GREENOCK, SCOTLAND The Wyllieum Wyllie described himself as a “scul?tor”—he had a thing about question marks—and believed that asking awkward questions about the world we live in was the artist’s role.
Cathy Wilkes
GLASGOW Hunterian Art Gallery Wilkes’s work looks beyond official validations of war, beyond the monumental and heroic. Instead, she scrutinizes the painful effects of sustained disorder and violent terror on ordinary, everyday lives.
Nick Dong
SAN FRANCISCO Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yet Dong makes it clear from the outset that a set of guiding principles is meant to enrich the experience of the 11 works in the exhibition, creating an intersection between the spiritual and the corporeal—between what we come to know through our minds and what we absorb through our senses.
Jodie Carey
LONDON Edel Assanti In the site-specific installation Guard, Carey occupies the space with a surprising lightness of touch. Jesmonite sculptures mounted on steel supports, 150 of them, stretch across both ground-floor galleries, and it requires considerable care to walk among them.
Becky Evans and Lori Goodman
EUREKA, CALIFORNIA Barn Gallery The artists conjure big effects from modest means, fixing textured masses of excelsior—also known as wood wool—to the gallery walls. Thousands of coiled shavings mass together into a tangled pelt that rambles like kudzu, blurring the room’s edges.
Christina A. West
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY University of Kentucky Art Museum It is a concentrated, but quietly diverse, look at the male form, conveying, as West says, “vulnerability with strength and beauty with awkwardness.”
Alexis Granwell
PHILADELPHIA Fleisher Art Memorial “Weather Watching,” Alexis Granwell’s current exhibition, includes several large-scale sculptures that she began in response to “Shift. Breathe. Expand: Painting in Space, ” her 2023 two-person show at SUNY, Old Westbury.
Whitney Biennial 2024
NEW YORK Whitney Museum of American Art For curators Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, the show forms a “dissonant chorus,” as 71 artists and collectives deploy a range of strategies and often hidden or subversive narratives to explore the challenges of our mediated contemporary experience.
Tony Cragg
LOS ANGELES Marian Goodman Tony Cragg’s main objective as a sculptor has been to erode distinctions between the natural and the fabricated, between the handcrafted and the industrial.
Dorothy Dehner
NEW YORK Berry Campbell Gallery Dehner’s sculpture can be viewed within the framework of postwar Modernism. All of the influences brought to bear on American artists of the time can be seen in her work—Surrealism, Constructivism, and abstraction, as well as avant-garde dance and music.
