OXFORD, U.K. Modern Art Oxford The vulnerability of the bodies suggested in the sculptures is, at times, almost too much to bear, but there are one or two lighter moments amid the seriousness.
Phyllida Barlow
LOS ANGELES Hauser & Wirth Every view of Phyllida Barlow’s current exhibition takes on a filmic quality—the work seems to shift, to be in the process of constantly transferring weight.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
GRIMBERGEN, BELGIUM CC Strombeek Rirkrit Tiravanija’s “Another Sunny Afternoon” gives the word “free” a new currency. It appears in the image on the original exhibition flyer and emblazons every T-shirt coming out of the show’s screen printing studio.
Tomás Saraceno
NEW YORK The Shed These innovative works formed in tandem with energies outside humanmade culture act as a corrective for our obsession with ourselves.
Wanxin Zhang
SAN FRANCISCO Catharine Clark Gallery While figuration still dominates Zhang’s approach to ceramic sculpture, there is also a shift toward abstraction, both in his handling of the material and in the objects themselves.
Debra Weisberg & “Material Drawing Redux”
BOSTON Piano Craft Gallery The works in these two exhibitions are formidable—the result of long experience and dedication to process.
A.A. Murakami
LONDON Superblue Silent Fall is the sort of installation that engulfs and dislodges the sense of self, which is appropriate considering that it draws on Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, offering a contemporary take on the Fall as we teeter on the brink of environmental catastrophe.
Firelei Báez
BOSTON ICA Watershed Firelei Báez, the third artist invited to create a site-specific work for the ICA’s East Boston annex, was the first to use the space successfully, taking the history of the location as a pivotal point of reference.
Ashley Bickerton
NEW YORK Lehmann Maupin The works in “Seascapes at the End of History” do not so much commune with nature as represent vignettes of a life lived in concert with it.
“Ceramics in the Expanded Field”
NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MASS MoCA “Ceramics in the Expanded Field,” organized by MASS MoCA senior curator Susan Cross, presents work by eight, multi-generational artists from diverse backgrounds who are furthering clay’s move out of isolation to play with other media in dynamic ways.
