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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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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Meridian Gallery hosts a very special museum-quality retrospective exhibition of Irish artist, Patrick Graham, “Silence Becomes the Painting” from February to April 14, 2012. With San Francisco its first stop, the exhibition will travel under the gallery’s auspices to Katzen Museum of Art at American University, and the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art at Saint Louis [...]
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San Francisco’s First Thursday this February was full of gallery exhibition openings and events, many of which have reach beyond the SFADA galleries, originators of the event. The rare ocurrence of a mild-weathered evening in February afforded the opportunity for the First Thursday crowds to enjoy a genuine art walk. Some of the highlights included: K. Imperial Gallery opened a solo [...]
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No matter what year of creation, everything on Earth has a past. Building up like layers, those years of amassed experiences, encounters, and memories influence and inform directions of future events. It is with this idea in mind that the body of artwork by artists ESK, MoE Thomas, and Daniel Healey in “Everything Was” at The McLoughlin [...]
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Sandra Lee Gallery presents works by two of Korea’s most prominent artists in “Reshaped Traditions: New American Painting.” Their artwork subject matter aligns with the traditions of Korean painting, while concurrently pushing the genre forward with their avant-garde experimentation in material, and approach. Jeung Kang, a female artist working within the United States since her MFA at [...]
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Caleb Duarte returns to Jack Fischer Gallery with artist Xun Gallo in a collaborative exhibition of contemporary life in fragments in Chiapas, Mexico. Full of rainforests and significant Mayan archeological sites, Chiapas is home to one of the Mexico’s largest indigenous populations. The southernmost state in Mexico has been unstable with outside interests of agricultural redevelopment, [...]
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Patricia Sweetow Gallery‘s dual solo exhibitions of Bay Area artists David Huffman and Ernest Jolly, including sculpture, drawings and installation explore within their own unique nuances and interests of cultural identity and the representation of African Americans throughout American history. David Huffman’s paintings in “Floating World” continue to engage with his interest in cultural identity, specifically that of African American social representations [...]
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Artist Ed Loftus’ solo show of graphite drawings at Gregory Lind Gallery, ”Big Things to Avoid” is an articulate examination of many powerful themes within the larger issues of the human condition many other artists hesitate to undertake, such as fear, the concept of the inevitable, and the single-minded nature of obsessive compulsions. Loftus’ creations are derived from borrowed images, old [...]
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During the months of December and January, The Meridian Gallery presents the first major survey of the work of Bay Area artist Prajakti Jayavant, curated by John Zarobell, former curator at SFMOMA. This exhibition also marks the release of a limited edition artist’s book STORY (2001/2011). Jayavant’s manipulations of these painted works on paper by overlapping and creating [...]
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