Val Britton @ SJICA
30 April 2013
Britton, a virtuoso of collage, turns two-dimensional space into landscapes into which you easily project yourself.
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Christopher Taggart @ Eli Ridgway
23 April 2013
Taggart's photo, video and 2-D “light sculptures” probe the always-fraught link between what we see and what we know.
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Hung Liu @ Oakland Museum of California
18 April 2013
Applying contemporary painting techniques to vintage photos, Liu revisits Chinese history, turning Socialist Realism into social realism.
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Alan Rath @ Hosfelt
09 April 2013
His feather-clad, kinetic sculptures mimic tribal dances and animal-mating rituals, lighting up a part of the brain that craves unfiltered joy.
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Jennie Smith @ Rena Bransten
03 April 2013
Her exquisitely detailed drawings transform an environmental disaster -- the Pacific Garbage Vortex -- into fairy tales that belie the horror of it.
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Leo Villareal: Bay Lights
28 March 2013
Technology has always promised a better tomorrow, and in that context, "Bay Lights" functions as the new sublime. Mark Van Proyen reports.
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Conversation 6 @ SF Arts Commission Gallery
27 March 2013
This latest exhibition, part of a series of international dialogs, probes the shifting line between the virtual and the real.
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Amy Feldman @ Gregory Lind
26 March 2013
Her pictures are to painting what Harold Lloyd is to physical comedy: exemplars of the well-executed pratfall, tempting fate, but landing on one's feet.
Materials Matter @ Seager Gray
23 March 2013
Ideas are vital, but without material engagement, you have empty visual rhetoric. Fifteen sculptors convincingly demonstrate this show’s premise.
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Lynn Hershman Leeson @ Paule Anglim
22 March 2013
The impact of manufactured desire on women has long been the chief concern of this esteemed feminist/new media artist. Her new targets: plastic surgery, sugar and smart phones.
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