The Alhambra Project: Lynn Marie Kirby and Christoph Steger Crunch Fitness-Alhambra 2330 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109 September 30th 2016 San Francisco’s Russian Hill is on one of The City’s 42 hills and is …
Andrea Zittel Andrea Rosen Gallery 525 W 24th Street, New York, NY 10011 September 9 – October 8, 2016 A modest work on paper hangs in the gallery entryway, slashed through by a light gray …
Amie Siegel: The Spear in the Stone Simon Preston 301 Broome Street, New York 10002 May 1 – June 19, 2016 In the first gallery at Simon Preston, two of Amie Siegel’s 2015 films play …
Pattern Predictability Repetition 2214 2214 Sixth St., Berkeley CA 94710 February 19 – May 27, 2016 For its first exhibition, 2214—a new Oakland space dedicated to presenting creative, real-world manifestations of a generative and open-ended …
Architecture of Life Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives 2155 Center St., Berkeley CA 94704 January 31-May 29, 2016 I liked the old Berkeley Art Museum building. It became a reality after painter Hans Hoffman, …
Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966-1971 California Historical Society 678 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94105 January 22-May 1, 2016 The finale of the television series, Mad Men, featured advertising executive Don Draper getting his consciousness raised …
James Welling: Choreograph David Zwirner 519 West 19th Street, New York NY 10011 November 18, 2015 – January 16, 2016 I was trained in classical ballet, tap, jazz, and musical theater from the age of four …
Julian Hoeber: The Inward Turn Jessica Silverman Gallery 488 Ellis St., San Francisco CA 94102 November 6 – December 19, 2015 Upon entering Julian Hoeber’s solo exhibition, The Inward Turn, the viewer may wonder whether …
Artist Jesse Potts creates kinetically dynamic works that address tangible perceptions of decay. Through the use of complex mechanics that literally rip away at the drywall and draw new delineations of space, hidden structures become …
Chris Ofili Night and Day New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY October 29, 2014 – January 25, 2015 It is a fair certainty that daring artistic choices are the ones worth seeing. The sterile …
[This article was published in Spanish in DFAQ] “You have, I suppose, dreamt of finding a single word for designating difference and articulation. I have perhaps located it [. . .]. This word is brisure …
Katrín Sigurdardóttir San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133 September 29, 7:30 pm Monday, September 29, San Francisco Art Institute welcomes Katrín Sigurdardóttir as part of the school’s Visiting Artists and Scholars …
The September issue of SFAQ comes out a month and a half before the third edition of the Asian Contemporary Art Week 2014 (ACAW) organized by the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium (ACAC) San Francisco from …
“A Journey to Alfredo Barsuglia’s ‘Social Pool’” By Chris Rusak In the middle of what many might call a barren wasteland, an outwardly nondescript open range of southeastern California desert, nevertheless home …
Liene Bosque, Sinta Tantra, and Kate Gilmore “Gatekeeper” William Holman Gallery 65 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002 Reception: June 25, 6 pm June 25 – July 26, 2014 Wednesday, June 25, William …
Rozalinda Borcilă and Brian Holmes, “Foreign Trade Zone: A People’s Consultancy” Threewalls 119 N. Peoria #2c, Chicago, IL 60607 April 26–May 31, 2014 By Amanda Roscoe Mayo Chicago is a town built on industry …
“Far-out Voices” is currently on view at The National Museum – Architecture in Oslo, Norway. “Far-out Voices” presents a selective insight into the pioneering origins of what we today call green design, revealing links between …
Currently on view at Barbara Gross Galerie in Munich, Germany is “If you have a glass house…”, a solo exhibition by Carlos Garaicoa. For his solo exhibition, Garaicoa casts a critical eye upon …
Currently on view at the The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland is Pablo Bronstein’s solo exhibition, “A is Building, B is Architecture”, the first retrospective of its architectural drawings. Performance plays an important dimension …
No spatially sensitive person can bear to be in the Museum of Modern art, at least I can’t. The spaces are designed to be non-spaces for a constant flow of foot traffic—there are …
