Cristina Iglesias - Under and In Between Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Cristina Iglesias: Under and In Between—the artist's first United States museum exhibition in more than two decades—surveys a range of work from the past 20 years, including wall reliefs, metal silk-screens, liquid sculptures, and video, and debuts a new Cave series of copper panels.
Iglesias has increasingly incorporated water into her art. Within this exhibition, Phreatic Zone II—a shallow pool below ground level with water flowing over sculpted terrain—directs the viewer’s attention to hidden sources. Water’s sonic pull is key to Iglesias’s pozo (well) sculptures. Pozo XI, recently installed in the Tassell–Wisner–Bottrall English Perennial Garden as part of the museum's permanent sculpture collection, extends the exhibition outward from the galleries and creates a play between interior and exterior spaces that are central to her work. Similarly, the outdoor world of flora is brought indoors through Iglesias’ ongoing Entwined series of mural reliefs. These cast aluminum sculptures spread across the gallery walls like dense invasive vegetation, aggressive hybrids of industry and nature. Also on view are two videos from the artist’s Guided Tour series, which transport viewers to various urban and rural locales.