Project 416 Seattle ln his Seattle gallery debut, 30-year-old Patrick Holderfield exhibited new, altered found object sculptures that set up amusing and challenging contradictions. With the overall title of “Dehisence,” which refers to the expulsion of materials coming through a suture or surgical wound, Holderfield added painted fleshlike polyurethane foam elements to boxes, car bumpers,
Darrell Petit
Milford, CT The Stone Sculpture Garden For many years sculpture in stone has been considered a dead medium. This view is related to the conception of stone as the ultimate medium for commemoration, and sculptors’ frequent neglect of sculptural concerns in stone sculpture… for the full review see the print edition of June 1999’s Sculpture
Judy Pfaff
Karen McCready Gallery New York Judy Pfaffs wall art mixes etchings, encaustic, lithographs, Photographs, fire, resin, and other matter to send strong messages about the healing forces and the spiritual dimensions of the visible and historical world.
Barbara Benish
Huntington Beach Art Center Huntington Beach, CA Set amidst sand dunes imported into the gallery space from the beach nearby, Barbara Benish’s site-specific work, Sandcasfles, reflects the artist’s childhood memories of life near the sea. The California born, Prague-based aftist s installation addresses postmodern issues, while eschewing the strident or didactic overtones that often accompany
Dispatch: “Functional Follies: 20 Architectural Objects of Delight”
Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah was the setting for this exhibition of 20 landscape and garden follies commissioned by the Savannah College of Art and Design in celebration of its 20th anniversary… see the full review in the print edition of June 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
Lynda Benglis
Cheim & Read New York Defining Lynda Benglis’s newest works is not easy. Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, whose essay accompanies this beautiful exhibition, distinguishes the main characteristic of Benglis’s art: “Action Sculpture.” From the highly erotic video Female Sensibility (1973) to the palpable nature of her recent works in clay and bronze, Benglis has endeavored to input
Richard Rezac
Feigen Contemporary New York Walking into the Feigen Gallery the viewer confronted a melange of austere small sculptures made from conventional media such as bronze, cast iron, plaster, and wood. The distinctiveness of Richard Rezac’s sculpture becomes part of its allure, inviting the viewer to inspect each work.
Robert Roesch
Sande Webster Gallery Philadelphia ln his recent sculptures and combined paintings and drawings, Robert Roesch has refined his ability to state and restate experiences from nature through a geometry of stainless steel shapes that are at once complex and pared down… See the full review in the print version of June 1999 Sculpture Magazine
Whitfield Lovell
The Denton Project University of North Texas Art Gallery Denton, TX When New York artist Whitfield Lovell was invited to Denton, Texas, to do an installation in the University of North Texas gallery, he had little in mind beyond finding out whatever he could about the town’s African-American community, if such a thing existed, and
