San Diego The Museum of Contemporary Art Located amidst the bustle of downtown city streets, Marcos Ramirez’s 14-foot Acorazado asserts a commanding presence. Painted camouflage gray, the massive sculpted heart blends with the metallic tones of the city environment, while appearing as an unexpected surprise.
Jonathan Liss
Cleveland The Sculpture Center Location is everything. Jonathan Liss investigates the intersection of this market-derived truism with the institutional practices, dynamics, and the physical site of Cleveland’s Sculpture Center in his installation. The exhibition’s title, “Jonathan Liss; ‘The Sculpture Center,”‘ describes a space of heightened self-reflexiveness, which characterizes Lisss recent projects.
Zonok Ben-David
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,
