SAN FRANCISCO Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yet Dong makes it clear from the outset that a set of guiding principles is meant to enrich the experience of the 11 works in the exhibition, creating an intersection between the spiritual and the corporeal—between what we come to know through our minds and what we absorb through our senses.
Mutaciones: Una Conversación con Ailén Ibarra
Profesora en Artes Plásticas y Licenciada en Artes Plásticas con especialización en Cerámica y Escultura (ambas carreras desarrolladas en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata), la joven artista visual Ailén Ibarra, transita una prometedora carrera, indagando en el campo de la escultura, las instalaciones y la video performance.
Jodie Carey
LONDON Edel Assanti In the site-specific installation Guard, Carey occupies the space with a surprising lightness of touch. Jesmonite sculptures mounted on steel supports, 150 of them, stretch across both ground-floor galleries, and it requires considerable care to walk among them.
Becky Evans and Lori Goodman
EUREKA, CALIFORNIA Barn Gallery The artists conjure big effects from modest means, fixing textured masses of excelsior—also known as wood wool—to the gallery walls. Thousands of coiled shavings mass together into a tangled pelt that rambles like kudzu, blurring the room’s edges.
In the Same Boat: A Conversation with Romuald Hazoumè
A master of appropriation and transformation, Romuald Hazoumè uses found materials from his native Benin and beyond, with particular emphasis on plastic gasoline containers. In his sculptures and installations, these ordinary objects become pointed indictments of what he has called “Coca Cola culture,” a global plague of exploitation, division, corruption, desire, and conflict.
Christina A. West
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY University of Kentucky Art Museum It is a concentrated, but quietly diverse, look at the male form, conveying, as West says, “vulnerability with strength and beauty with awkwardness.”
Alexis Granwell
PHILADELPHIA Fleisher Art Memorial “Weather Watching,” Alexis Granwell’s current exhibition, includes several large-scale sculptures that she began in response to “Shift. Breathe. Expand: Painting in Space, ” her 2023 two-person show at SUNY, Old Westbury.
Connections Beyond the Tangible: A Conversation with Otobong Nkanga
For Otobong Nkanga, human life is inextricably connected to the natural world—the water we drink, the air we breathe, the land we live on. For more than 20 years, the Nigerian-Belgian artist has pondered questions about resource extraction and replenishment through her multidisciplinary practice.
Toshiko Takaezu: Food For the Searching Soul
The belated celebration of Toshiko Takaezu’s work comes as no surprise, considering how Western art history has downsized the achievements of groundbreaking women artists.
Dreaming Material: A Conversation with Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape’s engrossing biography embeds her birth into a matrix of same-year events in a diffusion of the self that shows how each one of us is irrevocably intertwined with and, in essence, the product of a kaleidoscopic coincidence of circumstances.
