Entering a piece of video art in the middle is like meeting a friend for the first time, it is almost immediately apparent if it …
“Heightened Subjectivity” is a group show at Interface Gallery in Oakland featuring recent work by Claire Colette, Teresa Baker and Lana Williams. Through titles that …
By Peter Dobey September 27, 2013 Judging by the discussions in the British press this week, it would seem more people are beginning to …
As a spectator entering a gallery or museum, anticipation of aesthetic elation is internalized. Once upon these works, viewing an interesting something or other …
Opening this Wednesday, September 25th at Et. al gallery in Chinatown, San Francisco is “Alter-Circuit: Virlani Hallberg” featuring the single-channel video “Receding Triangular Square” …
Uri Tzaig “Sustainable Art” refusalon JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square 500 Post Street San Francisco, California By John Held, Jr. …
A couple things lately have made me think of Richard Berger, not the least of which was seeing one of his sculptures from …
Lecture by Rinko Kawauchi Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 7pm Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 …
When Richard Learoyd describes his experiments with the camera obscura as “an anti-digital therapy,” he sets himself opposite the compulsive image takers and re-takers. This …
The winners of this year’s SFMOMA SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) Award are Josh Faught, Jonn Herschend, Zarouhie Abdalian and David Wilson. …
Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive August 21 – December 8, 2013 As the Berkeley Art Museum …
Feature by Peter Dobey All too often I encounter visual art that has been butchered by theoretical exposition. A particularly egregious variety of …
We have now entered the second edition of the Asian Contemporary Art Week in San Francisco. From September 19-26, 2013, ACAW-SF 2013 celebrates the …
Interviewed by Sarah Thibault Zarouhie Abdalian and I met for drinks recently to discuss her current show MATRIX 249 at the Berkeley Art Museum, her …
Among some of the works currently on view at George Billis Gallery are Sarah Williams’s oil paintings on panels. Characteristically, each is of modest …
Is Doug Aitkens’ “Station To Station” a cool art project or a fancy ad campaign? September 18, 2013 By Peter Dobey …
The title “Reason Drifts Far From The Shore” is printed in black acrylic on a grey background, centered on the left side of the 48 …
I’m not sure whether to be happy or sad that I am getting older within the arts. On one hand I feel like …
Opening tonight, September 12th, 7-10pm is “ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND,” a group exhibition featuring early and formative work by five artists—Chris Johanson, Margaret …
Here’s a scary movie to play at your avant-garde haunted house. Jillian McDonald’s “Valley of the Deer,” recently shown at Ontario College of Art …
