The museum is a conflicted and confounding territory for critique by artists…see the full feature in May’s magazine.
“Acoustic Architecture—Architectural Acoustics”
Amsterdam De Veemvloer lnstallation view of “Acoustic Architecture- Architectural Acoustics,” at De Veemvloer. Amsterdam’s Stichting Vedute (Vedute Foundation) recently held the exhibition “Acoustic Architecture- Architectural Acoustics, ” which required works to meet specifications set by guest curator Frans Bevers: “[Artists should] visualize their personal preoccupation with sound and space into the confines of 44 by
Sculpture and Architecture
Atlanta “Architecture?”Vaknin Schwartz Gallery“From Our House to Your House”Nexus Contemporary Art Center“Landscape-City: Photographs by Arwed Messmer”Goethe-Institute Atlanta“thinking loud/cutting through: architecture.art.film”Space 1 181 Kerry Schuss, 838 S. Broadleigh/Two Views, 1999.
“What are you looking at?” The Sculpture of Tony Oursler
Oursler animates the inanimate and explores both real and imagined space…see the full feature in May’s magazine.
Margaret Adachi
Santa Monica Robert Berman Gallery Things aren’t always what they seem. ln fact, in consumer culture they’re usually better. At least that’s what Margaret Adachi’s new installation, Pret-a-poulet, suggests. Exploring the chasm between reality and what the philosopher Jean Baudrillard calls hyperreality, Adachi parodies the processes by which consumer products both spearhead market desire and
Phil Frost
New York Jack Shainman Gallery While many graffiti artists have, over the last 20 years, made the leap from street into gallery as respected painters, a new generation is embracing sculptural installation as its form of expression, taking viewers into realms created in gallery spaces that convey urban themes and personal symbolism.
“There but for the grace of…Temporary Shelters”
Cleveland Here Here Gallery The opening exhibition of the 11,000-square-foot Here Here Gallery in downtown Cleveland, “There but for the grace of… Temporary Shelters,” drew viewers ranging from regular art patrons, office workers, and homeless advocates to devotees of the Cleveland Orchestra, temporarily located just down the street.
53rd Carnegie International
Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum of Art Ernesto Neto, Navedenga, 1998. Stocking, styrofoam, and sand, approximately 12 x 15 x 21 ft.. Very seldom have the Venice Biennale and the Carnegie lnternational taken place in the same year.
Terry Albright
Boston Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery Terry Albrighr, Shelter, 2000. Phragmites, grasses, and leaves, installation view. Making art from natural materials has become something of a cliche for environmental sculptors, so much so that it takes a finely honed sensibility to create something fresh without falling into an aesthetic morass.
