SAN FRANCISCO Jack Fischer Gallery D’Estout is an incredibly patient, old-school kind of sculptor, employing a slew of mad skills to fabricate, manipulate, and orchestrate his materials into shapes that imply rather than declare their points of reference.
Roxanne Jackson
NEW YORK The Hole By asking how we can reclaim monstrosity, Jackson’s work becomes an explosive combination of Grand Guignol, Jungian philosophy, and the poetry of Carmen Giménez Smith, extracting and exploiting the tissues that bind the sexual and the grotesque.
Yinka Shonibare
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Shonibare’s works are freighted with fierce contradictions, much like the 18th- and 19th-century European eras from which he derives his inspiration.
Gregor Schneider: A Sense of Distance
By the time Gregor Schneider was a teenager, he had already begun speculating about alienation and the place of death in life, as well as the deep-seated relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit.
Jonathan Latiano
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Love to the Letter and the Letters Spelled Death is incisive and poetic. Clearly, Latiano’s passion and ruminations on “deep time,” from prehistory into the future, are driving elements.
Explorando los Límites de lo Habitual: Una Conversación con Alejandra Tavolini
Licenciada en Bellas Artes por la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, la artista plástica Alejandra Tavolini desarrolla una obra que, según sus palabras “explora el límite de lo habitual, valiéndome de diversos soportes.”
Real Light and Real Angles: A Conversation with Larry Bell
Larry Bell has been pursuing abstract art for over six decades. He is known for his surface treatment ofglass, using it to explore light and space, reflections and shadows, in sculptures that usually take the form of cubes and nesting boxes.
Abbas Akhavan
ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND Mount Stuart In a sandstone crypt, deep beneath the ornate Marble Chapel, Akhavan has cultivated a self-sustaining, closed-system garden consisting of plants and reclaimed materials gathered on the estate.
Looking Back To Go Forward: A Conversation with Osman Yousefzada
Concealment and visibility serve as the foundation of Yousefzada’s work, as he re-forms actions and events from the past to reveal the present and future—righting his parents’ wrongs and writing them back into history, while offering his own difference as deliverance.
Collective Dream and Practice: Three Artists at Manifesta 14
Manifesta, also known as the European Nomadic Biennial, is currently on view in Prishtina, Kosovo, through October 30, 2022. This 14th iteration, “it matters what worlds world worlds: how to tell stories otherwise,” addresses the idea of reclaiming and reimagining public spaces.
