Amsterdam
James Surls: A Restless Magician
Surls’s works awaken the imagination and force an exploration of unfamiliar emotions …see the full feature in June’s magazine.
Richard Notkin
Billings, MT
“Against Design”
Philadelphia
Grisha Bruskin
New York Marlborough Gallery Grisha Bruskin, Woman with Lenin’s Mausoleum, 1999. Porcelain, 8 in. high. Staring straight ahead with blank, unseeing eyes, Grisha Bruskin’s perfect figures are identifiable only by the objects they carry. Like a blank slate waiting to be written on, they stand motionless, soulless, and powerless awaiting orders: gray, robotic, expressionless people
“I and My Circumstance: Mobility in Contemporary Mexican Art”
Montreal Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Gabriel Orozco, Blue Sandals, Cibachrome print, 31.5 x 47.3 cm. This group show of contemporary Mexican art breaks the stereotypes of Mexico as a folklore culture lost in time and of Mexican art as magic and/or social realism.
Gabriele Stellbaum
New York Florence Lynch Gallery ln her first solo exhibition, Gabriele Stellbaum, a German artist living in New York, showed strong and exciting new work. A young artist experimenting with new media to great effect, she uses computer-generated imagery to create sculptural installations.
Critique & Compliance: Artists on Display
The museum is a conflicted and confounding territory for critique by artists…see the full feature in May’s magazine.
