Recent Reviews, Profiles and Special Reports
Christopher Taggart @ Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento
02 February 2012
With drawings, photos, sculptures and video, Christopher Taggart turns one thing into another. It's not alchemy, exactly, but it's close.
Larry Bell @ Toomey Tourell
22 January 2012
With this series of perception-bending collages Larry Bell, the legendary Light-Space artist, reframes the age-old question: what do we know and how do we know it?
Annabeth Rosen @ Gallery Paule Anglim
20 January 2012
Building on the exuberant biomorphicism that catapulted her into the front rank of ceramic sculpture, Rosen continues to expand the material and conceptual possibilities of clay.
One Thing Leads to Another @ ICA
17 January 2012
Serial methods underpin some of the most important art of the past century. 13 Bay Area artists weigh in.
Soil to Site @ Montalvo
05 January 2012
Wilderness now exists only through acts of human beneficence. Three Bay Area artists examine this state of affairs.
Hadi Tabatabai @ Brian Gross
19 December 2011
Displaying a level of obsession that rivals Agnes Martin's, Tabatabai makes a strong case for the ongoing vitality of Minimalism.
Shows & Waterston @ Haines
14 December 2011
Shows, a peerless collagist, and Waterston, an established master, explore geologic wonders.
Rex Slinkard @ Cantor Arts Center
09 December 2011
He's been described as a “latter-day Transcendentalist with a brush.” But did he succeed as an artist? Ben Marks reports.
Peter Wayne Lewis @ JAYJAY
08 December 2011
The relationship between jazz and abstract painting is long and storied. Lewis, channelling that history, shows he can hold a painterly groove.
Masters of Venice @ de Young Museum
04 December 2011
“Beauty that was luxuriant, carnal and worldly” -- that's how critic Mark Van Proyen describes painting in Venice's “Golden Age”.
Painting Between the Lines @ CCA Wattis
29 November 2011
A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but can it compete with a reader's imagination?
Artist Profile: Chris McCaw
28 November 2011
If the precision of digital photographs leave you cold, Chris McCaw has the antidote. The raw beauty of his images recalls the pioneering days of the medium.
Dragons @ Intersection for the Arts
16 November 2011
Maps promote the notion of consensus reality. Artists, the cartographers of our no-consensus zones, remind us that there is no such thing.
Sarah Bostwick @ Gregory Lind
10 November 2011
Bostwick’s cast-relief sculptures evoke a sense of nostalgia for the visual language of architectural drawing and the structures that once arose from them.
Susanna Bluhm @ Michael Rosenthal
08 November 2011
A painter of resplendent abstract landscapes, Bluhm displays an unpretentious, off-kilter virtuosity, painting for the sheer thrill of it.
Art + Environment @ Nevada Museum of Art
03 November 2011
How art can address the environmental crisis? Thirteen shows demonstrate. Maria Porges reports.
Richard Serra Drawing @ SFMOMA
01 November 2011
Whether he's building massive steel sculptures or afixing oil-stick coated canvases to walls, Richard Serra is, at root, about drawing.
Sacramento Airport Art Scores a Hit
19 October 2011
The $1.3B addition to Sacramento Airport features major works by marquee-name artists. It's the largest investment in public art in Sacramento’s history.
Thoughts on Recent Abstract Painting
05 October 2011
Are we witnessing a deep rethinking of the historical enterprise of abstract painting? Mark Van Proyen investigates.
Nathan Oliveira Memorial @ Berggruen
01 October 2011
Oliveira’s finest late paintings are magisterial, poignant and profound. More spirit than corporeal, they are exquisite contemplations of mortality.
Jay DeFeo @ Hosfelt
24 September 2011
"DeFeo", a prelude to the artist’s 2012 retrospective at SFMOMA, is a show of mostly small works that offer insight into the artist’s remarkable mind.
Gale Antokal @ Patricia Sweetow
19 September 2011
Her lucid-dream drawings appear to be anodyne at first glance. But they’re not. Look closely and shudder as you see yourself inside of them.
Michele Pred @ Jack Fischer
14 September 2011
Michele Pred takes objects confiscated by security personnel at San Francisco Airport and turns them into assemblages that bring us face to face with the security state we have become.
Terry Allen @ Paule Anglim
09 September 2011
If “talking about art is like trying to French kiss over the telephone,” then what is making art about Antonin Artaud like? Ben Marks looks at Allen's take on the celebrated French poet.
Jimi Gleason @ Toomey Tourell
01 September 2011
Gleason continues to stretch the limits of abstract painting, this time by applying acid-etched molten silver to canvases that range in mood from lyrical to post-apocalyptic.
Hanna Hannah @ SJICA
17 August 2011
Hanna Hannah explores what’s left of the powers of dissonance by framing news-media images of war and other assorted tragedies against floral backgrounds.
BAN 6 @ YBCA
11 August 2011
From the sublime to the ridiculous and from failed comedy to philosophical musings on nature, BAN6 presents a scatter shot but compelling view of Bay Area art.
UCB Extension Explores YBCA, SFMOMA
04 August 2011
Two new UC Berkeley Extension courses focus on YBCA and SFMOMA.
Swiss Mix: The 54th Venice Biennial
25 July 2011
This Swatch of an exhibition, ready-made for hedge-fund consumption, still held plenty to savor. Mark Van Proyen reports.
Don Ed Hardy @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
19 July 2011
Mixing motifs from Japanese woodblock prints and late 20th century pop culture, Hardy, a career tattooist, returns to his fine art roots.
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