HUDSON, NEW YORK John Davis Gallery Now in her mid-80s, Ohio-based, primarily self-taught La Wilson has long made resonant, even transgressive-feeling assemblage works. Her signature form is the box, which she uses to hold compositions made up of everyday objects, very much like a conventional frame provides a border for a painting’s pictorial space.
April 2012
James O. Clark and Forrest Myers
QUEENS, NEW YORK Regina Rex Western, particularly American, artists will never cease in their quest to find the aesthetic in common objects, to be inventive with found and discarded materials.
Antipodean Treasure: Connells Bay Sculpture Park
The city of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest population base, sports four first-class sculpture parks within a 50-kilometer radius of its Central Business District. Of these, Connells Bay Sculpture Park is unique in presenting a microcosm of the country’s large-scale sculpture.
Yutaka Sone
NEW YORK David Zwirner “Island,” the title of Japanese sculptor Yutaka Sone’s recent show, seemed to refer to the remarkable Little Manhattan (2007–09), a marble sculpture of New York City’s most famous borough.
Nina Levy: Compelling Discomfort
The exhibition “Related Forms” acted as a mini-retrospective for Nina Levy, displaying sculptures and photographs from 1999 to 2011. Her controversial figurative works, displayed to great advantage in the long, open space of Salamatina Gallery (unexpectedly set in a former Gap store in an upscale shopping mall in Manhasset, New York), caused a stir among
Li Wei: Pursuing Figuration in the 21st Century
Despite the presence of an avant-garde since the 1980s, figurative art remains important in China. This is not to say that Chinese culture rejects abstraction; instead, its preference for realist art is based on centuries of traditional painting focused on the landscape, which many scholars regard as its highest achievement.
Art Hong Kong 11
HONG KONG Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre If there was one word to describe the fourth edition of Art Hong Kong (also known as Art HK 11), it would be “buzzing.”
Marisa Merz
NEW YORK Barbara Gladstone Gallery Marisa Merz, one of Arte Povera’s band of stellar sculptors (and the widow of Mario Merz, who also belonged to the group), looks to the attractions of industrial materials.
Jinny Yu
OTTAWA Patrick Mikhail Gallery Nominally a painter, Jinny Yu explored materiality in her “Latest from New York” exhibition, which included sculpted aluminum and oil pieces. She sees herself at the interstices of identity—of Korean birth, living in Ottawa, practicing in New York, Italy, Montreal, and elsewhere.
Shirazeh Houshiary
LONDON Lisson Gallery Shirazeh Houshiary’s “No Boundary Condition” presented itself as an exhibition of paradoxes—paintings that felt three-dimensional, manmade objects that felt organic, chaotic sculptural compositions that somehow seemed simple.
