San Francisco Silverman Gallery It is tempting to read Ginger Wolfe-Suarez’s Theory of a family as a type of formal rebus. Inside the space of the installation, two large black volumes balanced precariously on a ledge above the entrance wall, set directly over twin plywood boxes emoting a soft pink light.
Gyun Hur
Atlanta Gyun Hur Get This! Gallery Gyun Hur’s installation, Repose, constructed a delicate visual space engaging the fragility of memory, rupture of loss, and violence that can accompany mourning. Across the floor, and on a transparent acrylic shelf lining two walls of the space, Hur carefully arranged colorful stripes of finely shredded silk cemetery flowers
Gino De Domincis
Rome MAXXI MAXXI, Italy’s National Museum of XXI Century Arts, opened last spring. Despite the name, the collection is dominated thus far by art from the second half of the 20th century, though the museum has commissioned several new works, including Maurizio Mochetti’s site-specific Rette di luce nell’iperspazio curvilineo (Light lines through curvilinear hyper-space).
Eva Hesse
New York Hauser & Wirth In addition to creating elaborate large-scale sculptures and installations, Eva Hesse consistently produced a variety of small experimental works during her short career. Coined “Studioworks” by Hesse scholar Briony Fer, these sculptures embody a sense of immediacy and spontaneity that sets them apart as a unique group.
John Toki
Sonoma, California A New Leaf Gallery—Sculpturesite John Toki, a versatile Bay Area sculptor, teacher, writer, inventor, plumber, electrician, and businessman, makes monumental structures from slag-like clay. Collectively called landscape abstractions or earthscapes, these freestanding and wall-hung works, which feature what can be interpreted as embedded symbols, seem as archaeological and anthropological as they are geological.
Alice Pixley Young
Cincinnati Weston Art Gallery Shape rules in Alice Pixley Young’s work. She is also interested in color, atmosphere, and multi-disciplinary approaches, but her exhibition “Nightfall” kept viewers attuned to seeing what she would do next with her inventive use of recurrent shapes.
Kishore Chakraborty
New Delhi Gallery Threshold After a gap of five years, Kishore Chakraborty has returned with “We the People,” a solo show featuring a few stark but strangely powerful sculptures. Employing a limited but dramatic palette of red and black and an equally economical but intriguing range of motifs (the crab, the tongue), these works present
Meredith James
New York Marc Jancou Contemporary Not yet 30, with a 2009 MFA from Yale, Meredith James might be characterized as someone whose time has come a bit too soon. But the truth is otherwise: her work is brilliantly effective and wonderfully new, emphasizing the unpredictable workings of perception—its ability to persuade us that observations are
Carlotta Brunetti
Taipei Carlotta Brunetti’s recent exhibition “Zone Indeterminate” consisted of two…see the full review in December’s magazine.
Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver
Otsu City, Japan Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver was born in Otsu City in 1947 and emerged…see the full review in December’s magazine.
