The 2012 California College of the Arts post-graduate exhibitions featured artworks by nearly 50 MFA artists graduating this spring, as well as post-graduate students in Architecture and Design programs. Unfolding throughout CCA’s San Francisco campus, the MFA Exhibition is just a single part of a year-end celebration that includes thesis exhibitions by seven CCA graduate programs such as the Baccalaureate [...]
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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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From April 1st to the 6th, California College of the Arts San Francisco campus presented the annual Senior Painting Exhibition, the culminating event for the graduating class. The exhibition was nicely complemented with open studios of each of the exhibiting artists just a few feet adjacent to the gallery. Each one illustrated that “painting” can be interpreted as [...]
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Begun at 111 Minna Gallery by Sacha Eckes and hosted by Brad Adler, Sketch Tuesdays offers the local arts community a place to congregate, exchange ideas, create, and to be seen. There was plenty of room for artists to drop in and draw, but the invited artists this month included Robert Bowen, Brett Amory, Jennybird [...]
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Leah Rosenberg‘s sculptural-like paintings in her solo show at Rare Device, “Six of One” are powerful, meditative investigations into some of the most fundamental characteristics of painting. The title of the show, “Six of One” is derived from an idiom used to indicate equivalence (also known as ”half a dozen of the other“). The solo show title is cleverly used to [...]
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RayKo Photo Center’s Fifth Annual Plastic Camera Show, beginning January 18th, features the “stunning and surprising” photographs of the juried competition made by the winning plastic camera photographers from all over the Bay Area, as well as national and international artists. Among thousands of entries received this year, Rayko Photo Center chose just 100 pieces. The photographs illustrate [...]
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Spanish artist Luis Urculo examines the methods and physical act of drawing reinterpreted through crochet, wood, glass and plastic, blending with his artwork the experiences and techniques from his background in architecture and design in “Jet Lag: New Works” his solo show at The Popular Workshop. Urculo’s choice of mediums is vast, and the term ‘drawing’ is cleverly [...]
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Artist Charmaine Olivia continues her exploration of power through the female form within fantasy, supernatural, and surrealistic imagery in her San Francisco solo show debut at Shooting Gallery, “Ritual.” Olivia’s females, painted amid a hauntingly obscure place and time exist between two worlds, possess both human anatomy and god-like qualities and reverences. They have obviously come from an investigation into past cultural and [...]
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Brooklyn-based artist duo Skewville‘s installation show ”Playground Tactics,” curated by gallery director Tova Lobatz is their first solo project with White Walls Gallery. Made up of about 30 artworks and several interactive toys and games, the installation brings the artists’ iconic urban playground style to the gallery space. The artistic duo known as Skewville are twin brothers Ad and Droo Deville, and ”Skewville” derives from the name [...]
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An extension to the last year’s successful group show of sign painting which focused on San Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs, Guerrero Gallery’s current exhibition, “An American Language” expands its reach and brings together 12 artists from all over the United States, from local artist Josh Luke, Gary Martin from Austin, Texas, and Boston-based Kenji Nakayama who have [...]
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