Buenos Aires Del Infinito Gallery Del Infinito Gallery opened its 2014 season with a show of works by Elena Dahn, an artist who uses plaster and silicone to create abstract volumes that occupy both walls and floors.
November 2014
Ed Gillum
Fresno, California 1821 Gallery Ed Gillum’s recent work combines various artifacts to create models of a post-Baudrillardian universe, in which the world of mass-produced simulacra and the authentically personal live together. Collected in the aptly titled “Chance Encounters,” these works began with the discovery and repurposing of stainless steel sheets.
Mark Malmberg’s Kinetic Sculptures, Crawling Out of Darkness
Mark Malmberg’s robotic mobiles, most of which are solar-powered, twist, chirp, whirl, and whistle. Just add a little sunlight and witness the fascinating signs of something that approximates life. This life emerges not out of muck and slime but out of a contemporary profusion of silicon, circuits, and machinery.
“Historical Markers”
West Rutland, Vermont The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center Industry and art make for fascinating bedfellows. “Historical Markers,” part of SculptFest 2013, was installed at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, a model repurposing of a post-industrial facility as an art park and working sculpture studio.
Erwin Redl
Pittsburgh Wood Street Galleries The wide-ranging exhibitions at Wood Street Galleries are consistently inventive in their focus on n ew media art. Curator Murray Horne presents stimulating digital, virtual, video, and interactive art, as well as installations.
Reinhard Mucha
New York Luhring Augustine Gallery Allow me to spread my cards on the table. I consider Reinhard Mucha to be among our most impressive contemporary sculptors. I first encountered one of his works about 30 years ago, and that experience has stayed with me ever since—despite seeing truckloads of contemporary art and the fact that
In Search of the Immersive Environment, A Conversation with Behnaz Farahi
Breathing Wall 2.0, 2014. Wood structure, Spandex, flexible PVC rod, DC motors, leap motion device, and depth camera device, 8 x 12 ft. View of installation at iMAPpening 2014, University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles.
