Taipei Taipei Fine Arts Museum “Eternal Nature,” a solo show of installations by Taiwanese artist Ping-Yu Pan, featured works from the last nine years, including examples from several different series. Shell imagery dominated with nine sculptures from Pan’s “Shell” series (2003-09).
Western Galilee, Israel The Open Museum: Omer Industrial Park For several decades, Bernie Fink was associated with a group of “Galilean” sculptors working in the north of Israel, all of them using basalt and materials found in nature to produce constructions suggestive of shrines, sundials, or archaic agricultural tools…see the full review in April’s magazine.
London October Gallery At first it was the eyes. The hypnotic white orbs of Gérard Quenum’s charred, voodoo-tinged L’Ange (Angel, 2008) drew me into his recent exhibition—and into a multi-layered collection of powerful sculptural statements…see the full review in April’s magazine.
London The Hayward The watchful eyes of My Trophies, proliferating London Underground posters, announced the opening of Annette Messager’s first U.K. retrospective. Documenting the evolution of her work over the last four decades, from the intimate pieces of the 1970s to recent large-scale…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Cambridge, Ontario Cambridge Galleries Trained as a sculptor, Gareth Lichty weaves. Range, the single installation making up his recent exhibition, consists of one enormous weaving—shown in three separate sections—that weighs in at over 2,200 pounds.
Houston Discovery Green Discovery Green, located on 12 acres in downtown Houston, is Space City’s newest venue for outdoor public art. Its recent exhibition, “Light as Air,” was organized by Sara Kellner, a Houston-based independent curator, and featured…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Pittsburgh Mattress Factory In a post-studio era in which concept overrides object, Thaddeus Mosley’s recent exhibition ran in the opposite direction. This show of work from the late 1990s to 2009 was vast and passionate, providing viewers with a celebration of astute materiality…see the full review in April’s magazine.
New York Matthew Marks Charles Ray’s wizardry with boundary-breaking was conspicuous in this low-tech but high-interest exhibition. Three works from a little more than 20 years ago defied ceiling, floor, and wall, showing the viewer how simple interventions can result in sculptures of startling…see the full review in April’s magazine.
New York Sperone Westwater What is real and what is true? These questions become increasingly pressing at a time when means are available to spread data with the mere tap of a key and digital tools enable us to distort information easily.
New York Metro Pictures Since the mid-1970s Tony Oursler has broken down conventional boundaries between media, producing work that functions as a peculiar metaphor for the human condition in a media-saturated age…see the full review in April’s magazine.
