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“Since 1967, nearly 200 of the brightest lights among Bay Area artists have been honored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with its SECA Art Award, which comes with a museum show. Winnowed by an exhaustive process, the art is always worth attention. As an exhibition, this year’s offering has got to be among the best.  Organized by Linde Lehtinen and Nancy Lim, SFMOMA assistant curators, the show opens Saturday, Nov. 16. It is a concise curatorial argument for art informed by visual intelligence, unbridled by academic theory or polemical posturing. It makes its case quietly, almost surreptitiously Read More …

About the exhibition (This is a narrative collaboration between NJ (age 10) and Prajakti Jayavant) Spike and Feathers went on a journey to St. Paul’s. Once the traffic light signal changed, they were off to the Kentucky Derby where they rode on and raced the horses through some weird floating arches which led to a portal to another realm. The hatch of the portal dropped them into the middle of an ocean. A map swept by and Spike spiked it with his quill. Feathers and Spike continued on their journey through the hot, hot desert in search of the sacred Read More …

I’m not able to find this piece in their online version, so photos of it are below. Thanks, Nan Collymore!

Nibbles, Selena Goatmez, and Vincent van Goat were among the 500 animals that helped clear scrub surrounding the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library before the recent California wildfires broke out… Read the article.

About the exhibition A chameleon is a live painting. It exists in a perpetual state of evolving color as a means for survival. A chameleon adjusts its exterior palette to saturate into its surroundings. A kaleidoscope presents shuffles of mosaic hues that form and reform as a collection of pigmented puzzles and recombining color wheels.  A chameleon with a kaleidoscope would see multiplications of the imaginations represented by the artists and artworks in this exhibition. View the exhibition.

“Viewing creative works which capture your attention, dissolve the boundaries of art and life, and encircle the viewer completely in the artists world, is an important part of my experience as a member of the viewing audience. The works in the online exhibit, “Force Fields and Atmospheres” share the ability to provide a patient art viewer the opportunity to become enveloped into an artist’s imagination and interpretive world view.” View the exhibition.

Color Theories, is our latest online show and its selected by David Buuck. David has organized an exhibition that is not only vibrant (like a summer’s day), but also connects the dots between many very different pieces. Enjoy! 

Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament host Talk Art, a podcast dedicated to the world of art featuring exclusive interviews with leading artists, curators and gallerists. On the current podcast of Talk Art, hosts Russell and Robert visit NYC to meet gallerist Jasmin Tsou (JTT Gallery). They discover why she set up her Lower East Side gallery in 2012, initially exhibiting her peers, but soon expanding her program to include emerging artists in a climate that she describes as ‘scary and intimidating.’ Tsou has a very collaborative approach: ongoing conversations with colleagues have shaped JTT’s program and remain at Read More …

About the exhibition About the urgency of communicating. And remembering. Plus making lists. Painting signs. Creating diagrams. Keeping track of things. Counting and organizing. Expressing your love. Shouting and whispering about all of the important things that we should remember not to forget. View it here.

About the exhibition In these challenging times I find great comfort in animals, in both life and art. View it here.

About the exhibition There is a title card by Sara Malpass. There is an unclear horizon by Karen May. There is a translucent duck giving a direction by Danny Thach. There is a lopped off flower bloom on its side by Adonia Douglas. There is perhaps a fire on a distant shore or a warning by Shana Harper. There is a multicolored creature close to the ground by Julio Del Rio. There is a place of refuge by Danny Thach. There are two cats judging you through a window by Ann Meade. There is a field of rocks or ants Read More …

For almost a year, scholars have accused Monumental Women’s Statue Fund (the nonprofit funding the sculpture) of whitewashing history by spotlighting the suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony without paying equal tribute to the many women of color who contributed to the movement. Last week, the group said that the statue would now include Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist best-known for her rousing “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech first delivered at the 1851 Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio. “Our goal has always been to honor the diverse women in history who fought for equality and justice Read More …

We’re delighted to announce a new limited edition serigraph with NIAD’s Billy White. “My Dad, The Golden Gloves Champion” is a two-color silkscreen on paper measuring 20 x 26″ and signed by the artist on verso. Created in conjunction with SHINE, the gallery that represents Billy, there are only a few available. So, don’t sleep on this. More information or to purchase.

About the exhibition 40 Below is a celebration of NIAD’s diverse roster of artists and the organization’s continued efforts to offer unique, one-of-a-kind works of art at pricing accessible to anyone. Each of the selected paintings, sculptures and drawings in this online exhibition is available for $40 or less, a feat made all the more remarkable given the originality and quality of each of these works. Buying art from NIAD at any price point helps to keep this important nonprofit organization up and running, and it also supports the artists directly as they receive 50% of sales. And who knows, an Read More …

About the exhibition The process of making and viewing art is influenced by our thoughts and emotions. Happy, anxious, confident, scared—these things show up in our own art as well as our interpretations of art made by others. Reflecting on our emotional reactions to art can help us learn more about our inner worlds. For me, the following artworks are especially evocative. Lines vibrate with energy, moody forms loom against bright backdrops, shapes are traced meticulously, and words dance down the page.  How does each piece make you feel?  View it here.

Previously focused on figurative drawings, NIAD’s Eddie Braught recently began a series of detournements wherein he added the ubiquitous noise-dampening headphones worn by several NIAD artists to the people featured on the pages of an art instruction manual. But, even more recently, he has begun to capture in various media on paper (and using Picasso as a starting point) the guitar.

“Yet in Kounellis’s work we find a kind of tutorial for retraining the senses outside the white cube: lessons not bound to any particular aesthetic object, but awaiting discovery in the surface of the world… Read the rest of the article.