Claudette Schreuders is a South African artist based in Cape Town. Her work has been exhibited in many institutions internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Puzzling Perception: A Conversation with Tauba Auerbach
Tauba Auerbach, whose aesthetic investigations break the mold, has described her work as an attempt to reveal “new spectral and dimensional richness…both within and beyond the limits of perception.”
Helena Hamilton: Composing in Space
Helena Hamilton, a young Northern Irish artist based in Belfast, extends the scope of sculpture by eliding drawing, installation, performance, sonic art, and interactive digital media. Meditative, immersive, and atmospheric, her interdisciplinary work places everyday physical objects such as neon tubes in counterpoint with the immaterial and the intangible.
Yoonshin Park
RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS Riverside Arts Center An accomplished paper sculptor, the Chicago-based Park crafted each pillow in “Passing hours, space in between: I am breathing your air” from delicate white paper, seamed and sewed precisely; inside each is a hidden mechanism inducing the slightest movement in the center of the pillows, mimicking the rise and fall of a sleeping person’s torso.
William Kentridge
NEW YORK Park Avenue Armory The Head & The Load, an installation and collaborative performance piece involving almost three dozen musicians, dancers, vocalists, and spoken word performers, along with processions and projections of Kentridge’s drawings and sculptures, is set during World War I. Like all of Kentridge’s work, however, it resonates with contemporary meaning.
Joan Jonas
SOUTH HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS Mount Holyoke College Art Museum “Promise of the Infinite,” a mini-retrospective on view through June 16, focuses on one salient theme running from Jonas’s earliest performances (captured on 16mm film) to recent installations—the mirror as metaphor and object.
Robert Morris
NEW YORK Leo Castelli Gallery Morris’s final exhibition, “Banners and Curses,” his 40th at the Leo Castelli Gallery, opened in late October, just weeks before his death, at age 87, from pneumonia. This final gesture, an urgent wake-up call, aligns Morris’s darkly expansive vision with a contemporary moment commensurate with its prophetic and sublime cynicism.
The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace
A Q&A with Noelle Kadar, Director of The Sculpture Park, Jaipur, India The Park’s second edition runs through November 1, 2019.
Rena Detrixhe
BOSTON Abigail Ogilvy Gallery Detrixhe begins with a drawing, then incises her relief-like design into the soil with hand-carved stamps made from discarded shoe soles.
“Artists In Residence”
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA The Mattress Factory Relationships across body, space, and time unite these new works by William Earl Kofmehl III, Laleh Mehran, OSGEMEOS (Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo), Karina Smigla-Bobinski, and Christina A. West.
