June 1999
June 1999
Michael Murrell
City Gallery East Atlanta Sculptor Michael Murrell shapes metaphors. Causing wood and metal to bloom, fly, sail, and pray, he coaxes the animistic essence from his materials. ln “Sanacenia” at City Gallery East, he creates quietly abstract interpretations of nature and the body that comment on our relationship with the world.
Patrick Holderfield
Project 416 Seattle ln his Seattle gallery debut, 30-year-old Patrick Holderfield exhibited new, altered found object sculptures that set up amusing and challenging contradictions. With the overall title of “Dehisence,” which refers to the expulsion of materials coming through a suture or surgical wound, Holderfield added painted fleshlike polyurethane foam elements to boxes, car bumpers,
Merrill Wagner
William Traver Gallery Seattle Merrill Wagner has lived in New York since 1953, but grew up in and still spends part of each summer near Tacoma, Washington, She followed her 1997 Tacoma Art Museum retrospective with this recent Seattle showing of three large-scale, painted slate sculptures.
Darrell Petit
Milford, CT The Stone Sculpture Garden For many years sculpture in stone has been considered a dead medium. This view is related to the conception of stone as the ultimate medium for commemoration, and sculptors’ frequent neglect of sculptural concerns in stone sculpture… for the full review see the print edition of June 1999’s Sculpture
Judy Pfaff
Karen McCready Gallery New York Judy Pfaffs wall art mixes etchings, encaustic, lithographs, Photographs, fire, resin, and other matter to send strong messages about the healing forces and the spiritual dimensions of the visible and historical world.
Christian Boltanski: Traces of the Dead
Christian Boltanski’s haunting, provocative work draws on memory, history, ambiguity, and the presence of death in everyday life…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Barbara Benish
Huntington Beach Art Center Huntington Beach, CA Set amidst sand dunes imported into the gallery space from the beach nearby, Barbara Benish’s site-specific work, Sandcasfles, reflects the artist’s childhood memories of life near the sea. The California born, Prague-based aftist s installation addresses postmodern issues, while eschewing the strident or didactic overtones that often accompany
Dispatch: “Functional Follies: 20 Architectural Objects of Delight”
Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah was the setting for this exhibition of 20 landscape and garden follies commissioned by the Savannah College of Art and Design in celebration of its 20th anniversary… see the full review in the print edition of June 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
