Chicago Valerie Carberry Gallery Dorothy Dehner (1901–94) once said, “The minute I started doing sculpture, I felt it was something I had done all my life.” She waited 54 years to make her first sculpture and then worked in bronze, wood, and fabricated metal for almost 40 years.
November 2015
“Re:Purposed”
Sarasota, Florida The Ringling Museum After passing through the Ringling’s beautifully decorated Baroque galleries, viewers encountered “Re:Purposed,” a show of 21st-century art with a Baroque exuberance. Curator Matthew McLendon brought together disparate works that incorporate both ordinary and exotic detritus.
Christina West
Miami Mindy Solomon Gallery Christina West’s recent exhibition “Intimate Strangers” highlighted the importance of seeing three-dimensional work in person. Photographs of her human figures, such as Stranger #3 and Stranger #4, give the impression that their rendering of flesh is cold and austere and that they loom large in the gallery space, but visiting this
Lois Weinberger
Mainz, Germany Kunsthalle Mainz Drawings, notes, texts, objects, models, sculptures, installations, photos of performances, and interventions—Lois Weinberger’s recent exhibition employed a multitude of media, each one on a par with the others. Even within individual genres, Weinberger’s works are extremely heterogeneous in terms of style, theme, and choice of material.
The Oneness of an Endless Universe: A Conversation with Mariko Mori
Mariko Mori has the tact of a Swiss diplomat and the drive to pursue ambitious artistic goals. Her work, which promotes oneness and global consciousness, explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality, and technology.
Maren Hassinger: Winds of Change
Over the last 40 years, Maren Hassinger has built a body of work that explores identity politics and the goal of human equality. Yet she differs from many artists of her generation in that her approach has not been confrontational or continually self-referential.
Eun Jin Jang: A Natural History of Sculpture
In the work of Korea-born, New York area-based sculptor Eun Jin Jang, we see the refinement of thought and materials that we have come to expect from Asia; moreover, we sense the exploratory decision-making that accompanies innovative sculpture in Western culture.
Caroline Achaintre: Aesthetic Osmosis
Caroline Achaintre’s work is replete with uncertain likenesses; despite multiple levels of abstraction, it’s full of resemblances. Grounded in a trove of images borrowed from pop culture and art history, these chimerical combiÂnations result in unlikely, uncomfortable aesthetic marriages.
Dean Snyder: Between Flight and Entrapment
A shrewd manipulator of skin and surface, Dean Snyder draws us along the edges of a scatological, yet organic beauty: tumescent orchids hanging on fragile vines, drooping leaves, impotent cigarette butts, almost recognizable organs swallowed up in circuitry and webs.
The Art of Corruption: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre
Filthy Lucre, 2013-14. Oil, acrylic, and gold leaf on wood, aluminum, fiberglass, and ceramic, with audio and lighting, approx. 146 x 366 x 238 in. They face off across a dim room: in one corner, a cultivated gentleman poses in elegant evening attire; in the other, a depraved monster, hunched over a piano, recoils at
