NEW YORK White Cube Like a three-dimensional Mondrian painting through which one can move—navigating the horizontal and vertical branches that pierce the space—the work forces viewers to stop and carefully pick a path.
Lift and Fold: A Conversation with Mimi Herbert
Mimi Herbert and her fraternal twin were only 12 when their father, a portrait photographer, paid them a quarter a head to tint his sepia prints with oils. Their mother had studied at Pratt, and an uncle, a New York artist, marched them through museums with pictures that gave Herbert nightmares.
La trama de la memoria colectiva: Una Conversación con Claudia Santanera
Nacida en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina, la poeta y artista visual Claudia Santanera se vincula con el campo de los cruces interdisciplinarios desarrollando su obra en diferentes soportes y medios que van desde las video instalaciones hasta las esculturas blandas trabajadas con fibras naturales, pasando por los libros de poesía.
Resting Places: A Conversation with Steve Dilworth
For over five decades, Steve Dilworth has been making art inspired by the wild, windswept landscape of the Outer Hebrides, the sparsely populated chain of islands located off the northwest coast of mainland Scotland. He uses natural materials found there, including deceased animals, for which he often creates memorial-like works.
Tatiana Wolska
BIRMINGHAM, U.K. Midlands Arts Centre Tatiana Wolska’s intuitive, materially driven practice is founded on clear political and ethical principles. The Polish artist takes an open, democratic approach to art-making, inviting viewers to activate the exhibition space through participation and exchange.
Approximation to Form: A Conversation with Dolores Furtado
Dolores Furtado, who was born in Argentina and moved to New York a decade ago, constructs objects that evade easy characterization. Simple in form, sensuous in texture, her sculptures possess a simplicity that links them to archaic artifacts.
Sinead McKeever
BELFAST QSS Gallery It would seem that McKeever’s ambitions escalate according to the size of the space she is offered. At QSS’s new, large-scale gallery—roughly triangular with two protruding corridor sections and a small zig-zag area—she took on the entire, oddly shaped space.
Celia Pym
PENZANCE, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Hweg Gallery Like contemporaries in London such as Caroline Achaintre, who shoots wool through canvas with an air compressor to make her work, Pym is taking materials and processes traditionally associated with the applied arts into a contemporary art practice that can be said to occupy a new space between traditional definitions.
Kehinde Wiley
HOUSTON Museum of Fine Arts Nearly all of the figures in the exhibition are deceased, wounded, or in repose, in striking contrast to Wiley’s previous works in which his subjects are (almost) invariably dynamic, assertive, and commanding.
Melvin Edwards: “You don’t play around with that power”
Recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Melvin Edwards began his now mythical “Lynch Fragments” in Los Angeles in 1963, when he was 26, and he has continued welding and forging them in New York, New Jersey, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Brazil, and elsewhere.
