Harold Cousins: Forms of Empty Space

By Elizabeth Buhe

MARCH 2023 | ArtSeen

Nearly fifty works—metal sculptures, unique pieces of jewelry, and works on paper—at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery amount to a mini retrospective of American sculptor Harold Cousins’s work. Collectively they show the sweep of a career open to brave experimentation and Cousins’s searching eye for the power of simple forms found in surrounding culture.

Converge 45 Biennial: Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship

By Tess Bilhartz

SEPT 2023 | ArtSeen

For Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship, the third iteration of the Converge 45 Biennial, curator Christian Viveros-Fauné sought out art that engages with the pressing questions of its time and that might intervene, somehow, in a reimagining of Portland and other places. Many of the biennial artists seek to give a place form and direction, either as a witness to devastation and change or a conjurer of sometimes hopeful visions.

Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape

By Stefanie Qaba Jason

SEPT 2023 | ArtSeen

Dineo Seshee Bopape’s first solo museum exhibition in New York is carefully attuned to histories of resistance. Embedded in the show is a refusal against categorization and linearity, as well as the question: How do we imaginatively retrieve or invent new methods for prospering?

Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai

By Bingham Bryant

MAY 2023 | Film

Sōmai Shinji’s oeuvre consists of thorough explorations of the long take and daring soundscapes. Japan Society’s “Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai” runs April 28–May 13.