REBECCA BLOCKSOME JANUARY 31, 2014 I had the pleasure of hearing artist Gail Wight speak at a symposium organized by the Wichita Art Museum and the Ulrich Museum of Art in conjunction with two recent art-science exhibitions, Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention at the Ulrich, and Vital Signs: New Media Art from the San Jose Museum of […]
MAIDMENT: New Drawings and Sculpture November 2 – December 18, 2009 Reception: November 5 at 5:30 pm Artist Talk: 6:00 pm The University Art Gallery, College of the Arts. CSU Stanislaus will present a group of new works by the nationally recognized Northern California artist Julia Couzens. Couzens’ work of the past twenty years primarily […]
EXHIBITION The University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA), Amherst, MA, United States 10 Sep 2013 – 08 Dec 2013 The legacy of the late civil rights leader, writer, and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois is featured in a major exhibition that opens September 10, 2013, at the University Museum of Contemporary Art […]
Please click here to read the article By Glen R. Brown October 2013 In the early 1960s, before the mistral wind of poststructuralism swept much of the humanism from the humanities, historian Lynn White, Jr. famously argued that technology opens doors, but people choose whether or not to pass through them. Such faith in human […]
By Jason Dilts September 29, 2013 The Wichita Art Museum is exploring the dynamic between nature and human innovation in a new exhibit. “Vital Signs” uses video, animation, motion sensors and other technology to trace the connection people have with the natural world in a digital age. The new media exhibition from the San […]
A fearless practitioner of unbridled abstraction with a career dating to the 1960s, Cornelia Shultz, now 79, continues to amaze by teasing paint into the most improbable contortions.
“Jefferson Pinder: Revival”At G Fine Art to Aug. 3“Academy 2013” By Kriston Capps • July 19, 2013 Jefferson Pinder, “Revival” Jefferson Pinder’s “Revival” is somebody’s nightmare. The most harrowing images in this multichannel video installation open in a parking garage. At the far end of the row lurks a menacing figure. The camera creeps forward […]
Effortless perfection in black, white By Kenneth Baker Joachim Bandau and Irmel Kamp, German artists in their 70s who happen to be married, share space at Sweetow to form a show worthy of a museum venue. Bandau turns in new watercolors of a sort he has shown here before; translucent rectangles of thinned black […]
‘Day After Day It Reappears’: See the results when abstract art, photos meld By Kimberly Chun Ordinarily it’s hard to make out Brooklyn artist Markus Linnenbrink behind the candycolored drips on his wood panels, the man behind the juicy-looking blocks of resin. But in “Day After Day It Reappears” at Patricia Sweetow […]
Meredith Tromble March 17, 2013 The Abandon Videos This is an odd time to be thinking about a dead leaf. Our songbird neighbors are turning up the volume and, in his impatience for love, our local skunk, normally a nocturnal fellow, has been scrambling up the hillside before sunset. Spring is upon us. Yet here […]