Caroline Achaintre’s work is replete with uncertain likenesses; despite multiple levels of abstraction, it’s full of resemblances. Grounded in a trove of images borrowed from pop culture and art history, these chimerical combiÂnations result in unlikely, uncomfortable aesthetic marriages.
Dean Snyder: Between Flight and Entrapment
A shrewd manipulator of skin and surface, Dean Snyder draws us along the edges of a scatological, yet organic beauty: tumescent orchids hanging on fragile vines, drooping leaves, impotent cigarette butts, almost recognizable organs swallowed up in circuitry and webs.
The Art of Corruption: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre
Filthy Lucre, 2013-14. Oil, acrylic, and gold leaf on wood, aluminum, fiberglass, and ceramic, with audio and lighting, approx. 146 x 366 x 238 in. They face off across a dim room: in one corner, a cultivated gentleman poses in elegant evening attire; in the other, a depraved monster, hunched over a piano, recoils at
Giorgio Andreotta Calò
London Sprovieri Eschewing John Ruskin’s famous 19th-century treatise The Stones of Venice, contemporary Italian artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò turns instead to the wood of Venice. With an interest in the literal foundations of the place, Calò has taken the massive wooden stakes that support the “floating city” as his sculptural starting point.
Antoni Tàpies
Miami Perez Art Museum Miami “Tàpies: From Within,” the first major survey of Antoni Tàpies’s work since his death in 2012, featured 50 paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional pieces chosen from the artist’s own collection and from the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona.
Nicola L.
New York Elga Wimmer Gallery Nicola L., a French-born, New York-based sculptor of considerable talent, who has won recognition over a period of decades, recently restaged “Atmosphere in White,” a comprehensive show of her work originally presented at the Liverpool Biennial in 2014.
Barbara Cooper
Chicago Perimeter Gallery In an age when creating the next new thing is pervasive, Barbara Cooper, a Chicago-based sculptor, offers a refreshing take on art, with nature as her starting point. Rather than compete with nature, she evoked its depths by using repurposed materials in her recent exhibition, “Repurposing: Small Sculpture.”
Conrad Bakker
Salt Lake City Utah Museum of Fine Art Artists visiting the state of Utah typically make a pilgrimage to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), but they rarely meet the artist head-on, on his own terms. Such was the case, though, with Conrad Bakker’s Robert Smithson Library and Book Club, installed as part of the Utah
“Surround Audience,” New Museum Triennial 2015
New York newmuseum Gatherings of artists into annuals, biennials, and the like have become so common and so global that they now function, like the equally ubiquitous art fairs, as art shopping malls whose main purpose is spotting the latest fashion or the next big trend.
All Nature Flows Through Us: A Conversation with Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn’s All nature flows through us (2011) is an innovative, 10-meter-diameter sculpture sited in a small river north of Oslo, Norway, at the sculpture park of the Kistefos-Museet. It was no easy feat to install.
