New York Lesley Heller Workspace Brenda Garand’s sculpture series “Northern Passage” reflects on the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Irene (2011), including the destruction of her Vermont studio on the White River. Garand’s notions of nature and culture evoke her French Canadian, Abenaki, and British heritages.
Todd Slaughter
Cincinnati Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery At first glance, “Todd Slaughter: American Primitives” might have seemed designed to amuse and delight, but that’s too easy. Slaughter wants people looking at his work to think.
Kate Ritson
San Antonio Southwest School of Art Kate Ritson, a professor of art at San Antonio’s Trinity University, has unveiled a new body of work after a difficult decade spent caring for aging parents and dealing with her own health issues.
Alexandra Bircken
Rotterdam Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Alexandra Bircken’s recent exhibition, which was installed in conjunction with the Boijmans Van Beuningen’s headline show “Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray—Framing Sculpture,” featured more than 40 sculptural works produced since 2004. Bircken is becoming increasingly known for her assemblages of diverse materials and everyday objects.
Park Eun Sun
Rome Mercati di Traiano Park Eun Sun’s exhibition at the Mercati di Traiano was a double experience, just like the artist’s soul (born in South Korea, he succumbed to the seductions of stone and moved to Pietrasanta in the early 1990s).
Mrinalini Mukherjee
New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art “Transfigurations: The Sculpture of Mrinalini Mukherjee,” curated by Peter Nagy, was a triumph of the artist’s vision. It also served as a memorial retrospective; Mukherjee died, at the age of 65, just a week after the opening.
Aurora Robson
Charlotte, North Carolina McColl Center for Art + Innovation Aurora Robson grew up in a family on the run. Early in her career, she made paintings that mapped her childhood nightmares, endeavoring to remake them into dreams.
Alyson Shotz
Clinton, New York Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College Brooklyn-based artist Alyson Shotz has long been fascinated by space and how objects occupy it. Her work investigates perception and how that perception is shaped through process, materials, and natural forces.
Ryan Roa
Mahwah, New Jersey Ramapo College of New Jersey Ryan Roa’s black bungee-cord sculptures recall Minimalist efforts of more than a generation ago. His works are perhaps more accurately described as drawings in space: Roa links one cord to another and tethers them to the ceiling, wall, or floor to produce linear as well as volumetric
Jordan Eagles
Boston Mills Gallery Jordan Eagles has discovered that blood, dried in quantity, turns into rock-like forms and then crumbles into flakes and dust. Distributing this medium with an unerring eye on a large backing, he then seals it into place with UV resin.
