There is steadfast and perpetual movement in Zhan Wang’s work. His sculpture can seem to move at the rapid rate of global culture and finance, or it can slow down, like water tracing the first outline of a vast canyon.
“Master Pieces”
Cincinnati “Master Pieces,” an exhibition of works by artists…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
10th International Biennial
Istanbul Horu Hanru, curator of the 10th Istanbul Biennial…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Chico MacMurtrie
New York Chico MacMurtrie’s recent exhibition was like something from…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Jason Ferguson
Wilmington, Delaware “Welcome,” Jason Ferguson’s recent show, beckoned…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Jean Shin’s Accumulations of Ephemera
Jean Shin is a collector, but not of high-end art or antique furniture. Instead, she combs the streets of New York City for objects culled from the detritus of daily life. She claimed curbside refuse—the metal frames and synthetic fabric hoods of cheap umbrellas—to create Umbrella Stripped Bare, a 2001 installation at Long Island University’s Brooklyn
The Powerful Emotion of Light: A Conversation with Mischa Kuball
Artists, like other professionals, sometimes hit key turning points in the development of their work. Such is the case right now for Mischa Kuball, who has built an impressive practice by “generating a certain awareness about streams of interaction in terms of a psychological dimension in urban space and structure.”
Berlin: Sculpture in a Resurrected City
As glossy travel stories and trend-spotters have amply reported, Berlin is the current cool city, alert with youthful vim and optimism and self-defined as “poor but sexy.” Like Paris in the 1950s, New York in the 1980s, London in the 1990s, and Brooklyn last week, Berlin is arguably today’s key creative city.
Life Raft in the Desert: Shawn Patrick Landis’s Rendezvous with Double Negative
Certain works of art are made in anticipation of a future response, as a provocation or, on a deeper level, as a kind of vocation, an inspired calling or a summoning to give voice, as in a future meeting of minds.
