Yuriko Yamaquchi

Numark Gallery Washington, DC Yuriko Yamaguchi, Metamorphosis #84-89, 1999. Mixed media, each vertical row approximately 70 x 27 x 8 in. Nuance, paradox, enigma come to mind when viewing Yuriko yamaguchi’s recent show “Metamorphosis:” nuance in the way she handles materials and coaxes meaning from her hybrid forms, paradox in the way she sets up

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Jedd Novatt

LONDON Waddington Custot American sculptor Jedd Novatt, who works between his studios in Paris and the industrial city of Eibar in northern Spain, close to Bilbao, describes his early experience of diving as character building and an important influence on how he sees and experiences space, even on dry land.

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Tabor Robak

WASHINGTON, DC von ammon co. “MENTAL”—the title alone encapsulates how many people identify the zeitgeist in this dystopian era, a crisis, in part, of individual freedom and choice that 20th-century existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre predicted in Being and Nothingness. New York-based Tabor Robak updated the theme with wily poignancy in his recent show.

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Sarah Lucas: Naked Honesty

Sarah Lucas has a feeling for materials that quite simply takes your breath away, a formidable command over sculptural form, a knack for striking compositions and juxtapositions, an abiding interest in charged and often politically incorrect content, and a deliciously wicked sense of humor.

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“By the People”

WASHINGTON, DC Various locations In a city chockablock with monuments, “By the People” alternatively mounts ephemeral public art. Organized by the nonprofit organization Halcyon, which also sponsors residencies for social practice artists and social entrepreneurs, the 2019 “By the People” festival (its second installment) aimed to present “artwork that sparks dialogue and builds bridges within and across communities.”

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