Calgary, Alberta, Canada Esker Foundation Purple, pastel blues, greens, pinks, and iridescent white inhabit the works in Vanessa Brown’s recent exhibition “The Witching Hour.” Brown presents a synthesis of delicacy and brute strength, demonstrating a fine balance between feminist aesthetics and traditional sculpture.
Sergio Camargo
New York Sean Kelly Sergio Camargo (1930–90) was an important Brazilian sculptor whose simplified objects direct their attention toward, without adhering to, the Minimalist movement and other, closer Brazilian influences. He spent an extended period in Paris, from 1961 to 1973, and was influenced by Brancusi, who lived in Paris until his death in 1957.
Donna Dennis
New York Lesley Heller Gallery The muscular ore dock sitting in Lake Superior’s frigid waters immediately caught Donna Dennis’s eye with its play of sturdy grids framing vast space, its bold forms dominating daylight yielding to black night, and its aloneness.
Danh Vo
New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim proved a fitting setting for this mid-career survey of Danh Vo, its spiraling ramp and multilevel galleries complimenting the layered complexity that characterizes Vo’s examination of the intersection between private experience and broader social constructions of identity, colonialism, religion, war, and capitalism.
Matthew Cowan
Helsinki Photographic Gallery Hippolyte In “para field notes,” Matthew Cowan expands on a highly intriguing pro- gram that examines regional customs and folklore through art. His previ- ous projects have included “Walk on Roses and Forget-me-nots,” a survey of courtship rituals mounted in Braunschweig, Germany, and Wude- wasa, an exploration of the wild-man archetype that he
Ursula von Rydingsvard
New York Galerie Lelong & Co. Ursula von Rydingsvard is finding new ways to deepen her three-dimensional spaces: the cavities and protuberances in her recent works recall beaks, balls, mouths, and armpits— irregular human and animal body parts that nevertheless seem familiar.
Sook Jin Jo
Brooklyn, New York Black & White Gallery/Project Space Born in Korea, Sook Jin Jo has lived and worked in New York for decades; it is hard to see her as anything other than a New York artist.
Manal Shoukair
Detroit Shylo Arts Visitors to Shylo Arts rapidly gain an idea of the building’s former uses. Signage for the Shiloh Tabernacle Church of God in Christ is still prominently in place, and bifurcating male/female entrance paths point to the building’s original incarnation as a synagogue.
Martha Jackson Jarvis
Washington, DC Dumbarton Oakes A perfect match of artist and venue, “Outside/IN” (whose outdoor component remains open until December 16) shines an overdue spotlight on a substantial body of work by Washington, DC, sculptor Martha Jackson Jarvis, while illuminating the collections that led to the creation of this Harvard research center as a “home of
Senga Nengudi
Los Angeles Art + Practice As far as symbolism is concerned, certain materials arrive ready-made, freighted with meaning. The protean sculptor/dancer Senga Nengudi, a major influence on Los Angeles’s African American art scene of the ’70s and ’80s, employs a material whose sole function is to be in contact with the female body.
