ROCKLAND, MAINE Center for Maine Contemporary Art “For the first time in my life, I’m doing basically three things that I have mocked my entire adult creative career—realism, political satire, and text,” Bisbee says. The show’s title is itself a capacious metaphor that embraces a multitude of references, including American labor, economics, and culture.
Prohibido Olvidar: Una Conversación con Florencia Battiti
Coordinadora de Artes Visuales y Programa de Arte Público del Parque de la Memoria, Argentina Las aguas aparentemente inofensivas del Río de la Plata, bordean la capital de Buenos Aires conteniendo en sus profundidades enigmas, historias, silencios obligados.
Fawn Krieger
NEW YORK Assembly Room Fawn Krieger’s “Soft Power” inaugurated the new Assembly Room, a gallery run by curators Natasha Becker, Paola Gallio, and Yulia Topchiy with the mission to celebrate and empower independent women curators. “Soft power” typically describes a technique of using cultural and economic persuasion, rather than military coercion, to achieve political ends.
Magali Hébert-Huot
WASHINGTON, DC Hamiltonian Gallery Isolation and estrangement, tinged with a dark humor, haunt a long, narrow gallery where sculptures lie about like remnants of a forgotten journey or stage props awaiting human agents. Magali Hébert-Huot has cloaked them in white for the most part, pops of acid green and pink disrupting the palette of oblivion and challenging gender conventions.
Artists Chosen for Frieze Sculpture New York
Fourteen international artists have been announced for the launch of Frieze Sculpture in New York, presented at Rockefeller Center.
Rachel Rotenberg: Muscular Movements
“Sanity,” a title shared by Rachel Rotenberg’s recent exhibitions at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and at Gershman Gallery in Philadelphia, not only suggests the role that making art plays for her, but also argues for the necessity of art in a world where countless forces, from technology to climate change to war, threaten to overwhelm us.
Tyree Guyton
DETROIT Museum of Contemporary Art As with much of Guyton’s work, he wants you to live simultaneously in two worlds: one of harsh social reality and the other of infinite possibility. The title of the show, “2+2=8,” alludes to a philosophy that embraces the latter condition.
Natalie Moore: Metaphor in Action
Natalie Moore, a longtime resident of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Greenpoint (she has a studio in Greenpoint), originally hails from California. In the mid-1980s, she attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, which is known for its experimental interests, particularly in the arts and humanities.
Marguerite Humeau
NEW YORK New Museum “Birth Canal,” Marguerite Humeau’s first solo exhibition at a U.S. museum, featured 10 new bronze and stone sculptures configured in a darkly cavernous spatial installation.
Douglas Coupland
VANCOUVER Vancouver Aquarium Composed of debris retrieved from the once pristine shores of British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii, “Vortex” tackles the complex contextualizing of the nebulous Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest of several floating plastic garbage gyres around the world and a sprawling, slimy mass of filth.
