Andrea Loefke

Brooklyn  Smack Mellon Confronting the prow of Andrea Loefke’s ark head-on made a powerful first impression. This foreshortened view indicated something vast and ominous looming just inside the gallery but offered only the merest hint of what was actually there.

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Sam Keogh

Dublin Kerlin Gallery The Kerlin Gallery in central Dublin is a long, narrow, and tricky space that requires careful or clever handling. Sam Keogh, a young Irish artist exhibiting his first solo show there, worked that space extremely well.

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Susan Philipsz

Dusseldorf Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Standhaus Fraught chords and choked notes from unseen instruments fill three galleries. In two of the spaces, recorded string sounds emerge from black electronic speakers mounted in a serpentine line across a long white wall, while a floor-level speaker offers unexpected horn noises.

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David R. Harper

Toronto Doris McCarthy Gallery Beastliness characterizes the sculptures in David Harper’s recent exhibition “Entre le chien et le loup,” running the gamut from the animal as disguise to the animal as keepsake or memento—all of which has to do with an aesthetic inquiry into our devaluation and trivialization of the natural world.

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Haegue Yang

Seattle Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington South Korean-born and Berlin-based multimedia artist Haegue Yang has proved her mettle. With a clever imagination, she has shown that she can assemble unique and, at times, puzzling works characterized by a cool ambition.

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Jeff Gibbons

Dallas Centraltrak: The University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency Texas inter-media artist Jeff Gibbons is interested in the feedback loop of living creatures, especially when that circle wobbles between equilibrium and disequilibrium. The title of his small exhibition at Centraltrak: The University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency—“Let the Drip from the Ceiling Become

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Lonnie Holley

New York James Fuentes Cast-off items and other detritus are rich loci of meaning for Lonnie Holley, who uses found objects to create sculptures and assemblages with hidden narratives. Each item, regardless of size, plays a significant role within the larger story told by each work.

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Michele Brody

New York Casa Frela Gallery “Harlem Roots,” Michele Brody’s recent show, paid homage to the neighborhood where she has lived for half a dozen years. Brody is an environmentalist/artist committed to community work (one reason for the show) and to sustainable art that incorporates seeds and living plants into simple but elegantly constructed installations.

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