Baltimore Johns Hopkins Evergreen Museum& Library “Simultaneous Presence,” the sixth iteration of Sculpture at Evergreen, included 10 site-specific installations. Working in dialogue with the 26-acre Garrett estate at Johns Hopkins and its rich 150-year history, participating artists have the opportunity to interact not only with natural and architectural environments, but also with diverse collections.
HarborArts
Boston Boston Harbor Shipyard Gallery Its advocates call it a gallery, but any resemblance to a standard art gallery is slim. Boston Harbor Shipyard is a gritty, working marina and shipbuilding facility, poorly suited to art viewing.
Jedediah Caesar
New York D’Amelio Terras Los Angeles-based Jedediah Caesar, in his second solo show at D’Amelio Terras, has taken a step away from projects that overtly demonstrate their “process-oriented” approach, moving simultaneously toward and away from the intellectual precision of Minimalism and the masculine romanticizations of Land Art.
Rashid Johnson
New York Salon 94 Rashid Johnson’s “Our Kind of People” presented two facing installations — Sweet Sweet Runner and Watch Out—and two competing narratives, The first story, in the Afrocentric Sweet Sweet Runner, suggested achievement, domestic order, and upward mobility.
Willard Tucker
Cleveland The Sculpture Center A tangle of camera tripods, copper rods, and jerry-rigged, crackling electrical connections presides over one side of a windowless gallery, like a lightning-blasted tree. This strange hybrid stands sentry amid rows of cotton bolls, picked at historic plantations in Tennessee and now sprouting from the ends of rusty welded steel stalks.
Catherine Grisez
Seattle Traver Gallery “Lick,” a term normally reserved for gustatory treats like ice cream cones, was appropriated by North- west artist Catherine Grisez as the title of her recent exhibition, where it was used to suggest wounds, orrather, the healing thereof.
Maria Nepomuceno
London Victoria Miro Gallery Climbing the stairs into Maria Nepomuceno’s recent exhibition was like entering a lush clearing in the Amazon rainforest of her native Brazil, complete with a carnival of bright, vibrant colors; sensuous, slightly sinister shapes resembling fleshy, carnivorous plants; a hammock, perhaps made from jungle creepers by a passing Indian hunter-gatherer; and
Jen Pepper
Syracuse, New York Everson Museum of Art There is a moment at the top of a leap when we are neither ascending nor descending. It’s a weightless moment full of coiled kinetic energy when something is about to happen—something either momentous or inconsequential (supposing that energy has no consequence).
Herb Rosenberg
Akron, Ohio Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron Herb Rosenberg’s interactive installation Dialogue with an Ancient Forest, which was selected as the first solo exhibition at New Jersey’s new Perth Amboy Gallery Center for the Arts (PAGCA), recently appeared at the University of Akron’s Emily Davis Gallery; additional venues are scheduled for 2011.
