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Reviews

Soil to Site @ Montalvo

January 5, 2012

Wilderness now exists only through acts of human beneficence. Three Bay Area artists examine this state of affairs.

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Hadi Tabatabai @ Brian Gross

December 19, 2011

Displaying a level of obsession that rivals Agnes Martin’s, Tabatabai makes a strong case for the ongoing vitality of Minimalism.

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Shows & Waterston @ Haines

December 14, 2011

Shows, a peerless collagist, and Waterston, an established master, explore geologic wonders.

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Rex Slinkard @ Cantor Arts Center

December 9, 2011

He’s been described as a “latter-day Transcendentalist with a brush.” But did he succeed as an artist? Ben Marks reports.

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Peter Wayne Lewis @ JAYJAY

December 8, 2011

The relationship between jazz and abstract painting is long and storied. Lewis, channelling that history, shows he can hold a painterly groove.

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Masters of Venice @ de Young Museum

December 4, 2011

“Beauty that was luxuriant, carnal and worldly” — that’s how critic Mark Van Proyen describes painting in Venice’s “Golden Age”.

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Painting Between the Lines @ CCA Wattis

November 29, 2011

A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but can it compete with a reader’s imagination?

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Dragons @ Intersection for the Arts

November 16, 2011

Maps promote the notion of consensus reality. Artists, the cartographers of our no-consensus zones, remind us that there is no such thing.

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Sarah Bostwick @ Gregory Lind

November 10, 2011

Bostwick’s cast-relief sculptures evoke a sense of nostalgia for the visual language of architectural drawing and the structures that once arose from them.

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Susanna Bluhm @ Michael Rosenthal

November 8, 2011

A painter of resplendent abstract landscapes, Bluhm displays an unpretentious, off-kilter virtuosity, painting for the sheer thrill of it.

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Art + Environment @ Nevada Museum of Art

November 3, 2011

How art can address the environmental crisis? Thirteen shows demonstrate. Maria Porges reports.

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Richard Serra Drawing @ SFMOMA

November 1, 2011

Whether he’s building massive steel sculptures or afixing oil-stick coated canvases to walls, Richard Serra is, at root, about drawing.

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Thoughts on Recent Abstract Painting

October 5, 2011

Are we witnessing a deep rethinking of the historical enterprise of abstract painting? Mark Van Proyen investigates.

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Nathan Oliveira Memorial @ Berggruen

October 1, 2011

Oliveira’s finest late paintings are magisterial, poignant and profound. More spirit than corporeal, they are exquisite contemplations of mortality.

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Jay DeFeo @ Hosfelt

September 24, 2011

“DeFeo”, a prelude to the artist’s 2012 retrospective at SFMOMA, is a show of mostly small works that offer insight into the artist’s remarkable mind.

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Gale Antokal @ Patricia Sweetow

September 19, 2011

Her lucid-dream drawings appear to be anodyne at first glance. But they’re not. Look closely and shudder as you see yourself inside of them.

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