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.
Robert Benson
ARCATA, CALIFORNIA Goudi’ni Native American Arts Gallery Benson’s approach to found timbers that have been preshaped by natural forces is consonant with the way that trails get inscribed, step by step, into the land. Address to materials is guided by a perception of latent form.
James Lee Byars and Seung-taek Lee
LONDON Michael Werner Gallery Unlike Lee, who grew up in a unified Korea under Japanese rule and whose work demonstrates a complicated, ambivalent attitude toward what had been an oppressive culture, Byars welcomed it, immersing himself in traditional Japanese arts and the aesthetic traditions of Shinto and Zen.
Louise Nevelson
NEW YORK Galerie Gmurzynska Presenting myriad mixed-media collage works executed throughout the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, the exhibition demonstrates that collage was not only a passing fancy for Nevelson, but the mooring to her entire enterprise.
Peter DeCamp Haines, Eric Sealine, Jocelyn Shu
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Boston Sculptors Gallery, the only sculpture collaborative in the country, is currently hosting three solo exhibitions to cap its fall season.
Millicent Young
STONE RIDGE, NEW YORK merge Entering Millicent Young’s site-specific retrospective “Alter Altar: 20 Years,” on view in merge’s two newly refurbished barns, is like entering a concise representation of human history.
Elisa D’Arrigo
NEW YORK Elizabeth Harris Gallery Delightfully bodied and splendidly decked out in glazes of many colors, the 20 new ceramic works in Elisa D’Arrigo’s current exhibition make their presence emphatically felt despite the modesty of their measurements.
Mika Rottenberg
SAN FRANCISCO Contemporary Jewish Museum Captured in one of Rottenberg’s spell-binding loops, as if in a newly created circle of Hell, you return again and again to each of these strange scenes, trying to parse their meaning.
