Seattle Francine Seders Gallery Marita Dingus, Shackles, Mixed media, installation view. During a three-month stay with a friend who lived near Texas College in Tyler, Texas, Seattle artist Marita Dingus immersed herself in artifacts and texts about the African-American slave experience.
December 1998
Richard Marquis
Objects, 1967-1997 Seattle Seattle Art Museum Blizzard’s Suspense, Blown and cast glass,26.5 x 25.5 x 11 in. Richard Marquis’s quirky, mindful art encapsulates layers of history. His 51 objects at the Seattle Art Museum, created over the past 30 years, compete for the viewers attention… See the print version of Sculpture Magazine for the full
David Smith
Mountainville, NY Storm King David Smith, (Foreground) Sitting Printer, 1954. Bronze. (Background) Untitled (Candida). Stainless steel. David Smith s sculptures are meant to be seen through. That aspect of the work was made eminently clear in an installation at Storm King Art Center this summer… See the full review in the print version of Sculpture
Bradley Sunnarborg
New York art et industrie Bradley Sunnarborg, Heroic Vehicles, 1998. Mixed media. lnstallation view: foreground, Sometimes I Can’t Catch My Breath, Sometimes I Can’t Hold lt With cast iron as the main ingredient, Bradley Sunnarborg’s refined yet unabashedly industrial sculptures sit rather pretty (and firmly) and beg a closer look.
Judy Moonelis
New York John Elder Gallery Judy Moonelis, Magnetic Touch (detail),1998. Mixed media. 84 x 9x9in.overall. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, so the old saying goes. But sometimes the parts can convey the whole.
Michel Gerard
New York Alexandre de Folin Gallery The French sculptor Michel Gerard moved to New York in 1989, and his new body of work addresses, in poetic fashion, the ties between memory and his experience in America.
James Higdon, Stacey Chinn
St. Louis A.D. Brown Building Stacey R. Chinn, Untitled, 1997-98. Mixed media, installation view. The recent popularity of toy-themed sculptures in no way prepares one for James Higdon’s series of works titled So Much, So Many.
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Exeter, NH Moses-Kent House Lucy Hodgson, Steeplepeepers, 1998. Wood, shingles, and maple saplings, 10 x I ft ln its fifth year, the summer sculpture show on the grounds of the Victorian Moses-Kent House in Exeter N.H.
Gary Keown
New Orleans The Contemporary Arts Center Glancing in the mirror at a woman stepping onto a stair landing, the protagonist of Charlotte BrontesViIIette realizes almost instantly that she has seen herself for the first time “as others see her.”
Tony Oursler
District of Columbia Video Dolls with Tracey Leipold Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Tony Oursler. Side Effects,1999. Mixed media with video projection. Performances by Tracy Leipold, 68.5 x 22.75 x 9.5 in. Tony Oursler’s recent exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum announced itself with a jangle of human voices that sounded like a Hollywood version at
