by Anissa Jousset September 22, 2105 In her series of paintings entitled After Caravaggio, artist Jamie Vasta gives Caravaggio a kitsch makeover. Endearingly reminiscent of cat themed embroideries one might find in a dank second hand shop, Vasta’s series is a perfect definition of modern. She has taken well known models and themes and completely reappropriated them in such […]
The PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY website was a joint effort of Christina Olivas and her team. The website was crafted after Spun Smoke – Spun Smoke an ecommerce site, PSG an information site – both sites hard driven by visuals. The websites are linked, each adding dimension to it’s sister site. I’ve enjoyed the process of […]
When Patricia Sweetow Gallery was booted from 77 Geary Street, San francisco in November 2014, (as many of you read), I opened Spun Smoke, a little shop on the corner of Telegraph and 25th in Oakland. Much to my surprise I loved Oakland and Spun Smoke. Thinking my infatuation was due to “the honeymoon period” I patiently […]
ART & DESIGN It’s Not Dry Yet By ROBERTA SMITH MARCH 26, 2010 FEW modern myths about art have been as persistent or as annoying as the so-called death of painting. Unless, of course, it is the belief that abstract and representational painting are oil and water, never to meet as one. The two notions […]
BUFFALO RISING Buffalo, New York June 2006 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center: Paintings, drawings, sculpture, video by Frederick Hayes. The work of Frederick Hayes employs broadly expressionist means through a variety of subject matter to explore emblems of urban ritual. As an African-American artist originally from the South, Hayes’s work uses the vernacular of blackness and […]
Stanford Report, December 6, 2006 ARTIST GAIL WIGHT EXPRESSES BEAUTY, HORROR OF SCIENCE By Barbara Palmer Over the course of two decades of injecting a playful irreverence into issues concerning biology, the history of science, and technology, artist Gail Wight has read out loud to fish, executed medical illustrations on black velvet and translated EEGs […]
SFAQ INTERVIEW WITH KIM ANNO AND VILLE KANSANEN Kim Anno. “Men and Women in Water Cities, Chapter One,” 2012. Photograph, 22×32”. Shot in Oakland, California. Courtesy the artist. This is an unusual approach to an interview, in that it is more of a conversation between strangers: one that I staged without having actually […]
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to announce their participation in PULSE MIAMI 2015. This December the fair will return to its oceanfront home at Indian Beach Park with an airy layout and new dates, opening Tuesday, December 1 and closing on Saturday, December 5, 2015. At PULSE you’ll discover two adjoining pavilions housing a tightly-curated selection […]
Detroit, MI– Wasserman Projects, an independent, interdisciplinary arts space, will open its doors on September 25th, during Detroit Design Festival. Located in the historic Eastern Market, the new space will launch with two exhibitions featuring large-scale interactive installations by Markus Linnenbrink / Nick Gelpi and Jon Brumit. Opening reception: Friday, September 25, 6-10 pm. […]
In recent years Schulz has taken her sophisticated gestural abstractions down to a compact scale, and here followed an impulse to bring them off the wall entirely and into the realm of sculpture.