Newport Beach, California Orange County Museum of Art Richard Jackson, who emerged during the 1970s and ’80s, is best known for environments, mazes, corridors, painting machines, and wildly extravagant dioramas that reiterate iconic artworks from the Romantic period to the present.
Christopher Miles
Pasadena Pasadena Museum of Art Christopher Miles’s biomorphic sculptures have life, one that’s visible in the marks, dents, and patterns that inform their surfaces. Bridging humor and the grotesque, they speak to the aesthetics of painterly abstraction and trash art, with an awkward beauty that tips over into elegance.
Maskull Lasserre
Toronto Centre Space Maskull Lasserre creates technically accomplished sculptures that achieve a delicate balance between familiar, everyday objects and fragile, often macabre forms. His curiosity and willingness to experiment lead him to push the limits of his materials, while his rigorous drawing practice gives him the ability to depict forms with almost scientific accuracy.
“It’s a Phase”
Bellaire, Texas Russ Pitman Park A phase is a division in time or space. “It’s a Phase,” a recent group show in Houston’s Russ Pitman Park, reflected and questioned the phasing between the natural and the artificial that defines the site itself.
John Van Alstine
Albany, New York Opalka Gallery When members of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Co. spun and piqued their way through John Van Alstine’s recent solo exhibition “Arrested Motion and Perilous Balance,” they underscored a resonant, though not always apparent theme in the sculptor’s work—the figurative.
“Subverting Modernism: Cass Corridor Revisited 1966–1980”
Detroit Eastern Michigan University Artists of the Cass Corridor movement, active in Detroit during the 1960s and ’70s, are known to have been a hard-living, hard-drinking lot. Their provocative works, often created from industrial materials and detritus, have been popularly seen as reflecting Detroit’s (and, by extension, America’s) decline as an industrial superpower.
Mags Harries
Boston Boston Sculptors Gallery Welsh-born sculptor Mags Harries comes from a long line of sea captains, and water, with its visual, aural, tactile, kinetic, and even olfactory properties, has long inspired her work. In 2012, together with her partner, artist/architect Lajos Héder, Harries was invited to create a permanent installation in China’s Xixi National Wetland
Benjamin Bellas
Chicago slow A church pew and cold beer greeted visitors at the entrance of Benjamin Bellas’s recent show. The beer was a basil ale, brewed specially by the artist, and the pew was Protestant, moved hundreds of miles from a small-town chapel to this storefront gallery in Chicago.
Cyrus Tilton
Oakland Vessel Gallery This is Cyrus Tilton’s fourth exhibition at a gallery near downtown Oakland, part of a recent burst of art activity that started there in 2006, when a few storefronts began to display artworks.
