San Francisco Silverman Gallery It is tempting to read Ginger Wolfe-Suarez’s Theory of a family as a type of formal rebus. Inside the space of the installation, two large black volumes balanced precariously on a ledge above the entrance wall, set directly over twin plywood boxes emoting a soft pink light.
Gyun Hur
Atlanta Gyun Hur Get This! Gallery Gyun Hur’s installation, Repose, constructed a delicate visual space engaging the fragility of memory, rupture of loss, and violence that can accompany mourning. Across the floor, and on a transparent acrylic shelf lining two walls of the space, Hur carefully arranged colorful stripes of finely shredded silk cemetery flowers
Leading Into the Unknown: A Conversation with Bob Trotman
Bob Trotman lives in the foothills of the North Carolina mountains, surrounded by his materials—60 acres of rolling woods from which he occasionally extracts a dead poplar and restores it to life in comic-tragic human images.
Corban Walker: Perceptual Encounters
It could be argued that Corban Walker, who will represent Ireland at the 54th Venice Biennale this year, stands as one of Minimalism’s most talented heirs. Take, for example, his “Grid Stacks” series (2007), glass works that echo Robert Smithson’s Glass Stratum (1967).
Gino De Domincis
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
