January 31, 2004
Exhibitions I wish I could see, #2
There is a show of recent paintings by Mary Heilman at the new Hauser & Wirth space in London.
A selection of fifteen recent sculptures and several prints by Martin Puryear is now on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. This is a show that originated last year at the Baltic Center in northern England (info here, images here.)
George Shaw, a British painter who has a small work in 'Future Noir,' the current Gorney, Bravin & Lee group exhibition, has a solo show at Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland. Flipping through a catalogue at GBL shows his work to be very British, both in atmosphere (drab grayish outdoor scenes that further the stereotype we have of their weather) and in content (many works interrogate class issues), perhaps the reason we haven't seen many of his works Stateside.
Tal R, whose solo show at Victoria Miro earned him a spot on Flash Art magazine's cover earlier this year, is having a solo at Vienna's Bawag Foundation.
What I believe to be the first museum solo show of Irish artist Eva Rothschild (though lumped in with Scottish neoformalist sculptors by virtue of her association with the Modern Institute and affinities with artists like Jim Lambie and Claire Barclay) is now on view at the Kunsthalle Zurich.
This is getting long, so here are a few more links: Donald Judd survey at Tate Modern; David Batchelor at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Ellen Gallagher at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Douglas Fogle's (Walker Art Center) "The Last Picture Show," on view at the UCLA Hammer Museum in its last American venue; and the previously-mentioned-on-this-site "Street Credibility," curated by Mike Kelley, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.