Photography gets a fresh look at The Return to Reason, a successful first-time collaboration between Gallery Wendi Norris and Pier 24’s Allie Haeusslein, with works by Stephen Gill, Yamini Nayar, Chloe Sells, Lorenzo Vitturi, and …

Many of the art works in Relics indirectly allude to the environmental waste associated with the disposal of old technologies and serve as poignant signposts of how we collect, store, and dispose of data (see …

Alien She includes the articulate, heartfelt, sometimes angry and frequently humorous markers of a pre-internet age: young cinéastes’ chain letters in Miranda July’s Big Miss Moviola; tear-off tab flyers leading to critical texts in Stephanie …

The curator Jessica Silverman was inspired by Daniel Spoerri’s 1961 documentary novel/map An Anecdoted Topography of Chance, suggesting that “chance is not random, but shaped by ritual and repetition.” This group show, with Bruce Nauman, …

Christine Elfman is a practitioner and teacher of photography, and her technical rigor is evident: images and diptychs convey both the essential and the ephemeral. In Looking Back, the play of light/shadow, background/foreground, and immediacy/mystery …

Curated by the SJICA’s Chief Curator Cathy Kimball and her colleague, the internationally recognized Japanese art curator Misako Mitsui, Toriawase includes traditional Japanese artworks—notably beautiful scrolls and carvings—juxtaposed against striking contemporary works, including those by …

Ana Teresa Fernández, who was born in Mexico, has since been living and educated in the United States, and has thoroughly explored, in this and many other series, the border between United States and Mexico …

Lake Michigan, the vast subject of Louise LeBourgeois’ painting series Toward Horizon, is the second largest lake in the United States, with such a large surface area that it often feels like open water, with …

Public Intimacy is a well-curated series of works that have some specter of defiance about them. There is also the sense that both public and private intimacies are being watched, on one end by curious …

The well-designed exhibition X-TO + J-C includes both early sculptures (including from the Packages series) and draft sketches, collages, photographs and films of later and larger monumental work, including The Gates, Wrapped Reichstag, and Wrapped …

Jessica Silverman Gallery, which has had a strong focus on conceptual art since its opening in 2008, is an ideal space for the work of local Bay Area artist Tammy Rae Carland. Live from Somewhere, …

For his latest showing, Cast Paintings, Tom Burckhardt cast his canvases and supports first, hung them up as “legitimate” paintings, and then painted them. This idea of a false start, embedded in the canvas itself, …