In the late ’60s he mixed Duchampian absurdism with text-based object making to lampoon every myth the art world was manufacturing and refining.
Posted on 11 March 2009.
In the late ’60s he mixed Duchampian absurdism with text-based object making to lampoon every myth the art world was manufacturing and refining.
Posted on 11 March 2009.
In sculptures and large-scale drawings, Stone pits black against white, gravity against buoyancy and spontaneity against calculation in works that display grace and pugnacity.
Posted in ReviewsComments Off on Cathy Stone @ Limn Gallery, SF
Posted on 11 March 2009.
Never mind the so-called zeitgeist. Wetzl wants to show how every belief system in human history continues to shape our experience.
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Posted on 10 March 2009.
Hido’s pictures of rural roads to nowhere put a new spin on the all-American themes of rootlessness and alienation.
Posted in ReviewsComments Off on Todd Hido @ Stephen Wirtz, SF
Posted on 09 March 2009.
Stone’s complex, multi-layered installations flow across walls in amoeba-like shapes.
Posted in ReviewsComments Off on Katy Stone @ Johansson Projects, Oakland
Posted on 09 March 2009.
Fortes’ quasi-expressionist paintings hint at oblique political and personal conundrums.
Posted in ReviewsComments Off on John Yoyogi Fortes @ Skinner/Howard
Posted on 08 March 2009.
When it comes to integrating art and human rights, printmaker/installation artist Claudia Bernardi has few peers.
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Posted on 06 March 2009.
Linda Day has taken the basic tenets of hard-edge, geometric abstraction and turned them upside down.
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Posted on 01 March 2009.
Robert Ortbal has created a phantasmagorical universe of objects that play on familiar associations but defy comparisons to any actual terrestrial forms you may know.
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Posted on 01 March 2009.
At the heart of documentary photography lies an epistemological conundrum: What do we know and how do we know it?
Posted in Photography, ReviewsComments Off on Kent Lacin @ Sac State Library Gallery