Open Space SFMOMA July 15, 2010 On Artist’s Artists by Renny Pritikin Julia Couzens, from her Maidment series, paper tape (2009) In a recent catalogue essay on the Sacramento painter Julia Couzens, I wrote that, “Most artists have clear signs on their shop windows as you stroll past on the street: Digital Photographer; Conceptual Sculptor; […]
Kim Anno’s liberal media Artist tackles abstraction with gusto for the painted surface By Deanna Sirlin Kim Anno: Solo Exhibition Through June 12. Free. Tues., Thurs., Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Wed. and Fri., 1-6 p.m. Marcia Wood Gallery, 263 Walker St. 404- 827-0030.www.marciawoodgallery.com. In a small but powerful solo show of paintings, photographs, and video […]
Immersive installation: Chicago artists take over Public Pool with ‘Quantum Field’ Public Pool Sarah Wagner, Christy Matson and Jon Brumit Artists Sarah Wagner, Christy Matson and Jon Brumit have teamed to create the large- scale, interactive installation “The Quantum Field,” a piece inspired by, and adapted from, the early LucasArts 1989 fantasy adventure game LOOM. […]
HELEN O’LEARY Fellow: Awarded 2010 Field of Study: Fine Arts Competition: US & Canada Website: http://www.helenoleary.com/ Artist Helen O’Leary was born in County Wexford, Ireland, and studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin before coming to the United States to continue her studies at the School of the Art Institute of […]
2/23/10 PATRICIA SWEETOW by derek conrad murray SAN FRANCISCO “EVERYTHINGEVERYWHEREALLTHE TIME,” Markus Linnenbrink’s latest exhibition, was an impressive showing of 17 works—many of which are a continuation of his now well-known drip paintings made of epoxy resin on wood panels. While the German artist’s color field works are distantly reminiscent of the striped […]
CRITICS’ PICKS: Jiha Moon / SALTWORKS / January 23 – March 6 By Rebecca Dimling Cochran February 2010 Jiha Moon’s increased confidence is evident in this new series of paintings. The tension between figuration and abstraction still pervades her repeated layering of traditional Asian landscapes and gestural expressionism. But this new work seems to […]
Life and death: Jiha Moon at Saltworks, Gyun Hur at Get This! By Catherine Fox Feb 11, 2010 Pairing two Korean-American artists in a review smacks of the subtle racism of Black History Month. Yet seeing the solo shows of Gyun Hur and Jiha Moon in adjacent galleries — Get This! and Saltworks, respectively — makes it irresistible. Both commingle Eastern and Western art modes and cultural […]
February 5, 2010 At the Aldrich, the sky’s the limit with new geocache exhibit By Deb Keiser RIDGEFIELD — Five new exhibits opened at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum last weekend, and while one zooms in on museum interiors (the unseen views), another shows us that in art, the sky’s the limit. All in all, […]
The Washington Post The State of Black Art Folk video artist Jefferson Pinder seeks to cast off ‘black art’ label By Blake Gopnik Sunday, January 24, 2010 Jefferson Pinder stands in the Jacob Lawrence room at the Phillips Collection, studying the great “Migration” series Lawrence painted in 1941. Watching Pinder look, you realize how much […]
Preview: Jiha Moon’s new solo opens Saturday at Saltworks by Jeremy Abernathy January 21, 2010 The imagery in Jiha Moon‘s paintings can thunder with laughter, whisper of legends long forgotten and some yet to be lived, and shed mournful tears of dripping blue and pink paint. Her new exhibition, opening at Saltworks Gallery this Saturday, […]