Lincoln, Massachusetts deCordova Museum Describe a plastic bottle. What are the first adjectives that come to mind? Maybe fragile, ephemeral, unattractive. We are so used to seeing these disposable objects transit quickly through our homes that we fail to consider their long life after the trashcan.
Peter Zegveld
Rotterdam Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Theatrical producer, producer for Dutch public television, and visual artist, Peter Zegveld included 12 visual and sound works in his recent solo exhibition, which surveyed three decades of his artistic practice.
“Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa”
Washington, D.C. National Museum of African Art With dagger raised, a nail-studded, 19th-century nkisi nkondi by an unknown Yombe artist stood guard, while beyond, the evil boss in William Kentridge’s 1991 animated film Mine raged over his desk.
Tanya Aguiñiga
Laguna Beach, California Laguna Art Museum Tanya Aguiñiga, who works at the intersection of furniture design, craft, and fine art, recently created a powerful installation that reveals her extensive knowledge of the sea. Based on the complexity and specificity of this temporary work, it is fair to say that this MFA graduate from the Rhode
Jan Maarten Voskuil
Laguna Beach, California The Peter Blake Gallery Jan Maarten Voskuil’s work probes the nature of dimensionality with an expanded vision that liberates aesthetic solutions from what was thought possible. Consequently, his sculpted paintings or painted sculptures are hybrid forms.
Anita Glesta
Beijing Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology Anita Glesta’s multimedia installation, Gernika/Guernica, stitches together two earthshaking events, the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 and the bombardment of Guernica in 1937.
Mel Bochner
New York Peter Freeman Gallery Mel Bochner, who is best known for his theoretical notations and use of basic materials such as stones, masking tape, walnuts, glass shards, burnt matches, and chalk, began his career using mathematically derived determinants as a means to articulate a playful, albeit rigorous analysis of sculpture.
Ed Zelenak
Toronto Christopher Cutts Gallery Ed Zelenak’s recent show, “Divining the Frontiers,” marked a new departure in his work with a grid-like series of tin on copperplate pieces. These sculptures are incredibly distant from Zelenak’s monumental Pop Minimalist fiberglass works such as Traffic (1968–69) or his bronze sculptures, which build a volumetric feeling of space out
“0 to 60: The Experience of Time Through Contemporary Art”
Raleigh and Penland, North Carolina North Carolina Museum of Art and Penland School of Crafts The premise of “0 to 60” sounded too big for one show. The sprawling effort, which incorporated time arts and time as subject matter, was aggressively inclusive, featuring 32 artists famous and obscure.
“LAT. 41° 7’ N., LONG. 72° 19’ W”
East Marion, New York Martos Gallery There’s no sign. An address painted on a rock marks a narrow driveway leading to Jason Metcalf’s “historical” plaque commemorating ancient red-haired giants who may never have lived here. Beyond lies the combined summer home/gallery of Chelsea art dealer Jose Martos, artist Servane Mary, and their three-year-old son.
