Sacramento’s Stunning New Airport Art

Sacramento’s Stunning New Airport Art

When Sacramento’s new International Airport terminal opens in late 2011, visitors will be greeted by a new urban mascot: a 56-foot red rabbit that appears to be diving from the ceiling into a suitcase. It’s one of 13 new pieces of public art that will transform how many visitors see the city for the first time.

Margaret Harrison @ Intersection for the Arts

Margaret Harrison @ Intersection for the Arts

Since the 1970s, Margaret Harrison has explored the politics of domesticity, addressing issues that range from domestic labor to sex trafficking to genital mutilation and domestic abuse. Her work tracks the relationship of gender oppression in the domestic arena to global economic and political systems.

Luc Tuymans @ SFMOMA

Luc Tuymans @ SFMOMA

Whether he’s sneering at bourgeoisie social conventions or savaging institutional powers that feed on human suffering, painter Luc Tuymans is all about exposing the things that carefully crafted appearances are designed to disguise.

Road Trip: Fallon, NV

Road Trip: Fallon, NV

04 March 2010

Fallon (pop: 7,536) may be the hippest little town in the way-out-there West. Need proof? Check out Bob Brady at Oats Park Arts Center, a cultural oasis where you can also catch big-city jazz. Joe Lovano, anyone?

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Haute Romantics @ Verge Gallery

Haute Romantics @ Verge Gallery

24 February 2010

Nodding to historical notions of Romanticism, this show of New York artists filters its subject through the lens of various other isms: narcissism, voyeurism, consumerism and careerism.

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David Trautrimas & Kristina Lewis @ Johansson

David Trautrimas & Kristina Lewis @ Johansson

14 February 2010

Trautrimas makes digitally manipulated photos from yesteryear’s appliances; Lewis builds futuristic objects from spike-heeled shoes. Wham! Zap! Kapow!

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Mari Andrews & Sheila Ghidini @ Chandra Cerrito

Mari Andrews & Sheila Ghidini @ Chandra Cerrito

13 February 2010

The sculptures and drawings of Mari Andrews and Sheila Ghidini aim at what Suzi Gablik called a “resacralization” of the world: a reclamation of all that has been lost on our beleaguered planet.

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Ian Harvey and Koo Kyung Sook @ JAYJAY

Ian Harvey and Koo Kyung Sook @ JAYJAY

30 January 2010

In their collaborative works, Harvey and Koo wrest order from manufactured chaos. Their wall-sized montages, built from thousands of images, show painting at its maximally expressive.

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Eleanor Wood @ Don Soker Contemporary

Eleanor Wood @ Don Soker Contemporary

25 January 2010

Eleanor Wood’s hermetic Minimalism embraces a sense of infinitely plotted spatial extensions while instantiating an intricate, insistent, rigidly contained, eye-catching, hypnotic singularity.

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Diane Arbus @ Fraenkel Gallery

Diane Arbus @ Fraenkel Gallery

21 January 2010

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.

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Markus Linnenbrink @ Sweetow

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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