Springfield, Massachusetts George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum Gloria Garfinkel’s recent exhibition featured a strong selection of sculptures, paintings, and works on paper, particularly the “Hanabi” series, based on origami forms, and the “Flip” series, made of aluminum.
Sarah Bliss, Rosalyn Driscoll, and James Wyness
Boston Boston Sculptors Gallery How does an artist make a tactile work when the viewer can’t touch anything? Sarah Bliss has done so, in collaboration with sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll and sound artist James Wyness, in their video installation Blindsight at Boston Sculptors Gallery.
George Sherwood
Boothbay, Maine Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens With roots in Russian Constructivism—Naum Gabo, Anton Pevsner, and László Moholy-Nagy—kinetic art has developed its own idiosyncratic brand over the years. Among its best-known practitioners is George Rickey, who spurred an entire movement in the U.S.
Dorothy Dehner
Chicago Valerie Carberry Gallery Dorothy Dehner (1901–94) once said, “The minute I started doing sculpture, I felt it was something I had done all my life.” She waited 54 years to make her first sculpture and then worked in bronze, wood, and fabricated metal for almost 40 years.
“Re:Purposed”
Sarasota, Florida The Ringling Museum After passing through the Ringling’s beautifully decorated Baroque galleries, viewers encountered “Re:Purposed,” a show of 21st-century art with a Baroque exuberance. Curator Matthew McLendon brought together disparate works that incorporate both ordinary and exotic detritus.
Christina West
Miami Mindy Solomon Gallery Christina West’s recent exhibition “Intimate Strangers” highlighted the importance of seeing three-dimensional work in person. Photographs of her human figures, such as Stranger #3 and Stranger #4, give the impression that their rendering of flesh is cold and austere and that they loom large in the gallery space, but visiting this
Lois Weinberger
Mainz, Germany Kunsthalle Mainz Drawings, notes, texts, objects, models, sculptures, installations, photos of performances, and interventions—Lois Weinberger’s recent exhibition employed a multitude of media, each one on a par with the others. Even within individual genres, Weinberger’s works are extremely heterogeneous in terms of style, theme, and choice of material.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò
London Sprovieri Eschewing John Ruskin’s famous 19th-century treatise The Stones of Venice, contemporary Italian artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò turns instead to the wood of Venice. With an interest in the literal foundations of the place, Calò has taken the massive wooden stakes that support the “floating city” as his sculptural starting point.
Antoni Tàpies
Miami Perez Art Museum Miami “Tàpies: From Within,” the first major survey of Antoni Tàpies’s work since his death in 2012, featured 50 paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional pieces chosen from the artist’s own collection and from the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona.
Nicola L.
New York Elga Wimmer Gallery Nicola L., a French-born, New York-based sculptor of considerable talent, who has won recognition over a period of decades, recently restaged “Atmosphere in White,” a comprehensive show of her work originally presented at the Liverpool Biennial in 2014.
