Rosemarie Trockel

Whatever else Trockel's work has been about over the course of 30-plus years—and it has touched on many themes, from feminism to natural history—it has ultimately been concerned with the idea of art as an alchemical practice, a lesson learned from Joseph Beuys, who exerted a formative influence on many German artists of Trockel's generation. The notion of one thing substantiated into another figures heavily in the works here, which include striped formalist paintings made of woolen yarn, and a joined pair of distressed-leather couches created from cast plastic and steel.