New York Jim Kempner Fine Art Anyone familiar with Jay Kelly’s photorealist paintings of rusting cars and trucks, used tires, and industrial waste sites will be startled by the transformation in his recent sculptures and drawings.
April 2011
Willard Tucker
Cleveland The Sculpture Center A tangle of camera tripods, copper rods, and jerry-rigged, crackling electrical connections presides over one side of a windowless gallery, like a lightning-blasted tree. This strange hybrid stands sentry amid rows of cotton bolls, picked at historic plantations in Tennessee and now sprouting from the ends of rusty welded steel stalks.
Catherine Grisez
Seattle Traver Gallery “Lick,” a term normally reserved for gustatory treats like ice cream cones, was appropriated by North- west artist Catherine Grisez as the title of her recent exhibition, where it was used to suggest wounds, orrather, the healing thereof.
Maria Nepomuceno
London Victoria Miro Gallery Climbing the stairs into Maria Nepomuceno’s recent exhibition was like entering a lush clearing in the Amazon rainforest of her native Brazil, complete with a carnival of bright, vibrant colors; sensuous, slightly sinister shapes resembling fleshy, carnivorous plants; a hammock, perhaps made from jungle creepers by a passing Indian hunter-gatherer; and
