Entering into Liam Gillick’s “Three perspectives and a short scenario” was like diving into a heavily footnoted seminar presentation. The single large exhibition space was dark, divided into sections and hallways by 10-foot-high slatted screens and dark gray industrial carpeting.
Robert Melee: The Magnetic Grotesque
During the summer of 2009, four large-scale bronze sculptures by Robert Melee bubbled to life in New York’s City Hall Park, their rough accretions materialized into hulking masses. Oozing rivulets of multi-colored enamel paint like queasy marbleizing, these abstract forms appeared extravagantly slimed or covered with flowing wounds.
Fierceness and Fragility: A Conversation with Leslie Dill
Lesley Dill’s sculptures made an impression on me some years ago at Graphic Studio in Tampa, particularly a tea-stained, paper dress that popped outward to become three-dimensional. A large traveling exhibition of her work—recently shown at the Saint Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and on view at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina
Figuratively Speaking: A Conversation with Thomas Houseago
Thomas Houseago’s expressionist sculptures, part of a renewed interest in figuration, are popping up everywhere, in one-person and group exhibitions in Brussels, Amsterdam, Milan, London, Glasgow, Paris, Berlin, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Marfa. This fall and winter, both the Rennie Collection in Vancouver and Modern Art Oxford are hosting shows of his idiosyncratically
Dispatch: Sculpture on Governors Island
For nearly 75 years, the Sculptors Guild has made…see the full review in November’s magazine.
Dispatch: Citygarden, St. Louis
St. Louis’s Citygarden, which celebrated its first anniversary…see the full review in November’s magazine.
6th Asia Pacific Triennial
Brisbane, Auatralia Since its inception in 1993, the Asia Pacific Triennial…see the full review in November’s magazine.
“Nothing to Declare”
Toronto With “Nothing to Declare: Current Sculpture from Canada,” curator…see the full review in November’s magazine.
“Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act”
Seattle “Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act,” a selection of sculptures…see the full review in November’s magazine.
Rebecca Kamen
Reston, Virginia A number of years ago, Rebecca Kamen decided to…see the full review in November’s magazine.