With ravages to the urban landscape imprinted on our collection imagination, Drew’s work seems harrowing in its timeliness.
Archives for April 2011
David Maisel @ Haines Gallery
Using X-rays from the archives of the Asian Art Museum as source material, Maisel explores the ghostly space between the purposeful document and the otherworldly trace.
SF to China: Free Ai Weiwei
Ai’s detention, says protest organizer, is about making sure uprisings the Middle East aren’t repeated in China. Ai, the government vows, “will pay a special price.”
Song Dong @ YBCA
In “Waste Not” “everything is well ordered but dead, like the clothing, rings, and eyeglasses gathered from the doomed in a death camp,” reports Jeff Kelley. “The only duty left is to archive, and the only remaining utility is to remember.
Deborah Oropallo @ Gallery 16
In the gender-confused universe of Deborah Oropallo, nothing is real and everything is permitted. Her reworking of Internet images suits an era in which personal identity is reinvented on-the-fly.
Bolles & Westerhout @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
The success of this unlikely pairing shows what can happen when inspired curatorial vision bridges the divide we sometimes erect between media.