HUDSON, NEW YORK Pamela Salisbury Gallery Ancient, quasi-mystical artifacts—those once lively objects from the distant past that have survived—come to us as unknowable, fundamentally opaque, and foreign, displayed in the highly charged confines of museums.
Will Cruickshank
EXETER, ENGLAND Exeter Phoenix For Cruickshank, the particular qualities of spun yarn—its durability, tenacity, flexibility, softness, resilience, and color-bearing—become the prime concern, manipulated by the idiosyncrasies of makeshift technology.
Maria Bartuszová
LONDON Tate Modern This exhibition marks the first major show in the U.K. of works by the extraordinary Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová (1936–96), whose abstract plaster sculptures are replete with organic forms both fragile and solid, sometimes tortured and always corporeal.
David Baskin
NEW YORK Freight+Volume The work imparts a futuristic, retro, popsicle feel, like standing signage in an alien script from a corny, camp version of the 1960s cartoon show “The Jetsons.”
Rose B. Simpson
NEW YORK Jack Shainman Gallery Simpson’s figures are arranged toward each other; entering their presence feels like interrupting a conversation between old friends. Most of the exhibition’s dozen sculptures are life-size or larger, which adds to the sense of stepping through or meeting their gaze.
David Mach
LONDON Pangolin David Mach made a dramatic entry into the world of public art in 1983, when he used 6,000 car tires to construct a life-size replica of a Polaris submarine on the South Bank of the River Thames, near London’s Royal Festival Hall.
Henry Jackson-Spieker
SEATTLE MadArt Jackson-Spieker creates visual blind spots and distortions that he hopes act as a metaphor for the things we don’t see or question in our everyday surroundings.
Roger Ackling
LONDON Annely Juda Fine Art On the occasion of a previous exhibition at Annely Juda, in 1998, Ackling explained that the works don’t stand for anything. Rather, he said they stood beside him.
“Hurly-burly”: Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Whiteread, Alison Wilding
PARIS Gagosian Karsten Schubert, Wilding’s late gallerist, affectionately dubbed the trio of English artists “the three witches,” and this exhibition fittingly recalls the tumultuous “hurly-burly” they navigated during what was, back in the day, a particularly capricious and fickle male-dominated art world.
Markus Copper
HELSINKI Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Informed by personal experience, an interest in performance art, and tragic events, these visually compelling works can physically affect the body and veer into thematic territory that some viewers and critics have found shocking.
