Mary Miss invites the public to participate in sifting the layers of a site by walking through it, viewing it from different perspectives, and reading its topography…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Kazuhito Kobayashi
Seattle Greg Kucera Gallery ln his debut solo exhibition at Greg Kucera Gallery, 32-year-old Kazuhito Kobayashi presented 18 dyed-wool felt sculptures… see the print edition of July/August 1999’s Sculpture magazine for the full review.
Michael Murrell
City Gallery East Atlanta Sculptor Michael Murrell shapes metaphors. Causing wood and metal to bloom, fly, sail, and pray, he coaxes the animistic essence from his materials. ln “Sanacenia” at City Gallery East, he creates quietly abstract interpretations of nature and the body that comment on our relationship with the world.
Merrill Wagner
William Traver Gallery Seattle Merrill Wagner has lived in New York since 1953, but grew up in and still spends part of each summer near Tacoma, Washington, She followed her 1997 Tacoma Art Museum retrospective with this recent Seattle showing of three large-scale, painted slate sculptures.
Patrick Holderfield
Project 416 Seattle ln his Seattle gallery debut, 30-year-old Patrick Holderfield exhibited new, altered found object sculptures that set up amusing and challenging contradictions. With the overall title of “Dehisence,” which refers to the expulsion of materials coming through a suture or surgical wound, Holderfield added painted fleshlike polyurethane foam elements to boxes, car bumpers,
Darrell Petit
Milford, CT The Stone Sculpture Garden For many years sculpture in stone has been considered a dead medium. This view is related to the conception of stone as the ultimate medium for commemoration, and sculptors’ frequent neglect of sculptural concerns in stone sculpture… for the full review see the print edition of June 1999’s Sculpture
Judy Pfaff
Karen McCready Gallery New York Judy Pfaffs wall art mixes etchings, encaustic, lithographs, Photographs, fire, resin, and other matter to send strong messages about the healing forces and the spiritual dimensions of the visible and historical world.
Christian Boltanski: Traces of the Dead
Christian Boltanski’s haunting, provocative work draws on memory, history, ambiguity, and the presence of death in everyday life…see the full review in June’s magazine.
