Dolores Furtado, who was born in Argentina and moved to New York a decade ago, constructs objects that evade easy characterization. Simple in form, sensuous in texture, her sculptures possess a simplicity that links them to archaic artifacts.
Sinead McKeever
BELFAST QSS Gallery It would seem that McKeever’s ambitions escalate according to the size of the space she is offered. At QSS’s new, large-scale gallery—roughly triangular with two protruding corridor sections and a small zig-zag area—she took on the entire, oddly shaped space.
Celia Pym
PENZANCE, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Hweg Gallery Like contemporaries in London such as Caroline Achaintre, who shoots wool through canvas with an air compressor to make her work, Pym is taking materials and processes traditionally associated with the applied arts into a contemporary art practice that can be said to occupy a new space between traditional definitions.
Kehinde Wiley
HOUSTON Museum of Fine Arts Nearly all of the figures in the exhibition are deceased, wounded, or in repose, in striking contrast to Wiley’s previous works in which his subjects are (almost) invariably dynamic, assertive, and commanding.
Melvin Edwards: “You don’t play around with that power”
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Melvin Edwards began his now mythical “Lynch Fragments” in Los Angeles in 1963, when he was 26, and he has continued welding and forging them in New York, New Jersey, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Brazil, and elsewhere.
Petah Coyne: Illuminating the Blind Spots
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Petah Coyne’s spacious studio is located in a tight-knit, working-class neighborhood in northern New Jersey, a community she loves.
Kelly Akashi
SEATTLE Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Fired into inertia, despite their malleable clay origins, the sculptures have a static, rigid quality, reinforced by the bronze and glass casts. In this sense, they are more ecological memorials than myths of origins.
Jeneen Frei Njootli
VANCOUVER Macaulay + Co. Deftly combining sculpture, photography, performance, and poetry, Frei Njootli’s meditations on Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, and the body read like a nuanced, multifaceted story that takes off from and remains grounded in place, time, and memory.
“Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture”
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Rather than a strict arrangement or an all-out sprawl, the show unfolded in four porous sections that encouraged cross-referencing.
