May 2008 young at art: 15 artists under 35 Jamie Vasta, San Francisco by Laura Richard Janku All that glitters may no be gold, but Jamie Vasta has a definite Midas touch with a certain crafty material. With a brush of her fingertips, glitter is alchemized from carnivalesque into uncanny and classic figurative paintings. Vasta’s […]
April 2008 Jamie Vasta at Patricia Sweetow By Melissa E. Feldman Imagine punked out Pre-Raphaelites up to no good and you have an idea of Jamie Vasta’s meticulous paintings in acrylic and glitter on wood (aII 2007). Tangled branches of leafless trees marble the backgrounds of scenes dominated by monumental, classically posed sleepwalkers and stalkers, […]
What a feeling: Quaking the walls at the Mint By Scott Lucas April 2, 2008 THE WINDS: Work included in Jiha Moon exhibit at The Mint Museum of Art. Courtesy of the artist and Moti Hasson Gallery, NY. Ever recall being told a good story of great joy or regret or sorrow, and later, on […]
WE INTERRUPT YOUR PROGRAM Mills College Art Museum Oakland, California January 16 — March 16, 2008 By Meredith Tromble If, as some linguists say, men interrupt women as a way of asserting their power, the fourteen artists in We Interrupt Your Program turn the tables. Curator Marcia Tanner has assembled an international cadre of artists […]
JAMIE VASTA AT PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY Reviewed by DeWitt Cheng If we accept modernist dicta, art should be pure and abstract, and appeal to the eye. If we adopt postmodernism’s analytical mindset, art should appeal to the wary, ingenious mind seeking fortification against the blandishments of an ideologically corrupt reality. For some, the extreme choices […]
The Washington Post February 15, 2008 By Michael O’Sullivan Hip-Hop Artists Take Center Stage Could there be any better indication that the once stodgy museum world has now fully embraced pop culture than the appearance of graffiti on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery? Well, that and the portrait of Stephen Colbert that hangs […]
curative projects better living through art February 6, 2008 WE INTERRUPT YOUR PROGRAM Mills College Art Museum, Oakland By Anuradha Vikram Guest curator Marcia Tanner brings her expertise in the areas of feminist and technology-savvy art to the Mills College Art Museum in an excellent group show featuring 14 artists. Mills is a women’s undergraduate […]
Jiha Moon: Peach pit Saltworks exhibition offers a state of grace By FELICIA FEASTER Wednesday January 23, 2008 For a time in the 1990s, the word “hybridity” was the kind of academic buzzword that burned up the tenure circuit. Hybridity attested to identity that was fluid, complex and not easily boiled down to one “essence.” […]
January 6, 2008 By Jessica Dawson Taking a Shine to Sound-Picture Symbiosis Not only did video fail to kill the radio star, it opened up possibilities for a generation of art stars. Jefferson Pinder, 37, grew up watching MTV and now relies on carefully considered soundtracks to enrich his video works. His latest, the 31/2-minute-long […]
November 21, 2007 Dark sparkle: Jamie Vasta’s art glitters By Johnny Ray Huston Sparkle, San Francisco, sparkle — the Bay Area is a birthplace for visions of glitter. The Cockettes weren’t averse to throwing a few antique trunks full of metallic iridescence over their song and dance routines, and the late Jerome Caja mixed glitter […]