Christopher Saucedo, Temple-Arcade, 1/4 scale replica (unassembled), 2004. Cast aluminum, 22 x 57.5 x 6.5 in. Ludic in temper, New Orleans sculptor Christopher Saucedo makes art that might be described as Postmodernist fun. While nodding respectfully at Rodin, Brancusi, and a host of others, he draws from wide-ranging sources both popular and learned, posing mischievous queries
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The Body Disembodied: New Directions in Modernist Sculpture
The four sculptors united by this article- Vincent Barré, Willard Boepple, Clay Ellis, and John Gibbons-do not constitute a group in the usual sense….see the full review in October’s magazine.
Adrienne Outlaw
Nashville Adrienne Outlaw’s constructions…see the full review in October’s magazine.
James Turrell
Seattle “Knowing Light” was James…see the full review in October’s magazine.
“Mercurial”
Brooklyn Williamsburg Art and Historical Center Having just closed an immense, exhilarating, exhausting show of “surrealist, fantastic, and visionary art” that inspired almost as much denunciation as delight (and that included a costume ball, an over-the-top “fashion show,” and a film series), the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center gave itself a well-deserved breather.
A Diagram of Forces: Michael Rees
Michael Rees describes himself as a new media sculptor. The phrase brings to mind a jumble of kinetic objects interwoven with monitors and loudspeakers, but that’s not what Rees means….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Liu Jianhua
New York Plum Blossoms The ceramic sculptures of Liu Jianhua are an exercise in desire, the consequence of skilled craft and unabashed sensuality. Liu Jianhua, born in 1962 in Jilan, Jiangxi province, began working while still a teenager in the ceramic factories in Jingdezhen; he then studied in the fine arts department of the Jingdezhen
