PITTSBURGH Mattress Factory Without a doubt, it is the visitor who is destined to activate this uncanny field of objects and to find meaning through his or her own experience and reimagining. As Ilya Kabakov has said: “The main actor in a total installation, the main center toward which everything is addressed, for which everything is intended, is the viewer.”
Lori Goodman and Teddy Milder
EUREKA AND BENECIA, CALIFORNIA The Barn Gallery and Arts Benecia collective grief—in memoriam packs more than 100 boxy forms made of handmade paper onto a low, nine-by-12-foot plinth to create an aggregation of structures that recall the apartment buildings and office towers of every midsize city around the world—all of them similar, no two exactly alike.
Daphne Wright
OXFORD, U.K. Ashmolean Museum In Wright’s colorless, spectral ensembles, each object has an equal status within the ritual of daily life. Her sons are no more significant than the sofa and floor that support them; the food in the fridge, though indicative of essential sustenance, of no higher value than the unit that contains it.
Berenice Olmedo
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA BAMPFA Using what she describes as discarded devices intended for replacement, correction, and support as a primary material, Olmedo constructs hauntingly beautiful, defiantly non-normative figurative sculptures.
Solange Pessoa
GLASGOW Tramway Pessoa’s choice of “Pilgrim Fields” as the exhibition title beautifully captured the feeling of earthy spirituality encapsulated by this low-lying sculptural landscape, while at the same time evoking journeys and the interconnectedness of our world.
Klára Hosnedlová
BERLIN Hamburger Bahnhof Here, immersed deep within Hosnedlová’s sculptural imagination, and despite the dystopian undertones, the environment feels safe enough, and choice still operative.
Ann Hamilton
SALTAIRE, U.K. Salts Mill The immensity should, perhaps, be overwhelming, or difficult to deal with, but it is not. Viewers effortlessly enter the fabric of the work, becoming part of its subtle interweaving of time, people, and space, as mind and body are touched by sound, color, and texture.
Andy Goldsworthy
EDINBURGH Royal Scottish Academy There’s a tough practicality about his approach, an unromantic ruggedness that recognizes the tensions and everyday realities of the context in which he works.
Liz Larner
NEW YORK Anton Kern Gallery Perhaps Larner is able to better illuminate, by way of cold metal abutments that strike at the core of material and form-based juxtaposition, that which is visually sensuous and apposite for organic-seeming sculptural objects. Indeed, her most pleasing forms are those that appear to be collected from nature and hardly contrived.
Steve Locke
NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MASS MoCA Locke may be acting as witness, but he is also an artist. The work’s interpretive moment occurs in the neon words, “a dream,” which hover over the list of the dead. Which dream, and who gets to dream this dream?
