April 2011

Action and Spatial Engagement: A Conversation with Frank Stella

Frank Stella was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2011. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Frank Stella, who is honored this year with the International Sculpture Center’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, will always be best remembered for his radical Black Paintings (1958-60), which consist of

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Magdalena Abakanowicz: Allegories of Time

Magdalena Abakanowicz’s recent sculpture reveals a type of allegorical theater. Her well-known Walking Figures project an ironic expressive content while retaining a formal rigor. Paradoxically, these massive sculptural figurations imply a quiet anonymity. Headless and armless, the inscrutably vital, masculine figures mostly stand upright, modeled in a strident pose.

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Nothing is More or Less Alive: A Conversation with Eduardo Kac

Since the early 1980s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced “Katz”) has created challenging combinations of the biological, the technological, and the linguistic, raising important questions about the cultural impact and ethical implications of biotechnologies. An innovator and pioneer of forms, he began experimenting in the pre-Web ’80s with works that used telerobotics—systems of remote communication linking software,

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“Material Worlds”

Banbridge, Northern Ireland FE. McWilliam Gallery Group sculpture shows are a comparative rarity now in Ireland. This one, featuring nine artist, eight of them Irish, wasn’t remotely representative of what is happening in Irish sculpture at the moment.

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Sculpture at Evergreen 6

Baltimore Johns Hopkins Evergreen Museum& Library “Simultaneous Presence,” the sixth iteration of Sculpture at Evergreen, included 10 site-specific installations. Working in dialogue with the 26-acre Garrett estate at Johns Hopkins and its rich 150-year history, participating artists have the opportunity to interact not only with natural and architectural environments, but also with diverse collections.

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HarborArts

Boston Boston Harbor Shipyard Gallery Its advocates call it a gallery, but any resemblance to a standard art gallery is slim. Boston Harbor Shipyard is a gritty, working marina and shipbuilding facility, poorly suited to art viewing.

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Jedediah Caesar

New York D’Amelio Terras Los Angeles-based Jedediah Caesar, in his second solo show at D’Amelio Terras, has taken a step away from projects that overtly demonstrate their “process-oriented” approach, moving simultaneously toward and away from the intellectual precision of Minimalism and the masculine romanticizations of Land Art.

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Rashid Johnson

New York Salon 94 Rashid Johnson’s “Our Kind of People” presented two facing installations — Sweet Sweet Runner and Watch Out—and two competing narratives, The first story, in the Afrocentric Sweet Sweet Runner, suggested achievement, domestic order, and upward mobility.

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