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Wayne Thiebaud @ The Crocker Art Museum

October 23, 2010

Thiebaud’s 4th solo show at The Crocker since 1951 comes at a propitious time: the museum’s 125th anniversary, the opening of its tripled-in-size exhibition space and the artist’s 90th birthday.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Crocker Art Museum, David M. Roth, Wayne Thiebaud

Fred Dalkey @ CCAS

October 16, 2010

Painting the same scene 54 times over a 6-month period, the artist documented an acutely observed interchange — between raw optical sensations and the mechanism by which they are translated into recognizable forms.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: center for contemporary art Sacramento, Fred Dalkey, Hearne Pardee

Judy Pfaff @ Braunstein

October 13, 2010

Nobody manufactures chaos like Judy Pfaff. She continuously reinvigorates sculpture by moving it into painterly, theatrical, performative and architectural directions. “Tivoli Gardens” extends this formidable tradition.

Filed Under: Reviews

Nellie King Solomon @ Brian Gross

October 7, 2010

Are they magnified views of chemical reactions or a visions of the Earth’s crust from outer space? In Nellie King Solomon’s “beautiful pictures of terrible things” both possibilities appear simultaneously and with equal force.

Filed Under: Reviews

Vik Muniz @ Rena Bransten

October 1, 2010

When it comes to “non-traditional” materials, Vik Muniz is the undisputed king. Factory machinery, spaghetti, dust, peanut butter, sugar, chocolate and auto bodies – he’s used them all them to remake Old Masters. His latest targets: Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Mark Van Proyen, Rena Bransten Gallery, Vik Muniz

Natural and Creative Capital @ Montalvo

September 8, 2010

Here, at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in a gallery exhibition and in a series of site-specific works, seven artists of vastly different persuasions, examine the complex and often conflicted relationships we have with animals and nature.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, Montalvo Arts Center, Natural and Creative Capital, Sculpture on the Grounds

Henry Wessel @ SFMOMA & Rena Bransten

August 19, 2010

Making the quotidian look strange and familiar was Henry Wessel’s specialty. His New Topographics cohorts recorded the bald facts of our surroundings and elevated their impact through repetition. Wessel didn’t need to. His photos are self-contained stories.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, Henry Wessel, New Topographics, Rena Bransten, SFMOMA

Wondrous Strange @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery

August 14, 2010

Before museums we had cabinets of curiosities: rooms that housed natural history, ethnographic artifacts and archeological remains. Twenty-one Bay Area artists explore those traditions.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, SFMOMA Artists Gallery Fort Mason, Wondrous Strange

New Photos/Old Technology @ SJICA

August 5, 2010

Tired of big, banal theory-driven photos? A quiet counterinsurgency is gathering force. It’s composed of artists who are turning antiquated photographic methods to contemporary ends. Meet the antiquarian avant-garde.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

Sac City College 4 @ JAYJAY

July 26, 2010

Ever since Robert Rauschenberg built his legendary “combines” from cast-off junk sculptors have relied increasingly on found objects and industrial materials. Repurposed, they convey new meanings that go beyond associations we normally affix to them.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, Emily Wilson, Gioia Fonda, JAYJAY, Mark Bugoski, Mitra Fabian

Flatlanders @ Nelson Gallery, UCD

July 23, 2010

Contrary to Bay Area opinion, which holds that Sacramento is a backwater, “Flatlanders” stands as a smart rebuke. It not only serves as a showcase for emerging artists, but also spotlights artists who long ago established international reputations.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: David M. Roth, Flatlanders, Richard L. Nelson Gallery

Jennifer Little & Mike Osborne @ Stanford

July 20, 2010

In 1861, photographer Felix Nadar captivated Parisians with his photos of the city’s catacombs and sewers. In “Excavating the Underground”, Jennifer Little and Mike Osborn, explore subterranean urban spaces in much the same spirit.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Jennifer Little, Mike Osborn, Myra Messner, Welton Gallery Stanford

Local Treasures @ Berkeley Art Center

July 11, 2010

Katherine Sherwood, Robert Brady, Jim Melchert, Squeak Carnwath, Livia Stein and Gale Wagner would seem, at least on the surface, to have little in common. Look deeper are you find that each, in their own way, is committed to plumbing life’s mysteries.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Berkeley Art Center, David M. Roth, Gale Wagner, Jim Melchert, Katherine Sherwood, Livia Stein, Robert Brady, Squeak Carnwath

Post-WWII Asian Modernists @ Togonon

July 2, 2010

Mixing works by Asian-American artists, both foreign and native-born, this show demonstrates how Zen, calligraphy and Automatism, as advocated by the Surrealists, combined to form one of the most influential movements of the 20th century.

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Youngsuk Suh @ Haines

June 22, 2010

During the brushfires of 2008-09, Youngsuk Suh photographed people in places that were engulfed in flames. What we get is a fresh spin on the New Topographics mode of photography and portrait of the American West that is true to life and a bit vexing: You can breathe the air; just don’t inhale.

Filed Under: Reviews

Reed Anderson @ Gregory Lind Gallery

June 17, 2010

Anderson’s obsessive paper works are composed of thousands of small, geometrically shaped holes. From a distance they look like giant doilies. Up close they unfold kaleidoscopically, like fractals, revealing a virtuoso technique.

Filed Under: Reviews

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