Robert Chambers is blazing a sensory trail with installations that talk back, move, smell good, make their own music, and change colors. A postmodern paragon, he self-consciously plays with Rothko-esque glowing biomorphic pools and a Duchampian helicopter with mesmerizing rotors….
March 2004
Measuring the Clouds: A Conversation with Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre lives and works in his native Antwerp. Contemporary art aficionados know him for his powerful figurative or abstract drawings executed in blue ballpoint and his sculptures fraught with surface ornament. Fabre’s early drawings and sculptures of the 1970s reveal his abiding interest in performance art.
“Paradise/Paradox”
New Rochelle, NY This sprawling, contentious exhibition, curated…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Richard Humann
New York As Richard Humann pushes sculpture into…see the full review in March’s magazine.
“New Slang”
New York This group show included works by…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Elie Nadelman
New York Elie Nadelman’s streamlined sense of form…see the full review in March’s magazine.
The Uncanny Eye: Lee Bontecou
On the heels of a meteoric rise to acclaim in the 1960s, Lee Bontecou withdrew from the art scene in the early ’70s to quietly pursue what she calls “new directions.” Her long absence from the exhibition circuit led to a virtual exclusion from most art history texts.
Maria Novella Del Signore
Florence, Italy “Popper spoke about the physics”…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Bill Klaila
Minneapolis The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Gallery For those inclined to dicker about whether or not a gallery installation is sculpture, Bill Klaila’s Grotto: An Alternative Reality would be a source for energetic discussion.