Pooja Iranna coaxes industrial materials and office accessories, including cement, mirrors, and staples, into thought-provoking portrayals of how the world and its proliferating cities are evolving. Her recent exhibition “Silently—a proposed plan for rethinking the urban fabric” ended with a chilling film that enacted the rapid colonization of the earth’s remaining green space.
Rachel K. Garceau
ATLANTA whitespace gallery Rachel K. Garceau’s work often begins with an intimate, near-obsessive exploration of a single object that has taken root in her imagination—it could be a stone or a branch or something ineffable about a place.
Creating Problems: A Conversation with Allan Wexler
A quintessential social sculptor, Allan Wexler uses architecture as a transformative tool, triggering the alternating joys and anxieties we experience whenever we step into a new space and teasing us with simple but provocative questions: Do I want to deal with social etiquette?
Alma Allen
NEW YORK Kasmin Allen’s works radiate a rare touch-me quality that retains the intimacy of their making—hand-sculpted in wax or clay, worked and reworked until the forms gradually emerge. The objects have correspondences, particularly to the natural world, but cannot be classified; they are both figurative and abstract, organic and geometrical.
Igshaan Adams
LONDON Hayward Gallery In the hands of Igshaan Adams, a sculpture is in endless evolution. As the South African artist explained during the opening of his current exhibition (on view through July 25, 2021), “My sculptures are a never-ending work. I add materials in different moments, and leave them aside in the studio for years at times because with my sculptures there is no intention or agenda. It is about trying out new ideas.”
Public Art Commissions
Five new public art projects to visit this year.
Lucia Hierro: Con una Taza de Chocolate
One of my mother’s favorite memories from her childhood in Puerto Rico was finding and attending funerals. She and my Titi Maritza would run around searching for fatalities, checking in on old people, scouring the news.
Working Together: A Conversation with Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper’s sculptures seem particularly suited to the uncertain nature of our times. Like the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Cooper “liv[es] the question” through his work, both personal and collaborative, creating visual forms that bear traces of a rich, compelling, infinitely productive, and changeable process.
Roberley Bell
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Launchpad Gallery In “Between Uncertainty,” Roberley Bell’s current exhibition (on view through July 2, 2021), floral wallpaper covers a corner of the gallery. Still Life with Table plays off the floral theme perfectly. Fanciful and provocative, the white wood and pink foam sculpture rises like a flowering bonsai with its twisted root base and puff top.
Material Instincts: A Conversation with Daniel Giordano
Daniel Giordano works on the third floor of his family’s former coat factory in Newburgh, New York (across the Hudson River from Beacon), where he makes outlandishly beautiful sculpture from the most unlikely of materials. Very much aware of Modernism but not beholden to it, Giordano represents a new kind of creative thinking.
