In Michael Stevens’ Howdy Doody-meets-Alfred Hitchcock universe, demons lurk behind white picket fences, and what looks wholesome at first glance could be…
Archives for May 2009
Artist Profile: Alan Chin
After tragedy strikes, Alan Chin asks: “How am I alive? How am I still functioning?” For answers, he paints the very essence of life.
Gale Hart @ Solomon Dubnick
Gale Hart is a Sacramento-based artist/activist with a long and storied history of agitating on behalf of animal and human rights.
Janice Nakashima @ Axis
Janice Nakashima’s watercolors fuse the atmospherics of Asian landscape painting with forms that recall Native American petroglyphs.
Lewis deSoto @ SJICA
Would Jesus drive a ’64 Chevelle wagon? Would Judas pilot a ‘60 Ford Starliner? Those were a few of the choices conceptualist Lewis deSoto grappled with.
William Kentridge @ SFMOMA
Kentridge’s power derives from the way he combines drawing and stagecraft in stop-animation films that deal with the unfinished business of the 20th century.