San Francisco
Diana Gadaldi | Feb 12, 2014
On February 5th, 2014, the Bay Area native artist Jenny Odell opened her latest solo exhibition at Intersection for the Arts, a multidisciplinary center for the arts located in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) …
in: Focus on the American WestCatherine Nueva España | Jan 21, 2014
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, …
in: NewsDiana Gadaldi | Jan 20, 2014
My first meeting with visual artist Su-Chen Hung dates back to April 2013, when her latest solo exhibition Ants in the City opened at Intersection for the Arts, a multidisciplinary center for the arts located …
in: Focus on the American WestCatherine Nueva España | Jan 15, 2014
Two Libraries: Recently Sorted Books is the latest in Ms. Katchadourian’s twenty-year project series, Sorted Books. “Once Upon a Time in Delaware/In Quest of the Perfect Book,” and “Family Gathering” are insightful, clever, and multi-layered. …
in: NewsEvan Reiser | Oct 21, 2013
“CANCER SUCKS!” reads a button perched beside San Francisco Giants memorabilia, family photographs, and various other tchotchkes. This niche is one of thousands of memorials, each containing cremated human remains, on the second floor of …
in: NewsCatherine Nueva España | Oct 15, 2013
In this series of aerial photographs by Thomas Heinser, man-made interventions (highways, runways) cut through the open landscapes. Sometimes a natural intervention, such as water, cuts across, but the effect is no less jarring and …
in: NewsCatherine Nueva España | Sep 15, 2013
During Diebenkorn’s Berkeley years, the Bay Area was the place for artistic discovery and social and political awakening. His contemporaries, which included the writers Joan Didion and Allen Ginsburg and the artists Jay DeFeo, David …
in: NewsCatherine Nueva España | Sep 6, 2013
The prolific Augustine Kofie’s work is wide-ranging, including murals, assemblage, film, public art, and watercolor, but this show focuses on a series of acrylic and ink works produced earlier this year. These works concerning “sound …
in: NewsLeslie Allen Spillane | Aug 28, 2013
With the closure of SFMOMA until 2016, their collection has expanded beyond the gallery and out into a variety of San Francisco venues and locations. Beyond Belief is their second off-site exhibition; a result of …
in: Focus on the American WestCatherine Nueva España | Aug 27, 2013
Migrating Identities features the work of eight artists who are currently based in the United States, but collectively have connections to such diverse countries as Bangladesh, Botswana, India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Peru, and the Philippines. …
in: NewsKay Rodriques | Aug 4, 2013
Urban art, graffiti, weathered surfaces and comic book heroes all come together in “Übermensch,” BASK’s one man show at 1AM Gallery. Included in this exhibition are a Superman installation wall, works on found wood and …
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