SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA Marin Museum of Contemporary Art As described by Natasha Boas, co-curator with MOCA director Jodi Roberts, part of the impulse behind the exhibition was the “idea of artistic transmission and influence across generations.” The show also investigates how the tangled messes of our everyday lives can engender transcendent art.
Cuando la luz pinta: Una Conversación con Juan Ignacio Cabruja
Licenciado en Bellas Artes de la UNR en la ciudad de Rosario, donde nació, y cursando una Maestría en teoría y estéticas de las artes electrónicas en UNTREF, Juan Ignacio Cabruja trabaja con la luz como materia prima, indagando cómo opera y afecta el espacio que habitamos tanto con su presencia como en su ausencia.
Here Is Elsewhere: A Conversation with Johan Muyle
Belgian artist Johan Muyle found his voice 40 years ago with La Modification (1984), an aptly named assemblage sculpture that borrows its title from Michel Butor’s celebrated 1957 novel. Consisting of a recliner attached to ropes and nooses, with a crate suspended between bicycle wheels placed behind, the entire ensemble evokes an instrument of torture or execution.
Camille Henrot
NEW YORK Hauser & Wirth While these works inspire free association and advocate for the importance of the imagination—implying that the grid’s rubric of rules and orderliness can be disrupted—other sculptures inquire into the nature of art-making and the desire to break completely free of formal boundaries.
Katie Hubbell
PHILADELPHIA Cherry Street Pier Katie Hubbell works across sculpture, new media, and installation, often using fantastical, high-key colors in combination with biomorphic or subtly anthropomorphic forms to trace the tension between the grotesqueness and beauty of the human body.
Disruptor of Objects: A Conversation with Bharti Kher
Transformation—both material and metaphysical—lies at the heart of Bharti Kher’s career-long project to deconstruct the details of everyday life and rearrange them into more honest, if brutal truths. Like the literary masters of metamorphosis Ovid and Kafka, she moves between certainty and uncertainty in order to construct parables of contemporary life and of the body.
Giovanni Anselmo: Entering the Work
Giovanni Anselmo’s works are predicated on action. As a result, they always seem to exist in the present moment—dynamic presentations of materials that resist aesthetic resolution, with each encounter constituting a perceptual experience that empowers individual outcomes and discoveries.
Finding Hybridabad: A Conversation with Osman Khan
More than two years in the making, “Road to Hybridabad” marks the culmination of an interwoven narrative that Detroit-based artist Osman Khan has been building for his entire life. Drawing on literary classics like One Thousand and One Nights and Waiting for Godot, the exhibition (currently on view at MASS MoCA) employs ordinary, familiar objects—telephone
“Moment of Perception”
VENICE, CALIFORNIA King Studio Taking almost diametrically opposed approaches, Mahoney and Johnson demonstrate rigorous, meticulous control of their selected materials and processes. In fact, the level of craft they achieve plays a major part in the appeal of the wall-based works presented here.
