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John Hundt & Camilla Newhagen @ Jack Fischer

March 24, 2011

In Hundt and Newhagen the fighting spirit of Dada is alive and well. Their work points to the extant power of irrationality.

Filed Under: Drawing, Reviews, Sculpture Tagged With: Camilla Newhagen, David M. Roth, Jack Fischer, John Hundt

Hasan Elahi @ Intersection 5M

March 16, 2011

Hasan Elahi passed nine lie detector tests. But the FBI still thought he might be a terrorist. So the Bureau asked him to stay in touch. He complied. The artist filled their inbox with a torrent of useless information.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Hasan Elahi, Intersection 5M

Abstraction: Then and Now @ Berkeley Art Museum

March 12, 2011

Does abstraction have a viable “third path,” between the poles of Impressionist “opticality” and Symbolist introspection? Mark Van Proyen reports.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Abstraction: Then and Now, Berkeley Art Museum, Mark Van Proyen

Gottfried Helnwein @ The Crocker Art Museum

March 11, 2011

Gottfried Helnwein’s paintings and photographs tackle the persistence of evil and the cruelties perpetrated by humans against each other.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Crocker Art Museum, David M. Roth, Gottfried Helnwein

Enrique Chagoya @ di Rosa Preserve

March 7, 2011

In cross-cultural mash-ups, where indigenous icons return to a Disney-fied America, and art historical figures dance through cartoon vistas, Chagoya explores a terrain where all cultures meet and mix.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: di Rosa Preserve, Enrique Chagoya

Video: Patrick Dougherty @ Palo Alto Art Center

February 21, 2011

Watch this video and learn how Dougherty transforms tons of sticks into architectural masterpieces that quite literally jump the nature/culture divide.

Filed Under: Profiles, Sculpture

Alex Couwenberg @ Andrea Schwartz

February 15, 2011

Couwenberg mixes the spatial ambiguity of cyberspace with the disorienting angularity of Cubo Futurism — recasting the Southern California landscape as a mind-bending interior experience.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Alex Couwenberg, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, David M. Roth

Christina Seely @ CCAS

February 5, 2011

Light usually signifies good things, like prosperity and knowledge. But not in Christina Seely’s images. These photos of the “brightest cities on Earth” will make you think twice the next time you flip a light switch.

Filed Under: Photography, Reviews Tagged With: Christina Seely, photography

Tony May @ SJICA

January 27, 2011

Tony May’s SJICA retrospective showcases the artist’s genius for embedding strong ideas in meticulously crafted objects that both tweak and invoke art history.

Filed Under: Conceptual, Painting, Reviews, Sculpture Tagged With: David M. Roth, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Tony May

2010: Rear View Mirror

January 3, 2011

What made 2010 notable? OK, it was a lousy year for galleries. But most survived. More remarkably, they hosted more than a few truly memorable shows. Here are some of the highlights we covered in 2010.

Filed Under: Reviews

Chris Daubert @ Blue Line

December 26, 2010

Action/reaction is the governing principle in this interactive light-and-sound installation in which the audience is both instigator and spectator.

Filed Under: Conceptual, Multimedia, Reviews Tagged With: Blue Line Gallery, chris daubert, David M. Roth

The Robert Ortbal Interview

December 15, 2010

Robert Ortbal’s sculptures explore essences. Not actual essences, as in molecular structures, but unfathomable things: like the physical structure of smells as they exist in psychological, emotional and sensory space.

Filed Under: Interviews, Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, JAYJAY, Robert Ortbal

Ed Moses @ Brian Gross

November 29, 2010

With “wic wack”, Moses extends the abstract methods for which he is famous by running a kind of magical primitivism through a filter of Pointillism and Op. I left feeling like my molecular structure had been re-arranged.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Brian Gross Fine Art, Ed Moses

Linda Geary @ Rena Bransten

November 26, 2010

In the Bay Area, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more exuberant, more imaginative painter than Linda Geary. Using oil, watercolor and spray paint, Geary has charted new frontiers in biomorphic abstraction.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, Linda Geary, Rena Bransten

Seth Koen @ Gregory Lind Gallery

November 18, 2010

With great economy and visual imagination, Koen creates elegant and deliciously open-ended works that tweak the orthodoxies of Minimalism while simultaneously engaging them with serious craft.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, Gregory Lind, Seth Koen

John Yoyogi Fortes @ Jack Fischer

November 16, 2010

Fortes creates an electrically charged, claustrophobic atmosphere filled with high-def images and stupefying excess, where nothing makes sense and everything seems wrapped in a cocoon of white noise.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, Jack Fischer Gallery, John Yoyogi Fortes

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