The Mighty Languish, The Forgotten Rise
“The Worlds of Bernice Bing” Produced and directed by Madeleine Lim Co-Producer and Project Director, Jennifer Banta Yoshida Presented by the Asian American Women Artists …
Posts tagged John Held
In Conversation with Charles Gatewood
An Interview with Charles Gatewood “Charles Gatewood: 50 Years” September 5-November 30, 2013 Opening: Thursday, September 5, 11am-7:30pm Reception and book signing: Saturday, September …
Review: “An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan and Their Circle.” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
“Life Isn’t Always Pretty or in Focus” By John Held, Jr. The Sixties were a time of communes and community, but …
Art from the Loin: Part Two
By John Held, Jr. Most of the Tenderloin galleries are open Wednesday through Saturday, so I chose a Thursday afternoon to take …
Art from the Loin: Part One
By John Held, Jr. I took an afternoon to acquaint myself with the latest happenings in the Tenderloin art scene. It wasn’t …
My Ruth Asawa (1926-2013)
By John Held, Jr. When I first arrived in San Francisco in 1995, one of the first calls I made was to …
Richard Shaw at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
by John Held, Jr. If I were a major contemporary exhibiting artist, even I might be impressed if a work of mine …
“Artists’ Magazines” at 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco
By John Held, Jr. It’s really difficult to successfully show printed works as opposed to strictly visual works of art in a gallery …
Matt Gonzalez’s “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved” at Park Life, San Francisco
By John Held, Jr. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are normally cited as the originators of collage in modern art, a term …
Spiritual Sanctuary in a New Setting
By John Held, Jr. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s “On the Go” project got up and went plein air with …
The Diebenkorn is in the Details
By John Held, Jr. Richard Diebenkorn was something of a painting prodigy, having his first major exhibition at the Legion of Honor, while attending …
Sameness and Discrepency
Susan Parker, “Recent Paintings.” Ronald Chase, “New Painting.” June 1 – July 20, 2013 Don Soker Gallery 80 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA By …
“Proximities 1: What Time Is It There?” at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
“Proximities 1: What Time Is It There?” May 24-July 21, 2013 Curated by Glen Helfand Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin Street San Francisco By …
Transforming the World, One Figure at a Time: The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
By John Held, Jr. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Future Woman” George Krevsky Gallery, San Fracnisco May 30-June 29, 2013 77 Geary Street #205 …
Art is a Puzzle
David Jones and Dan Max “Split Personality” May 21-26, 2013 Live Worms Gallery 1345 Grant Avenue North Beach, San Francisco By John Held, Jr. …
ArtMRKT/ArtPad: The Art Circus Comes to Town
By John Held, Jr. It was a two-ring circus this year, not a three-ringer like last year, but there was still plenty …
Asian American Women Artists Association: “underCurrents and the Quest for Space”
By John Held, Jr. Asian American Women Artists Association “underCurrents and the Quest for Space” May 2-May 25, 2013 SOMArts Cultural Center 934 Brannan …
LSD & Me: Contemplating the Passing and Passages of Albert Hofmann (1906-2008)
By John Held, Jr. The guy who made me (and a lot of other people) an artist died on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 at …
“Sweets Savored in a Protective Casing” by John Held, Jr.
Eleanor Coppola: “Scrolls” April 10-May 4, 2013 Gallery Paule Anglim 14 Geary Street San Francisco, CA -by John Held, Jr. There is …
Thinking Inside the Box: Lawrence Jordan
Lawrence Jordan “Prodigies of Physical Phenomena: An Exhibition of Dioramas & Collages” April 4-30, 2013 K. Imperial Fine Art 49 Geary, Suite 440 San Francisco, …