installation art – Page 7

April 1, 2025March 31, 2025, by Xuezhu Jenny Wang

The Foundations: Lior Modan at Dinner Gallery

Lior Modan, *Rain* (2025). Velvet, foam, cardboard, sand, and epoxy putty in artist’s frame. 23 x 30 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Dinner Gallery. Photo: JSP Art Photographer.

Lior Modan’s work invites touch—but not quite. On the somber, richly textured surfaces of velvet, patterns emerge, outlining everyday objects and settings: a watch, Dinner Gallery’s glass door leading to the courtyard, a table under an archway, and various indecipherable but seemingly familiar architectural forms. They are punctuated with scraps of domesticity and quotidian life: lace strips, tree branches, and old-timey tablecloth designs. In the artist’s solo exhibition titled The Foundations, each monochromatic piece quietly outlines the theatricality of everyday life. Oscillating across the terrains of sculpture, frottage, performance, and assemblage, Modan’s work gently unpacks the categorical pretense behind techniques of making.

March 26, 2025March 26, 2025, by Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Biophilia: Nature Hacked, Art Rewired

Installation image featuring Sui Park and Loren Eiferman (back wall). Photo credit: Patrick Vingo

Imagine nature got hacked. If it could rewrite its own DNA—absorbing industrial waste, pixels, and plastic—what would it become? Welcome to Biophilia. This six-artist exhibition at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT, curated by Ellen Hawley, doesn’t just depict nature—it reimagines and reconstructs it. The organic and the artificial no longer exist as opposites. Featuring Carol Bouyoucos, Julie Evans, Loren Eiferman, Christina Massey, Heide Follin, and Sui Park, Biophilia brings together artists who push past nostalgia for an untouched Eden to present nature as something restless, resilient, and constantly evolving. The result is a visual feast—bold, kinetic, and utterly alive. This is no polite, whisper-in-the-gallery experience. It lunges, sprawls, and twists. It pulses with energy, daring you to chase its shifting forms.

March 24, 2025March 19, 2025, by Will Kaplan

Site: Seoyoung Kim’s project to uplift artists and broaden their communities

In Dialogue

For each iteration of curatorial project, Site, founder Seoyoung Kim has been blessed: swelling turnout, glowing reviews, a sunny day for their first outdoor show. When she opened Site 004. Winter Solstice on December 21st, New York saw its first snow of the season. Moments big and small in her pop-up shows keep confirming that she’s on the right track. The ambitious installations lean toward an organic, playful minimalism, with room for viewers to look slowly. In dialogue with sculptures and wall-work, Kim has begun to incorporate time-based programming—poetry readings, DJ sets, and artist performances– to fully embrace her curation’s one-night ephemerality. Still, these brief offerings provide space for artists of all stripes to congregate and share their work meaningfully, with a sense of both depth and urgency. A year into spearheading this project, Ms. Kim took some time to reflect on Site’s journey.

March 20, 2025March 19, 2025, by Andrew Fish

Art Spiel Picks: Boston Exhibitions in March 2025

Highlights

*Disintegration* at Gallery Very, Boston, MA

We’ve passed the Ides of March and 2025 is in full swing. Teslas are burning, the stock market is crashing, and the Black Lives Matter plaza in Washington DC has been completely demolished at the cost of six hundred thousand dollars to taxpayers. In Boston, we await some kind of tipping point, like the good revolutionaries we are. There’s no better time to be making art that will undoubtedly reflect the time we’re living in, even if only subversively. Because dissent is now a truly radical act. It’s also Women’s History Month and there are no greater radicals than women artists, blazing trails and making visible what might otherwise be ignored. Here are some highlights to celebrate.

March 17, 2025March 19, 2025, by Etty Yaniv

The Tale of Lost Waters – Susan Hoffman Fishman at Five Points Arts

In The Tale of Lost Waters at Five Points Arts in Connecticut, Susan Hoffman Fishman exhibits seven vertical scrolls resembling satellite imagery. Four are layered in deep, earthy browns—recalling land formations and dry blood—pressing against vibrant blues reminiscent of water. The bodies of water seem suspended between presence and disappearance, drifting toward an undefined space—a light or a void.

March 12, 2025March 10, 2025, by William Corwin

Up: Janet Goldner’s Zigzags at FiveMyles

Janet Goldner, installation view at FiveMyles

A cavernous cubbyhole with a variety of enigmatic gunmetal stalagmites emerges from the relative monotony of the urban backdrop of St. John’s Place in Crown Heights. Janet Goldner’s collection of sculptures, called Zigzags, populate FiveMyles’ exterior space, and while the viewer can enter this space through the gallery, the initial impression of jagged edges, pent-up energy, and the cold solidity of the welded metal objects makes one relieved there is a metal gate between us, the viewer, and them, the sculptures.

March 10, 2025March 8, 2025, by Etty Yaniv

Ellen Kozak and Scott D. Miller: River-Rising at Hunterdon Art Museum

A screens on a wall

AI-generated content may be incorrect. — **river-rising, installation views, 24″ x 16′**

Water moves. It reflects, absorbs, distorts. It never repeats itself. River-Rising, a four-channel video installation by Ellen Kozak and Scott D. Miller, is built on these elements. Filmed along three river estuaries—the Garonne in France, the Bilbao Estuary, and the Hudson River—the work isolates the shifting surfaces of water.

March 7, 2025March 7, 2025, by Etty Yaniv

PeepShow Space Redux: A New Chapter in Greenpoint’s Art Scene

Featured exhibition

A person standing next to a painting

AI-generated content may be incorrect. — Yukari Edamitsu Photo courtesy of William Norton

In February 2025, at a gathering of artists and friends, William Norton learned that two gallery spaces—#104 and #108—at 37 North 15th Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn had become available. He had one week to assemble two exhibitions. He accepted the challenge.

March 4, 2025March 19, 2025, by Yasmeen Abdallah

Art Spiel Picks: All Around NYC Exhibitions in March 2025

HIGHLIGHTS

Nick Cave at Jack Shainman photo courtesy of Yasmeen Abdallah

Spatial dynamics and human hybridity are central to this month’s roundup of highlights in New York. From monumental sculpture to works intimately interspersed within the home, all things great and small commune and offer reflection upon their relationships to the environments in which they currently reside. The hierarchy between the natural and the manmade is in conversation within this selection of shows through shifting currents of tenuous and harmonious moments.

March 3, 2025March 3, 2025, by Anna Shukeylo

OXH Gallery Setting the Stage for Women Artists in the Heart of Tampa

In dialogue

*Motherhood Mediated* installation view, courtesy OXH Gallery

Odeta Xheka, an artist, curator, and mother, has been an avid advocate for women in the fine arts. Her latest endeavor is an ambitious and exciting one, as she opened OXH Gallery in the heart of Tampa’s Ybor City Historic District just a few months ago. I’m sitting down with Odeta to discuss her new gallery, her mission, exciting collaborations, and the current two-person show Time Shards, which will be on view through March 20th, 2025.