A flock of rare Paduan chickens cluck and flap in Hope Sandrow’s Open Air Studio, an installation that she created in the backyard of her century-old home in Southampton, New York. Sandrow, known for intermingling an eclectic range of media, from photography to performance, is also quick to pounce on oddball happenstance, as she did when an exotic white cockerel followed her home from a morning walk, and then stayed.
SAN FRANCISCO Eli Ridgway Gallery ugh Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon’s exhibition “No Touch” explored the interrelationship of space and sound, it was the translation of sound into visually beautiful, “fine art” objects that acted as the siren’s call, luring us in for a closer look and listen.
Charles Long lovingly stroked Pet Sounds, the music-making, pastel-colored shapes that he created for Madison Square Park, as guests at an opening night dinner awaited his arrival.
Swiss artist Peter Regli uses a concept that he calls “reality hacking” to make short, temporary interventions into the everyday. These incredibly fleeting works happen surprisingly and without advance notice. Incidental viewers may not be certain of their perceptions.
GENK, BELGIUM Waterschei The Waterschei, a former mining complex building in Genk, Belgium, is a wonderful relic and an impressive piece of Art Nouveau architecture that feels more like a sculpture than a building. The space is pregnant with the history of Limburg—a region that, between 1901 when Andre Dumont discovered coal and 1986 when the last mine closed, was synonymous with the coal industry in Belgium.
In New York, in 2010, Monika Grzymala installed Untitled (skeleton of a drawing) at one of the entrances to the Museum of Modern Art’s major survey exhibition “On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century.” Balancing precariously on a boom lift above the museum’s Marron Atrium, she assembled thin sticks of lightweight, polymer modeling compound (hand-prepared
DUBLIN RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Center A simplified, skinless, and scaled-down model of a zeppelin hovered in the upper register of RUA RED’S voluminous exhibition space. Confronted by enshrouding darkness and strains of sinister music, most viewers failed to notice its presence.
NEW YORK NURTUREart Emerging Italian sculptor Arianna Carossa recently presented a body of work based on the Greek myth of the Argo, the ship that carried Jason and the Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece. Capable of prophecy, the Argo played a genuine role in the legend, which has been carried across time (it is mentioned in Dante’s Divine Comedy).
Born in Los Angeles, Allan McCollum has lived and worked in New York City since 1975. He has spent more than four decades exploring how objects accrue meaning through their manufacture (the handmade versus mass-produced), modes of display, and means of exchange.
Judy Pfaff was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2014. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Lo, Laramie, 2012. Honeycomb carboard, expanded foam, plastics, and fluorescent light, 60 x 60 x 20 in Judy Pfaff’s fierce independence has put her in an exalted but precarious position.
