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
Aaron Heino
Helsinki Galleria Sculptor Aaron Heino’s recent sculptures convey an intense and unsettling presence. They not only embody movement and the expression of psychological states, but also speak of chemical constituents, immiscibility, and the propagation, release, and containment of energy.
The Beauty of Thinking: A Conversation with Giuseppe Panza
For Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, it’s all about pleasure—receiving and sharing spiritual pleasure, the kind that begins in the mind and takes its inspiration from the play of light and the passage of time. Over the last 50 years, the industrialist and real estate investor has amassed one of the world’s premier collections of
Sculpture that Declares the Space Around it: John Atkin
Sculpture as metaphor has recently been encroaching on the territory of the late Modernist anti-aesthetic of the literal, that of the Minimalist cube. Yet sculpture requires a context, and that context exceeds the presence of the work.
Orgy in the Sky: Rebecca Ripple
Los Angeles-based Rebecca Ripple first intrigued me with word works that seemed to hollow out a place for the human body in banal furnishings. thigh/blind (2001), for instance, spells out “thigh” by cutting the word, letter by letter, into aluminum blinds; in another piece, “elbo” is sewn into a Home Depot rug.
Acts of Finding: A Conversation with Ann Hamilton
Acts of reading have multiple dimensions yet leave no material trace: this is the subject of human carriage, Ann Hamilton’s recent installation circumnavigating the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum, which was on view last year. Pulleys, guillotined books, a silk-sheathed bell that rang as it raced down the building’s iconic spiral, and a Reader who
Extreme Precision: A Conversation with Margaret Evangeline
Margaret Evangeline has long experimented with aesthetically resistant materials, making work that deepens the immediacy of a moment. She is perhaps best known for her use of gunshot and mirror-polished stainless steel. In recent videos, she experiments with sounds and actions collected while shooting the steel panels of a commissioned sculpture.
