BRISTOL, U.K. Spike Island In Dan Lie’s installation Sleeping Methodologies (on view through January 11, 2026), a thin neon light runs along the perimeter of the room at floor level, emitting a suffused glow through an otherwise dim room.
Cosima von Bonin
LONDON Raven Row von Bonin’s installations, which combine found objects and handmade elements, retain a deliberate looseness aligned with her Cologne milieu of the 1990s—an anti-heroic sensibility that dismantles the cult of authorship, authenticity, and artistic genius.
Armando Guadalupe Cortés
BROOKLYN Smack Mellon Cortés’s work renders parrots not only as metaphors for migration and adaptability, but also as proxies for human connection.
Irma Hünerfauth
LONDON Arcadia Missa While Hünerfauth struggled with the social and political conditions of post-Nazi Germany, she also attempted to understand rising pressures on perception, community, and nature in the face of technological advancement.
Lauren Grossman
SEATTLE Traver Gallery Cocked (2020), with its cage of interlocking steel rods, summons up the classical sculptural convention of contrapposto; bending to one side, the viewer vicariously enters into dialogue with the captive figure, complete with black cast-iron ears.
Eugene Macki
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.
