Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago As individual artists, Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger diverge wildly in terms of interests and means of execution. Miller’s candy-colored phallic sculptures and reworkings of homoerotic porn are orgiastic, playful, and irreverent, as was his recent installation, In the Garden, which situated his collages and paintings in a landscape
Patrick McDonough
Washington, DC Katzen Arts Center, American University As Patrick McDonough would be the first to say, he doesn’t like to repeat himself. “brightveridiansentinelevents,” his seventh solo project in Washington, DC, since completing his MFA at George Washington University in 2010, again demonstrated his prolific inventiveness.
Liz Larner
Los Angeles Regen Projects Liz Larner’s work has followed a varied and contradictory trajectory, and her most recent exhibition underscored the diversity of her nonlinear ideas and idiosyncratic approaches. A number of conceptually related but visually disjunctive objects were displayed: a dozen mid-size ceramic and epoxy pieces, two large paper and aluminum structures, a mini-exposition
St. Louis: Sculptural Gateway to the West
Imagine a proposed and completed public artwork recording the locations of 94 fire and flood disasters in Queensland, Australia; then imagine the unveiling of the work, as the artist reveals that the list doesn’t document natural disasters at all, but a series of 19th-century atrocities against indigenous peoples.
Baroque Paradoxes: A Conversation with Albert Paley
Albert Paley’s monumental forms offer a metaphorical resolution to a dilemma first posed by the Industrial Revolution, when it disempowered the human (and human labor) by elevating machines. Today, that revolution has, of course, gone further, morphing into an electronic juggernaut with even greater capacity to dehumanize by reducing us to mere dots in cyberspace.
Cal Lane: Veiled Histories in Steel
Guttersnipe (detail), 2012. Steel, 8 x 6 x 40 ft. Cal Lane was a recipient of the International Sculpture Center 2001 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards Critics define Cal Lane as a female sculptor-welder, a woman using male-oriented, working-class technology to make art.
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Absurdities as Absurd as Reality
“They’re like spies everywhere, filming everything,” Ilya Kabakov grouses to his wife, Emilia. He’s jokingly dissing the ubiquitous film crew—not the KGB of years ago bugging his rooftop Moscow studio. She flashes a knowing smile, then hits her cell phone buttons; there’s a snag to fix in one of the biggest art events that Russia
Objects Are Alive: A Conversation with Abraham Cruzvillegas
Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Autoconstrucción works ricochet back and forth between categories, from intriguing, aesthetically constructed, found-object compositions to emotionally charged, socioeconomic/political statements. Rooted in the real world situation of Mexico City specifically, and to some extent of Latin America generally, this ongoing series builds on the art historical vocabulary of Duchampian readymades, Arte Povera, and assemblage.
2013 Frieze Art Fair
London Regent’s Park The 2013 Frieze Art Fair featured three components, Frieze London, Frieze Masters, and an outdoor sculpture exhibition—all in Regent’s Park. Originally a royal hunting ground, the park includes an artificial lake, tennis courts, cricket ground, children’s playgrounds, and the London Zoo.
Geoffrey Farmer
London The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery Geoffrey Farmer’s The Surgeon and the Photographer consists of 365 puppets (one for every day of the year) constructed of collaged elements from second-hand books and magazines combined with intricate supports and fabric bodies.
