Rotterdam Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Alexandra Bircken’s recent exhibition, which was installed in conjunction with the Boijmans Van Beuningen’s headline show “Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray—Framing Sculpture,” featured more than 40 sculptural works produced since 2004. Bircken is becoming increasingly known for her assemblages of diverse materials and everyday objects.
May 2015
May 2015
Park Eun Sun
Rome Mercati di Traiano Park Eun Sun’s exhibition at the Mercati di Traiano was a double experience, just like the artist’s soul (born in South Korea, he succumbed to the seductions of stone and moved to Pietrasanta in the early 1990s).
Mrinalini Mukherjee
New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art “Transfigurations: The Sculpture of Mrinalini Mukherjee,” curated by Peter Nagy, was a triumph of the artist’s vision. It also served as a memorial retrospective; Mukherjee died, at the age of 65, just a week after the opening.
Aurora Robson
Charlotte, North Carolina McColl Center for Art + Innovation Aurora Robson grew up in a family on the run. Early in her career, she made paintings that mapped her childhood nightmares, endeavoring to remake them into dreams.
Alyson Shotz
Clinton, New York Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College Brooklyn-based artist Alyson Shotz has long been fascinated by space and how objects occupy it. Her work investigates perception and how that perception is shaped through process, materials, and natural forces.
Ryan Roa
Mahwah, New Jersey Ramapo College of New Jersey Ryan Roa’s black bungee-cord sculptures recall Minimalist efforts of more than a generation ago. His works are perhaps more accurately described as drawings in space: Roa links one cord to another and tethers them to the ceiling, wall, or floor to produce linear as well as volumetric
Jordan Eagles
Boston Mills Gallery Jordan Eagles has discovered that blood, dried in quantity, turns into rock-like forms and then crumbles into flakes and dust. Distributing this medium with an unerring eye on a large backing, he then seals it into place with UV resin.
Julianne Swartz
Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis Museum of Art For Julianne Swartz, liminality is the common locus across disparate objects and materials. She holds some aspects of her work just outside of perceptibility and invites viewers to become participants, to cross thresholds of comprehension and thus fulfill the works.
Ron Nagle
San Diego San Diego Museum of Art Ceramic sculptor and musician Ron Nagle is a master of intimate scale. For the past 50 years, he has been making highly refined objects, often no larger than several inches, which are notable for their irreverence, allusive form, and extreme attention to detail.
Lonnie Holley
Atlanta Cash Rojas Projects Lonnie Holley, best known for his found-object assemblages, sandstone carvings, and otherworldly music, is a self-taught artist who defies easy categorization. Many of his sculptures are imbued with the narrative common to folk art, while others have a Modernist aesthetic, emphasizing formal qualities.