Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art Two remarkable installations honor the tree’s struggle against the vicissitudes of time and weather, highlighting Emilie Benes Brzezinski’s 10-year quest to penetrate and reveal the tree’s essential core. Using a chain saw chisel, and axe to create highly expressive gestures, she has perfected what she terms a “vertical wedge”
Andrea Sunder-Plassman and Sigi Torinas
San Francisco Gallery 16 Browsing Beauty, by artists Andrea Sunder-Plassman and Sigi Torinus, has the aura of cyberspace, a Web site expanded to the third dimension which engulfs the viewer in a barrage and complexity of images.
Walter Robinson
San Francisco Catharine Clark Gallery The ribbed, prehensile tail of Walter Robinson’s burnished wood sculpture Sub Sahara (1997) seems to rise out of the Precambrian murk of a typical Alexis Rockman painting, creating a threatening, fetishistic fossil record of its own.
Kathryn Spence
San Francisco Stephen Wirtz Gallery The recent installation Pigeons (1997), by artist Kathryn Spence, is exactly that, a gathering of our fine feathered friends… see the print version for the full review.
David Ruddell
San Francisco Braunstein/Quay Gallery Like the work of artists as diverse as Robert Rauschenberg and Joseph Cornell, David Ruddell’s elegant hybrid constructions incorporate elements of both sculpture and painting… see the print version for the full review.
Clifford Rainey
San Francisco Dorothy Weiss Gallery By titling his show “Homo Faber,” Clifford Rainey placed the emphasis in this exhibition on the artist’s role as the fabricator… see the print version for the full review.
Cristina Iglesias
New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Nestled in the uppermost levels of the Guggenheim Museum’s Fifth Avenue location, Cristina lglesias’s exhibition revealed a collection of contrasts… see the print version for the full review.
Rita McBride
New York Alexander and Bonin Rita McBride is enthralled by architecture… see the print version for the full review.
“Four Acts in Glass”
New York American Craft Museum Are the crafts roughly 20 years behind contemporary art or are they right up to date?… see the print version for the full review.
