New York Flomenhaft Gallery Linda Stein’s recent exhibition of new work focused on the combination of popular culture, myth, and body politics. By eliciting the contradictions that continue to exist between cultural ideals and lived reality, Stein’s work attempts to bridge the gap by creating shells of body armor that speak to the sociopolitical situation
Williamsburg Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition
Williamsburg, New York East River State Park The Brooklyn-based nonprofit Urban Art Projects recently held its inaugural sculpture exhibition, punctuating East River State Park with the work of seven diverse artists. Each piece became a temporal relic that enhanced its surroundings as sculptors envisioned a new aesthetic order for old New York and beyond…see the
Jaume Plensa
Dallas Nasher Sculpture Center The figure functions in two primary ways in Jaume Plensa’s work: literally and performatively. With respect to the former, his male figures are the obvious bearers of old-fashioned humanist queries concerning man’s position in the universe and the meaning of his life.
Steven B. Nguyen
Seattle Suyama Space Brooklyn artist Stephen B. Nguyen, who emerged on the art scene around 2005, began his career as a color field painter, but, as he said in an artist statement, he wanted to focus more on a pure visual experience.
Shayne Dark and Dennis Gill
Oshawa, Canada The Robert McLaughlin Gallery The sculptures featured in “Fear and Faith,” Shayne Dark and Dennis Gill’s recent exhibition, seemed to be the unsettling, if inadvertent, offspring of Louise Bourgeois’s Maman (1999/2003), a 30-foot-tall bronze spider bearing a sac of 26 pure white marble eggs under her belly (there is a version in front
Brendan Jamison
London London Festival of Architecture Neo Bankside, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, is a new residential development adjacent to Tate Modern on the South Bank of London. As a contribution to the London Festival of Architecture (and a rather astute PR exercise), developers Native Land and Grosvenor commissioned Irish sculptor Brendan Jamison to
“Material Worlds”
Banbridge, Northern Ireland FE. McWilliam Gallery Group sculpture shows are a comparative rarity now in Ireland. This one, featuring nine artist, eight of them Irish, wasn’t remotely representative of what is happening in Irish sculpture at the moment.
Sculpture at Evergreen 6
Baltimore Johns Hopkins Evergreen Museum& Library “Simultaneous Presence,” the sixth iteration of Sculpture at Evergreen, included 10 site-specific installations. Working in dialogue with the 26-acre Garrett estate at Johns Hopkins and its rich 150-year history, participating artists have the opportunity to interact not only with natural and architectural environments, but also with diverse collections.
HarborArts
Boston Boston Harbor Shipyard Gallery Its advocates call it a gallery, but any resemblance to a standard art gallery is slim. Boston Harbor Shipyard is a gritty, working marina and shipbuilding facility, poorly suited to art viewing.
Jedediah Caesar
New York D’Amelio Terras Los Angeles-based Jedediah Caesar, in his second solo show at D’Amelio Terras, has taken a step away from projects that overtly demonstrate their “process-oriented” approach, moving simultaneously toward and away from the intellectual precision of Minimalism and the masculine romanticizations of Land Art.
