Adrienne Outlaw
Nashville Adrienne Outlaw’s constructions…see the full review in October’s magazine.
James Turrell
Seattle “Knowing Light” was James…see the full review in October’s magazine.
“Mercurial”
Brooklyn Williamsburg Art and Historical Center Having just closed an immense, exhilarating, exhausting show of “surrealist, fantastic, and visionary art” that inspired almost as much denunciation as delight (and that included a costume ball, an over-the-top “fashion show,” and a film series), the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center gave itself a well-deserved breather.
A Diagram of Forces: Michael Rees
Michael Rees describes himself as a new media sculptor. The phrase brings to mind a jumble of kinetic objects interwoven with monitors and loudspeakers, but that’s not what Rees means….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Liu Jianhua
New York Plum Blossoms The ceramic sculptures of Liu Jianhua are an exercise in desire, the consequence of skilled craft and unabashed sensuality. Liu Jianhua, born in 1962 in Jilan, Jiangxi province, began working while still a teenager in the ceramic factories in Jingdezhen; he then studied in the fine arts department of the Jingdezhen
Ulysse Comtois
Sherbrooke, Canada Originally a painter who hung out…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Shaping Sensation: A Conversation with Jon Isherwood
ln the 1980s Jon lsherwood made multi-part sculptures in steel and cast concrete. Modernist in spirit, these early assemblages of rusted steel and swathes and swirls of cast concrete carry on an interesting dialogue with the works of Caro and Smith…see the full feature in September’s magazine.
