Washington, D.C. Hemphill Fine Arts Starting from scratch with mass-produced but devalued materials like toothpicks, balloons, and tar paper… see the print version for the full review.
“From Here”
Washington, D.C. Baumgartner Galleries, lnc. For this sculpture and installation exhibition, Baumgartner Galleries and critic Chris Gilbert focused on three relative newcomers… see the print version for the full review.
Betye Saar
Los Angeles California African-American Museum Betye Saars new works, rendered in pitch-perfect color harmonies that recall the quiet splendor of a Death Valley sunset… see the print version for the full review.
Tom Butter
New York Curt Marcus Gallery Tom Butter is attracted to simple, everyday things… see the print version to read the full review.
Site: Maria Dompé: Incursions in Space
Don’t Forget Mururoa, 1997. Slate, sand, rope, lemon extract, and sound, 300 x 300 x 1300 cm. Maria Dompé studied at the Roman Academy of Art under the supervision of renowned sculptors Pericle Fazzini and Emilio Greco.
Focus: Robert Stackhouse: The Ritual of Labor
Robert Stackhouse was trained as a painter during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism. Although his time as an Abstract Expressionist painter lasted only a few years, he has retained that movement’s faith in the emotive and communicative power of the image.
Ingenious Simplicity: The Sculpture of H.C. Westermann
The inventiveness, wit, craft, and thoughtfulness of Westermann’s work continue to influence contemporary art …see the full review in May/June’s magazine.
Icons and Interventions in Chicago and the Potential of Public Art
A temporary installation by Suzanne Lacy, Full Circle (from “Culture in Action”), 1993. Boulders and bronze. John McWilliams Chicago’s public art demonstrates the diversity and the difficulties inherent in public art in the 1990s. The tourist version of Chicago has at its core the towering steel untitled female head by Pablo Picasso, a huge abstracted
