Kira Freije’s figures are emotive, seeming to yearn for human contact whether they stand alone or band together. They wear rudimentary clothing, and there is a palpable sense of movement in their almost choreographed positions, as they seem to stretch, bend, and beseech, perhaps even fly.
Don Porcaro
NEW YORK Westwood Gallery, NYC Stone’s materiality disallows ignorance of its history and import. Any artwork using its mass, even when small, conveys a message that droops slightly under its own gravitas.
Chryssa
NEW YORK Dia Chelsea Struck by New York’s seductively pulsing lights and flashing advertisements for everything from Admiral TVs to Pepsi, Chryssa seized on the potential of neon as a medium for art. The natural light of her native Greece was also etched in her memory, however, particularly the way that it bathed and warmed ancient sculpture and architecture.
Sound Has Form: A Conversation with Oliver Beer
Acoustic resonance—the production of sound through vibrations—is a key material in Oliver Beer’s eclectic practice. His sculptures, installations, and immersive performances release the resonant voices natural to every space, every hollow object.
Un espacio de indeterminación: Una Conversación con Diego Bianchi
Con una enorme trayectoria y reconocimiento nacional e internacional, el artista visual argentino, docente y curador Diego Bianchi se formó inicialmente como diseñador gráfico en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y hacia 2002 se involucra de lleno con la práctica artística realizando su primera exhibición individual.
Wangechi Mutu
NEW YORK New Museum Water laps and pools, filling the vessel with poetic possibility as it becomes a fountain, a tub offering a restorative, healing bath, and a conduit of symbolic passage.
Donna Dennis
HUDSON, NEW YORK Private Public Gallery “What is that?” asked one disoriented visitor, as she beheld the enormous architectural structure before her—a replicated ore dock facing a vast ocean.
Zineb Sedira
BERLIN Hamburger Bahnhof In these film selections, Sedira seems to imply that emancipation is always entangled with fabrication, with making things up.
Leandro Erlich
MIAMI Pérez Art Museum “Liminal” isn’t quite a fun house, it’s more reminiscent of a film set, with dreamy façades and psychologically charged environments, just off-kilter enough to make you take notice and challenge assumptions.
Translating the Intangible: A Conversation with kelli rae adams
kelli rae adams examines invisible and intangible subject matter—invisible labor, care, and money. Trying to get at things we can’t otherwise grasp is the common thread running through her work. In many ways, the consideration of food, as labor and sustenance as well as art material, has played an important role in her very particular, and personal, approach.
