The world knows many rhythms. From the Earth’s orbit around the sun, which gives us the cycle of seasons, to the planet’s rotation, which creates the periodicity of day and night, down to the very beating of our hearts and the systolic and diastolic movements of blood through our bodies, existence is all about the
Marc Leuthold: Cosmic Clay
“Marc Leuthold: Sculpture 1995–2010,” an impressive mid-career retrospective of works by the New York-based ceramicist at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri, also included a major new installation. Offering crystallizes the formal and thematic concerns present in all of Leuthold’s work and continues his ongoing challenge to the traditions and assumptions that
August Ventimiglia: Sculpting the Line
August Ventimiglia’s works on paper, in three dimensions, and directly on walls are based in the historical precedents of Minimalism (thoroughly digested and re-thought) and process art (rationalized and systemized). His tools come from the building trades—sandpaper, chalk, straight edge, plumb line—and with these humble items, he makes works in which the arbitrary is subsumed
Facing the Void: A Conversation with Toshikatsu Endo
Toshikatsu Endo’s sculptures confront ancient times and urges. With materials such as bones, wood, water, and fire, they become primal devices leading back to the essence of human existence. For Endo, art is a special field that oscillates between linguistic and non-linguistic tendencies, that can use construction and destruction to go beyond the limits of
Charles LeDray
Boston Institute of Contemporary Art “Fragile” and “vulnerable” are not words associated with traditional sculpture, but then, Charles LeDray is not a traditional sculptor. Not for him the grandeur of figures carved in marble or cast in bronze, although his work does, in an eccentric way, qualify as figurative.
Patrick Dougherty
Washington, DC Dumbarton Oaks A contemporary Johnny Appleseed who sows giant orchards, Patrick Dougherty blew into Georgetown last year with one assistant. As friendly as Tom Sawyer recruiting fence-painters, he conjured up a village of 100 volunteers and, for three weeks, led them in harvesting, hauling, and weaving truckloads of maple and hornbeam saplings from
Donna Hapac
Chicago The Architrouve Donna Hapac’s sculptures evoke an off-kilter, latticed garden where the organic environment is propped up, hitched together, and suspended to sway gently in the air. In this trellised world held together with waxed linen thread tied into thousands and thousands of square knots, meticulously snipped ends yield fine, bristly pelts that halo
“Dead or Alive”
New York Museum of Arts and Design An exhibition of international artists who turn organic matter into art could be a creepy proposition, But thanks to MAD chief curator David Revere McFadden, joined by senior curator Lowery Stokes Sims and assistant curator Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane, “Dead or Alive” was nothing less than a phantasmagoria of
Takafumi Ide
New York Ise Cultural Foundation Japanese-born sculptor Takafumi Ide graduated with an MFA from Stony Brook University three years ago, He is currently teaching there, in addition to working at Suffolk Community College. His work involves subtle light and sound installations suffused with the sensitivity and subtlety that viewers might expect from an Asian artist.
Martin Bonadeo
Pittsburgh Wood Street Galleries “Alba Magica,” a retrospective of Argentinean installation artist Martin Bonadeo, spanned over a decade of his creative output. Throughout his oeuvre, he investigates time, space, and illusion. Most of his installations are informed by his post-doctoral research focusing on connections across art, science, and technology.
