Boston Boston Sculptors Gallery at the Christian Science Plaza When a group of artists working in various styles installs a site-specific show, uniformity is not guaranteed, nor even likely. Boston Sculptors’ summer installation, the first large-scale public art display in this city in living memory, set out to reflect its surroundings.
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Ted Larsen: Surfaced Forms
Ted Larsen’s sculptures are intimate and self-contained. His simple geometric forms resemble found objects, suggesting a past, reminiscent of something previously encountered. Though understated, the objects demand consideration: proximity encourages examination, which then reveals the nuanced complexity.
Between Evidence and Imagination: A Conversation with Janet Laurence
Elixir Bar, 2005. Traditional wooden house, screenprinted glass panel, blown-glass vials, plant extracts steeped in shochu, and laboratory glass, permanent installation at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan. Janet Laurence’s work takes viewers on an amazing journey through subjects as diverse as ecology, feminism, and alchemy, to name a few.
Wolfgang Laib: A Detail of Infinity
Much has been written about Laib’s artistic constants—his hermetic practice, distilled forms, and organic materials. A convergence of three projects in 2013 hinted at evolutionary changes in his work: “Over the last few years, I’ve made fewer exhibitions and don’t want to repeat things.
Bookworms: A Conversation with Jukhee Kwon
Jukhee Kwon uses abandoned and discarded books to make extraordinary sculptures that frequently resemble cascading waterfalls. For her, each destroyed book—its pages meticulously cut into ribbons—takes on new life through the process of creation and re-creation.
artMRKT
San Francisco Fort Mason artMRKT is small in comparison to most art fairs, but it is in a much more interesting place. The third edition was held at Fort Mason, right on the Bay, with the salt water, wind, and fog creating a special, San Francisco kind of atmosphere outside the venue.
Broward County Public Art
Broward County, Florida While Miami has attracted international attention for its art scene over the past decade, its neighbor to the north, Broward County, has been quietly expanding its collection of public sculpture. Broward encompasses several cities, including Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, and Davie; like Miami, it benefits from considerable tourism.
Touching Reality: A Conversation with Giuseppe Penone
Giuseppe Penone takes an almost animistic approach to sculpture, instilling material, process, and object with a ritual significance that moves beyond the conventions of culture to capture something innate, though forgotten, in human nature. His definition of art is deceptively, disarmingly simple: the task of the artist is to explore the reality of the world
James Turrell
Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art James Turrell’s ongoing exploration of light as art is grounded in the phenomenological even as it touches on the philosophical. Immanence comes quickly to mind because the consistency or quiddity of his work is keyed to the viewer’s act of perceiving and because light also alludes to
Jene Highstein
New York Clocktower Gallery When I arrived in New York in late 1975, straight from an MFA program in sculpture, I recall seeing Jene Highstein’s forms and not knowing exactly what to make of them. They played a prominent role in various exhibitions at the alternative spaces where sculpture was being shown at the time,
