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.
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Seth Koen @ Gregory Lind Gallery
Posted on 18 November 2010.
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John Yoyogi Fortes @ Jack Fischer
Posted on 16 November 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.
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Cornelia Schulz @ Patricia Sweetow
Posted on 11 November 2010.
Talk about mixing macrocosmic and microcosmic views. Cornelia Schultz gives them to us from on high and from inside the planet’s nooks and crannies – all in the same picture.
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The All-New Crocker Art Museum
Posted on 03 November 2010.
The “oldest museum in the West” has tripled in size. Now, for the first time ever, the Crocker can really show its stuff. A list of its holdings reads like a Who’s Who of Northern California art in the post-WWII era.
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Wayne Thiebaud @ The Crocker Art Museum
Posted on 23 October 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.
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Natural and Creative Capital @ Montalvo
Posted on 08 September 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.
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Henry Wessel @ SFMOMA & Rena Bransten
Posted on 19 August 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.
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Wondrous Strange @ SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Posted on 14 August 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.
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New Photos/Old Technology @ SJICA
Posted on 05 August 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.
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Sac City College 4 @ JAYJAY
Posted on 26 July 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.
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