The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh is currently showing, Buried, a solo exhibition featuring new and recent video and photographic work by artist Willie Doherty in conjunction with the release of a new publication by the same name. Doherty, who was born and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland, addresses his homeland’s struggle to come to terms with its haunting past of violence and loss. His work[…..]

Riki Kuropatwa‘s new body of work is currently on view in a solo exhibition at Vancouver’s Elissa Cristall Gallery. The show, entitled derby girlz, chronicles Kuropatwa’s reaction to the rampant oversexualization of women in advertisements. Offering up women in the context of the roller derby rather than the lingerie shoot, the oil stick on panel works depict the same sort of suggestive poses and provocative[…..]

Steve McQueen, Girls, Tricky Coinciding with the opening of the Art Institute new Modern Wing in Chicago is the newly created Donna and Howard Stone Film, Video, and New Media Gallery. The gallery is the first devoted “black box” installation space at the Art Institute. Steve McQueen’s Girls, Tricky has been selected to be the space’s first featured work and is currently on view until[…..]

The artist/composer duo Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher create complex electro-mechanical sculptures that often incorporate video, robotics and motorized dioramas. Once the piece is activated by a viewer, elements come to life and begin to glow and pulsate, while images project on the screen and Fisher’s audio compositions begin to play. The sculptures reveal a sense of discovery as the viewer negotiates reality with the[…..]