San Francisco Walter/McBean Gallery San Francisco Art lnstitute A soft layer of light-colored sand covered the floor of the Walter/McBean Gallery for Zonok Ben-David’s installation, Evolution & Theory. Literally hundreds of figures, delicately crafted from sheets of aluminum and wire, were placed like markers through the landscape.
Ronald Garrigues
San Francisco 111 Minna Street Gallery Ronald Ganiques, Overpopulation/The Crux of the Malter 1, 1995. Cast bronze, 23.75 x 9 x 18in. Ronald Garrigues’s artistic vision is undeniably bleak. A recent solo exhibition brought together the body of work that has consumed Garrigues for the past decade.
On the Ball
Lincoln, MA DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park The prototypical, the original three-dimensional form-the sphere-was the theme of “On the Ball,” last winter’s exhibition at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park… see the print version of July/August 1999’s Sculpture magazine for the full review.
Rob van Erve
New York First New York Gallery Bob van Erve’s recent installation in New York included a tilting castle floating on both sides of a wall, a sugar crater with a sugar violin, and a nest of moon rock photograms made from sugar and light… for the full review see the print edition of July/August’s 1999
Kazuhito Kobayashi
Seattle Greg Kucera Gallery ln his debut solo exhibition at Greg Kucera Gallery, 32-year-old Kazuhito Kobayashi presented 18 dyed-wool felt sculptures… see the print edition of July/August 1999’s Sculpture magazine for the full review.
Michael Murrell
City Gallery East Atlanta Sculptor Michael Murrell shapes metaphors. Causing wood and metal to bloom, fly, sail, and pray, he coaxes the animistic essence from his materials. ln “Sanacenia” at City Gallery East, he creates quietly abstract interpretations of nature and the body that comment on our relationship with the world.
Merrill Wagner
William Traver Gallery Seattle Merrill Wagner has lived in New York since 1953, but grew up in and still spends part of each summer near Tacoma, Washington, She followed her 1997 Tacoma Art Museum retrospective with this recent Seattle showing of three large-scale, painted slate sculptures.
Patrick Holderfield
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.
