Reviews

His color-accented geometric abstractions may hint of past masters, but what they do best is describe The Void.

Shirley Hazlett is a “Flow Painter” whose abstract works balance action and restraint, intuition and conscious intent.

A look behind temporary public spaces – including SFAI’s Walter and McBean Galleries.

Vail’s photos reveal extraordinary scenes hiding in plain view. De Cocker’s sculptures celebrate flight.

In “Oil” Burtynsky lays bare the connections and the consequences of heedless consumption.

Art treads lightly, but it nearly always packs a punch, as this annual event and gallery exhibition attest.

Levin’s process-based paintings function as mystical signposts, pointing to the unity of all things and to the circular paths they travel.

Works from 25 artists tackle this incendiary topic. One catches fire. Literally.

The Slant Step began as an anti-art oddity. Then, it acquired cult status. Fifty artists explore its legacy.

By subjecting found images to bacterial “erosion”, Ganter delivers something rare: abstract photos that don’t ask for real-world referents.

Combining body art and civil disobedience, Lin Yilin explores Chinese-American history and globalization — from the ground up.

“Whether I am making a large or small piece, I hope that it will give off enough visual energy to shake the air around it.”

Her shaped canvases split difference between Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism; his witty assemblages extend Dadaism.

Projecting moving images onto inanimate objects, he asks viewers to seek meaning from shadow, light and ambient sound.

He takes a New Topographics stance, but aestheticizes his subjects. Result: conceptual photos with heart.