Meleko Mokgosi
In “Objects of Desire: Reflections on the African Still Life” Meleko Mokgosi balances classical technique and conceptual rigor. How African bodies and culture have been depicted is critiqued through the lens of still life objects. More...
Project Blue Boy
Project Blue Boy constitutes an unusual blend of rather unique if not standard performance art and public engagement. More...
John Fudge
This small survey of paintings by the late John Fudge show him to be a meticulous craftsman but still irreverent and edgy. More...
Georges Rouault
George's Rouault's suite "Misery and War" is a visual critique of a bleak era, and mixes modernist expressionism with powerful religiosity. More...
“Between Here and the Machine”
Three artists, Bean Gilsdorf, Anthony Discenza and Rhonda Holberton, probe the uneasy, even chilling relationship between the digital and physical worlds. More...
Daniel Brice
Daniel Brice’s “Polaroid Paintings” are inspired by a single Polaroid of flowers in a vase which was hanging on the wall of his studio. The formal variations he comes up with are inventive, energetic and downright attractive. More...
Melting Pot Aesthetics
In direct contrast to the current political tribalism, key artists have been freely and effectively blending racial and cultural signifiers. More...
How to Bump into a Sculpture
The ironic title refers to Barnett Newman's witty put-down back in the 1950s. The point is that these artists--well, sculptors--find ways to invigorate current sculptural practice. More...
“California Fibers: A Matter of Time”
Artists affiliated with the "California Fibers" group remind us just how varied fiber art is in terms of media and technique. These are not your grandmother's textiles. and often display content and commentary beyond the innovative methods. More...
Seamus Conley
Seamus Conley's protagonists are stand-ins for we the viewer, “daydreaming or ... wrapped up in one's internal universe while simultaneously existing in the moment of the external world.” More...
Whitney Bradshaw
Women are photographed in mid-scream and presented by Whitney Bradshaw in two vast grids that surrounds us with their voices. More...
Liminal Art
"Liminal," meaning between two states, worked its way into art jargon some time ago, and its aesthetic presence has made itself known in a number of recent exhibitions. David S. Rubin looks at some of the best such recent examples. More...
“Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy”
Ragnar Kjartansson's recent durational performance "Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy" posted 30 women throughout San Francisco's Women's Building, each performing familiar songs with casually misogynistic lyrics. More...
Matthew Picton
The "Cultural Mapping" of Matthew Picton is visually quite rich, but how humanity evolves the built environment is the real subject. More...
Margie Livingston
Margie Livingston's constantly shifting body of work does so because it is about the nature of painting itself and how a painting gets made. More...
Jim Carrey
Actor Jim Carrey expresses his political outrage over the present administration in a flow of posted tweets and very expressive political cartoons. To date more than 100 of them, here posted in chronological sequence. To describe them as opinionated would be a vast understatement. More...
Ward Sanders
Ward Sanders' "Nightboxes" take on grim subjects in homage to Theodore Gericault's landmark "Raft of the Medusa". His found objects inspire narratives of the struggle for survival, and such tales, as with the "Medusa," can feel vicious. More...
Etsuko Ichikawa and Peter Olson
Etsuko Ichikawa’s serene works and Peter Olson’s brash ones, divergent as they are, show both artists are alchemists of a sort. More...
Belkis Ayón
Belkis Ayon culls from the mythos of the Cuban Abakua secret society to draw universal connections with other religious symbolism. More...
Never Give a Inch
Ken Kesey's Stamper family stubbornness makes Bill Lasarow wonder why a third of the country acts as though we never had it so bad. More...
