Montreal Battat Contemporary At first sight, the works in Stephen Talasnik’s “Panorama: Monolithe Intime” look like the imaginings of Piranesi or a variation on Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument for the Third International. The repeating structural elements are inventive and circumscribe space, creating compositions that are less about concept design than the possibilities of sculptural form.
Richard Purdy
Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada Shawinigan Space Navigating through Richard Purdy’s water-themed installations in “ecH20,” offered some insight into one of Canada’s most wily and interdisciplinary creative “producers” For this solo show, Shawinigan Space, North American’s oldest aluminum fabrication facility and a designated National Historic site, was transformed into a temple, visitors were invited to take off
Douglas White
Dublin Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Douglas White’s recent work sets up a number of contrasting references that convey a powerful sense of mystery. Grouped under the alchemical title “Black Sun,” his sculptures and drawings evoke light and dark and speak of powerful bursts of energy and their residues.
Marcello Morandini
Mantua, Italy Casa del Mantegna The work of a living sculptor who describes the “infinite and eternal world of geometry” might, or might not, fit happily into living space planned with geometrical rigor by a 15th-century painter and now put to use as a gallery.
Art as Monster: A Conversation with Allora & Calzadilla
Over the past 15 years, Allora & Calzadilla (the artist team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla) have produced an interdisciplinary body of work known for its distinct blend of art, poetry, and socio-political critique. Playful farce and social interaction underlie their installations, videos, performances, works in public space, photographs, and collages.
Jeanne Silverthorne: New Life in the Ruins of the Artist’s Studio
I knew that I wanted to learn more about Jeanne Silverthorne’s work when I saw one of her tiny rubber figures sitting on a tall pedestal in the McKee Gallery booth at the ADAA Fair about two years ago.
Daniel Canogar: Media Brainstorms
In the installations of Spanish artist Daniel Canogar, electronic media work in concert with sculpture to create hypnotic and mesmerizing environments from abandoned technologies. Throughout Canogar’s work, there is an impulse to keep the “human” presence alive.
Diane Landry: The Clutter of All Things
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
