It’s summer in New York and George Shaw is riding the ice truck…
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Like extras from 2001: A Space Odyssey, a number of large polyester resin columns stand quietly at the Zwirner Gallery for virtuoso sculptor De Wain Jackson’s mini survey Works from the 1960s and 1970s. Regardless of overall shape, the slabs recede from a wide base to a narrow top, some 14 feet high. Jackson has said he “would like to have some way to cut out large chunks of ocean or sky, and say, ‘Here it is.’” Impressively none of the works are fixed, but rather stand balanced.
Reality Hacking
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Dominique Levy has filled her gallery with an expansive installation of Peter Regli’s marble sculptures that make up his on-going, project Reality Hacking, a growing ensemble of sacred and totemic figures, paired in dialogue. This head-to-head cultural exchange between East and West is seen in the exchanges between eager, wisdom-seeking snowmen and serene, wisdom-imparting deities. However, Regli’s reflections about metamorphosis and the transience of life are gentle and warm. Last winter, Regli installed eight large (and very much climbed-upon) marble snowmen in the Flatiron District of New York.
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A cooling ice block never ceases to satisfy in Summer, and just in time for New York’s current heatwave, Australian Simone Rosenbauer presents her deliciously looking Like Ice in the Sunshine suite at Laurence Miller Gallery. Rosenbauer evokes the elusiveness of Summer with an iconic motif that is instantly evocative regardless of borders. The work is bold and colourful; it suggests a collection of memories, moments had and lost, other times and other places. It’s the flow of life, shown here metaphorically and just the way it sometimes drops.
