Sac City College 4 @ JAYJAY
Ever since Robert Rauschenberg built his legendary “combines” from cast-off junk sculptors have relied increasingly on found objects and industrial materials. Repurposed, they convey meanings that transcend, explicate and sometimes even parody the associations we normally affix to them.
Flatlanders @ Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UCD
Contrary to Bay Area opinion, which holds that Sacramento is a backwater, “Flatlanders”, now in its third installment, stands as a sharp and smart rebuke. It not only serves as a showcase for emerging artists, but also spotlights area artists who long ago established regional, national and international reputations.
Local Treasures @ Berkeley Art Center
On the surface, the artists in “Local Treasures” – Katherine Sherwood, Robert Brady, Jim Melchert, Squeak Carnwath, Livia Stein and Gale Wagner – would seem to have little in common. Look deeper and you find that each, in their own, way, is obsessed with plumbing life’s deepest mysteries.
Jennifer Little & Mike Osborne @ Stanford
20 July 2010
In 1861, photographer Felix Nadar captivated Parisians with his photos of the city's catacombs and sewers. In “Excavating the Underground”, Jennifer Little and Mike Osborn, explore subterranean urban spaces in much the same spirit.
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Post-WWII Asian Modernists @ Togonon
02 July 2010
Mixing works by Asian-American artists, both foreign and native-born, this show demonstrates how Zen, calligraphy and Automatism, as advocated by the Surrealists, combined to form one of the most influential movements of the 20th century.
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Youngsuk Suh @ Haines
22 June 2010
During the brushfires of 2008-09, Youngsuk Suh photographed people in places that were engulfed in flames. What we get is a fresh spin on the New Topographics mode of photography and portrait of the American West that is true to life and a bit vexing: You can breathe the air; just don’t inhale.
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Reed Anderson @ Gregory Lind Gallery
17 June 2010
Anderson's obsessive paper works are composed of thousands of small, geometrically shaped holes. From a distance they look like giant doilies. Up close they unfold kaleidoscopically, like fractals, revealing a virtuoso technique.
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SF Fine Art Fair @ Fort Mason
06 June 2010
The Bay Area got a jolt of adrenaline when the SF Fine Art Fair came to town, filling 50,000 square feet of Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion with $300 million worth of art from 500+ artists represented by 80 galleries from the West Coast, New York, LA, Asia and Europe.
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Stella Zhang @ Chinese Cultural Center
18 May 2010
The personal, sexual, and bodily evocations of Stella Zhang prove that in some quarters of San Francisco, a woman’s sexuality can still be a potent and contentious statement. Lia Wilson reports on what made CCC's administrators so nervous on opening night.
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William Eggleston @ Krowswork
14 May 2010
Peter Schjeldahl named Eggleston "one of the great Romantic originals of camerawork.” His sole video effort, “Stranded in Canton”, was shot with a Sony Portapak, and the result, is a manic home movie that mixes distance and drunken intimacy in equal parts.
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Hung Liu @ Rena Bransten
04 May 2010
Unike the elegiac, rivulet-stained oil paintings of 19th century and pre-Revolutionary women that, for decades, Hung Liu has been painting from period photos, her latest series, "Drawings from Life and Death" carries a different kind of load: the weight of mortality
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