Jim Isermann
Santa Monica Santa Monica Museum of Art Jim lsermann’s traveling retrospective, “Fifteen,” currently at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, seems-at first take-to be as unthreatening (in terms of aesthetic decision-making) as a furniture showroom. The exhibition presents itself as a candid discussion of egalitarian visual pleasure- even homespun beauty.
Dispatch: HorseHead International 1999 and “Sculpture: 40,000 Years Later”
Two major sculpture exhibitions, “HorseHead International 1999” and “Sculpture: 40,000 YearsLater,” brought together… see December 2022’s print version of Sculpture magazine.
Humanizing the Machine
Electronic systems provide kinetic sculpture with greater mobility and more humanlike randomness of motion, enhancing some artists’ desire to demystify the machine….see the full review in December’s magazine.
Book Review: Conceptual Art, New Media, and Landscape and Environmental Art
ln these millennial times, there are a number of books appearing that survey the accomplishments of the contentious century that is just ending… see the print version of December 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
Artscape 2000 Minus 1
Baltimore Sculptures designed for outdoor festivals face a number of limitations, from the short run of the venue to a wildly mixed audience, mostly unaware of the latest art world trends and often skeptical of art.
Elona Van Gent
Grand Rapids Grand Rapids Art Museum Like an inventors room of twittering machines. the static, mechanical sculptures of Elona Van Gent contain a reserve of power, an electric charge that emerges from their formal structure. The objects possess a beautiful tension between on and off, form and function, and actuality and metaphor… Subscribe to Sculpture
Eduardo Chillida and Richard Serra
Bilbao The occasion of these overlapping exhibitions at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum affords an opportunity for anyone interested in coming to grips with some of the most important issues in sculpture today. The power and force of these sculptures provoke a conversation whose terms are difficult to avoid..
