Archives for February 2009

Special Report: Sacramento Rising

February 26, 2009

Forget Thomas Albright’s decades-old charge of “stubborn regionalism.” Today, Sacramento has a strong and diverse art scene.

February 26, 2009

In what amounts to a visual roman á clef, Sherwood demonstrated why she is one of the most important painters working today.

February 26, 2009

American history is filled with foreigners who have come to these shores and revealed truths that made us squirm. Enrique Chagoya did exactly that.

February 26, 2009

Buelteman employs camera-less form of image making that relies on the application of high voltages to subjects on light-sensitive media.

February 25, 2009

Dauber plays havoc with our sense of equilibrium by injecting urban sounds (á la Cage) into a rural setting of his own making.

February 23, 2009

Photographer Roger Vail turns seemingly ordinary subjects into images that range from poetically minimal to flat-out hallucinatory.

February 23, 2009

Cutting-edge LA artist and academic visionary.

February 23, 2009

If awards were given for labor-intensive art, Ian Harvey and Koo Kyung Sook would surely be contenders.

February 22, 2009

In two separate Sacramento-area shows from her 300-painting “Flower Series,” Louie covers heaven and earth and a lot of space in between.