Archives for March 2026

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s interdisciplinary avant-garde practice explored themes of displacement, memory, and language, bridging French film theory, linguistics, and her personal experience with Korean history, exile and immigration.

The tiny and mysterious figures in Gina Pearlin’s “The Travelers” paintings place us relatively Brobdingnagian-sized viewers in a similar quandary. She builds tiny dioramas, photographs them using altered lighting and perspective, and then painted them on small panels.

In “Immortal,” John Paul Morabito pays tribute to the iconic pop musician Sylvester (1947-1988) with five abstract, woven, and lushly beaded tapestries in a show named after the singer’s posthumous album of the same name.

A veteran swimmer in Lake Michigan, Louise LeBourgeois is also a long-time painter of the luminous meetings of water and sky she observes at the lake. Her cloud- and seascapes are suffused with shifts in perception and the bodily sensations.

Judith Belzer’s mounting feelings of anxiety in these recent works relate to her concerns about climate change and the overheated political environment. Rather than heightening such feelings, she placea us in a contemplative space where we engage in introspection.

“Making Moves: A Collection of Feminisms” reveals the extent to which women’s patronage and influence, and thus women’s voices and perspectives, have invigorated the cultural bloodstream across continents and generations.

During the mid-1970s artists found unoccupied light industrial spaces south of Market Street suddenly available for conversion to live/work spaces. Jennifer Locke’s video installation is a throwback to those days when artists built crude studios there.

“Foundations” focuses on the transition Viola Frey made in the early years of her career from painting to sculpture, and into the monumental figurative works for which she is best known. Frey’s powerful figures convey a sense of triumph, attesting to a small woman from humble beginnings transcending circumstances to leave an indelible mark.

There was a moment that began in the late 1960s when artists became fascinated by language as subject matter for visual art. The prints by the 11 artists included in “Expressions of Language” all address this moment of transition in a variety of ways.

During the Covid-19 pandemic Elaine Coombs, best known for her verdant lyrical landscapes, found herself increasingly attracted to the sky as seen on walks in San Francisco’s Presidio, founding new subject matter in the clouds of the Bay Area.