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.
Sol LeWitt
New York P.S. 1 Sol LeWitt, Concrete Block, Cinder blocks, site-specific installation at PS.1. More than 30 years ago, Sol LeWitt published Sentences on Conceptual Art, a series of statements that more truly functioned as imperatives than comments in regard to systemic and conceptual art.
“Unboxed: Sculptures in Cardboard”
Walnut Creek, CA Bedford Gallery at the Dean Lesher Center for the Arts “Unboxed: Sculptures in Cardboard” presented the work of three artists, each of whom transforms this seemingly prosaic material into strong and ambitious work.
Agnes R. Katz Plaza
Pittsburgh Seventh Street and Penn Avenue Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Urban Kiley, Peter Meyer, and Michael Graves, Agnes R. Katz Plaza, Pittsburgh, 1999. Louise Bourgeois, in collaboration with landscape architect Daniel Urban Kiley, his assistant Peter Meyer, and architect Michael Graves, has transformed the Agnes R.
Alesha Fiandaca and Sophie Touzé Wargnies
San Francisco Quotidian Gallery Alesha Fiandaca, Nine Stories, 1999. Clay, 20x20x8in. A recent exhibition of work by two strikingly original emerging artists, Alesha Fiandaca and Sophie Touze Wargnies, was a little like strolling through an essay by Georges Bataille.
A Resonant Alchemy: An Interview with John Van Alstine
John Van Alstine is widely known for works that combine stone, steel, and found objects (sometimes industrial in origin and sometimes natural or manmade forms cast in bronze). The work is abstract yet allegorical, exhibiting an ongoing narrative that is carried forward by the artist’s alchemical combination of forms and materials.
