New Zealand artist Chris Booth recently completed a massive installation of undulating sandstone at the Royal Botanic Gardens—350 tons of rock cascading downhill along the shores of Sydney harbor. The wave-like form is an impressive 22 meters long and rises, at its highest, three meters above ground level (not high enough to intimidate the children
November 2011
Sarah Kabot
AKRON Akron Art Museum In The Matrix, Neo bends and folds the world, wrapping it around to fit his will.
Redefining Limits: A Conversation with Judy Millar
Sarah Gold: At the end of the 1920s, Yervand Kochar initiated discussions about “painting into space.” More recently, the German artists Gotthard Graubner and Katharina Grosse have continued this line of thinking. How did you become interested in space and the painted surface?
Melissa Pokorny
SEATTLE Platform Gallery Melissa Pokorny’s recent show offered a startling and unexpectedly beautiful selection of her mid-scale, found-object, assemblage sculptures.
Marianne Weil
NEW YORK Kouros Gallery There’s a palpable human presence in Marianne Weil’s bronze sculptures. The incisions, hatchings, and symbols scratched into her early totem-like figures reflect 10 years spent exploring and researching archaeological sites, from Neolithic cairns in Brittany to Bronze Age settlements in Spain.
“Material Girls”
BALTIMORE Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture With an aesthetic rooted in the everyday, “Material Girls” featured work by eight emerging and established black women artists who translate the metaphoric properties of their media into fierce sculptures, immersive installations, and intricate assemblages.
Art Basel Miami Beach
MIAMI Miami Sculpture Biennial/Pulse Art Fair South Florida is hit by a tidal wave of contemporary sculpture every December as Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), Pulse, Design Miami, the new Miami Sculpture Biennial, and a dozen other temporary art fairs and exhibitions come to town.
The Theatrum Mundi: Barry X Ball
A key to penetrating Barry X Ball’s sculptural enterprise (though not by any means to unlocking all its contents) was a phrase he let slip in a recent interview concerning his solo exhibition at the Ca’ Rezzonico in Venice.
