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’s hermetic Minimalism embraces a sense of infinitely plotted spatial extensions while instantiating an intricate, insistent, rigidly contained, eye-catching, hypnotic singularity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
05 December 2009
This show of “re-purposed” junk demonstrates how socially relevant art can spring from idiosyncratic, personal investigations and material invention.
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.
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.
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.


