NEW YORK Jack Shainman Gallery Simpson’s figures are arranged toward each other; entering their presence feels like interrupting a conversation between old friends. Most of the exhibition’s dozen sculptures are life-size or larger, which adds to the sense of stepping through or meeting their gaze.
Mean Functionality: A Conversation with Irina Kirchuk
Irina Kirchuk’s works walk a fine line between abstraction and figuration. The Argentinian artist, who lives and works in Buenos Aires, observes the urban landscape and recovers objects from it, collecting and classifying them, exploring what she calls “their material obsolescence and mean functionality.”
David Mach
LONDON Pangolin David Mach made a dramatic entry into the world of public art in 1983, when he used 6,000 car tires to construct a life-size replica of a Polaris submarine on the South Bank of the River Thames, near London’s Royal Festival Hall.
John Henry: One Idea Leads To Another
A life is not a timeline. The supposed linear movement, building one moment adjacent to another, is a false construct. Adding another dimension gives a planar view of bright moments, scattered like diamonds on a field of velvet.
Henry Jackson-Spieker
SEATTLE MadArt Jackson-Spieker creates visual blind spots and distortions that he hopes act as a metaphor for the things we don’t see or question in our everyday surroundings.
Prohibido Olvidar: Una Conversación con Leo Nuñez
“Exhibo en mis trabajos los contextos económicos y políticos que atraviesan los países de mi región. Desde el espacio llamado de ‘subdesarrollo,’ trabajo la obra tecnológica a partir de los conceptos de las últimas tecnologías pero utilizando materiales territorializados.”
Contemporary Archetypes
William Turnbull: International Modern Artist, a lavishly illustrated monograph conceived by the Turnbull Studio, marks the centenary of the renowned Scottish sculptor, who was born in 1922.
Roger Ackling
LONDON Annely Juda Fine Art On the occasion of a previous exhibition at Annely Juda, in 1998, Ackling explained that the works don’t stand for anything. Rather, he said they stood beside him.
BGL: When Art Feels Free
For 25 years, the Québec City-based collective BGL (Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère, and Nicolas Laverdière) was a dynamic force in the Canadian art scene, exhibiting widely in the artists’ home province, as well as across the country and in Europe.
“Hurly-burly”: Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Whiteread, Alison Wilding
PARIS Gagosian Karsten Schubert, Wilding’s late gallerist, affectionately dubbed the trio of English artists “the three witches,” and this exhibition fittingly recalls the tumultuous “hurly-burly” they navigated during what was, back in the day, a particularly capricious and fickle male-dominated art world.
