Travis Somerville

Birmingham, Alabama beta pictoris gallery Birmingham, past and present, became a site of charged memory in Travis Somerville’s recent exhibition, “American Rhetoric.” His brooding paintings and sculptures feature the piercing gaze of three different groups—glaring, black adults, children who died in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and dour-looking white men in blackface—all highly confrontational

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Gail Grinnell

Boise, Idaho Boise Art Museum Seattle artist Gail Grinnell has gained her share of attention over the past several years with thoughtful fabric-based installations and striking wall hangings at prominent venues throughout the Northwest. angle of repose, a site-specific project for the Boise Art Museum’s high-ceilinged, expansive Sculpture Court, enabled her to create her largest

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Timothy Noble

Buffalo, New York Burchfield Penney Art Center Timothy Noble’s The Semi-Automatic Chalkboard, a robotically controlled drawing machine, offers a timely consideration of artistic labor. Using open-source software and servo motors to run coded motions, the chalkboard etches out reproductions of sketches created by Charles E.

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“Come Together: Surviving Sandy”

New York Industry City “Come Together: Surviving Sandy,” in addition to astute two-dimensional invention by the likes of Gary Stephan, Robert Storr, James Siena, and Suzanne Joelson, brimmed with witty sculpture. The raw artscape of mismatched styles made for a funky jungle gym of form, texture, sets, and friends.

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Claudia Aranovich

Buenos Aires Eduardo Sívori Museum I once defined Claudia Aranovich’s work as a battlefield that consists of materials, message, artist, and spectator, and this description remains relevant. Her recent retrospective at the Eduardo Sívori Museum in Buenos Aires gathered more than 20 large-format sculptures, relief boxes, and luminous objects, as well as a video installation—a

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Celene Hawkins

Cincinnati  Taft Museum of Art A sculptor, turned loose in a gallery filled with paintings, looks at—the frames. Or so it seemed in Celene Hawkins’s thought-provoking exhibition “Landscape Re-framed: Sculp­tures” in which she recorded her responses to the Taft Museum’s fine collection of primarily European works from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Mayumi Sarai

New York Lori Bookstein Fine Art Mayumi Sarai is a Japanese-born sculptor who trained at the Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo and at the New York Studio School. Currently, she pursues her career as a carver in Bayonne, New Jersey, and Colchester, New York.

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Judy Onofrio

Minneapolis Thomas Barry Fine Arts Judy Onofrio’s recent exhibition, “Full Circle,” marked a significant and radical departure in both materials and aesthetics from her flamboyant work of the last three decades. Whereas her earlier figurative sculpture, wall reliefs, and installations—some of grand scale—were theatrical, even operatic assemblages, the “Full Circle” works consist largely of vessel

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