Miami Pérez Art Museum Miami A 2007 ceramic work in Ai Weiwei’s blockbuster exhibition “According to What?” emblazons a Neolithic Chinese vessel with a silver Coca-Cola logo painted over original decorative motifs of people and turtles holding hands.
Jessica Straus
Boston Boston Sculptors Gallery “Scrap!,” a recent exhibition by Boston artist Jessica Straus, was quirky and fun and full of surprises in its celebration of the inventive spirit. For this new series of works, Straus repurposed wooden clementine crates—thin plywood boxes printed with brightly colored graphics.
Tony Feher
Lincoln, Massachusetts deCordova Museum Describe a plastic bottle. What are the first adjectives that come to mind? Maybe fragile, ephemeral, unattractive. We are so used to seeing these disposable objects transit quickly through our homes that we fail to consider their long life after the trashcan.
Peter Zegveld
Rotterdam Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Theatrical producer, producer for Dutch public television, and visual artist, Peter Zegveld included 12 visual and sound works in his recent solo exhibition, which surveyed three decades of his artistic practice.
Welcome to the Jungle: A Conversation with Lucía Falconí
Born in Ecuador, Lucía Falconí, who studied and lived for years in Germany, embodies the global concerns of many contemporary artists while retaining a very specific and sensitive connection to her own heritage. Rainforest imagery—huge leaves, exotic plants, and birds—becomes a metaphor for a changing physical and social environment.
Steel Fluency: A Conversation with John Clement
John Clement is a mid-career sculptor whose studio is now located in Long Island City, Queens; until recently, he had been working at an outdoor studio in Bushwick. The new space is across the street from Mark di Suvero’s workshop, where Clement learned the basics of welding metal sculpture some two decades ago.
“Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa”
Washington, D.C. National Museum of African Art With dagger raised, a nail-studded, 19th-century nkisi nkondi by an unknown Yombe artist stood guard, while beyond, the evil boss in William Kentridge’s 1991 animated film Mine raged over his desk.
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Post-Emerging
Ursula von Rydingsvard was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2014. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Ursula von Rydingsvard is “just getting over not being called an emerging artist.”
Tanya Aguiñiga
Laguna Beach, California Laguna Art Museum Tanya Aguiñiga, who works at the intersection of furniture design, craft, and fine art, recently created a powerful installation that reveals her extensive knowledge of the sea. Based on the complexity and specificity of this temporary work, it is fair to say that this MFA graduate from the Rhode
Jan Maarten Voskuil
Laguna Beach, California The Peter Blake Gallery Jan Maarten Voskuil’s work probes the nature of dimensionality with an expanded vision that liberates aesthetic solutions from what was thought possible. Consequently, his sculpted paintings or painted sculptures are hybrid forms.
