A more Minimalist branch of Ab-Ex is found at Patricia Sweetow Gallery on Geary Street, where the 68-year-old German artist Joachim Bandau presents a careful selection of monochromatic watercolors and drawings and geometric lead sculptures. In his works on paper, Bandau achieves a rich black surface from a meditative process of layering. The artist switched […]
Kenneth Baker, Art Critic San Francisco Chronicle October 23, 2004 JOACHIM BANDAU’S BLACK WATERCOLORS PUT SILENCE ON EDGE The black watercolors of German sculptor Joachim Bandau at Patricia Sweetow Gallery can induce in viewers a mental state parallel to the artist’s own as he made them. They illustrate nothing yet create the sensation of looking […]
Kenneth Baker, Art Critic San Francisco Chronicle October 23, 2004 JOACHIM BANDAU’S BLACK WATERCOLORS PUT SILENCE ON EDGE The black watercolors of German sculptor Joachim Bandau at Patricia Sweetow Gallery can induce in viewers a mental state parallel to the artist’s own as he made them. They illustrate nothing yet create the sensation of looking […]
Living in Paradise On the Meditative Black Watercolors of Joachim Bandau Dr. Katja Blomberg, Art Critic, Berlin When all doors open, when all abysses of fear have been overcome and every subjective desire has been switched off, when the view gets clear like a mountain lake in spring, when the excited play of thoughts is […]
REVIEW OF KIM ANNO SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Paintings on aluminum take advantage of reflective surface -Kenneth Baker, Art Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, June 12, 2004 Painting as an art endures partly because it shows us things we need to see. To anyone who has followed the work of Kim Anno, her new […]
Pittsburgh Tribune Review by Kurt Shaw If there is one art exhibition to catch now before it’s too late, it’s the “11th Annual Projects Exhibition,” which is at Artists Image Resource through Jan. 13. As in previous years, AIR, as this North Side fine-art printmaking facility is called, has mounted a year-end review of […]
May 2004 Frederick Hayes at Patricia Sweetow By Mark Van Proyen Ever since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the city has become an emotionally loaded subject for artists. Frederick Hayes’s six untitled cityscapes, executed in ink, graphite and charcoal on thick paper, register an ominous aura of impending menace without pointing a finger at the […]
When canvas is as important as the painting By Kenneth Baker When the term “shaped canvas” came into use, it meant a painting surface eccentric enough to call attention to itself, as the traditional pictorial rectangle does not. Formalist critics briefly saw the shaped canvas as painting’s salvation. It permitted painters breakout artistic moves that […]
Weekend Update February 5, 2003 by Walter Robinson It’s pinups, too — of a sort — at Cohen Leslie and Brown on 10th Avenue in Chelsea, where the engaging 30-something Cologne artist Kati Barath has installed her first New York solo, paintings of Brobdingnagian nursery giants, huggable black bunnies, masked men and hairy Yetis. She […]
GERMANS AT SWEETOW Saturday, October 26, 2002; page E-10 The Patricia Sweetow Gallery has been a pipeline to contemporary German art that might otherwise never be seen in the Bay Area. Sweetow’s current show introduces Joachim Bandau and Kuno Gonschior, two near contemporaries of Gerhard Richter, well known in Europe but new to the West Coast […]