Boston A 12-foot-tall, butterscotch-colored leather sculpture cleverly crosses an…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Martijn van Wagtendonk
Atlanta Martijn van Wagtendonk’s Trickle Into a Lower Chamber reaches…see the full review in March’s magazine.
“Human/Nature”
Berkeley The artists in “Human/Nature” projected ecological concerns into…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Dispatch: Shanghai
For many followers of contemporary Chinese art, Beijing is the hub of a dynamic world…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Ryoji Ikeda
Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Ryoji Ikeda is a multifaceted artist who blends music, art, technology, and mathematics. Some people remember him as an electronic music composer who worked for the performance group Dumb Type, which toured the U.S.
Tere Recarens
Barcelona Galeria Toni Tapies Tere Recarens was born in Arbucies, Spain, and lives and works in Berlin. Her early work, which was shown at P.S.1 in 1999, already demonstrated a yearning to distinguish a terrain of her own, intimately related to personal experiences and her travels to foreign lands, where she investigates people and place.
Rebecca Warren
London Serpentine Gallery Rebecca Warren likes to play with established ideas about the nature of sculpture and the formal ways in which it is displayed. She appropriates ideas from the work of others—Rodin, Degas, Beuys, and Morris—and reworks them.
Deborah Sigel
Lancaster, Pennsylvania Lancaster Museum of Art Walking into ceramic sculptor Deborah Sigel’s recent exhibition, “Suspended Visions,” was like walking into a candy shop, or more accurately into the type of confectionary where candied violets and crystallized rose petals dream of taking their rightful place atop a…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Jake Beckman
Cleveland The Sculpture Center The limbs and organs of buildings—corridors, bedrooms, offices—reflect the modeling of our bodies. Cracking plaster and arthritic beams age and ache, mirroring our own debilities. Jake Beckman, who has worked as a researcher in a genetics lab and as a construction assistant, investigates…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Julianne Swartz
New York Josée Bienvenu Gallery In Terrain, an audio installation by New York-based, multimedia artist Julianne Swartz, a delicate network of 100 bell-shaped speakers hovered just under the ceiling. A tapestry of voices woven from a range of pitches wafted around the gallery, presented as a unique cluster of sonants that…see the full review in
