Reviews

Katy Stone @ Johansson Projects, Oakland

March 9, 2009

Stone’s complex, multi-layered installations flow across walls in amoeba-like shapes.

March 9, 2009

Fortes’ quasi-expressionist paintings hint at oblique political and personal conundrums.

March 6, 2009

Linda Day has taken the basic tenets of hard-edge, geometric abstraction and turned them upside down.

March 1, 2009

At the heart of documentary photography lies an epistemological conundrum: What do we know and how do we know it?

February 26, 2009

In what amounts to a visual roman á clef, Sherwood demonstrated why she is one of the most important painters working today.

February 26, 2009

Buelteman employs camera-less form of image making that relies on the application of high voltages to subjects on light-sensitive media.

February 25, 2009

Dauber plays havoc with our sense of equilibrium by injecting urban sounds (á la Cage) into a rural setting of his own making.

February 23, 2009

If awards were given for labor-intensive art, Ian Harvey and Koo Kyung Sook would surely be contenders.

February 22, 2009

In two separate Sacramento-area shows from her 300-painting “Flower Series,” Louie covers heaven and earth and a lot of space in between.