Presenting an elaborate network of sculptures, installations, and photographs across the two-story Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, in materials as varied as rammed earth, hand-blown glass, cast bronze, carved stone, found objects, and even chewing gum, Kelly Akashi’s latest show “Infinite Body” explored equally diverse and ambitious themes, including time, the body, the universe, transformation, and more. Spread across the gallery in various tableaux, the viewer was cycled between the macro and micro, timeliness and timelessness, and the universal and deeply personal.
Two craggy calcite stones anchor the two platforms—both titled Polar Vistas (1993–2023) and (2022–23)—each carved with inset niches, further enshrining a sense of religiosity, spirituality, and ancestry. On one side, the larger rock is impressively hewed (especially as this is the artist’s first foray into stone carving) with a perfect…