Since the late 1990s, following experimental works in mediums as diverse as pottery, cement, plastic, cast metal, and glass, Canadian artist Shayne Dark has gained considerable attention for sculptures that he creates using elements found in nature—specifically, locally sourced branches, limbs, roots, and trunks of trees.
Carl Andre
Beacon, New York Dia:Beacon “Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010,” a full-scale exhibition of sculpture and poetry by the Minimalist artist, occupied the entire central floor of the Reggio Galleries at Dia:Beacon. It was a large show, with enough space to maintain a feeling of openness and allow the works to imply connections without obfuscating
Lowell Miller
Woodstock, New York Fletcher Gallery Lowell Miller, a longtime student of sculpture, recently exhibited his linearly figurative work in a seemingly far-too-early career retrospective. The show offered Miller’s take on storytelling and craft, mapping that take on the body, naked and elemental.
Magdalena Jetelová
Olomouc, Czech Republic Museum of Modern Art at the Olomouc Museum of Art Magdalena Jetelová’s work has always been antipodal, bringing to a point of suspension such opposites as displacement and precise coordinates, imbalance and equilibrium, occlusion and disclosure.
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Instability: Chris Bradley’s Trompe L’oeil Masculinity
Chris Bradley, a Chicago-based sculptor, takes hold of one of the oldest drives in American art-making through studied simulations of various objects and materials. Successful trompe l’oeil not only seeks to convince viewers of a highly crafted imitation, but also requires a latent recognition of its falsity.
Wen-fu Yu: Living Sculpture
Bamboo is a common material in Taiwan, used for everything from construction scaffolding and billboard supports to baskets. Bamboo is one of the most abundant plants growing in the central mountain ranges of Taiwan, and it is a sustainable and renewable resource: sprouts grow into tall poles in two years.
Terrible Beauty: A Conversation with Pam Longobardi
In 2006, Pam Longobardi visited Hawaii’s South Point and discovered her life mission. Instead of finding an idyllic paradise on the remote beach, she was walloped by an overwhelming amount of marine debris. Since then, she has worked with cast-off plastic as her primary material, creating aesthetic arrangements with detritus that she has recovered from
Sculpture and the Rules of the Social Game
Vertical and horizontal lines, grids, squares, and circles—the vocabulary of Werner Haypeter’s work apparently relies on basic forms of geometric abstraction. This has prompted some critics to label his extensive sculptural output as “concrete art” or “constructivism.”
Joel Shapiro: Meaning in Geometric Form
Joel Shapiro was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2015. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. untitled, 2002–07. Bronze, 13.33 x 27.79 x 12.92 ft.
Mary Mattingly
Philadelphia Delaware River From a distance, Mary Mattingly’s floating installation WetLand could be a storm-lashed hovel or beach cottage fighting to remain above water. And that wouldn’t be far off—this “house under water” summons associations with Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, as well as with homeowners struggling to keep their mortgages afloat.
