Los Angeles
Leslie Bohnenkamp
New York
Patrick Collier
Grand Rapids, MI Dynamite Gallery Project Patrick Collier, installation, view of Co-Winky-Dink, 1999. Mixed media, dimensions variable. ln the tiny storefront of the Dynamite Gallery Project, Chicago artist Patrick Collier has created a theatrical space where matter and mind merge, theory blurs into tangible experience, and the mythical narratives of life, love, and belief are
“Fireworks”
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.
