SAN FRANCISCO Dolby Chadwick Gallery Ann Weber’s large organic sculptures exist in the borderland between abstraction and figuration. Many of her swelling bodies evoke the female form, while others are products of her ingenious imagination.
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.
Gianluca Bianchino
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Index Gianluca Bianchino is an Italian-born sculptor who studied in New Jersey and stayed, keeping his studio in the Garden State. He is part of a burgeoning, energetic group of artists living and showing in Newark and Jersey City, places not far from New York but offering far cheaper rents.
Joseph Beuys and Tadeusz Kantor
JERUSALEM The Israel Museum There is strong justification for exhibiting works by Joseph Beuys and Tadeusz Kantor in tandem, since their work shares many features. Both of these 20th-century greats extended the borders of art across a range of media, from actions, happenings, and theater performances to lectures, discussions, and more.
Ernesto Neto
NEW YORK Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Ernesto Neto’s woven, hanging sculptures show us how a playful understanding of Modernist aesthetics can advance the art of sculpture. His works in this show, crocheted from polypropylene and polyester cord, hung from the ceiling, in some cases filled with plastic balls, which acted as a balance and also as a floor for visitors to rather shakily walk across.
