LONDON Pippy Houldsworth DiMattio, who is based in New York, started out as a painter of monumental, boundary-pushing canvases that played with optical illusion and references to the history of art, design, and architecture. She translated this fluidity of approach to clay when she took up the medium in 2010.
Whitney Ramage
RUTLAND, VERMONT 77 Gallery Using a simplicity of means, Whitney Ramage achieved a magnitude of results in her recent exhibition “DisEmbodiment.” In her masterful installation A Prayer for Every Day You’ve Been Gone, more than 1,800 white origami paper boats seemed to float across the polished wood floor of the gallery.
Katie Paterson
EDINBURGH Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One Scottish artist Katie Paterson has described time as the “material” with which she creates her work. In this modest but significant survey—her first major exhibition in a public institution in Scotland—her playful, rigorously researched works tick with the passing of millennia as stars die, solar eclipses pass, and planets spin.
Elyn Zimmerman’s MARABAR Facing Demolition
In 1977, Elyn Zimmerman made her first trip to India. Inspired by her experience of historical and sacred sites there, she began to consider how to create similarly meaningful contemporary public spaces back in the U.S.
Video: Tour Allan McCollum’s Survey Exhibition at ICA Miami
“Allan McCollum: Works Since 1969” is American conceptual artist Allan McCollum’s first museum retrospective in the U.S. The exhibition, curated by ICA Miami Artistic Director Alex Gartenfeld and Associate Curator Stephanie Seidel, spans McCollum’s artistic output over the past 50 years and brings together more than 20 series across a range of media.
Generative Proliferation: A Conversation with Martha Russo
Boulder, Colorado-based Martha Russo pushes the boundaries of ceramics, using abstract forms freighted with references to biology, anatomy, and the purely fantastical. Three years ago, her retrospective “Coalescere,” at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, summed up 25 years of art-making.
Anna Estarriola
HELSINKI Galerie Anhava Estarriola’s dynamic grab bag of sights, sounds, and situations communicated on visual, intellectual, emotional, and physical levels, demonstrating her ability to manifest the idiosyncratic and ambiguous hunches and impressions that inform our reality in concrete terms.
Engañar a los Sentidos: Una Conversación con Paulina Webb
Paulina Webb hace honor al ejercicio del trabajo constante. Su obra se gesta allí mismo, en ese espacio entre el concepto, el no saber y la práctica. Con la mirada centrada en la investigación sobre la desmaterialización y liviandad de las masas, su trabajo apela a la luz y el color combinados con una vasta cantidad de materiales y soportes formales en pro de su búsqueda.
Bharti Kher
SOMERSET, U.K. Hauser & Wirth In “A Wonderful Anarchy,” Bharti Kher presented new works produced during a three-month residency with Hauser & Wirth Somerset in 2017. An array of found objects expressed her interest in the dual concepts of the mythological and scientific, the secular and ritualistic, and the physical and psychological.
Human Here and Now: A Conversation with Millicent Young
Millicent Young uses poor materials—horsehair, in particular—to create lyrical abstractions that resemble ancient artifacts or inspired attempts at joining the timeless elements of nature to a contemporary point of view. Educated at Wesleyan University and the University of Virginia, with an MFA from James Madison University, she has always followed her own path.
