New York Sperone Westwater What is real and what is true? These questions become increasingly pressing at a time when means are available to spread data with the mere tap of a key and digital tools enable us to distort information easily.
Tony Oursler
New York Metro Pictures Since the mid-1970s Tony Oursler has broken down conventional boundaries between media, producing work that functions as a peculiar metaphor for the human condition in a media-saturated age…see the full review in April’s magazine.
“The Quick and the Dead”
Minneapolis Walker Art Center “The quick and the dead,” a phrase from the King James translation of the Bible, refers to the collection of souls, those now physically alive and those whose bodies have died. An evocation of the split between matter and spirit, as well as their mysterious relation, the title offered a good
Gail Wight
San Francisco Patricia Sweetow Gallery A haunting sadness emanates from the delicate black butterflies in Gail Wight’s J’ai des Papillions tous les jours, even with no understanding of the title. One hundred slender pins hold the wings in place as the glowing bodies pulse with light, their life force apparently helpless, encased in Plexiglas as
Peter Randall-Page
Wakefield, U.K. Yorkshire Sculpture Park Yorkshire Sculpture Park recently presented Peter Randall-Page’s most extensive exhibition to date, with over 100 works displayed within the gallery and across the adjoining grounds. Contextualized with a display of maquettes and drawings, the show aimed to create a deeper understanding of Randall-Page’s work, particularly in relation to…see the full
Everyday Monuments: A Conversation with Jean Shin
Known for her labor-intensive installations of everyday accumulations, Jean Shin broke new ground in Everyday Monuments, a commission begun in 2007 at the invitation of Joanna Marsh, curator of contemporary art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
Loose Ends: A Conversation with Tariq Alvi
London-based Tariq Alvi is quick to admit his penchant for pop culture. He recycles riotous effigies from advertisements, pornography, and consumer magazines in his installations, often reconfiguring them into collages. Through his paper-based art, Alvi meticulously digests generic and overlooked icons of our disposable culture, visually calling for a re-appraisal of material worth.
The Scale of Perception: A Conversation with Katrín Sigurdardóttir
Icelandic artist Katrín Sigurdardóttir uses scale to explore notions of land, space, and memory as well as the body’s place in a world that seems to be shrinking. Her popular High Plane V installation at P.S.1
Nothing Outlives Mortality: A Conversation with Kristen Morgin
Kristen Morgin makes shells of things. She embraces breakdown and wear and tear, traces of which constitute evidence of past longings and actions. Her subject is manmade objects produced in a distant or not-so-distant past: cellos of unspecified date, a piano that belonged to Ludwig van Beethoven, carousel horses with whiffs of the Belle Époque,
Ceal Floyer’s Special
A light bulb, a bag of air, a bucket, colored markers—these are some of the commonplace items that Ceal Floyer makes us rethink as we contemplate her understated, multimedia installations. Curiously expansive and lingering in their effect, these conceptual, perceptual time-release capsules are far more ponderous to describe verbally than to “get” visually; they inspire
