Sculpture

In Spring 2022, when we last sat down with Woody De Othello, he told us, “I feel like I’m a California kid at heart. I know I’m not leaving the state. I’m here for life.” And it feels quite on point, on brand, that California’s De Othello would kick off Karma’s Frieze week in Los Angeles with Tuning the Dial, his first ever solo show in LA.

James Fuentes is honored to present Bronx Figures, an exhibition surveying the iconic freestanding works of long-term collaborators John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres. These affectionate portrayals of the city’s ordinary people began on the sidewalk when, in 1979, Ahearn set up shop to life-cast passersby at the storefront of Fashion Moda, the storied South Bronx art gallery run by Stefan Eins, Joe Lewis, and William Scott. It was there that Ahearn would also meet Rigoberto Torres, a Puerto-Rican born, Bronx raised artist whose experience in casting began in his uncle’s botanica statuette factory. Bronx Figures brings together a group of ambitious, in-the-round works spanning the 1980s to today, which have made a lasting impression on New York City’s public spaces…

Back in 2021 when we last spoke with Japanese ceramic and sculpture artist, En Iwamura, he told us, “I’m still exploring different materials. To be honest, all the colors are decided at the time of spraying—but this often happens by chance. I don’t know which object will have which color, because, for me, I mix the clay with the glazes in different proportions for each figure, and then I spray it. Then, when I open the kiln, I am surprised every time at the colors that emerge.” And now 4 years later, and looking at his new solo show Mask at Ross + Kramer Gallery, and spanning across 20 ceramic sculptures, including some of Iwamura’s first wall-hanging sculptures, it seems like…

When David Lynch passed away last week, I was writing a little bit of an overview of this show, Canadian artist David Altmejd’s “Prélude pour un nouvel ordre mondial” at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. It felt eerily apt and I stopped writing to look over the Lynchian universe, a bit of a gut punch to lose such an icon of Los Angeles in the wreckage of the fire disasters. Altmejd, to me, exists in this sort of post-Hollywood aesthetic, a juxtaposition of cultural and idyllic worlds mixed with the surreal and chaotic vision of modernity and post-humanism. In essence, while Altmejd’s sculptures manifest physical transformations in the medium of sculpture and invite viewers to engage with them spatially, Lynch’s films manifest narrative transformations that engage…

There are chameleons, and then there is Nicole Eisenman. When Nicole was on the cover of Juxtapoz back in 2016, it was figurative painting that we knew the artist for, and their art historical overview of what they were painting was fascinating and, across the board, some of the most exciting works being made in painting. Now, often seen as someone who pushes sculptural work in new directions, Eisenman is set to open Plastered at Anton Kern. Plastered features ten relief portraits titled “Understudies,” and as the gallery notes, “along with two large wall reliefs, one of which depicting a bather with a cat, and various recent works including a new portrait painting.” The works are part of this lexicon that…

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Dog Show #4: House Broken,  a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Stephen Morrison. The exhibition will be Morrison’s inaugural solo exhibition at Hashimoto Contemporary.

pt.2 Gallery is honored to present Viola Frey: Transitory Fragments, a solo exhibition of work by Viola Frey (1933–2004), an artist whose multidisciplinary practice defied categorization and whose groundbreaking contributions to the art world continue to resonate. This exhibition, which coincides with the release of the book Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World, offers an exploration of Frey’s creative process, visual language, and transformative impact on the blurring of boundaries between fine art and craft.

Our friends at The Chambers Project just opened a retrospective on the incredible glass artist, Banjo. Below, you can watch the recap video from the November 16th opening, and some of the elaborate glassworks are in the gallery above.