Henderson’s thickly clotted, intensely worked abstractions seem spring from hands directed an urgent, clawing impulse. Julia Couzens reports.
Archives for June 2014
Michele Sudduth @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Sudduth’s paintings speak of the isolation and unease of people in public places.
John Bonick & Tim Yankosky @ Andrea Schwartz
Bonick’s pattern paintings probe infinity; Yankosky’s repurposed tape measures examine the psychology of how we size things up.
Public Intimacy @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
South African artists paint a sad and sobering picture of broken promises and unfulfilled dreams.
Bruce Davidson @ Robert Koch
50 years after the Civil Rights Act, Davidson’s photos remind us that race relations can’t be described only in black and white.
Marco Maggi @ Hosfelt Gallery
Maggi seeks to concretize the ever-widening gap between knowledge and knowingness.
Four Decades of Drawing @ Berggruen
A museum-quality gallery show of contemporary drawing, from the ’60s to the present.
Carleton Watkins @ Cantor Arts Center
A master of the mammoth plate albumen process, Watkins receives his due in this superlative exhibition.
Jimi Gleason @ Toomey Tourell
Gleason employs a metallurgic approach that evokes high Modernist design and LA Finish Fetish painting of the ‘60s.