The Politics of Portraiture Jessica Silverman Gallery 488 Ellis St. San Francisco 94102 June 24 – August 27, 2016 Portraiture, of the self or otherwise, …

The Grace Jones Project Museum of the African Diaspora 685 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94105 April 27 – September 18, 2016 Grace Jones’s “Slave to …

From the Singular to the Indexical in Contemporary Portraiture For the past 14 years Paul Mpagi Sepuya has lived in New York and worked as a …

Josephine Pryde lapses in Thinking By the person i Am May 5 – August 1, 2015 Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco 360 Kansas …

Arnold Newman: Masterclass The Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 23 October 2014 – 01 February 1 2015 Arnold Newman gathered …

Stephen McClintock “Hood Pass” Louis B. James 143B Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002 Reception: July 31, 6-8pm July 31 – August 28, 2014     …

By Peter Dobey   The most talked about painter of late has no doubt been none other than George W. Bush. This week, his first …

  Opening January 4th at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco is two exhibitions, Peter Hujar’s “Love & Lust” and Nan Goldin’s “Nine Self-Portraits.”  The work of …

    Nicole Wittenberg makes images that punch you in the face. She says she is working to make paintings that hit “all at once, …

“Selfless” at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art in San Francisco, features a thought-provoking range of photographic and video-based portraiture by artists Daniel Arnold, Elizabeth Huey, Senalka …

I must confess that, upon my first turn around Mark Shetabi’s current exhibition “The Grand Tour” at  Jeff Bailey Gallery, I wasn’t convinced. I am, …