Brooklyn Williamsburg Art and Historical Center Having just closed an immense, exhilarating, exhausting show of “surrealist, fantastic, and visionary art” that inspired almost as much denunciation as delight (and that included a costume ball, an over-the-top “fashion show,” and a film series), the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center gave itself a well-deserved breather.
Michael Rees describes himself as a new media sculptor. The phrase brings to mind a jumble of kinetic objects interwoven with monitors and loudspeakers, but that’s not what Rees means….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
New York Plum Blossoms The ceramic sculptures of Liu Jianhua are an exercise in desire, the consequence of skilled craft and unabashed sensuality. Liu Jianhua, born in 1962 in Jilan, Jiangxi province, began working while still a teenager in the ceramic factories in Jingdezhen; he then studied in the fine arts department of the Jingdezhen
Sherbrooke, Canada Originally a painter who hung out…see the full review in September’s magazine.
ln the 1980s Jon lsherwood made multi-part sculptures in steel and cast concrete. Modernist in spirit, these early assemblages of rusted steel and swathes and swirls of cast concrete carry on an interesting dialogue with the works of Caro and Smith…see the full feature in September’s magazine.
North Adams, Massachusetts MASS MoCA With the ascension of high speed internet the low-rent cultural outskirts – where hermetic, criminal, religious, sexual, paranormal, utopian & alt.tech eidolon once came together – a region heretofore known principally to initiates and ‘fanboys’ – are now (due to info-geek triumph) high traffic real estate.
Beacon, New York Creighton Michael’s aptly named…see the full review in September’s magazine.
About an hour’s drive north of Toronto, Ontario, the city of Barrie (pop. 103,000) is a place that seems to exist for the benefit of any reason other than itself. To some people, it’s little more than a bedroom community for Toronto-bound commuters.
New York A student of Postmodernist painter…see the full review in September’s magazine.
While chatting over dinner almost 10 years ago, fellow sculptor Knox Cummin and I discussed the possibility of starting a sculptors group in Philadelphia. I had become aware of the growing number of such groups around the country and thought that the time had come for Philadelphia sculptors to make a more visible appearance on
