Lehmann Maupin opens an exhibition of new work by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Girok (Knot Record). Installation view, Lehmann Maupin Seoul, February 18 April 24, 2021. Photo by OnArt Studio. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
SEOUL
.-Lehmann Maupin is presenting Quipu Girok, an exhibition of new work by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña featuring her first painted quipu, a recent video, hand-painted prints, drawings, and an installation of precarios that will engage a dialogue between Korean and Andean textile traditions and techniques. An artist, filmmaker, poet, and activist based in New York, Vicuñas work ranges from performance, to painting, to poetry, to large-scale installations that address pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. The exhibition marks Vicuñas second with the gallery and is her first solo presentation
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by The Seated IV, by Wangechi Mutu. Forged in Walla Walla for temporary installation at The Met in New York City, the sculpture now sits on the UW campus. (Brangien Davis/Crosscut)
Is it possible for an artifact to come from the future? There’s something both ancient and otherworldly about the stunning new sculpture that recently landed on the University of Washington campus. (Watch the installation here.) “
The Seated IV,” by Nairobi-born and Brooklyn-based artist
Wangechi Mutu, is a 7-foot-tall, cast-bronze female figure in a regal pose, as if on a throne. She’s cloaked in a ropy garment, which through my Northwest lens resembles long, thin tubes of bull kelp stitched lengthwise into a majestic robe. And on her greenish forehead: a large, mirrored disc, reflective and all-seeing.
Clint Willour
Clint Willour, a giant of the Texas art scene, died of cancer on Thursday, February 4, 2021. He was 79.
Throughout his nearly 50-year career, the impact Mr. Willour had on the transformation of Houston into a destination for art cannot be overstated. He arrived in the city in 1970, when its contemporary art scene was fledgling, and his ethos and generosity continued to influence on the city’s museums, nonprofits, and galleries until his death.
Mr. Willour is perhaps best known across Texas for his 25-year stint as curator at the Galveston Arts Center (GAC) a nonprofit, non-collecting art space located in the port city. During his tenure as curator, from 1990 to 2016, he oversaw multiple exhibition spaces in the building and organized the Galveston Art Walk into a successful, regular event. At GAC, Mr. Willour gave many Texas artists their first institutional exhibition opportunities; he would include young artists alongside Texas stalwarts in group shows, and would
Klaus von Nichtssagend exhibits a series of photographs by Barry Stone
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Barry Stone is presenting a series of photographs in an exhibition entitled Drift in the main gallery at Klaus von Nichtssagend January 15 through February 21. This new work emanated from a car accident Stones family survived while on a summer road trip from their home in Austin, Texas to Bailey Island, Maine.
In addition to smashing the family car, the crash caused a portfolio of Stones photographs taken the previous summer to scatter across the highway. Despite this harrowing encounter, Stone at once began photographing the scene of the accident, and as the family resumed their journey north, he continued to take pictures of their trip.