SPOTLIGHT

Nancy Graves first caught the attention of the art world in 1969 with a group of sculptures in which she replicated and then dissected the form of a camel. Ever since, Graves' art has continued to combine intellectual curiosity and visual spectacle, and her stage setting for Trisha Brown's Lateral Pass (rendering, left) is a natural extension of her recent work. Freely drawn in steel rods and painted onto mobile relief cutouts, her layered images—derived from cartography—enjoy a new depth and expansiveness. Stage lighting renders mutable Graves' already lush palette, and with neon tubing in her design and ultraviolet paint on the costumes, the theatrical environment will literally glow.

Robert Storr