NEW YORK DODGEgallery On first seeing Dave Cole’s recent exhibition, I was struck by the animatronic and craft features in its main attraction, The Music Box, a 13-ton asphalt compactor reconstructed into a working music box that plays “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Richard Hunt
CHICAGO McCormick Gallery Richard Hunt’s recent exhibition of rarely seen early sculptures and works on paper was a remarkable mini-retrospective of pieces never exhibited outside his studio in Benton Harbor (Michigan) since they were created in the mid-1950s.
Charles Ray
LOS ANGELES Matthew Marks Gallery Figurative sculpture has been a mainstay of Charles Ray’s work since his early days as an artist, when he pinned his elevated body against the wall with a board (Plank Piece I and II, 1973) and arranged himself naked on metal shelves, merging the hard forms and surfaces of Minimalism with their antithesis, flesh.
Joan Miró
WEST BRETTON, U.K. Yorkshire Sculpture Park Although Joan Miró was an early pioneer of construction, most of his three-dimensional work was concentrated within the latter part of his life. This exhibition, a collaboration between Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the artist’s family, and foundations, offered a journey through Miró’s fervent imagination, taking viewers from smooth dark bronzes to audacious, brilliantly colored assemblages of found objects, to a throng of theatrical personages set high on plinths.
Crystal Schenk
MCMINNVILLE, OREGON Linfield Gallery Crystal Schenk’s installation Artifacts of Memory started off as a vague image in her mind connected to the loss and longing that she experienced after her mother’s suicide. She captured these qualities by creating a circular field of magnets, one set hung from the ceiling and the other tethered to the floor using nearly invisible wire.
Jared Steffensen
EPHRAIM, UTAH Central Utah Art Center Jared Steffensen’s solo exhibition, “Mom’s always afraid I am going to hurt myself…I usually do,” was at once blithe and sophisticated, sparking an unexpected (and even overlapping) dialogue between skateboarding and formalism.
“Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes”
WASHINGTON, DC National Gallery of Art An exquisite touring exhibition of small Renaissance bronzes by the sculptor known as Antico shows that strategies of appropriation and serialization, often considered to have originated in the 20th century, have an illustrious and much longer history.
“Nature, Man, and Sound”
GONGJU, SOUTH KOREA 5th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale The 5th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, which took “Nature, Man, and Sound” as its theme, was organized by Yatoo, a group that has been in existence since the early 1980s. The mix of work was international, with strong Korean representation, ranging from conceptual to Land Art-ish, purely sculptural, and sound sculptures—all seeking integration within their environment.
Lyndal Osborne and Sherri Chaba
SHERWOOD PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA Strathcona County Art Gallery Two Alberta artists, Lyndal Osborne and Sherri Chaba, recently mounted an exhibition that addressed a range of environmental issues, including genetic diversity and loss of farmland, while focusing on the tar sands controversy and oil industry discards: tailings ponds.
