SINGAPORE Sculpture Square A cat hides behind the china cabinet, and a dog sleeps under the studio bench where the artist works. The presence of these two pets in Wee Hong Ling’s “No Place Like Home,” albeit in the form of two-dimensional vinyl cutouts, may seem like a playful gesture; but they are essential to the décor that frames and contextualizes the ceramic works of this Singapore-born and New York-based artist.
Leandro Erlich
NEW YORK Sean Kelly Gallery In the exhibition “Two Different Tomorrows,” Argentinian conceptual sculptor Leandro Erlich addressed the problem of time that he encountered while traveling in Asia: he confused the tomorrow that followed his place of residence with the tomorrow of his gallery’s time zone.
Phillip Beesley
TORONTO Allen Lambert Galleria It was there for 10 days, and then it was gone—a site-specific piece for the Luminato Festival that expanded and enhanced an already spectacular locale, recalculating traditional notions of both art and architecture.
Working with the Wind: A Conversation with Tim Prentice
Tim Prentice is a kinetic sculptor whose works can be seen in many public buildings and corporate collections, including American Express, Bank of America, Citigroup, Mobil, AT&T, and Hewlett-Packard. He received a master’s degree in architecture from Yale in 1960 and founded the award-winning architectural firm of Prentice and Chan in 1965.
Dispatch: 12th Istanbul Biennial
The 12th Istanbul Biennial focused on artists from the Middle East and Latin America. According to “Untitled” co-curator Jens Hoffman, “We were looking for artworks that are formally innovative as well as politically outspoken and that relate to the general themes of the exhibition such as migration, violence, identity, and politics.”
Andrew Mowbray: Weird Science and Aesthetics
Andrew Mowbray makes objects that, in the spirit of his hero Marcel Duchamp, upend elitist notions about the artist, the art object, and its place in the traditional white-box gallery. His finely tooled works—frequently carved out of ivory polyurethane—are often used in video performances sited outside or staged within gallery walls.
Ranjani Shettar: Playing with Creation
Ranjani Shettar says that she turned from painting to sculpture because “I realized I had to move around the object, it had to occupy the same space that I did and there was no illusion in it.
Rita McBride: (Re) Negotiating the Public Realm
American artist Rita McBride has spent the past decade living and working in Germany. She can be characterized as a sculptor with a passion for probing materials previously unexplored in the arts or at the cutting edge of research.
Marc Swanson
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.
