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.
Forms of Prediction: A Conversation with Gabriel Kuri
“Forecast,” Gabriel Kuri’s current exhibition at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, is his first institutional survey in the country where he grew up. Featuring more than 50 works, including three new pieces, the show centers around the idea of art as a “forecast” that might predict and imagine what is to come.
Into Cacophony: A Conversation with Michael Dean
Michael Dean’s work begins with words—his own writing, found phrases, nonsensical fragments, and repetitions—which he alters and twists into personalized typographies, then translates into forms in space. The sculptures that give flesh to his texts are as raw, streetwise, and mutable as the words themselves, rooted in his Newcastle-upon-Tyne upbringing and later years in London.
Ebony G. Patterson
NEW YORK New York Botanical Garden In the conservatory, discretely placed sculptures disrupt the palm court with evidence of exploitation and concealed secrets, revealing the hidden histories that lie just beneath the botanical garden’s scientific reserve.
Massimo Bartolini
PRATO, ITALY Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci Massimo Bartolini explores sculpture in a field so expanded that he looks beyond form. An alternative point of view to the familiar is typical of his approach, and in the case of sculpture, that alternative is to make an object into an event, a stage where metamorphosis from one state to another is followed and expectations shifted.
Coleccionista de huesos: Una Conversación con Gabriela Acha
Licenciada en Escultura de la Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, la artista visual y curadora Gabriela Acha produce un tipo de obra que toma como punto de partida el análisis de los métodos que aplican las ciencias y el arte para abordar la naturaleza como objeto de estudio.
Henry Taylor
PHILADELPHIA Fabric Workshop and Museum By stacking, binding, and juxtaposing an assortment of formal elements to configure new images and meanings out of the familiar, Taylor coalesces the seemingly disparate objects making up this installation/exhibition into an itinerary of interrelated allusions.
Pepón Osorio
NEW YORK New Museum Osorio’s politically engaged trompe-l’oeil environments hit the nail squarely on the head. They remind us of the importance of things as vessels for memories, sentiments, and ideals.
Lindsey Mendick
EDINBURGH Jupiter Artland Private nightmares become public in this communal space. It’s not a divine comedy, but a very human one, freed from judgment, a morality nightmare upended.
