NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MASS MoCA EJ Hill has been making work about roller coasters for years, following an obsession that began in childhood. Some of his previous roller coaster sculptures have operated as inert platforms for his performances, which are often durational.
Bruce Beasley: Process of Becoming
Just about everything Bruce Beasley has sculpted over the last 60 years circles around one fundamental question: How can an unmoving object—made of enduring materials such as cast iron, aluminum, bronze, stainless steel, granite, acrylic polymer resin, and maple—seem to be in the shape it takes only momentarily, either having recently come to rest in
Millicent Young
STONE RIDGE, NEW YORK merge Entering Millicent Young’s site-specific retrospective “Alter Altar: 20 Years,” on view in merge’s two newly refurbished barns, is like entering a concise representation of human history.
Life Stories: A Conversation with Carla Gimbatti
Carla Gimbatti, who divides her time between Buenos Aires and New York, begins her work with obser- vation. Interested in origins, she wants to know what lies behind the patterns and textures of the world—the marks of time and experience written into everything from immense sedimentary land formations to the tiniest details of human handprints.
Elisa D’Arrigo
NEW YORK Elizabeth Harris Gallery Delightfully bodied and splendidly decked out in glazes of many colors, the 20 new ceramic works in Elisa D’Arrigo’s current exhibition make their presence emphatically felt despite the modesty of their measurements.
Mika Rottenberg
SAN FRANCISCO Contemporary Jewish Museum Captured in one of Rottenberg’s spell-binding loops, as if in a newly created circle of Hell, you return again and again to each of these strange scenes, trying to parse their meaning.
Passion To Connect: A Conversation with Bhajan Hunjan
Bhajan Hunjan was born and raised in Kenya. After moving to the U.K. to study fine art at Reading University, she went on to gain a postgraduate degree in printmaking from the Slade School of Fine Art and to study ceramics at the former Central School of Art in London.
Controlled Explosions: A Conversation with Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew’s massive wall-bound tableaux, objects, and installations engage the cyclical nature of existence. Made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, his abstract, emotionally charged compositions possess a metaphorical weight, transcending time and place to approach the infinite through the discarded and finite.
Thomas Müller
LOS ANGELES Patricia Sweetow Gallery The transformation of text from print into scaled-up objects and the use of innocuous fonts combine to create a perception of language’s unstable skin.
Memory Is a Weapon: A Conversation with Ricardo Brey
Assemblage sculptor, installation artist, and draftsman Ricardo Brey attended art school in his native Havana and went on to join the experimental art group Volumen Uno, which distanced itself from the precepts of Cuban socialist realism.
