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
Posted on 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
Posted on 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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Gutai @ San Francisco Art Institute
Posted on 18 March 2013.
In 1954, a little known painter and theorist called on Japanese artists to unleash the human spirit through “the scream of matter itself.” Their works influenced every movement that followed.
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Hung Liu @ Mills College Art Museum
Posted on 08 March 2013.
“Offerings”, the installation portion of Hung Liu’s upcoming OMCA retrospective, highlights the qualities that have made her one of the Bay Area’s most revered painters.
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Pixilated Drift @ Johansson Projects
Posted on 04 March 2013.
Works from three artists attempt to capture the visceral connection to technology that’s the lived experience of the post-Internet generation. Rachel Clarke reports.
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Kehinde Wiley @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Posted on 26 February 2013.
In a blend of court painting and Social Realism, Wiley casts winsome black and brown males as power figures. Maria Porges reports.
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Unphoto-graphable @ Fraenkel
Posted on 22 February 2013.
Fact and fiction blur in a museum-quality show that gives shape to the inaccessible, the invisible and the incomprehensible.
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Irving Marcus @ b. sakata garo
Posted on 20 February 2013.
For 35 plus years Marcus has been painting dark allegories populated by demons, geishas, beasts and innocents. He’s 84, and his work still packs a wallop.
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Gordon Onslow-Ford @ Weinstein
Posted on 15 February 2013.
He created works that transcended self-consciousness to reveal a world of pure spirit. Mark Van Proyen reports on this superbly chosen retrospective.
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