Sonia Gomes has been making radically intimate, fabric-based sculpture for three decades, in defiance of racism, ageism, and misogyny. Her story is the stuff of which art world myths are made, a story in which, against all odds, rags turn to riches, obscurity to worldwide recognition.
Ashley Bickerton
NEW YORK Lehmann Maupin The works in “Seascapes at the End of History” do not so much commune with nature as represent vignettes of a life lived in concert with it.
“Ceramics in the Expanded Field”
NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MASS MoCA “Ceramics in the Expanded Field,” organized by MASS MoCA senior curator Susan Cross, presents work by eight, multi-generational artists from diverse backgrounds who are furthering clay’s move out of isolation to play with other media in dynamic ways.
Sheila Hicks: The Irrepressible Trajectory of Lines and Color
Recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award The investigation of line, color, and fiber has been Sheila Hicks’s lifelong pursuit. She ignores borders, learns languages, and discovers materials as she migrates from painting to weaving to sculpture.
Object Lessons: Jeffrey Gibson
I’ve been working with fringe as a main element of the work for at least 10 years. Fringe was seen as an accessory, found on fancy dance shawls in powwow dances, and initially I was thinking of it in that context, using it on punching bags and wall hangings.
Lina Puerta
NEW YORK Hunter East Harlem Gallery Puerta’s marvelously varied and often highly ornamented constructions translate traditional imagery and values into a contemporary language steeped in environmental concerns.
Sheila Pepe: Claiming Space
Sheila Pepe takes a gender-bending approach to process and material while also blurring the distinction between art and craft.
Antropología del Concepto: Una Conversación con Martín Legón
Instalaciones, dibujos, pinturas, fotografías intervienen en la obra del argentino Martín Legón quien se apoya en los textos, la poesía, la literatura y los estudios de disciplinas tales como la sociología, la antropología y la historia del arte, para desarrollar una obra cuyo fundamento, sea cual cure el formato que cobre, es de base conceptual.
Domestic Tensions: A Conversation with Usha Seejarim
Usha Seejarim works with ordinary, domestic objects in a somewhat Dadaist way, reinterpreting them into sculptural forms rooted in today’s South Africa but with broader resonance. Her materials include such staples of female labor as clothes pegs, irons, brooms, cleaning sponges, and serving trays.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
SAN FRANCISCO SFMOMA Truly experiencing Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work requires us to pay close attention: to make our minds and imaginations available in ways dangerously eroded by the distractions of the Internet. This is somewhat paradoxical, considering the technological complexity of his installations.
