Conceptual Pioneer David Lamelas Works All the Angles

When they enter "New York Exists in 8.5 Billion Sq. Ft.," David Lamelas's exhibition at New York's Maccarone gallery, visitors are confronted with a violent stream of white light. Two back-to-back 16-mm projectors without film, which the artist has placed in the gallery foyer, produce the light. One projector shines right at the door onto the street; the other casts a small square of white light onto the gallery's front wall. "I made this piece up in my mind when I was a little child," the 66-year-old Lamelas told A.i.A. at the gallery. "When I was young I loved the cinema, and what impressed me the most was to look back and see this abstract stream of light that would become an image on screen."
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Green and Red and Black All Over: Eva Rothschild at 303 Gallery

"Black is very easy. Black makes things look cool. Peach does not," the Irish sculptor Eva Rothschild told A.i.A. at her current exhibition at 303 Gallery in New York. Over the past decade, Rothschild has been known for her elegant arachnidlike sculptures; Cold Corners, her 2009 commission for London's Tate Britain, was nothing if not cool. A punk provocation to the Tate's serious and traditional atmosphere, it featured shiny black aluminum rods slicing through the museum's halls like jagged bolts of lightning.

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Stewart Home Is At Home Amidst Chaos

Stewart Home brings rebellion with him. Invited to a conference in Copenhagen in 2007, his visit coincided with the Nørrebro riots, which protested the government eviction of the city's leftist Youth House. "It's quite unusual for riots to occur in Scandinavia, and I got to go there and see exactly what was going on," Home told A.i.A.

It's been 16 years since the 49-year-old, London-based Home last visited New York, and his return coincides with Occupy Wall Street. Matthew Higgs curated a show of the artist's film, drawing and writings, on view at White Columns [through Nov. 19].
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Jacob Kassay: History's Mirror

Jacob Kassay shares a studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that has been home to artists including Amy Granat, Steven Parrino, Virginia Overton and Olivier Mosset. Originally rented by the late Parrino twenty years ago, the space is currently the subject of a celebratory group show, "1107 Manahattan Avenue," on view at Spencer Brownstone [through Oct. 28] and featuring works of harmonious aesthetic by Kassay, Mosset and others. The show takes off from "1107 Studio," which was organized by Swiss painter Olivier Mosset to include works by artists residing at the eponymous studio, and exhibited at John Gibson Gallery in 1995.
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