San Diego The Museum of Contemporary Art Located amidst the bustle of downtown city streets, Marcos Ramirez’s 14-foot Acorazado asserts a commanding presence. Painted camouflage gray, the massive sculpted heart blends with the metallic tones of the city environment, while appearing as an unexpected surprise.
Prismatic Visions: An Interview with Rosa Martinez
The curator for SITE Santa Fe 1999, Rosa Martinez, was a member of the curatorial team for Rotterdam’s Manifesta I, curator for the International Project Rooms at ARCO, a participant for Phaidon Press’s Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture, and was the acclaimed artistic director of the 1997 Istanbul Biennial V.
Jonathan Liss
Cleveland The Sculpture Center Location is everything. Jonathan Liss investigates the intersection of this market-derived truism with the institutional practices, dynamics, and the physical site of Cleveland’s Sculpture Center in his installation. The exhibition’s title, “Jonathan Liss; ‘The Sculpture Center,”‘ describes a space of heightened self-reflexiveness, which characterizes Lisss recent projects.
Zonok Ben-David
San Francisco Walter/McBean Gallery San Francisco Art lnstitute A soft layer of light-colored sand covered the floor of the Walter/McBean Gallery for Zonok Ben-David’s installation, Evolution & Theory. Literally hundreds of figures, delicately crafted from sheets of aluminum and wire, were placed like markers through the landscape.
Ronald Garrigues
San Francisco 111 Minna Street Gallery Ronald Ganiques, Overpopulation/The Crux of the Malter 1, 1995. Cast bronze, 23.75 x 9 x 18in. Ronald Garrigues’s artistic vision is undeniably bleak. A recent solo exhibition brought together the body of work that has consumed Garrigues for the past decade.
On the Ball
Lincoln, MA DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park The prototypical, the original three-dimensional form-the sphere-was the theme of “On the Ball,” last winter’s exhibition at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park… see the print version of July/August 1999’s Sculpture magazine for the full review.
The Artist in the Museum: “At Home in the Museum”
This exhibition at the Betty Rymer Gallery invited three artists to respond to the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago….see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Cultured Deserts: Off-Center in Arizona and New Mexico
With its dramatic geography and cinematic past, the Southwest is a place where myth and reality are often indistinguishable. Replete with saguaro cactus, howling coyotes, playful roadrunners, and colorful natives of all ethnicities, it’s also cliché land.
Rob van Erve
New York First New York Gallery Bob van Erve’s recent installation in New York included a tilting castle floating on both sides of a wall, a sugar crater with a sugar violin, and a nest of moon rock photograms made from sugar and light… for the full review see the print edition of July/August’s 1999
