Buenos Aires Eduardo Sívori Museum I once defined Claudia Aranovich’s work as a battlefield that consists of materials, message, artist, and spectator, and this description remains relevant. Her recent retrospective at the Eduardo Sívori Museum in Buenos Aires gathered more than 20 large-format sculptures, relief boxes, and luminous objects, as well as a video installation—a
Celene Hawkins
Cincinnati Taft Museum of Art A sculptor, turned loose in a gallery filled with paintings, looks at—the frames. Or so it seemed in Celene Hawkins’s thought-provoking exhibition “Landscape Re-framed: Sculptures” in which she recorded her responses to the Taft Museum’s fine collection of primarily European works from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Mayumi Sarai
New York Lori Bookstein Fine Art Mayumi Sarai is a Japanese-born sculptor who trained at the Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo and at the New York Studio School. Currently, she pursues her career as a carver in Bayonne, New Jersey, and Colchester, New York.
Beauty with a Measure of Awkwardness: A Conversation with Sahej Rahal
Clever, capable, and spirited, Sahej Rahal belongs to a new generation of Indian artists who have seen the success of their immediate predecessors and wish for more of the same. Rahal is as articulate as he is well-informed, with kaleidoscopic knowledge and the ability to adapt ideas from recent history with intellectual ease; his works
Judy Onofrio
Minneapolis Thomas Barry Fine Arts Judy Onofrio’s recent exhibition, “Full Circle,” marked a significant and radical departure in both materials and aesthetics from her flamboyant work of the last three decades. Whereas her earlier figurative sculpture, wall reliefs, and installations—some of grand scale—were theatrical, even operatic assemblages, the “Full Circle” works consist largely of vessel
Leslie Wilcox
Boston Boston Sculptors Gallery Leslie Wilcox’s signature material has long been metal screening, the ordinary kind used to cover windows in summer. She built her career on quasi-figurative works made out of it, empty dresses and the like, generally suggesting people but not in any literal way.
Kyoko Hazama
Delray Beach, Florida Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens “From a Quiet Place: The Paper Sculptures of Kyoko Hazama” was organized by Susanna Brooks, the Morikami Museum’s curator of Japanese art. The Morikami, which collects and exhibits Japanese art, is thoughtfully designed, grounded by concepts that govern traditional architecture in Japan, but reinterpreted to reflect a
Helen Pashgian
Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art The darkened rectangular chamber on the entry level of the Art of the Americas Building at LACMA was illuminated by a series of 12 columns running down its center in a straight line.
Jeff Koons: A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing Clothes
For a moment, let’s look at the work of Jeff Koons in its artistic and cultural context, separating it from issues having to do with production, financing, promotion, and reception—for the latter have received ample attention in the wake of the artist’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Michael Cooper: Mastery with a Message
It looks like an ordinary tricycle that any three-year-old might ride. But it’s made entirely of wood (wenge and sycamore), and if you give it more than a passing glance, you notice a wooden gun mounted under the seat, pointing in a forward direction.
