height.
Rosalyn Driscoll
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Rosalyn Driscoll’s concern throughout her career has been haptic studies, the investigation of tactility.
Daniel Laskarin
VICTORIA, CANADA Art Gallery of Greater Victoria When encountering an artwork for the first time, there’s a natural desire to try to understand it, to ponder the artist’s motivation and the work’s meaning.
