HOUSTON Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Marc Swanson’s recent solo exhibition was named for Second Story, a now defunct gay bar in San Francisco that had closed before the artist even visited the city.
Aristotle Georgiades
CHICAGO Chicago Cultural Center Aristotle Georgiades’s recent exhibition “Repurposed” featured eight sculptures constructed from salvaged wooden and metal objects.
William Corwin
NEW YORK The Clocktower A chess game played by two American masters at The Clocktower in Lower Manhattan marked the culmination of a residency held by William Corwin, a New York sculptor who thinks long and hard about conceptual motifs.
Shuli Sadé: Thinking in Time
Shuli Sadé, an Israeli-born, New York-based artist, specializes in working across the interstices of art categories. Most often, her work has to do with photography and video, but her images also explore the boundaries of two-dimensional and three-dimensional form.
Allan Wexler: The Man Who Would Be Architecture
Two bird nests cradling speckled eggs sit in a glass vitrine in Allan Wexler’s living room. Propped beneath them on the floor is his drawing Positions of Plywood (2007), six softly rendered planes afloat on ochre paper.
Juan Miceli
BUENOS AIRES This Is Not A Gallery Sculptor, installation, and performance artist Juan Miceli says, “I am my work.” Without him, the work doesn’t exist. Miceli thinks in terms of projects; he imagines worlds and works without previous formal organization or model.
Elizabeth Turk: The Line Defining Three-Dimensional Space
Elizabeth Turk does not fit very comfortably within an art world that demands rapid production of work for museum shows, international biennials, and an ever-expanding range of art fairs. Her meticulously carved sculptures take years to create, and their fragile nature makes them difficult to transport.
Lori Nozick: The Girl Who Liked to Smell Dirt
New York-based sculptor Lori Nozick installed wooden structures in galleries in Italy last year, mounted a show in Berlin over the summer, and then flew to Israel to initiate a future project. Her indoor gallery installations play with perspective and demand interaction.
Fabrizio Plessi, Pier Paolo Calzolari, and Marisa Merz
VENICE Biennale di Venezia, Ca’ Pesaro, Fondazione Querini Stampalia Venice recently hosted three solo shows by three leading Italian sculptors whose language couldn’t be more different: video-techno visionary Fabrizio Plessi at the Venice Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; Arte Povera master Pier Paolo Calzolari at the Ca’ Pesaro; and the mysterious, solitary Marisa Merz.
Duane Paxson
TROY, ALABAMA Johnson Art Center With works from the past decade, as well as a new series, Duane Paxson’s recent show offered an interesting contrast in subjects and materials.
