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.
Ronald Bladen
NEW YORK Loretta Howard Gallery In recent years, Ronald Bladen has been cited as a “Romantic Minimalist,” along with Robert Grosvenor and Robert Smithson.
“The Nameless Hour: Places of Reverie, Paths of Reflection”
RICHMOND Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University “The Nameless Hour” explored the oneiric imagination through a variety of sculptural and projection-based installations.
Katharina Grosse
Just about 12 years ago, German artist Katharina Grosse initiated a radical and risky extension of her painting, moving off the canvas and into architectural spaces. She began to make her swirling, energetic, intensely colorful abstract works directly on walls and, in some cases, parts of the ceiling; in these and subsequent works, Grosse exchanged
Betye Saar
NEW YORK Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Betye Saar spent four years preparing for this exhibition—not a small effort, considering that she is 84 years old.
Sopheap Pich: Return to Cambodia
Sopheap Pich, now living and working in Phnom Penh, returned to his native country at the end of 2002, after living and studying in America for close to 20 years. Born in 1971 in Koh Kralaw, a small rice-farming town in northwestern Cambodia, he spent his early childhood moving among towns and villages in his
Sculpting Urban Airspace: Janet Echelman
If your eye becomes entangled by the beauty of a huge fishing net cast into the vast blue of the sky, it has probably been caught in a work by Janet Echelman. Originally a painter, Echelman has been working with nets since a residency in India.
Jan-Ru Wan: A Magical Journey
A mile or more of hand-dyed, waxed thread, perhaps an acre of silkscreened, printed, and dyed silk organza and other fabrics, hundreds of bells, rusted razor blades, brain scans on magnetized rubber disks, small round candle mirrors, miniature Buddhas, the Heart Sutra, and a myriad of other symbolic objects mark the artistic journey traveled by
Claire Lieberman: Material Sensitivities
Claire Lieberman is a sculptor with a clear sensitivity for materials. Incredibly agile, she demonstrates a comfort with everything from alabaster, marble, and glass to cast rubber and resin, to ice and molded Jell-O. She has even experimented with photography and video, though always with her sculptures as the subject of the work.
