NEW YORK Bronx Museum of the Arts As “Art You Down?” makes clear, Michael Richards, who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, was an artist ahead of his time. He focused his practice on Black identity and social injustice, often using casts of his own body to invest the work with personal and political meaning.
Jeanne Silverthorne
NEW YORK Marc Straus This small, intimate show, featuring 11 cast, monochromatic rubber objects ranging in height from 10 to 75 inches, is conceptually divided between works that are simultaneously realistic and abstract and those that are completely figurative and, in a wizardly way, uncannily lifelike.
Martin Puryear
NEW WINDSOR, NEW YORK Storm King Art Center Among the highlights of the exhibition is the earliest maquette that Puryear completed for Lookout; dating to 2016, the model is rendered in wood, the medium of his best-known public works.
Francesca DiMattio
LONDON Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Aside from the obvious Greek reference, the caryatids, despite their detail and ornament, also gesture, in some respects, to Eduardo Paolozzi’s collaged sculptures, especially from the 1950s, and Huma Bhabha’s much darker creations.
Igshaan Adams
LONDON Thomas Dane Gallery There is an immediate and captivating tension at play in Adams’s use of sophisticated technology to provide the foundation for his densely worked and extensively layered handmade pieces.
Lydia Rosenberg, Katie Bullock, and Phillip Andrew Lewis and Lenka Clayton
PITTSBURGH Mattress Factory Two sparse rooms contain various hybrid objects, including uniquely constructed dustpans, shopping bags, shredded books, brooms, mops, and buckets. These are the fundamental forms for Rosenberg’s fictional character Annette, an artist with a day job, who can only spend eight hours a week in her studio because of work obligations.
Jyoti Duwadi
BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Western Gallery, Western Washington University Born in Nepal to a family of reformist intellectuals, politicians, and poets, Jyoti Duwadi turned to art full-time after receiving his doctorate in political science from Claremont Graduate University in California in 1979.
Julia Haft-Candell
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA, AND LOS ANGELES Pitzer College Art Galleries and Night Gallery One of the most interesting aspects of Julia Haft-Candell’s multifaceted work is how she conceptualizes its function in the world.
Isa Genzken
BERLIN Neue Nationalgalerie Much like the late John Ashbery, whose poems late in his career became increasingly bold in their experimentation (the polar opposite of the stereotype so many harbor of the elderly, who are supposed to become more conservative and closed off to the world year by year), Genzken only grows wilder and more fearless as she ages.
Martha Russo
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery, Ent Center for the Arts No longer tied to a practical function of erosion control and landscape stabilization, Russo’s wattles become dynamic, occasionally leaving the ground as they flow through a hallway, spill over from a tall ledge, and nudge their way into the gallery itself.
