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.
Gary Simmons
MIAMI Peréz Art Museum The artist’s questioning of how our shared past is remembered and which histories we’ve been taught to forget—why and by whom, and what is at stake—was especially timely in its presentation in a state whose governor and extremists have been leading the charge for the destruction of education and a war on truth through censorship, book banning, and whitewashing how American history is taught.
Ryan Villamael
SINGAPORE AND MANILA Esplanade Singapore and Silverlens Gallery Villamael inflects spaces, locations, and structures. Like a form of drawing in space, his work is sculpture and non-sculpture; architecture and non-architecture.
Suki Seokyeong Kang
NEW YORK Tina Kim Gallery Chunaengmu dancers may have been confined to their mats like birds in cages, but as Kang sees it, they also enacted singular, bold gestures that defied status and allowed them to look royalty right in the eye.
Antony Gormley
NEW YORK White Cube Like a three-dimensional Mondrian painting through which one can move—navigating the horizontal and vertical branches that pierce the space—the work forces viewers to stop and carefully pick a path.
