SANTIAGO AND BUENOS AIRES Stuart Contemporary and Federico Towpyha Arte Contemporáneo Sofia Donovan, a multifaceted young Argentine-born artist living in Chile, works in photography, video, painting, and sculpture.
Brilliant Rubbish: A Conversation with Robert Cherry
Commanding the east window of Robert Cherry’s hillside studio, which he shares with his wife, painter Seraphine Pick, is the air traffic control tower of the Wellington Airport. Beyond, on the far horizon, one may glimpse a stony suburban seashore where the artist and his young son Joseph once beach-combed flotsam—forlorn, sometimes unidentifiable, mostly plastic,
Bettina Landgrebe
MARFA, TEXAS Chinati Foundation Beaten with a Hammer, a multimedia installation by Bettina Landgrebe, offered a poignant and powerful elegy for the nearly 1,000 women who have been brutally tortured and murdered in the borderlands around Juárez, Mexico, since 1993.
Simple Simply Isn’t: A Conversation with Peter Shelton
Everything about Peter Shelton (pristine studio, stunning preparatory drawings, conversation sprinkled with Latin terms) suggests a combination of obsessive technician and daring poet willing to risk it all for an idea. (A case in point, his controversial 2009 commission for the Los Angeles Police Department [LAPD] headquarters.)
Making Art Visible for Everyone: A Conversation with Athena Tacha
Athena Tacha was born in Greece and received MA degrees in sculpture (Athens) and art history (Oberlin College) and a PhD in aesthetics (Sorbonne). Since 1970, she has done large-scale outdoor sculpture and conceptual/photographic art and has executed more than 40 large commissions for public sites throughout the United States.
Wilhelm Mundt
BERLIN Buchmann Galerie Wilhelm Mundt’s boulder-shaped sculptures are immediate, yet they seem to be all about process and duration. They are also physically polished and perfect. Mundt has been making these brightly colored “Trashstones,” as he calls them, since 1989.
Mike Rathbun
BOISE, IDAHO Boise Art Museum The muscular arc of Mike Rathbun’s The Situation He Found Himself In became visible as soon as one entered the foyer of the Boise Art Museum.
Jongsun Lee
UTICA, NEW YORK Sculpture Space During her two-month residency at Sculpture Space, Jongsun Lee, a peripatetic artist and social sculptor, produced thousands of hand-shaped rice bowls in the studio by day and presented several interactive performances off site in the evening.
La Wilson
HUDSON, NEW YORK John Davis Gallery Now in her mid-80s, Ohio-based, primarily self-taught La Wilson has long made resonant, even transgressive-feeling assemblage works. Her signature form is the box, which she uses to hold compositions made up of everyday objects, very much like a conventional frame provides a border for a painting’s pictorial space.
James O. Clark and Forrest Myers
QUEENS, NEW YORK Regina Rex Western, particularly American, artists will never cease in their quest to find the aesthetic in common objects, to be inventive with found and discarded materials.
