Ian Harvey and Koo Kyung Sook @ JAYJAY
For Ian Harvey and Koo Kyung Sook, collaboration is about wresting order out of manufactured chaos. Harvey pours paint; Koo creates “photograms” with her body. Their wall-sized montages fuse both sensibilities and show painting at its maximally expressive.
Eleanor Wood @ Don Soker Contemporary
Eleanor Wood’s hermetic Minimalism embraces a sense of infinitely plotted spatial extensions while instantiating an intricate, insistent, rigidly contained, eye-catching, hypnotic singularity.
Diane Arbus @ Fraenkel Gallery
After the exhaustively hagiographical 2003 Diane Arbus retrospective, Revelation, at SFMOMA, what more can there be to say or look at? Plenty, as this show of around 30 early works and outtakes at Fraenkel Gallery, attests. Dewitt Cheng reports.
Mike Henderson @ Haines Gallery
Employing Synthetic Cubism’s floating color planes and Abstract Expressionism’s turbulent paint and ambiguous ideographs/hieroglyphs, Mike Henderson's works generate their own force field, creating an eternal present and a response that is almost visceral, as if to a living thing.
Markus Linnenbrink @ Sweetow
18 January 2010
Markus Linnebrink doesn’t compose in the conventional sense; his works are a kind of visual archeology: an exploratory process in which the artist is both creator and excavator.
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Theodora Varnay Jones @ SJICA
21 December 2009
Can Minimalism’s insistent geometry, impenetrable surfaces and modular, repeating units be recast with feeling? Theodora Varnay Jones answers with an emphatic yes.
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Richard Gilles @ B. Sakata Garo
13 December 2009
Richard Gilles' photo aren't just about our wrecked economy. They document the void that exists between cities, suburbs, mountains and farmland.
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David Wetzl @ JAYJAY
09 December 2009
David Wetzl's paintings attempt to make sense of the anarchy of human history. You may disagree with his positive forecast, but you can't help but marvel at his inventiveness.
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‘Afterlife’ @ SJICA
05 December 2009
This show of “re-purposed” junk demonstrates how socially relevant art can spring from idiosyncratic, personal investigations and material invention.
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Robert Brady @ B. Sakata Garo
25 November 2009
Bob Brady works with the figure, but the figure hasn't really his subject. Like a jazz instrumentalist who uses song structure for self-expression, Brady is all about stretching his materials.
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Hattori and Essoe @ Swarm
21 November 2009
With mixed-media light-boxes, Taro Hattori comes to terms with war and memory. Jordan Essoe, using video, installation and still photography, addresses the existential conundrum of suburbia.
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Peter Honig @ Mercury 20
16 November 2009
Peter Honig uses the conventions of commercial photography to subvert the consumer desires with a style applies Dadist and Surrealist sensibilities to set-up photography.
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