Anyone who’s entered a darkened room and experienced a camera obscura might feel some deja vu inside a Renee Butler installation. Her work illuminates a wall or a structure with elements akin to that ancient optical effect real-world color, incremental movement, photographic detail, and in some cases, ambient sound.
Amy Stacey Curtis: Planning the Last Biennial
The potluck supper after the opening of Amy Stacey Curtis’s 2014 exhibition in Parsonsfield, Maine, was held by candlelight, not to set a mood, but because the building didn’t have electricity. Curtis’s self-produced shows don’t happen in typical gallery settings.
The Will To Live: A Conversation with Siobhán Hapaska
Siobhán Hapaska’s Untitled (Intifada), an installation shown at Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, does what any good artwork does: sculpt a mental space for consideration and reconsideration of a subject, encouraging discussion. Over the last 20 years, Hapaska has created a large body of thought-provoking forms and symbols with diverse materials.
Pascale Marthine Tayou
London Serpentine Sackler Gallery “Boomerang,” Pascale Marthine Tayou’s first solo exhibition in London, was a hit on many levels and a crowd pleaser for all ages. His engrossing multimedia works created a circular flow within the square space of the gallery, transforming it into a unified, site-specific installation.
Nicola Costantino
Buenos Aires Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat The Argentine artist Nicola Costantino can’t be ignored. Some people praise her persona and her work—which are almost the same thing since she has made her body the support of most of her works—and some people hate them; there is no gray area.
Myron Helfgott
Richmond, Virginia Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Myron Helfgott is as skeptical of language as he is fascinated by its tendency toward misrepresentation and digression, effects that can be problematic but also poetic, ironic, or humorous.
Martha Walker
New York The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery Martha Walker is a microbiology-minded Surrealist whose recent show, “Broken World, Anxious Heart,” imagined a toxic garden. Long ago, its seems, life rose from luxuriant waters, briefly inhaled the air’s sweetness, then froze.
Aiko Hachisuka
New York Eleven Rivington In Aiko Hachisuka’s second solo exhibition at Eleven Rivington, fabric sculptures beckoned with stalagmite forms and brightly printed surfaces. Continuing her neatly sewn patchworks of mostly outerwear and jackets, these seemingly static cylinders belie an eerie world of body forms that leave traces of their presence through substantial absence.
Anya Gallaccio
New York Lehmann Maupin At first glance, Anya Gallaccio’s sculptures recall Minimalism. Spread across two rooms, a cube and its variations purposefully quote the skeletal frame and open modular structures used by Sol LeWitt in the 1970s.
Barbara Edelstein
New York Christian Duvernois Landscape/Gallery Barbara Edelstein has spent the last few years living in Shanghai, where she teaches American and Chinese students and shares a studio with her husband, artist Jian-Jun Zhang. She has acclimated quite well and is now known as a Shanghai artist, if not a Chinese one.
