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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Armen Agop

Brussels LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects Materializations of pure thought, Armen Agop’s sculptures are charged with inherent monumentality regardless of their dimensions. His recent exhibition, “Emergence,” focused on an exploration of volume, with works unburdened by narrative or association that transcend solidity of shape to suggest potential energy.

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Alana Bartol

CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary A small, one-room structure built from salvaged wood filled the center of the gallery at TRUCK. Apparently an office, it contained a desk, a recycling bin, a fake plant, and a clock, whose minute and hour hands never moved. The desk was neatly arranged with papers and files, just like any regular office desk.

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Michio Fukuoka

OSAKA, JAPAN National Museum of Art, Osaka In a conformist society of sophisticated stylization, the Japanese sculptor Michio Fukuoka stands out as an outcast. A “Sculptor Who No Longer Sculpts,” as he’s identified by this retrospective, he questions logical frames of mind and, with his keen intuition, is quick to defy them.

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