Kerry James Marshall’s works lead viewers to a deeper awareness of integral and coactive relationships across material, form, and concept. Imagery and formal qualities, such as color and shape, depth and flatness, speak to ideas of race and power.
December 2018
Jean-Michel Othoniel
Saint-Étienne, France Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain Jean-Michel Othoniel, who credits Saint-Étienne’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art as a source of his artistic vocation, helped to celebrate its 30th anniversary with an exhibition that was equal parts introduction to his work and personal homage to the artists who influenced his imagination as a boy,
Vanessa Brown
Calgary, Alberta, Canada Esker Foundation Purple, pastel blues, greens, pinks, and iridescent white inhabit the works in Vanessa Brown’s recent exhibition “The Witching Hour.” Brown presents a synthesis of delicacy and brute strength, demonstrating a fine balance between feminist aesthetics and traditional sculpture.
Sergio Camargo
New York Sean Kelly Sergio Camargo (1930–90) was an important Brazilian sculptor whose simplified objects direct their attention toward, without adhering to, the Minimalist movement and other, closer Brazilian influences. He spent an extended period in Paris, from 1961 to 1973, and was influenced by Brancusi, who lived in Paris until his death in 1957.
Donna Dennis
New York Lesley Heller Gallery The muscular ore dock sitting in Lake Superior’s frigid waters immediately caught Donna Dennis’s eye with its play of sturdy grids framing vast space, its bold forms dominating daylight yielding to black night, and its aloneness.
