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.
The NFT is the Employee and the Corporation is Conceptual
Meta-Commentary from Hygienic Dress League Corporation In their most ambitious project yet, The Hygienic Dress League Corporation (HDLC) filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission for Regulation A+ and a Tier 2 offering to issue up to $75 million in securities across a 12-month period.
Guadalupe Maravilla
LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK Socrates Sculpture Park Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Planeta Abuelx” at Socrates Sculpture Park provided a welcome respite for pandemic times. Offering a space for meditation, healing, and recovery, the project reflected Maravilla’s engagement with mutual aid and therapy, focusing on the ways that art can sustain, restore, and provide solace.
Judy Pfaff
PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS Gaa Gallery Though filled with Pfaff’s typical energy, “opsins” is infused with a glowing vibrancy and color unusual for her frenetic forms. The exhibition hinges on gradations across light, color, and darkness, making it one of Pfaff’s most joyful bodies of work to date.
The Tree Within: A Conversation with Foon Sham
Foon Sham’s sculptures, made from blocks of salvaged wood, fit together like pieces of intricate puzzles, with gaps inviting the play of light.
Sreshta Rit Premnath
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS MIT List Visual Arts Center Premnath combines a Minimalist context with Arte Povera sociopolitical influences, conveying a narrative that invites reflection on the psychic weight of waiting in relation to the exclusionary experiences of displacement, incarceration, immigration, and disability.
Honest Shapes and Arrested Motion: A Conversation with Mary Shaffer
Mary Shaffer, since her early days at RISD, has moved from painting to installation and sculpture, from experimentation to mastery.
Rachel Kneebone
LONDON White Cube Mason’s Yard Seen in conjunction with the drawings, the sculptures became balletic, taking an unexpected turn away from the tragedy that inspired them. The overspilling, extended limbs, now recalling the stylized grace of synchronized swimmers, created an uncanny tension—as in Géricault’s painting—between the sublime and the monstrous, hope and despair, order and chaos.
Turning Things Inside Out: A Conversation with Mel Kendrick
Mel Kendrick’s forte is making new things. As a student, beginning in 1971, he studied with Tony Smith and Robert Morris at Hunter College in New York and worked for Dorothea Rockburne. He also became friends with Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson at Max’s Kansas City.
