Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Ryoji Ikeda is a multifaceted artist who blends music, art, technology, and mathematics. Some people remember him as an electronic music composer who worked for the performance group Dumb Type, which toured the U.S.
Tere Recarens
Barcelona Galeria Toni Tapies Tere Recarens was born in Arbucies, Spain, and lives and works in Berlin. Her early work, which was shown at P.S.1 in 1999, already demonstrated a yearning to distinguish a terrain of her own, intimately related to personal experiences and her travels to foreign lands, where she investigates people and place.
Rebecca Warren
London Serpentine Gallery Rebecca Warren likes to play with established ideas about the nature of sculpture and the formal ways in which it is displayed. She appropriates ideas from the work of others—Rodin, Degas, Beuys, and Morris—and reworks them.
Deborah Sigel
Lancaster, Pennsylvania Lancaster Museum of Art Walking into ceramic sculptor Deborah Sigel’s recent exhibition, “Suspended Visions,” was like walking into a candy shop, or more accurately into the type of confectionary where candied violets and crystallized rose petals dream of taking their rightful place atop a…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Jake Beckman
Cleveland The Sculpture Center The limbs and organs of buildings—corridors, bedrooms, offices—reflect the modeling of our bodies. Cracking plaster and arthritic beams age and ache, mirroring our own debilities. Jake Beckman, who has worked as a researcher in a genetics lab and as a construction assistant, investigates…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Julianne Swartz
New York Josée Bienvenu Gallery In Terrain, an audio installation by New York-based, multimedia artist Julianne Swartz, a delicate network of 100 bell-shaped speakers hovered just under the ceiling. A tapestry of voices woven from a range of pitches wafted around the gallery, presented as a unique cluster of sonants that…see the full review in
Jessica Stockholder
New York Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Madison Square Park, and Senior and Shopmaker Gallery Using eye-opening color, skewed geometries, and ubiquitous materials, Jessica Stockholder’s recent Manhattan exhibitions metaphorically re-purposed and enlarged three different spaces and genres: indoor sculpture, outdoor sculpture, and prints…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
David Poppie and Roger Sayre
Holyoke, Massachusetts Open Square Gallery Where have all the cassette and video tapes gone? What about vinyl records? Many have ended up in Roger Sayre and David Poppie’s quirky collaborative show, “ReMixed Media” Once upon a time, our homes and cars were filled with these objects of everyday enjoyment.
Beth Galston
Boston Boston Sculptors Gallery Luminous Garden (Aerial) is the sixth version of Beth Galston’s strange and engaging plants whose nuclei are LED light bulbs. Her first version, a blue-lit garden, sprang up on piano-wire stalks; viewers could walk among them and even sit on the floor amid their calm blue haze…see the full review in
Edward Tufte
Ridgefield, Connecticut The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum The pivot point of Edward Tufte’s recent array of large-scale, outdoor sculpture was a battered-looking, Brobdingnagian-scaled aluminum fish (Magritte’s Smile). Suspended quietly over a small exterior courtyard, this wry personage twisted freely from its overhead wire, peering with one fishy eye or the other…see the full review in
