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.
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Confederation Centre of the Arts I am writing this in a part of Nova Scotia where the farms that surround me grow grass. Each spring, verdant green fields are rolled up and taken away to become lawns in housing developments.
Sonic Objects: A Conversation with Tarek Atoui
Most people find the sound of a dripping faucet irritating. But Tarek Atoui, a multimedia visual artist and musician, hears the water drip as one tiny note orchestrating the music of the spheres.
Sonia Boyce
MARGATE, U.K. Turner Contemporary Boyce’s videos of this session reveal how the participants grew in trust and how their improvised collaborations became increasingly confident and playful, questioning authority and authorship.
Lynda Benglis
LONDON Thomas Dane Beyond the straightforward binaries of masculine and feminine though, there is something Cyborgian, in a Donna Haraway sort of fashion, about Benglis’s tentacle-like mirrored floor sculptures, which one can imagine having been spawned from the severing of some monstrous creature, their puckered ends curling upward like truncated limbs.
La geografía de la cerámica: Una Conversación con Luciano Giménez
Un poco autodidacta y un poco de manera formal, Luciano Giménez se acerca al dibujo y la cerámica, adoptando su materialidad como medio plástico cuasi favorito. Con estudios en Diseño Industrial y Artes visuales en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, trabaja esculpiendo cerámica desde hace 14 años, produciendo murales, obras y piezas de vajilla.
Destructive Forces: A Conversation with Jon Kessler
Jon Kessler emerged in the early 1980s with mixed-media wall constructions that incorporated readymades and machine-driven movement, works that juxtaposed discrete zones of figuration against an armature and islands of abstraction, balanced biomorphic and geometric forms, and embraced color, pattern, and decoration.
Arthur Simms
LOS ANGELES Karma Improvisatory and yet obsessive, Arthur Simms’s sculptures manifest the intensity of his process. His work is provocative, compelling, hard to look at—and at least part of its power comes from his drive to make such fierce, volatile, and demanding objects.
Mike Nelson
LONDON Hayward Gallery An extraordinary feat of planning and labor, the exhibition, which covers 25 years, encompasses around 20 interconnected rooms and corridors, involving 40 tons of sand, 5,000 feet of reclaimed timber, and the skills of more than 30 builders and technicians.
