Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Shulte and Brooke Singer, Swipe, 2003. Mixed media, installation view. The latest Pittsburgh Biennial just scraped by the economic cutbacks in the arts, even if its presentation was delayed by nearly a year.
Sculptfest ’03
West Rutland, VT Though it is now available to artists…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Pepon Osorio Ronald
New York Feldman Fine Arts Pepon Osorio’s recent installations Face to Face and My Beating Heart use mimesis and allegory to examine not only how a family was separated by a federal agency, but also how some needs are never attended to because of the bureaucratic restrictions of an eight-hour workday.
Harry Hauck: A Hunger for Bodies
From a distance, they appear solid: stone bodies, sturdy columns that fill the room. Whenr approaching them, one sees seams and valves; the dark grayblack of their surfaces creates the physical sensation of the presence of skin….
Kenneth Snelson
New York ln this age of pluralism…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Dispatch: Istanbul
Kaija Kiuru, Kammio (Chamber), 2002. Lace tablecloths, 2m x 2.6 m x 2.6 m. At the time of the Istanbul Biennial, at least 15 other exhibitions appeared in venues ranging from a shopping mall to a 19th-century tram tunnel.
A Conversation with Bernar Venet, A Renaissance Artist of the Third Millennium
For Bernar Venet, being an artist means not only to paint or to make sculptures, but also to speculate—in art, science, philosophy, mathematics, geometry, and music. He is an internationally recognized painter, sculptor, and composer (of concrete music), and his main interest in art is to raise questions, to push his work further and farther,
Stephan Balkenhol
New York The most striking thing about the…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Kevin Cole
Seattle This small survey of recent work by…see the full review in May’s magazine.
