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Pegan Brooke paints scenic — one might say dangerously scenic — locations where the land meets the water ranging from Bolinas Lagoon in Marin County, to the Aven River at Pont-Aven, Brittany, in northwestern France, a favored location of nineteenth-century landscape painters.
During its short efflorescence from 1954 to 1957, the Six Gallery was many things, most famously the place where Allen Ginsberg initially read his famous poem titled “Howl” on October 7, 1955.
Ruby C. Tut’s exhibition of new work builds on the ornate legacy of Indian miniature painting in order to conceive expansive psychological landscapes that envision ecological balance and well-being.
Pan Hsinhua and David Frazer make a compelling case for art’s ability both to reflect contemporary life and aesthetically transform it, wresting meaning and beauty from the chaotic jumble of social media unreality.
Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot enjoyed a complex relationship marked by mutual flirtation that eventually smoldered into sublimated desire after Morisot’s marriage to his brother Eugène. She chose the right brother.
In California, where rugged mountains and coastlines provided both inspiration and solitude, the observation of natural phenomena further infused the forms — and in some cases the formlessness — of Zen-derived art.
Edward Burtynsky’s current exhibition, “Transformation,” opens with “Dry Tailings #1, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo,” an aerial view of an open-pit cobalt and copper mine near the central African city that is the site of more than half of global cobalt reserves.
Arvida Byström’s online women perch in a bare liminal space, all taut-skinned, unblemished and pornographically proportioned, with not a curl of pubic hair in sight. However, their faces are altered to resemble different animals.
What is beauty? A quality, a trait, a value, an identity, or all of those things? “When the World is Beautifully Strange” brings a coterie of contemporary ceramic artists to address that question or to thoughtfully expand upon it.
Continuing through November 1, 2025 In the first two decades of her career, it was often presumed that Ann Gale’s work should be appreciated in the historical context of Bay Area Figurative painting. But Gale has lived near Seattle that entire time, and her work has always been more responsive to other influences. Her aesthetic […]
