Review: “CULM” group exhibtion at Night Gallery, Los Angeles
When a fictional sci-fi future comes into mind the surroundings are likely to be one of two-pronged possibilities: is it a mechanically pristine, totalitarian …
Posts tagged San Francisco Art Quarterly
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: “Pull” solo exhibition by Jenny Bloomfield at Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco
“Grey Band” and “Green Band” (15.25 x 78 inches each) run nearly the length of Gallery 60six’s entryway embracing you as you enter Jenny Bloomfield’s …
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 …
Review: “A Lot of People Do This”, William Emmert solo exhibition at Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco.
William Emmert’s solo exhibition at Guerrero Gallery creates a diversionary tactic that compels the viewer to ask the age-old question, “what is art”, and …
Review: Barry McGee at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
If you walk down the street in San Francisco, keep an eye out for lop-eared, droopy-eyed figures with or without shirts sporting taut skin on …
Dickpix and New Images of Man
“Each period has its peculiar image of man” said theologian Paul Tillich at the beginning of his essay for the Museum of Modern Art …
Review: “Journey Forth: Contemporary Landscape Between Technology and Tradition” group exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco
By Leora Lutz As the title suggests, the current exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris is a group show of contemporary landscape. To …
SFAQ Pick: The RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library, tomorrow August 27th.
Tomorrow, August 27th (6pm), at the San Francisco Public Library is “The RADAR Reading Series: Underground + Independent Writers + Artists”, hosted by Michelle Tea. …
Review: “Painting in the 2.5th Dimension” group exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection, London
Strap on your helmet and fasten your seatbelt because we’re going to the 2.5th dimension, a place where the boarder of painting and sculpture merge. …
Olympia’s Daughters: Helmut Newton at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles
It’s been nearly ten years since the car driven by Helmut Newton crashed in the driveway at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, killing …
SFAQ Pick: “Continuing MFA Show” at SFAI, San Francisco. Opens Tuesday, August 27th.
Each year the Diego Rivera Gallery creates a survey exhibition of continuing MFA students as a way to kick off the fall semester and …
Review: “A Sense of Place” exhibition at Pier 24, San Francisco
Time and space travel is happening, and it’s happening here in San Francisco. In their fifth exhibition, Pier 24 presents A Sense of Place. …
SFAQ pick: TOM MARIONI and Tony Labat special event at Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco. Tomorrow, August 24th, 7pm.
The TOM MARIONI: Name Dropping Stories Off the Top of My Head Tony Labat: The Curtain Raiser “A curtain raiser opens a show for …
Review: “Haptic Translations” group show at OHWOW gallery, Los Angeles
Haptic –as a direct translation- refers to any one country or region’s customary greeting (think, handshake or double cheek peck). When a secondary …
Review: “Surfacing” group exhibition at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Currently up at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is a show to overcome some of those summertime art world blahs. “Surfacing,” a group show of …
Review: “Junkies’ Promises”, curated by Ivan Návarro at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
By Shana Beth Mason Is it possible for a junkie to make or understand the gravitas of a promise? If so, would that promise …
Review: Jennie Ottinger, “Members Only” at Johansson Projects, Oakland
Jennie Ottinger’s current solo show “Members Only” at Johansson Projects in Oakland is full of disturbing little malevolent children. Ottinger’s work humorously examines the …
SFAQ Pick: “& Pens Press”, Los Angeles is now OPEN!!!
For those who are in the Los Angeles area, there’s a new bookstore in Culver City that has made a long and strenuous journey from …
Julie Alvarado “Urban Hunting – Squirrel Season” at Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland
To all you disbelievers who thought a cohesive body of work about squirrels and hunting couldn’t possibly exist, shame on you. In “Squirrel Season” at …