Contemporary Art and Hetero-Masculinity
Chris Burden’s show at the New Museum “Extreme Measures” is great. I did a warm, lengthy interview with him that will appear in next …
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Review: “Free Fall” solo exhibition by Francesco Igory Deiana at The Popular Workshop, San Francisco.
The Italian-born artist Francesco Igory Deiana has created a body of work at once familiar and strange in “Free Fall” at The Popular Workshop. …
Review: Eric Yahnker’s solo exhibition “Ebony & Benghazi” at Ambach and Rice, Los Angeles.
The Benghazi attacks on September 11, 2012 at the American Embassy in Libya mobilized media frenzy and dignitaries the world over. Obama and his chiefs …
Review: “Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society”
Book Review Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith and John Law (eds.) “Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society” San Francisco: Last Gasp Press, 2013. 293 pp. …
Review: Justine Frischmann’s solo exhibition, “The Battle of Faith and Doubt” at Unspeakable Projects, San Francisco
There is a balance sought by the work in the show at Unspeakable Projects, at one end is intention at the other chance, between them …
Weird Rooms in Pittsburgh
Putting elaborate theories aside, “installation art” is the art of weird rooms. And, as a general rule, the more specific the room the more effectively …
Review: Ben Venom – “Piece of Mind” solo exhibition at Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco.
When I arrived at Guerrero Gallery on a Wednesday afternoon to check out Ben Venom’s show, “Piece of Mind,” there was a construction crew inside …
Review: “The New Bay Bridge” group exhibition at Vessel Gallery, Oakland
In case you haven’t noticed, there is a new bridge in town. “The New Bay Bridge” at Vessel Gallery, Oakland, features the work of two …
“This Is The Sound of Someone Losing the Plot” group exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco. Curated by Anthony Discenza.
“This Is The Sound of Someone Losing the Plot” opens the new Utah St. Catharine Clark Gallery with a show curated by Anthony Discenza entirely …
Review: “Febreze” group exhibition at Kinman Gallery, London.
“Pull your socks up – To make an effort to improve your work or behaviour because it is not good enough.” This idiom …
Review: “Voulkos, Inspired” group show at Berkeley Central Arts Passage. A Kala Art Institute offsite project exhibition.
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 …
Review: “Under the BQE” at M/L Artspace, New York.
“Here you go New York. Here is your living underground, your young artists squatting—occupying!—that mythic zone the city is said to have once possessed” …
Review: “Heightened Subjectivity” group exhibition at Interface Gallery, Oakland
“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 …
Disillusioned – The Art World In Review 1: The Brits Speak Out to the Spoken For.
By Peter Dobey September 27, 2013 Judging by the discussions in the British press this week, it would seem more people are beginning to …
Review: “The Mutant and the Melody” solo exhibition by Joel Dean at Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles.
As a spectator entering a gallery or museum, anticipation of aesthetic elation is internalized. Once upon these works, viewing an interesting something or other …
Review: Uri Tzaig’s “Sustainable Art” exhibition at refusalon, San Francisco
Uri Tzaig “Sustainable Art” refusalon JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square 500 Post Street San Francisco, California By John Held, Jr. …
A Richard Berger Appreciation
A couple things lately have made me think of Richard Berger, not the least of which was seeing one of his sculptures from …
Review: “The Outside World” by Richard Learoyd at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
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 …
Review: SECA AWARD Part 1 – Zarouhie Abdalian and Josh Faught
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. …
Review: Yang Fudong’s “Estranged Paradise” at the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive August 21 – December 8, 2013 As the Berkeley Art Museum …