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.
Leviathan: Anish Kapoor at the Grand Palais
For the fourth installment of Monumenta, Anish Kapoor transformed the elegant Grand Palais in Paris with a surreal, space-invading installation. Instead of walking into the museum proper, visitors entered a gigantic, womb-like world where orifices suspended high overhead morphed into other mysterious spaces.
Fiona Banner: Clash of Sensibilities
Fiona Banner first came to prominence in the 1990s with “wordscapes” or “still films” such as The NAM, a 1,000-page, continuous-text book that describes the action in Vietnam War films frame-by-frame. Her interest lies in the complexities of language and history, how they are appropriated and mythologized; she is also interested in the physicality of
Donald Judd
BIRMINGHAM, U.K. IKON Gallery Few opportunities exist to see Donald Judd’s furniture. Chronologically arranged and subtly installed, this exhibition introduced viewers to the renowned Minimalist’s lesser-known career through a comprehensive overview of his furniture design from 1966 to 1992.
Charles Juhász-Alvarado: Raconteur of Complicated Stories
Charles Juhász-Alvarado’s mid-career retrospective (2008), organized by Exit Art in New York, was titled “Complicated Stories” for good reason. In trying to unpack his intellectually challenging work, a writer scrounges around for synonyms such as complex, maximalist, multi-layered, and, certainly, enigmatic.
Andy Goldsworthy
SAN FRANCISCO Presidio National Park and Haines Gallery Andy Goldsworthy has been a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 20 years. The Haines Gallery, which curated “California Projects,” Goldsworthy’s first U.S. show (1992), has also sponsored residencies for the artist to create work in the Sierra Nevadas and the Santa Barbara coastal area, as well as in Sonoma County.
