Venice Ca’ Zenobio Last year, visitors entering the Hall of Mirrors at the Ca’ Zenobio encountered 10 strange, larger-than-life objects and figures, all made of metal sheets stitched together, When I visited, even before passing the two stately columns leading into the hall, I was wondering, “How can metal float?”
Keith Benjamin
Cincinnati U-turn Art Space Keith Benjamin, a sculptor whose raw materials often come out of the waste can, is moving cautiously toward a more conventional material (walnut), and from it, he makes shit—or suggests it. The first three pieces in his recent exhibition, “Unemployed Title,” play with variations on the theme and combine suggestive-looking carved
The Theater of Flow: A Conversation with Lorna Jordan
Movement is of fundamental importance in Lorna Jordan’s work. Her environmental artworks range from green infrastructures that enhance watersheds and reveal the cycles and mysteries of water to site-specific sculptural pavilions and gathering places that embody progressions of form, to media works that incorporate light and projections.
Lucy Hodgson
New York SoHo20 Gallery As a young artist, Lucy Hodgson began by finding her forms in the natural world, exploring old tree roots and using rhododendrons, kudzu, and cane to produce shapes at once lightweight and physically imposing.
Emilie Brzezinski
Chicago 1112 Gallery for the Arts Emilie Brzezinski’s enveloping and engrossing Family Trees, A Sculptural Installation filled the 1212 Gallery’s huge open space with a forest of photographically enhanced tree trunks. She cut 17 found trees in half and, after carving out their interiors, covered the resulting space with photographic images (mostly of trees, leaves,
Simple Things and Natural Actions: A Conversation with Giuseppe Penone
Giuseppe Penone addresses the contact between man and nature. His conceptual and poetic work starts from tactile experience and attempts to understand and reflect on reality; it aims to use and reveal already existing forms and natural materials, such as wood and stone, in new ways.
Caoimhghin Ó Fraithile: Ritualizing Place
The Irish artist Caoimhghin Ó Fraithile (Quee-veen O Fra-ha-la) makes sculptures and drawings all over the globe—in Asia, Europe, and America. A reticent, monk-like personality, he maintains his peripatetic lifestyle by taking on residencies in different parts of the world.
Allison Hunter’s Zoosphere
A transposition from still photography to full video installation, the latest installment in Allison Hunter’s staging of human/animal associations has as much to tell us about relations between discrete images and installation work as it does about relations between humans and other animals.
Mei-Ling Hom: Cultural Voyaging
Mei-Ling Hom’s work is distinguished by her affinity with cultures often under-represented in contemporary art. Though she is based in Philadelphia, her world travels have led to rich social interactions that have enhanced her work. She is an astute observer who pays attention to details often overlooked by others, as well as a versatile artist.
Presidio Habitats: Living with Nature
A multi-part, site-specific sculpture installation in a national park? As improbable as this sounds, such an exhibition has been on view in the Presidio of San Francisco since May 16, 2010 and continues through May 2011.
