EXETER, ENGLAND Exeter Phoenix For Cruickshank, the particular qualities of spun yarn—its durability, tenacity, flexibility, softness, resilience, and color-bearing—become the prime concern, manipulated by the idiosyncrasies of makeshift technology.
Mundane Acts: A Conversation with Oscar Tuazon
Oscar Tuazon works in and out of and between sculpture, architecture, and the meditative spirit. His practice also expands toward activism related to land and water access and infrastructure. Often using architectural techniques and materials, he produces quasi-functional objects, parts or representations of spaces, and constructions that are open to use and appropriation.
Maria Bartuszová
LONDON Tate Modern This exhibition marks the first major show in the U.K. of works by the extraordinary Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová (1936–96), whose abstract plaster sculptures are replete with organic forms both fragile and solid, sometimes tortured and always corporeal.
Open Books: A Conversation with Jukhee Kwon
Jukhee Kwon, who has been making three-dimensional, paper-based works for over a decade, uses discarded books as her primary material, carefully slicing, cutting, and otherwise manipulating their pages to create a variety of unexpected forms—from intimate, small-scale objects to large-scale installations.
Endless Inventory: A Conversation with Florian Slotawa
Conceptual artist Florian Slotawa does not make his work from scratch. Instead, he assembles his sculptures and installations from what already exists, rearranging and recontextualizing found material with a keen sense of form and color.
Materializando Certezas: Una Conversación con Marina De Caro
Artista visual y Licenciada en Historia del Arte (UBA), la marplatense Marina De Caro ha recorrido una larga carrera en el campo de las artes interesada siempre en un cruce multidisciplinario donde dibujos, textiles, instalaciones, esculturas, cerámicas, videos o performances, se desplieguen sin reglas fijas sin “ningún tipo de ortodoxia.”
Out of the Ocean: A Conversation with Duke Riley
The junk-based sculptures and film installations in “DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash,” Duke Riley’s current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, take aim at the environmental villains, past and present, responsible for the destruction of the world’s oceans.
David Baskin
NEW YORK Freight+Volume The work imparts a futuristic, retro, popsicle feel, like standing signage in an alien script from a corny, camp version of the 1960s cartoon show “The Jetsons.”
Rose B. Simpson
NEW YORK Jack Shainman Gallery Simpson’s figures are arranged toward each other; entering their presence feels like interrupting a conversation between old friends. Most of the exhibition’s dozen sculptures are life-size or larger, which adds to the sense of stepping through or meeting their gaze.
Mean Functionality: A Conversation with Irina Kirchuk
Irina Kirchuk’s works walk a fine line between abstraction and figuration. The Argentinian artist, who lives and works in Buenos Aires, observes the urban landscape and recovers objects from it, collecting and classifying them, exploring what she calls “their material obsolescence and mean functionality.”
