Exactly how the passage of time and life experiences distances people from knowing each other is truly a matter of perspective; barriers created by circumstance and by ourselves. Paul Schiek‘s 15 re-presentations of prison identity portraits of men from the 1950s at Stephen Wirtz Gallery, created from an original cache of photographs found by his friend in [...]
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Broadsides were used in England and the early United States to announce an event, proclamation, news, or other public matter. Later, broadsides became a prime means of communication and featured cartoons, poems, and song lyrics. During the twentieth-century Harlem Renaissance, Concrete and Beat writers claimed the broadside as a subversive means to get their poems and prose to the [...]
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Incline Gallery’s current exhibition, ”Counterproof: The Other Side of Print,” organized by guest curator, former San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator John Zarobell features a diverse group of artists working in a number of media exploring new avenues in contemporary printmaking, both celebrating and deconstructing the medium. While we are accustomed to think of prints [...]
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The arbitrarily-organized information of the Internet and its applications and websites for social networking are major catalysts of contemporary social dynamics and the arts and visual culture. On view until May 5, Hilary Pecis’ and Erin Riley’s solo shows at Guerrero Gallery illustrate how the Internet and the proliferation of images has affected our relationships to the world and each other. [...]
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Gallery Paule Anglim’s special exhibition organized by Barry McGee at the off-site space, The Paule Anglim Contemporary Arts Centre at 1717 17th Street reunites some of the now-coined, ”Mission School” artists whose art filled the streets of San Francisco like The Potrero Hill district in the 1990s. The exhibition of sculpture, drawings, installation, and paintings in the arts centre eschews [...]
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On Saturday, April 14, San Francisco Art Institute graduate students in the Dogpatch neighborhood opened their studios to the public, providing visitors to this one-day only event with a unique look at the experiments and challenges within disparate media, and a chance to see the visually stunning results of the creative processes the students have undertaken throughout their academic career. [...]
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Fraenkel Gallery presents an impressive array of monumental new works by British photographer Adam Fuss this month. Fuss’ works utilizes many historical and contemporary photographic techniques, containing a broad range of emotionally charged subject matter with striking compositions. Fuss began his career in 1984 with a series of pinhole-camera images. Now rarely using a camera, he relies on the most elemental [...]
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Guest curator Mark Warren Jacques presents stunning artwork by six emerging artists who explore infinite possibilities of the color spectrum in ”Infinite Color” at Gallery Hijinks this month. Jacques is an artist in his own right and exhibits regularly at White Walls Gallery and Gallery Hijinks. His artworks are also deeply involved with color, mood and its properties: “As an [...]
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At Spoke Art this month, Portland, Oregon-based artist Ron Ulicny facilitates his fascination of transforming familiar objects to create innovative sculpture, re-presenting them in a unique re-evaluation of materality, purpose and three-dimensional form. Foregoing the object’s usage in some works, Ulicny’s fine craftsmanship and particular attention to the object’s inherent elements of design, color, and style give dignity and exceptional [...]
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Amy Casey’s incredibly detailed paintings of precariously grouped homesteads and archetypal public buildings in her solo show, “Building Toward a Solid Ground” at Michael Rosenthal Gallery are more about community than house and home. These structures, both literal and implied, created by Casey astutely reveal how dwellings and institutions are part of a larger community, and as symbols [...]
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