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.
Fiona Kinsella
HAMILTON, ONTARIO Art Gallery of Hamilton Like an unfolding origami crane, Fiona Kinsella’s work reveals itself in layers. Her exhibition “Cake” challenged viewers to “think beyond surfaces” and to cross the “gray line of how people perceive beauty.”
Jitish Kallat
CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago During the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, the Art Institute of Chicago hosted the first World Parliament of Religions—one of the most significant assemblies in the history of modern religion.
Gregory Witt
PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh Center for the Arts “Things That Float” featured five works of considerable panache, all incorporating a variety of industrial materials and technological devices.
Judith Page
NEW YORK Lesley Heller Workspace At once familiar and strange, disturbing yet comforting, Judith Page’s sculptures recycle personal items into enticing assemblages that probe the slippage between dreams and experience, memory and time.
