Numark Gallery Washington, DC Yuriko Yamaguchi, Metamorphosis #84-89, 1999. Mixed media, each vertical row approximately 70 x 27 x 8 in. Nuance, paradox, enigma come to mind when viewing Yuriko yamaguchi’s recent show “Metamorphosis:” nuance in the way she handles materials and coaxes meaning from her hybrid forms, paradox in the way she sets up
May 2000
May 2000
Grisha Bruskin
New York Marlborough Gallery Grisha Bruskin, Woman with Lenin’s Mausoleum, 1999. Porcelain, 8 in. high. Staring straight ahead with blank, unseeing eyes, Grisha Bruskin’s perfect figures are identifiable only by the objects they carry. Like a blank slate waiting to be written on, they stand motionless, soulless, and powerless awaiting orders: gray, robotic, expressionless people
“I and My Circumstance: Mobility in Contemporary Mexican Art”
Montreal Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Gabriel Orozco, Blue Sandals, Cibachrome print, 31.5 x 47.3 cm. This group show of contemporary Mexican art breaks the stereotypes of Mexico as a folklore culture lost in time and of Mexican art as magic and/or social realism.
Gabriele Stellbaum
New York Florence Lynch Gallery ln her first solo exhibition, Gabriele Stellbaum, a German artist living in New York, showed strong and exciting new work. A young artist experimenting with new media to great effect, she uses computer-generated imagery to create sculptural installations.
Critique & Compliance: Artists on Display
The museum is a conflicted and confounding territory for critique by artists…see the full feature in May’s magazine.
“Acoustic Architecture—Architectural Acoustics”
Amsterdam De Veemvloer lnstallation view of “Acoustic Architecture- Architectural Acoustics,” at De Veemvloer. Amsterdam’s Stichting Vedute (Vedute Foundation) recently held the exhibition “Acoustic Architecture- Architectural Acoustics, ” which required works to meet specifications set by guest curator Frans Bevers: “[Artists should] visualize their personal preoccupation with sound and space into the confines of 44 by
Sculpture and Architecture
Atlanta “Architecture?”Vaknin Schwartz Gallery“From Our House to Your House”Nexus Contemporary Art Center“Landscape-City: Photographs by Arwed Messmer”Goethe-Institute Atlanta“thinking loud/cutting through: architecture.art.film”Space 1 181 Kerry Schuss, 838 S. Broadleigh/Two Views, 1999.
“What are you looking at?” The Sculpture of Tony Oursler
Oursler animates the inanimate and explores both real and imagined space…see the full feature in May’s magazine.