BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Western Gallery, Western Washington University Born in Nepal to a family of reformist intellectuals, politicians, and poets, Jyoti Duwadi turned to art full-time after receiving his doctorate in political science from Claremont Graduate University in California in 1979.
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Object Lessons: Raven Halfmoon
The Caddo Confederacy was formerly located in a vast area centered around the great bend of the Red River, which is the modern-day boundary between Texas and Oklahoma. Within the Tribe, the Caddo women traditionally held great prominence, managing agricultural elements of the villages, including crop production, and producing the beautiful and popular Caddo pottery vessels, as well as many other important duties.
James Lee Byars and Seung-taek Lee
LONDON Michael Werner Gallery Unlike Lee, who grew up in a unified Korea under Japanese rule and whose work demonstrates a complicated, ambivalent attitude toward what had been an oppressive culture, Byars welcomed it, immersing himself in traditional Japanese arts and the aesthetic traditions of Shinto and Zen.
Lateral Thinking: A Conversation with Shiho Kagabu
Japanese artist Shiho Kagabu employs industrial and organic materials, often installing her work in rough, run-down environments. In many ways, she shares the contemporary predisposition for the fragment rather than the whole, but her positioning of these parts in space is unique.
Peter DeCamp Haines, Eric Sealine, Jocelyn Shu
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Boston Sculptors Gallery, the only sculpture collaborative in the country, is currently hosting three solo exhibitions to cap its fall season.
Passion To Connect: A Conversation with Bhajan Hunjan
Bhajan Hunjan was born and raised in Kenya. After moving to the U.K. to study fine art at Reading University, she went on to gain a postgraduate degree in printmaking from the Slade School of Fine Art and to study ceramics at the former Central School of Art in London.
Controlled Explosions: A Conversation with Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew’s massive wall-bound tableaux, objects, and installations engage the cyclical nature of existence. Made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, his abstract, emotionally charged compositions possess a metaphorical weight, transcending time and place to approach the infinite through the discarded and finite.
Memory Is a Weapon: A Conversation with Ricardo Brey
Assemblage sculptor, installation artist, and draftsman Ricardo Brey attended art school in his native Havana and went on to join the experimental art group Volumen Uno, which distanced itself from the precepts of Cuban socialist realism.
Ebony G. Patterson
NEW YORK New York Botanical Garden In the conservatory, discretely placed sculptures disrupt the palm court with evidence of exploitation and concealed secrets, revealing the hidden histories that lie just beneath the botanical garden’s scientific reserve.
