replace the abstract picture plane II, 1997. Cast and welded aluminum, marble, 168 in. high. Guido Baselgia / Collection Kunsthaus Zug All of Richard Tuttle’s work originates in the form of theoretical questions. Is it possible to have an object that is an abstraction yet that can also stand in for some concrete object or
A Geography of Home: Alan Finkel’s Public Art
Wind Mirage (at Soryo-cho dam house), 1996. Mixed media. In the end I have come to recognize only one supreme art, the art of becoming human: The art of expressing and intensifying one’s own conscious humanity by appropriate acts, fantasies, thoughts, and works.
Points of Departure: Public Art’s Intentions, Indignities, and Interventions
Patricia C. Phillips takes a close look at today’s public art and asks the hard questions. Mel Chin/The GALA Committee, “Bar Graph” (from a set for Melrose Place), 1997. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Lyle Ashton Harris.
Susan Hornbeak-Ortiz
Santa Monica Sherry Frumkin Gallery Filled with binary oppositions and tensions, 15 new works by the young Los Angeles sculptor Susan Hornbeak-Ortlz transformed the vernacular of industrial objects into visual metaphors… see the print version for the full review.
Jim Campbell
Pasadena Art Center College of Design The magnified image of a clock reaches to the edges of the 50-inch screen… see the print version for the full review.
Magdalena Campos-Pons
Boston Mario Diacono Gallery Boston-based Campos-Pons artist Magdalena is of Afro-Cuban heritage… see the print version for the full review.
Joseph Beuys
Minneapolis Walker Art Gallery Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center’s “Joseph Beuys Multiples” exhibition is the extensive effort… see the print version for the full review.
Cai Guo-Qiang
New York Queens Museum of Art The work of Cai Guo-Qiang has been exhibited throughout Europe and Asia… see the print version for the full review.
Michelle Stuart
New York John Weber Gallery The newest of Michelle Stuart’s works are the most elegant… see the print version for the full review.
