Forest Dance Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI Pliant and spirited, the sculptures of “Forest Dance” enliven the ambient space. Without hands and with featureless spheres or branches for heads, those on the floor pivot like dancers.
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Palazzo Bricherasio and Fondation Beveler Turin, Italy Basel, Switzerland Christo and Jeanne-Glaude, Wrapped Trees, 1998. View of site-specific work in Basel After a 25-year absence, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have returned to ltaly. Their work first appeared here in 1963, when Christo had a solo exhibition at Gallerie Le Noci in Milan.
Julie Allen
Joseph Hellman Gallery New York For Julie Alien, it’s back to basics. ln her case, the basics take the form of women’s underwear-bras, panties, thongs, camisoles, a bustier-garments that shape a woman’s body into the embodiment of desire and the purses and handbags that any proper young lady would not leave home without.
Kiki Smith
The Mattress Factory and the Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh Kiki Smith has become one of the most famous female artists of her generation. While a wide range of feminist concerns informed Smith’s earlier work, she never referenced a specific issue or theory.
Ann Hamilton
the body and the object: Ann Hamilton 1984-1996 Ann Hamilton: woven Miami Art Museum Ann Hamilton, untitled (privation and excess), 1989. View of installation. The touring exhibition “the body and the object: Ann Hamilton 1984-1996,” organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, happily allows for fragmentary
Anne Baxter
Robert Berman Gallery Santa Monica, CA Anne Baxter’s precise and provocative wire-mesh sculptures parody the structures of art and life. This young American, who emerged on the Parisian art scene in 1990, recently presented some 20 new works in Santa Monica that suggest a familiarity with the devilish complexities of Derridian philosophy… See the print
Elena Zang Gallery Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
Shady, NY A certain curiosity about structure and a willingness to play with its conventions mark the work of artists gathered into this years outdoor sculpture exhibition at the Elena Zang Gallery in Shady, New York… See the print version of Sculpture Magazine to view this review in full.
Midwest Express Center
Milwaukee “Homeward bound at last, north from Milwaukee on Christmas eve. The red towered station looks very German. But the stern, tattered, tall twilight is American; little by little it will change the German faces; and all that in the near future we can hope for, or fear, is resemblance.”
Saint Claire Cemin
Washington DC Baumgartner Gallery ln Saint Claire Cemin’s recent show at Baumgartner, surfaces sparkle and forms shift. The artist is seen once again, a master delighting in his material and arousing that same curiosity in the viewer This time, the focus is marble, a material that carries the heritage of the classical tradition, the ongoing
Elizabeth Hall
The Art Museum, Florida International University Miami Some artists are so subtle in their approach to the viewer that they may make contact with only a very small number of the people who see their work, satisfied that this “special” group understands their meaning, Others bombard the viewer with the message they want to communicate,
