New York Dominique Levy and Galerie Perrotin Germaine Richier’s recent exhibition, shared by Dominique Levy and Galerie Perrotin, was the first show of the French sculptor’s work to be seen in the U.S. since her untimely death in 1959 at the age of 57.
“(in)Habitation”
Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) Habitation has become a popular topic in Detroit. Credit the many pictures of abandoned buildings circulating as “ruin porn.” Credit, too, the late Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead, a full-size re-creation of his childhood Detroit home, permanently moored behind the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).
Chul Hyun Ahn
Easton, Maryland The Academy Art Museum Baltimore artist Chul Hyun Ahn builds meticulously tricked-out boxes. Wall-mounted or resting on the floor, they hold singular abstractions. Ahn manipulates light and mirrors, both one-way and conventional. He carefully positions mirrors, light-emitting diodes, and fluorescents, staging and framing complex, multi-mirror reflections in which light takes shape, darts around
Miller & Shellabarger
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago As individual artists, Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger diverge wildly in terms of interests and means of execution. Miller’s candy-colored phallic sculptures and reworkings of homoerotic porn are orgiastic, playful, and irreverent, as was his recent installation, In the Garden, which situated his collages and paintings in a landscape
Patrick McDonough
Washington, DC Katzen Arts Center, American University As Patrick McDonough would be the first to say, he doesn’t like to repeat himself. “brightveridiansentinelevents,” his seventh solo project in Washington, DC, since completing his MFA at George Washington University in 2010, again demonstrated his prolific inventiveness.
Liz Larner
Los Angeles Regen Projects Liz Larner’s work has followed a varied and contradictory trajectory, and her most recent exhibition underscored the diversity of her nonlinear ideas and idiosyncratic approaches. A number of conceptually related but visually disjunctive objects were displayed: a dozen mid-size ceramic and epoxy pieces, two large paper and aluminum structures, a mini-exposition
2013 Frieze Art Fair
London Regent’s Park The 2013 Frieze Art Fair featured three components, Frieze London, Frieze Masters, and an outdoor sculpture exhibition—all in Regent’s Park. Originally a royal hunting ground, the park includes an artificial lake, tennis courts, cricket ground, children’s playgrounds, and the London Zoo.
Geoffrey Farmer
London The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery Geoffrey Farmer’s The Surgeon and the Photographer consists of 365 puppets (one for every day of the year) constructed of collaged elements from second-hand books and magazines combined with intricate supports and fabric bodies.
Zilvinas Kempina
Basel Museum Tinguely For an artist’s work to stand out among the sculptures in the Museum Tinguely, a space hyper-charged with multi-sensory stimuli, is almost impossible. Tinguely’s enormous found-metal, kinetic constructions, which boom and bang when activated, are overwhelming in terms of scale, presence, and sound, seemingly subjugating the entire museum.
Patti Warashina
Bellevue, Washington Bellevue Arts Museum Organized by the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California, “Wit and Wisdom: Patti Warashina” later traveled to the Bellevue Arts Museum, where BAM curator Stefano Catalani expanded its offerings with loans from local collections.
