Venice, California L.A. Louver The works featured in Matt Wedel’s “Sheep’s Head” exhibition can be perceived in one of two ways—somewhat saccharine and silly or muscular and profound. The balance that he achieves between these two poles makes his sculptures challenging, significant, and moving.
Ann Hamilton
New York Park Avenue Armory Ann Hamilton, who trained as a weaver, understands the importance of repeating the same gesture or movement over and over again until one obtains an accumulation of actions, which may merely seem, or may actually be, significant.
Anne Lilly
New York Galerie Swanstroem Anne Lilly, a sculptor from Boston, recently put on a terrific show of tabletop kinetic works set in motion by hand. Created to necessarily exacting specifications, the various components weave in and out through her steel forms, just missing small disasters of entanglement or collision.
Jonathan Kirk
Hamilton, New York Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University The works featured in “Machines: Fragments and Reveries” present Jonathan Kirk as a creative spirit in love with mechanisms and an artist who revels in working out ideas through materials.
Linda Huey
Brockton, Massachusetts Fuller Craft Museum The former Fuller Art Museum, now the Fuller Craft Museum, retains its dedication to craftspeople who also produce art. Dark Garden, a recent installation by veteran ceramicist Linda Huey, was a case in point.
Richard Jackson
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.
