Eva Rothschild, who will represent Ireland at the 2019 Venice Biennale, expands on the Modernist sculptural tradition, using a range of materials including jesmonite, wood, Perspex, steel, aluminum, polystyrene, fabric, leather, and beads. Her work often examines how objects acquire meaning peripheral to their material reality through the different beliefs, ideologies, and religions imposed on
Not only is John Gibbons regarded as one of Ireland’s most significant artists (though he has lived in London since graduating from St. Martin’s School of Art), he is one of the few Irish sculptors to have achieved an international reputation.
Pedro Reyes took a new direction in his recent exhibition at London’s Lisson Gallery, bringing the sociopolitical sensibility for which he is best known to an unexpected form—statuary. Many of these figures memorialize anonymous protesters. In other works, humans battle with robots and machines.
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller met in college, and, over time, their individual practices developed into a collaboration in which each artist feeds off the thoughts and ideas of the other. At the heart of their practice lies a belief in the ability of sound to transport participants to alternate realities.
New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim proved a fitting setting for this mid-career survey of Danh Vo, its spiraling ramp and multilevel galleries complimenting the layered complexity that characterizes Vo’s examination of the intersection between private experience and broader social constructions of identity, colonialism, religion, war, and capitalism.
Helsinki Photographic Gallery Hippolyte In “para field notes,” Matthew Cowan expands on a highly intriguing pro- gram that examines regional customs and folklore through art. His previ- ous projects have included “Walk on Roses and Forget-me-nots,” a survey of courtship rituals mounted in Braunschweig, Germany, and Wude- wasa, an exploration of the wild-man archetype that he
New York Galerie Lelong & Co. Ursula von Rydingsvard is finding new ways to deepen her three-dimensional spaces: the cavities and protuberances in her recent works recall beaks, balls, mouths, and armpits— irregular human and animal body parts that nevertheless seem familiar.
Brooklyn, New York Black & White Gallery/Project Space Born in Korea, Sook Jin Jo has lived and worked in New York for decades; it is hard to see her as anything other than a New York artist.
Detroit Shylo Arts Visitors to Shylo Arts rapidly gain an idea of the building’s former uses. Signage for the Shiloh Tabernacle Church of God in Christ is still prominently in place, and bifurcating male/female entrance paths point to the building’s original incarnation as a synagogue.
Washington, DC Dumbarton Oakes A perfect match of artist and venue, “Outside/IN” (whose outdoor component remains open until December 16) shines an overdue spotlight on a substantial body of work by Washington, DC, sculptor Martha Jackson Jarvis, while illuminating the collections that led to the creation of this Harvard research center as a “home of
