White Walls, 1998. Corrugated plastic, each unit approximately 10 x 23 in. diameter. The expository tires piled on top of each other in James Carl’s latest show at Galerie Clark look natural but are not. Each has been handcrafted out of coroplast, a synthetic material, and the seemingly accidental nature of their presentation is actually
April 1999
In Pursuit of Memory: Berlin, Bamberg, and the Specter of History
Berlin is a primary focus of current reconsiderations of cultural memory, political ideology, public commemoration, and sculptural possibilities…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Kiki Smith
The Mattress Factory and the Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh Kiki Smith has become one of the most famous female artists of her generation. While a wide range of feminist concerns informed Smith’s earlier work, she never referenced a specific issue or theory.
Art & Ecology: Three Canadian Sculptors
Irene F. Wittome, Musée des Traces, 1989. Mixed media, room-size installation. “Do you ever wonder what happens to those little pieces of soap left over when you leave your room?” asks a voice on a Toronto hotel’s closed-circuit television channel.
Ann Hamilton
the body and the object: Ann Hamilton 1984-1996 Ann Hamilton: woven Miami Art Museum Ann Hamilton, untitled (privation and excess), 1989. View of installation. The touring exhibition “the body and the object: Ann Hamilton 1984-1996,” organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, happily allows for fragmentary
Anne Baxter
Robert Berman Gallery Santa Monica, CA Anne Baxter’s precise and provocative wire-mesh sculptures parody the structures of art and life. This young American, who emerged on the Parisian art scene in 1990, recently presented some 20 new works in Santa Monica that suggest a familiarity with the devilish complexities of Derridian philosophy… See the print
Elena Zang Gallery Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
Shady, NY A certain curiosity about structure and a willingness to play with its conventions mark the work of artists gathered into this years outdoor sculpture exhibition at the Elena Zang Gallery in Shady, New York… See the print version of Sculpture Magazine to view this review in full.
Midwest Express Center
Milwaukee “Homeward bound at last, north from Milwaukee on Christmas eve. The red towered station looks very German. But the stern, tattered, tall twilight is American; little by little it will change the German faces; and all that in the near future we can hope for, or fear, is resemblance.”
Saint Claire Cemin
Washington DC Baumgartner Gallery ln Saint Claire Cemin’s recent show at Baumgartner, surfaces sparkle and forms shift. The artist is seen once again, a master delighting in his material and arousing that same curiosity in the viewer This time, the focus is marble, a material that carries the heritage of the classical tradition, the ongoing
