Now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago is PhotoDimensional. The Exhibition features Works by John Coplans, Katalin Deer, Leslie Hewitt, Bettina Hoffmann, Pello Irazu, David Ireland, Melinda McDaniel, Heather Mekkelson, Laurent Millet, Vik Muniz, Susana Reisman, Lorna Simpson, and Florian Slotowa. The exhibition features works by contemporary artists who investigate the relationship between sculpture and photography, between two and three dimensions,[…..]

Currently on view in its last week at the Louise Blouin Institute in London is a solo exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed contemporary Chinese artist Wang Guangyi. Guangyi is generally considered to have been the leader of the New Art Movement generation following the Cultural Revolution. The exhibition, entitled Cold War Aesthetics, marks the first solo show of Guangyi’s work in the UK, and[…..]

Justin Cooper is predominantly known for his off-the-wall performances that psychologically challenge both the players’ and viewers’ endurance, as in his first solo show at Monique Meloche gallery in 2006 or more recently during Art Basel Miami in-and-around the pool at the National Hotel in South Beach. However, a long-standing interest in sculpture and drawing has pervaded Cooper’s performances often resulting in dimensional objects that[…..]

Claire Barclay Openwide, courtesy of The Fruitmarket Gallery, Photo: Ruth Clark The Fruitmarket Gallery‘s current solo exhibition, Openwide, appropriately features Scottish artist Claire Barclay in retrospective for the first time. Barclay, who represented Scotland in the 2003 Venice Biennale, typically works in large-scale sculptural installations inspired by site. Openwide presents surviving sculptural elements from past installations in new arrangements on plinths and display spaces of[…..]

Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor‘s anthropomorphic creatures congregate and come to life in her solo exhibit at the David Salow Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. The seven-foot tall beasts known as No Names are on display through February 28th. Overall, O’Connor’s larger than life characters have temperaments like mischievous house pets, each with a unique and memorable personality. The artist builds her sculptures by attaching well-worn scraps[…..]

Chicago’s Tony Wight Gallery is currently presenting an exhibition of new sculptural works by Scott Fife. For the exhibition Fife presents four new additions to his ongoing series of larger-than-life cardboard heads. Rather than molding polished marble forms–like the classical busts of the Roman Republic that his works reference–Fife’s constructions are roughly hewn from raw, gray, archival cardboard with screws, glue, and pencil markings all[…..]

Stephanie Brooks‘ new solo exhibition Tough and Sweet, is now on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago. With this work, Brooks examines mythologies of love, loss, and mental illness; signs of affection; and the poetics of sentimentality and materiality. The formal aesthetics of poetry and how figurative language describes affection and emotion is an ongoing investigation for Brooks, whose practice includes an archive and[…..]