Akron, Ohio Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron Herb Rosenberg’s interactive installation Dialogue with an Ancient Forest, which was selected as the first solo exhibition at New Jersey’s new Perth Amboy Gallery Center for the Arts (PAGCA), recently appeared at the University of Akron’s Emily Davis Gallery; additional venues are scheduled for 2011.
Christian Boltanski
Paris and Val-de-Marne Grand Palais and Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne Christian Boltanski, one of France’s most significant contemporary artists, will represent his country in the 2011 Venice Biennale. Born during World War II, Boltanski has spent his career exploring the horrors, consequences, and mixed legacies of that time, particularly the Nazi occupation of France.
James Gilbert
Dallas Dallas Contemporary “Warnings & Instructions,” James Gilbert’s mammoth show at the newly relocated Dallas Contemporary, addressed airport safety fanaticism and the loss of individual privacy. The nose, butt, and fuselage of a disarticulated pink airplane sprawled across the cavernous space, together with three pink and orange rafts (two rigged with sails and one with
Justin Peyser
Venice Ca’ Zenobio Last year, visitors entering the Hall of Mirrors at the Ca’ Zenobio encountered 10 strange, larger-than-life objects and figures, all made of metal sheets stitched together, When I visited, even before passing the two stately columns leading into the hall, I was wondering, “How can metal float?”
Keith Benjamin
Cincinnati U-turn Art Space Keith Benjamin, a sculptor whose raw materials often come out of the waste can, is moving cautiously toward a more conventional material (walnut), and from it, he makes shit—or suggests it. The first three pieces in his recent exhibition, “Unemployed Title,” play with variations on the theme and combine suggestive-looking carved
Lucy Hodgson
New York SoHo20 Gallery As a young artist, Lucy Hodgson began by finding her forms in the natural world, exploring old tree roots and using rhododendrons, kudzu, and cane to produce shapes at once lightweight and physically imposing.
Emilie Brzezinski
Chicago 1112 Gallery for the Arts Emilie Brzezinski’s enveloping and engrossing Family Trees, A Sculptural Installation filled the 1212 Gallery’s huge open space with a forest of photographically enhanced tree trunks. She cut 17 found trees in half and, after carving out their interiors, covered the resulting space with photographic images (mostly of trees, leaves,
Mia Feuer
Washington, DC, and Arlington, Virginia Transformer Gallery andArlington Arts Center Two recent installations in the Washington area, Suspended Landscape at the Transformer Gallery and Evacuation Route with Rubies at the Arlington Arts Center, showcased Mia Feuer’s bold, chaotic work.
Elke Soloman
New York ALR. Gallery A Tavola is a command and a call to arms, summoning us to the table and the concomitant onslaught of memory—personal, emotional, social, communal, graphic, and visceral— prompted by food. As it calls us to the table, it also warns us of the abundance awaiting to seduce us to excess, Fittingly,
Jeremy Dean
New York {CTS} creative thriftshop Jeremy Dean’s CEO Stagecoach (2010), which presents a satirical proposition about the future of the automobile and the planet, is part of “Back to the Futurama,” a project that focuses on the rise and fall of the automobile industry as a symbol of the vulnerability wrought by turbo-capitalism.
