Springfield, Massachusetts George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum Gloria Garfinkel’s recent exhibition featured a strong selection of sculptures, paintings, and works on paper, particularly the “Hanabi” series, based on origami forms, and the “Flip” series, made of aluminum.
Sarah Bliss, Rosalyn Driscoll, and James Wyness
Boston Boston Sculptors Gallery How does an artist make a tactile work when the viewer can’t touch anything? Sarah Bliss has done so, in collaboration with sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll and sound artist James Wyness, in their video installation Blindsight at Boston Sculptors Gallery.
George Sherwood
Boothbay, Maine Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens With roots in Russian Constructivism—Naum Gabo, Anton Pevsner, and László Moholy-Nagy—kinetic art has developed its own idiosyncratic brand over the years. Among its best-known practitioners is George Rickey, who spurred an entire movement in the U.S.
Dorothy Dehner
Chicago Valerie Carberry Gallery Dorothy Dehner (1901–94) once said, “The minute I started doing sculpture, I felt it was something I had done all my life.” She waited 54 years to make her first sculpture and then worked in bronze, wood, and fabricated metal for almost 40 years.
“Re:Purposed”
Sarasota, Florida The Ringling Museum After passing through the Ringling’s beautifully decorated Baroque galleries, viewers encountered “Re:Purposed,” a show of 21st-century art with a Baroque exuberance. Curator Matthew McLendon brought together disparate works that incorporate both ordinary and exotic detritus.
Christina West
Miami Mindy Solomon Gallery Christina West’s recent exhibition “Intimate Strangers” highlighted the importance of seeing three-dimensional work in person. Photographs of her human figures, such as Stranger #3 and Stranger #4, give the impression that their rendering of flesh is cold and austere and that they loom large in the gallery space, but visiting this
Dark Matter, A Conversation with Katie Paterson
The work of Katie Paterson is ever expanding like the cosmos, opening up wonder and inquiry into the primordial density of our universe—a gravitational mass of the visible and the unseen, held together by dark matter.
Lois Weinberger
Mainz, Germany Kunsthalle Mainz Drawings, notes, texts, objects, models, sculptures, installations, photos of performances, and interventions—Lois Weinberger’s recent exhibition employed a multitude of media, each one on a par with the others. Even within individual genres, Weinberger’s works are extremely heterogeneous in terms of style, theme, and choice of material.
The Oneness of an Endless Universe: A Conversation with Mariko Mori
Mariko Mori has the tact of a Swiss diplomat and the drive to pursue ambitious artistic goals. Her work, which promotes oneness and global consciousness, explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology.
Maren Hassinger: Winds of Change
Over the last 40 years, Maren Hassinger has built a body of work that explores identity politics and the goal of human equality. Yet she differs from many artists of her generation in that her approach has not been confrontational or continually self-referential.
