Rome MAXXI MAXXI, Italy’s National Museum of XXI Century Arts, opened last spring. Despite the name, the collection is dominated thus far by art from the second half of the 20th century, though the museum has commissioned several new works, including Maurizio Mochetti’s site-specific Rette di luce nell’iperspazio curvilineo (Light lines through curvilinear hyper-space).
Eva Hesse
New York Hauser & Wirth In addition to creating elaborate large-scale sculptures and installations, Eva Hesse consistently produced a variety of small experimental works during her short career. Coined “Studioworks” by Hesse scholar Briony Fer, these sculptures embody a sense of immediacy and spontaneity that sets them apart as a unique group.
John Toki
Sonoma, California A New Leaf Gallery—Sculpturesite John Toki, a versatile Bay Area sculptor, teacher, writer, inventor, plumber, electrician, and businessman, makes monumental structures from slag-like clay. Collectively called landscape abstractions or earthscapes, these freestanding and wall-hung works, which feature what can be interpreted as embedded symbols, seem as archaeological and anthropological as they are geological.
A Poet and His Muses: A Conversation with Jim Dine
When the staff at the J. Paul Getty Museum invited Jim Dine to visit the Getty Villa and develop a contemporary work related to the collection, they may have been expecting a suite of drawings. Although Dine began his career by creating Happenings in New York City during the late ’50s, since the ’80s, he
Alice Pixley Young
Cincinnati Weston Art Gallery Shape rules in Alice Pixley Young’s work. She is also interested in color, atmosphere, and multi-disciplinary approaches, but her exhibition “Nightfall” kept viewers attuned to seeing what she would do next with her inventive use of recurrent shapes.
Kishore Chakraborty
New Delhi Gallery Threshold After a gap of five years, Kishore Chakraborty has returned with “We the People,” a solo show featuring a few stark but strangely powerful sculptures. Employing a limited but dramatic palette of red and black and an equally economical but intriguing range of motifs (the crab, the tongue), these works present
Adam Walls: Animated Steel
Adam Walls’s intimate engagement with steel links the divergent forms of his work. His sculptural output moves back and forth along a fairly broad spectrum of possibilities. At one end is the manipulation of raw steel into human-scaled, simplified forms, unfinished and left to rust (Mother and Child, Figures, Rings I and II).
Mary Early: Complexity in Simplicity
Mary Early views her spare configurations as records of objects, spaces, and impressions. While these sculptural distillations bear traces of things seen and remembered, they upend expectations, giving their own version of the truth as it might apply to appearances, materials, and processes.
Meredith James
New York Marc Jancou Contemporary Not yet 30, with a 2009 MFA from Yale, Meredith James might be characterized as someone whose time has come a bit too soon. But the truth is otherwise: her work is brilliantly effective and wonderfully new, emphasizing the unpredictable workings of perception—its ability to persuade us that observations are
Guerra de la Paz: Re-Fabricating Fashion
The two artists collectively known as Guerra de la Paz both began their careers as painters. Known today as sculptors who also create installations, they still maintain a connection with their history. While form and composition are important elements of their pieces, color takes precedence above all else.
