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Squeak Carnwath, Hung Liu Interview: ArtPadSF A Conversation with artMRKT
 

Squeak Carnwath, Hung Liu & Katherine Sherwood @ b. sakata garo

3 of the Bay Area’s most celebrated painters unite in the Capital City.

Interview: ArtPadSF’s Maria Jenson

“I wanted to create an event that would capture the hearts and minds of the community and provide opportunities for new galleries and more established artists to connect with a different audience.”

A Conversation with artMRKT’s Max Fishko

“We’ve been able to build up the market in SF, introduce new blood and create an impetus to look, research and buy.”

Garry Winogrand @ SFMOMA

07 May 2013

Incisive, invasive, sometimes rude, Winogrand recorded visual relationships that made it appear as he was a human panopticon. Roger Vail reports.

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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.

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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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