Sculptor Dimitar Lukanov's Mother and Child at The Mohawk River to be unveiled at 6 p.m., May 17, 2018. The scuplture is located at the entrance to Riverlink Park on the South Overlook landing in Amsterdam, New York. This is one of three public pieces commissioned by the City of Amsterdam from Lukanov.

The sculpture is bronze and 12 feet tall. It is finished with a light patina and depicts a mother and child surrounded by fish, plants and birds that live in the Mohawk River Valley. The piece appears to rise from the river and seems to be in motion. This is the sort of piece that will be a destination.

For more on the City of Amsterdam head HERE.

Plexus Projects (198 Greenpoint Ave. #1, Brooklyn) presents Future Artifact, an exhibition of screen-based digital media art from 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, May 6, 2018.

The pieces shown represent various technologies--computer generated animation, 3D scanning, custom software, GIFs, data driven imaging as well as tradition video. This is the second installment of Future Artifact.

Olga Korper Gallery (Toronto) presents new work by Angela Grauerholz from April 28 to June 2, 2018. There will be an opening, with the artist, 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 28.

Grauerholz, a Canadian photographer and photographic performer, balances betwee the realistit and the romantic. Large scale dreamlike photographs draw the audience into a sense of nostalgia. There is a familiarity, almost a muscle memory
in the images. But not really. It only seems that way.

GT2P collective's Manufactured Landscapes runs May 3 to June 9, 2018 At Friedman Benda (515 West 26th St. New York). There will be an opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 3.

GT2P, Chilean collective, are making their first solo gallery exhibition. It is the culmination of four years of work with Friedman Benda. Work combines the traditional with the digital. Material is harvested from Chile's innumerable volcanoes the pieces feature sculptural manipulation of re molten petrified lava.

frosch&portmann (53 Stanton Street, New York) presents One For The Road, an exhibit of work by Edie Nadelhaft and Yanik Wagner. There will be an opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 12, 2018.

The title refers to the mixed-blessing of the USA's car dependence. Pieces range from picturesque back roads to freeway overpasses. The idea of motion is ever present as is a notion of melancholy that comes with the monotony of the daily grind and the anonymity that our automotive lifestyle sometimes brings. The title of the exhibition comes from the 1943 song by Johnny Mercer One More for My Baby (and One more for the Road).

by Patrick Ogle

Tania Khoury's interactive performance pieces--Gardens Speak and As Far As My Fingertips Take Me were traumatizing and moving during Miami Art Week 2017.

Describing these does not do them justice.

Gardens Speak, in particular, is far more than the sum of its parts. Participants are given a card, with a name in Arabic and then brought into a room with gravestones in dirt. You then climb into the dirt and have to dig down until you can hear talking. The voice, the name on the card and on the grave marker, is an actual person killed in Syria at various points in the nation's recent history. They tell you their story.

The piece is much more than the description above. It was a profound experience of the sort you rarely get from any art of any sort. It brings you, as much as is possible, into the life and death of a real human being. You walk away feeling for them.

As Far As My Fingertips Take Me brings you the experience of a recent Syrian refugee. You listen while a tattoo artist draws the story on your arm. Less disturbing and not traumatizing though this is , the tactile part of it is moving. Your arm is placed through a hole in a wall. While you can feel, you cannot see. This mirrors how we empathize with refugees; we can see what they go through, we can empathize but we really cannot experience their lives in a meaningful way.

Find out more about the artist at taniaelkhoury.com.

I asked Khoury one question--what does she want US to take away from her pieces. It is a nuanced response. She doesn't feel she important in her work, ergo she did not want the video to be of her.

Fridge Art Fair Brooklyn is, once again, at the NU Hotel (85 Smith St, Brooklyn) May 2-6. 2018. The fair has new curators
and this year's them is The Tonya's Tasty Triple Axel Icebox Cake Edition, featuring Ziggy's Stardust Powdered Donuts (New York Edition #6). This is an odd juxtaposition but the Brooklyn Museum is showing the wonderful David Bowie Is exhibit.

The Fair also features Eric Ginsburg's Greatest T.V. Pets Hallway of Fame (worldoferic.com) and a Pop Up Fridge at Van Der Plas Gallery (156 Orchard St.).

Curator Natalie Fisk (natalielomeli.com) is joined by special programming curator, Liz Publica, editor at ARTpublika Magazine (artpublika.com).

There will also be a screening of the documentary of A Charmed Life, about New York performer, Daniel Booth.

Find out more at fridgeartfair.com.

Monica Jahan Bose's latest exhibition runs March 31 to April 21, 2017 at  Civilian Art Projects (Washington D.C.). There will be a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 31.

Jahan Bose's work is often part performance, part installation and always have a point, are always aimed to enlighten and educate.

This exhibit includes new paintings that arise from a number of performance and climate art actions. The title comes from a Bengali song.. There have been recent performances in Miami, Washington DC, Honolulu, Paris and Katahali Village (Bangladesh).

All of these performances used the coconut as a symbol of climate resilience. This new symbol uses the artist's use of the sari. Her "performance pieces" are not just art but community activism.

This exhibit is accompanied by a new publication, Rising Up to Climate Change: Storytelling with Saris. This is funded, in part, by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (part of the NEA). Bose's pieces employing sari's have been ongoing for many years.

In addition to the opening there will be a Sari Workshop & Sing-A-Long at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 14 and an Artist Talk/Closing Reception at 3 p.m. Saturday April 21.

photos by Boyd Ogle II

Galerie Rother Winter (Wiesbaden) showed work by Rainer Gross at Art Miami 2017.

Find out more at the gallery website,  www.rother-winter.de/de.

photos by Boyd Ogle II

Arthur Roger Gallery (New Orleans) showed work by David Bates, Lesley Dill, Holton Rower and Luis Cruz Azaceta at Art Miami 2017.

There is a fairly solid chance this gallery was one of the first you saw when attending Art Miami. This is unfortunate for the galleries to follow since the quality of the diverse work they showed is remarkable.