In 2007, the New York City Department of Parks celebrated the 40th anniversary of its public art program with a documentary gallery exhibition and a city-wide series of outdoor installations. The indoor show, a compelling walk through history, was curated by Jonathan Kuhn, director of Art and Antiquities at New York Parks and Recreation.
Mike Nelson
New York Set within the unused and deteriorating interior of…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Confronting the Grotesque: A Conversation with Folkert de Jong
Folkert de Jong aims for the solar plexus. His life-sized figures, grouped in open tableau-like arrangements, are startling. Made from Styrofoam and polyurethane foam, they strike archaizing poses fraught with allusions to earlier art, appearing brittle, yet on the verge of collapse, oozing in places and liquefying in others.
Amanda Browder and Stuart Keeler
Chicago ln “Urban Warp/Weft,” collaborative partners…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Pilar Ovalle: Place in Nature/ Nature in Place
Pilar Ovalle has developed a personal language of sculpture based on the tactile, multi-dimensional experience of wood as a medium. She is part of a young generation of Chilean sculptors who are now beginning to emerge on the international scene.
Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys
Venice ln some ways, I am surprised that this…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Won Lee: The Dionysian Strain
Korean-born sculptor Won Lee lives and works in Toronto. For his studio, he uses an older house with a salon-style workspace, a back porch, and a sizable storage basement (the house where he and his wife reside is on the other side of town).
Mark Grote
Santa Fe Using discards and low-grade material found…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Es ist alles gut/Everything’s Fine: Peter Fischli and David Weiss
The adventuresome and optimistic skeptic Peter Fischli was producing exciting concert posters and album covers when he met the laid-back and melancholy nerd and inventor David Weiss. That was back in 1979. The two artists from Zurich have been working together ever since.
