Artist, educator, and innovator, Mary Bates Neubauer, the recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s 2015 Outstanding Educator Award, bridges ancient and cutting-edge technologies. Trained and first hired as a foundry sculptor, she’s broadened her practice at Arizona State University’s sculpture program in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, where she is a professor
Mariana Castillo Deball
Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof Parergon, an ambitious, operatic installation from Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball, explored the biographies of objects in various Berlin museums, particularly the Nationalgalerie. As the title, which means “supplementary work” or “byproduct,” suggests, the work examined and decrypted the history of these collections, their buildings, exhibits, and protagonists.
Ethereal for Eternity: A Conversation with Alfredo Pirri
Like any sculptor, Alfredo Pirri, who lives and works in Rome, deals with space and form, but he wants his works—solid forms made to last forever—to be immaterial, to appear as ethereal and dematerialized as light and shadow.
Andrea Loefke
Brooklyn Smack Mellon Confronting the prow of Andrea Loefke’s ark head-on made a powerful first impression. This foreshortened view indicated something vast and ominous looming just inside the gallery but offered only the merest hint of what was actually there.
William Tucker
London Pangolin London William Tucker’s monumental bronze sculptures are incredibly difficult to reproduce in photographs. Despite careful lighting and the judicious use of close-ups, most catalogues do not succeed in being more than an aide-mémoire.
“Rite of Passage: The Early Years of Vienna Actionism, 1960–1966” Hauser & Wirth
New York “Rite of Passage: The Early Years of Vienna Actionism, 1960–1966,” curated by Hubert Klocker, was the first show to present the early years of the Vienna Actionists to a New York audience. Klocker and his academic associate, Gloria Sutton, carefully outlined the importance of these artists—including Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl, Günter Brus, and
Enrico David
New York Michael Werner Gallery Idiosyncrasy in contemporary sculpture has a way of communicating pleasure and humor, and Enrico David’s recent show did exactly that. His works play with the figure but also maintain a genuine sculptural intelligence that supports his offbeat themes.
Ted Victoria
New York Robert Miller Gallery Ted Victoria continues to baffle and enlighten viewers with works that explore relationships between actual objects and their photographic representations. Iconic sea monkeys, aswim in projection boxes, along with banal objects sequestered within enigmatic camera obscura constructions, still prevail.
Jane Lackey
Santa Fe, New Mexico Center for Contemporary Art Before we learned to write, we learned to speak. Before it was a language recognized by our tribe, it was sound. Our cries of pleasure and pain were connected to what we experienced in our bodies, and as we quickly learned, those sounds could elicit attention and
Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris
North Adams, Massachusetts MASS MoCA In the 18th century, the world’s most common bird may have been Ectopistes migratorius, the passenger pigeon. Estimated at three to five billion in number, these birds made up a quarter of the total avian population in North America when the first European settlers arrived.
