Alex Stark is a painter who loves to curate and, with The Whole Body, he’s created an exceptional show. “As I begin to discuss and search for representations of disability, and bodies similar to my own,” he explains, “…the depictions of human forms emphasize connectivity and relationships, while describing and advocating for a multitude of identities.” Thank you, Alex!
Check out this terrific recent review from the East Bay Express of “Right Here, Right Now, Richmond!” We are co-presenting with the Richmond Art Center on this local group exhibition, with works from Laurel Shear (in the Annex Space) and Irene Wibawa (in the Storefront.)
With Objects in Performance, artist and studio/ gallery coordinator (at SlingShot Art) Arianna Rodriguez presents a show where the finished object could be considered to “have an inherent quality of performance.” It’s a terrific show. Thank you, Arianna!
“Depictions of the built environment are common, whether intimate, vibrant renderings of life there by Fatima Meer, who was incarcerated during South Africa’s apartheid era, or a dense cityscape devoid of humans and drawn from memory by Abdualmalik Abud, who spent almost 15 years at Guantánamo Bay. (His tranquil sketch contrasts sharply with the Guantánamo detainee Abu Zubaydah’s recently released drawings of the torture he endured in secret prisons by the C.I.A., made as legal evidence and published in The New York Times.)… Read the article.
With Some Things Last A Long Time, gallerist and curator Lisa Kehler has built a terrific show that focuses on the repetition found in some of our artists’ work. The show could also be considered a tribute to alt-rock musician Daniel Johnston (a favorite of mine). Thank you, Lisa!
“Born and raised in the Bay Area, Reid was first introduced to art-making early on in school, primarily through drawing. Reid currently attends NIAD’s studio three days a week, where she has worked across a wide range of media over the past two decades. Recurring themes for Reid are significant seasons and times of year, as well as numerous iterations of the Black Panther slogan “All Power to the People,” realized as text-based prints, drawings, and elaborate quilts. While Reid will sometimes produce functional vessels, her focus lies largely in playful ceramic depictions of exotic African mammals, wildcats, lop-eared rabbits, Read More …
Calvin Marcus’ paintings were in the same bay of this year’s Whitney Biennial as Marlon Mullen’s work. “In Los Angeles, daylight sifts into Calvin Marcus’s studio through panes of pastel-stained glass set in lancet windows. The San Francisco-born artist has lived and worked in this cavernous former synagogue turned Baptist church, constructed in 1928, since May. He found the property in 2016, by which time unknown years of neglect had led to severe structural damage. Nevertheless, “I had a vision for how it could be a great studio,” Marcus said recently, ahead of the opening of his current solo show, Read More …
From A Letter, selected by Ramsay Kolber, is both lyrical and moving. Using a poem by Swiss artist Dieter Roth as a foundation, Ramsay chose works that “offer the power and potential of personal intervention.” See for yourself!
…”While these policies may be well-intentioned, many still fail to respect people’s basic right to choose where they live and work. For example, we are seeing rules that unnecessarily restrict the number of individuals with I/DD who can live in the same building or community. There are other rules intended to defund sheltered workshops, even though many people with I/DD enjoy these jobs and have held them for a long time. States have even gone as far as to dictate the percentage of time persons with I/DD must spend outside their home and whom they can spend that time with. Read More …
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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 …
