Jason Ellis, a sculptor of English and German parentage who moved to Ireland in the early 1990s, is a stone carver of considerable accomplishment. As a guitar player, he likens the process of carving stone to that of playing pop music: every now and then, something new seems to “just happen,” defying a limited, rule-bound
Claudia Fontes, who represented Argentina at the 2017 Venice Biennale, has been living in Brighton, England, for the last 12 years. She studied art at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires and art history at the University of Buenos Aires.
If art is a reflection of an artist’s psyche, then Belgian-born, Paris-based Johan Creten reveals a soul enamored by corrosive beauty. His colorfully glazed, edgy ceramic works appear to be slowly hemorrhaging, riddled with imperfections that almost defy the static nature of objects in space.
Los Angeles Art + Practice The idea of consciousness-altering plays a central role in Maren Hassinger’s thinking. Her practice transcends the formal demands of sculpture, the ABCs of it, amplifying the idea of making an object in such a way as to recast it as performance.
On the morning of September 6, 1881, Boston residents awoke to a dense yellow fog that trapped the city in an unnatural twilight. The effect was so ominous that the Boston Globe reported people interpreting it as evidence of a widely repeated prediction that the world would end that year.
Lincoln, Massachusetts deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Ian McMahon and Jong Oh are both interested in shaping the intangible, though their work, and processes, couldn’t be more different. Brought together for “Sculpting with Air” (on view through September 30), they also introduced a new experience for deCordova visitors, who were invited to watch the progress
New York Marlborough Gallery Who can you trust when all’s been lost? “Embodied Forms,” a modest but compelling retrospective of fiber, wood, and bronze works by the late Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, raised this existential question and charted the artist’s way through it.
New York Cindy Rucker Gallery Two scratchy, roughly hewn little figures emerge from uneven strips of wood mounted vertically on the wall: a man about four inches tall and a tiny girl in a dress, about an inch and a half high.
New York Del Deo & Barzune and The Drawing Center In Foundation, a site-specific installation at The Drawing Center, Susan York focused on the granite foundation stones that run along a narrow corridor in the lower level of the building.
LaGrange, Georgia Cochran Gallery A cursory glance around the gallery—a tastefully restored, turn-of-the-century dry cleaning establishment—offers no aesthetic frisson. Open packing crates used to ship art are strewn about seemingly at random. Tools for mounting exhibitions litter the floor: a drill, hammer, and nails.
