New Zealand artist Chris Booth recently completed a massive installation of undulating sandstone at the Royal Botanic Gardens—350 tons of rock cascading downhill along the shores of Sydney harbor. The wave-like form is an impressive 22 meters long and rises, at its highest, three meters above ground level (not high enough to intimidate the children
Sarah Kabot
AKRON Akron Art Museum In The Matrix, Neo bends and folds the world, wrapping it around to fit his will.
Redefining Limits: A Conversation with Judy Millar
Sarah Gold: At the end of the 1920s, Yervand Kochar initiated discussions about “painting into space.” More recently, the German artists Gotthard Graubner and Katharina Grosse have continued this line of thinking. How did you become interested in space and the painted surface?
Melissa Pokorny
SEATTLE Platform Gallery Melissa Pokorny’s recent show offered a startling and unexpectedly beautiful selection of her mid-scale, found-object, assemblage sculptures.
Marianne Weil
NEW YORK Kouros Gallery There’s a palpable human presence in Marianne Weil’s bronze sculptures. The incisions, hatchings, and symbols scratched into her early totem-like figures reflect 10 years spent exploring and researching archaeological sites, from Neolithic cairns in Brittany to Bronze Age settlements in Spain.
The Theatrum Mundi: Barry X Ball
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
