Madison, Georgia Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Michael Murrell’s recent exhibition, “From the Forest to the Shore,” was a tour de force of color, mixed media, and sheer conceptual boldness. Many of these oversized pieces seemed to expand upward and outward in a robust embrace of the natural world that inspired them.
London London Festival of Architecture Neo Bankside, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, is a new residential development adjacent to Tate Modern on the South Bank of London. As a contribution to the London Festival of Architecture (and a rather astute PR exercise), developers Native Land and Grosvenor commissioned Irish sculptor Brendan Jamison to
Oshawa, Canada The Robert McLaughlin Gallery The sculptures featured in “Fear and Faith,” Shayne Dark and Dennis Gill’s recent exhibition, seemed to be the unsettling, if inadvertent, offspring of Louise Bourgeois’s Maman (1999/2003), a 30-foot-tall bronze spider bearing a sac of 26 pure white marble eggs under her belly (there is a version in front
Seattle Suyama Space Brooklyn artist Stephen B. Nguyen, who emerged on the art scene around 2005, began his career as a color field painter, but, as he said in an artist statement, he wanted to focus more on a pure visual experience.
Dallas Nasher Sculpture Center The figure functions in two primary ways in Jaume Plensa’s work: literally and performatively. With respect to the former, his male figures are the obvious bearers of old-fashioned humanist queries concerning man’s position in the universe and the meaning of his life.
Williamsburg, New York East River State Park The Brooklyn-based nonprofit Urban Art Projects recently held its inaugural sculpture exhibition, punctuating East River State Park with the work of seven diverse artists. Each piece became a temporal relic that enhanced its surroundings as sculptors envisioned a new aesthetic order for old New York and beyond…see the
New York Flomenhaft Gallery Linda Stein’s recent exhibition of new work focused on the combination of popular culture, myth, and body politics. By eliciting the contradictions that continue to exist between cultural ideals and lived reality, Stein’s work attempts to bridge the gap by creating shells of body armor that speak to the sociopolitical situation
Ypsilanti, Michigan Eastern Michigan University Sculptures celebrating properties inherent to books, but not artists’ books, featured in “Open Book: An International Survey of Experimental Books,” an eye-opening group exhibition of inventive, frequently challenging work by 18 invited artists…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Chicago Rhona Hoffman Gallery Though not a realist per se, Chicago-based sculptor Chris Garofalo takes inspiration from various life forms. She works primarily in porcelain or clay to create objects that visually fuse and elaborate on elements found in both fauna and flora, terrestrial and marine life.
Who we are is determined to a considerable extent by what we are. The what includes our origins in time and place, gender, race, social status, sexual orientation, education, and political and religious convictions. Once we have this information, we believe that we know enough about a person to be able to classify and judge
