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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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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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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Oakland artist John Felix Arnold III made his debut at Queen’s Nails Projects with an entertaining and visually stunning one night only solo show, “The Love of All Above.” A variety of an art show, ritual ceremony, and performance showcase with Daylight Curfew, Kool Kid Kreyola, and Him Downstairs, Arnold’s arts and installations were illustrative of his influential formative years in [...]
Incline Gallery‘s ”Cyclorama 2″ is a collaborative exhibition featuring new works by artists Alan Miknis and Jeff Rahuba. Their cooperative venture began in 2011 when Rahuba and Miknis, living in Georgia, aimed to recapture the sensational trip they took to view “The Cyclorama.” One of the greatest artistic feats of southern culture, the Cyclorama is a panorama painting of the Battle of [...]
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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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Legendary film maker Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope Productions, whose headquarters and cafe are located in the landmark Columbus Tower, Sentinel building in North Beach, collaborated with Upper Playground and Fifty24SF to curate the show, “Twixt sc 83″ celebrating the release of Coppola’s new film, “Twixt.” The film stars Val Kilmer as a writer who “arrives in a small town [...]
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With fewer than ten large-scale, multiple layered acrylic paintings, artist Mathew Zefeldt‘s first solo show at Michael Rosenthal Gallery makes a significant aesthetic impact. Zefeldt’s works are evidently time-consuming, with multiple processes of background and foreground layering, canvas on canvas collage, and color mapping. The result of which are bold, abstracted works with bursts of vibrant colors [...]
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Danny Keith’s solo show, ‘Flannel and Fur’ at Ratio 3, the artist’s first solo show at the gallery, is a continuance of Keith’s engagement with the myriad themes and issues of contemporary American portraiture. With so many paintings depicting one model within various states of dress and pose, the viewer may at first glance think this is a long-term examination [...]
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