LandMarks 2017 The journey to Rebecca Belmore’s Wave Sound in Banff National Park in Alberta required considerable effort. Located on a promontory called Centre Point on the shores of Lake Minnewanka, a cerulean blue glacial lake flanked by tall subalpine mountains, the work was more than two hours from the nearest city.
Dineo Seshee Bopape
Rotterdam Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Lerole: footnotes (The struggle of memory against forgetting), a recent large-scale installation by South African artist Dineo Seshee Bopape, combined visceral materiality with historical accounts of pre-colonial revolts across the African continent to voice centuries of resistance against European invasion.
Maren Hassinger
Los Angeles Art + Practice The idea of consciousness-altering plays a central role in Maren Hassinger’s thinking. Her practice transcends the formal demands of sculpture, the ABCs of it, amplifying the idea of making an object in such a way as to recast it as performance.
“Sculpting with Air”
Lincoln, Massachusetts deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Ian McMahon and Jong Oh are both interested in shaping the intangible, though their work, and processes, couldn’t be more different. Brought together for “Sculpting with Air” (on view through September 30), they also introduced a new experience for deCordova visitors, who were invited to watch the progress
Magdalena Abakanowicz
New York Marlborough Gallery Who can you trust when all’s been lost? “Embodied Forms,” a modest but compelling retrospective of fiber, wood, and bronze works by the late Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, raised this existential question and charted the artist’s way through it.
Hirosuke Yabe
New York Cindy Rucker Gallery Two scratchy, roughly hewn little figures emerge from uneven strips of wood mounted vertically on the wall: a man about four inches tall and a tiny girl in a dress, about an inch and a half high.
Susan York
New York Del Deo & Barzune and The Drawing Center In Foundation, a site-specific installation at The Drawing Center, Susan York focused on the granite foundation stones that run along a narrow corridor in the lower level of the building.
Bruce Checefsky
LaGrange, Georgia Cochran Gallery A cursory glance around the gallery—a tastefully restored, turn-of-the-century dry cleaning establishment—offers no aesthetic frisson. Open packing crates used to ship art are strewn about seemingly at random. Tools for mounting exhibitions litter the floor: a drill, hammer, and nails.
Oskar OK Krajewski
London Oxo Tower Gallery Oskar OK Krajewski, a Polish artist living in London, works across multiple media, often combining traditional sculpture techniques and materials with the latest technology, sensor lights, movement, and sound. The title of his exhibition, “Recycled Future,” refers to a project of the same name—a “NeoSculpture” made of over 25,000 recycled and
Angelo Arnold
Rutland, Vermont Castleton University Bank Gallery Engaging, humorous, and disconcerting, Angelo Arnold’s quirky sculptures invite and mystify with their anthropomorphism. The figures seem displaced from their usual place in life. In Not Today, for instance, a feminine form, dressed in elegant brocade, sits demurely with legs and arms crossed.
