Paint on its own terms. Cornelia Schulz is a venerated abstract artist who taught at UC Davis for three decades, but you wouldn’t know her age from looking at her recent paintings. Sarcastically gloppy and garishly colorful, they are all brag and bluster — grand gesture, stunted by canvases less than a foot square. They […]
MADE AWARE Ramekon O’Arwisters Crochet Jam: Making Space for Change by Leora Lutz A few years ago, Ramekon O’Arwisters walked away from a civic museum art administration job to devote himself fulltime to engaging with the public in meaningful ways through public art making. He asked himself during this time of reassessment, “How can I […]
With the Wind 2011–13 52″H x 86″W x 9″D Crochet Jam invites participants to communally crochet Spirit Tapestries from shredded rags, harkening back to traditional craft practices of reusing and transforming textiles. In these free, public events, artist RAMEKON O’ARWISTERS offers a public space for nourishing a sense of belonging and connection between strangers, as well […]
Octogenarian Cornelia Schulz continues to present a vibrant vigor unique to artists of any age. For over 46 years she has honed her skills in small format paintings of complex shape and color. Studying sculpture at Los Angeles County Art Institute in the 1950’s, Schulz learned 3-D modeling techniques in steel and wood which proved […]
‘Last Words’ among two poignant Julia Couzens art shows BY VICTORIA DALKEY Bee Art Correspondent September 25, 2017 07:48 PM Updated September 26, 2017 01:44 PM It’s not surprising that Julia Couzens, a fine writer whose incisive art reviews appear occasionally in The Bee, should choose words as the foundation for “Last Words,” her elegiac […]
A conversation with Hudgens Prize finalist Jiha Moon Anna Nelson-Daniel, images by Jamie Hopper. Aug 7, 2017 “My work often deals with people’s common misunderstanding of racial misconception and cultural appropriation,” says artist Jiha Moon. Her multimedia compositions encompass iconography referencing popular culture in contrast to age-old tradition. Evoking her own Korean ancestry through […]
By Craig Nakano The explicit nudes in needlepoint, the erotica rendered on a quilted duvet cover, the expletive-laden hooked rugs, the remarkably detailed (and anatomically accurate) knitted sculpture of body parts — the sheer subversive glee of these works may delight or disgust, depending on your point of view. But keep turning the pages of the […]
Markus Linnenbrink @ Patricia Sweetow David M. Roth posted 13 June 2017 Few painters working today generate as much retinal excitement as Markus Linnenbrink. With epoxy resin-on-panel paintings, multi-layered sculptures, Op-ish stripe paintings, and interior walls coated in drip-laced, wobbly stripes, the Germany-born Brooklyn artist asserts the primacy of optical sensation. With his instantly recognizable […]
Transcendental Tinkering: Garage Inventors @ Hosfelt Posted on 08 June 2017. by Marcia Tanner White-walled, white-floored, high-ceilinged, spacious, and drenched in sunlight streaming in from second-story clerestory windows, Hosfelt Gallery is nobody’s idea — although possibly someone’s Platonic ideal — of a garage. You could imagine clouds floating in here for R & R. This […]
Jefferson Pinder at the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa Exhibition through June 4th From the release of Jefferson Pinder and the Figge Art Museum: There is so much work to be done outside of the big cities. I was approached by the Figge Museum two years ago to envision a project in which members of […]