A key to penetrating Barry X Ball’s sculptural enterprise (though not by any means to unlocking all its contents) was a phrase he let slip in a recent interview concerning his solo exhibition at the Ca’ Rezzonico in Venice.
Art Basel Miami Beach
MIAMI Miami Sculpture Biennial/Pulse Art Fair South Florida is hit by a tidal wave of contemporary sculpture every December as Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), Pulse, Design Miami, the new Miami Sculpture Biennial, and a dozen other temporary art fairs and exhibitions come to town.
“Material Girls”
BALTIMORE Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture With an aesthetic rooted in the everyday, “Material Girls” featured work by eight emerging and established black women artists who translate the metaphoric properties of their media into fierce sculptures, immersive installations, and intricate assemblages.
Arne Quinze
MUNICH Galerie Thomas Modern Arne Quinze’s works are immediately recognizable—composed of multiple bright orange boards that flow together at seemingly arbitrary angles to make huge, organic, cloud-like shapes, meant as metaphors for cooperation between people.
Adventures in Black: Seung-Wook Sim
Seung-Wook Sim belongs to a generation of young Korean artists who have taken advantage of educational opportunities in both South Korea and the United States, where they have stayed after school. Sim has an impeccable academic pedigree: he studied sculpture at the prestigious Hong-Ik University in Seoul, where he received his BFA in 1999 and
John Clement
NEW YORK Causey Contemporary The very large, garage-like space of Causey Contemporary just barely had room for John Clement’s Oiler (2011), which consists of two curved tubes of 20-inch-diameter welded steel that reach more than 18 feet in height.
Rosalyn Driscoll
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Rosalyn Driscoll’s concern throughout her career has been haptic studies, the investigation of tactility.
Daniel Laskarin
VICTORIA, CANADA Art Gallery of Greater Victoria When encountering an artwork for the first time, there’s a natural desire to try to understand it, to ponder the artist’s motivation and the work’s meaning.
Sook Jin Jo
NEW YORK O.K. Harris Korean sculptor Sook Jin Jo has been living in New York since 1988; she had her first solo show at O.K. Harris in 1990.
Jim Campbell
NEW YORK Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco-based light artist Jim Campbell, who studied math and engineering at M.I.T., began constructing interactive video environments in the mid-1980s.
