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Archives for March 2009

Stephen Kaltenbach @ Verge Gallery

March 11, 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.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Conceptual, stephen Kaltenbach

Cathy Stone @ Limn Gallery, SF

March 11, 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.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: cathy stone, Drawing, Sculpture

David Wetzl @ CSU Stanislaus

March 11, 2009

Never mind the so-called zeitgeist. Wetzl wants to show how every belief system in human history continues to shape our experience.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David Wetzl, painting

Todd Hido @ Stephen Wirtz, SF

March 10, 2009

Hido’s pictures of rural roads to nowhere put a new spin on the all-American themes of rootlessness and alienation.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Todd Hido

Katy Stone @ Johansson Projects, Oakland

March 9, 2009

Stone’s complex, multi-layered installations flow across walls in amoeba-like shapes.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Johansson Projects, Katy Stone, Multimedia, Sculpture, Yvette Molina painting

John Yoyogi Fortes @ Skinner/Howard

March 9, 2009

Fortes’ quasi-expressionist paintings hint at oblique political and personal conundrums.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: John Yoyogi Fortes, Skinner/Howard

Claudia Bernardi @ 40 Acres

March 8, 2009

When it comes to integrating art and human rights, printmaker/installation artist Claudia Bernardi has few peers.

Filed Under: Profiles Tagged With: Claudia Bernardi, Drawing, printmaking

Linda Day & Stuart Allen @ JayJay

March 6, 2009

Linda Day has taken the basic tenets of hard-edge, geometric abstraction and turned them upside down.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Linda Day, painting, Sculpture, Stuart Allen

Profile: Robert Ortbal

March 1, 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.

Filed Under: Profiles Tagged With: Robert Ortbal, Sculpture

Kent Lacin @ Sac State Library Gallery

March 1, 2009

At the heart of documentary photography lies an epistemological conundrum: What do we know and how do we know it?

Filed Under: Photography, Reviews Tagged With: Kent Lacin, photography

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