SFChronicle critics’ picks: What to do the week of Jan. 28 January 26, 2018 CHARLES DESMARAIS’ ART PICKS “Ramekon O’Arwisters: Mending”: O’Arwisters has brought the venerable craft of crochet into the realm of high art. In this new work, he builds his soft sculpture around broken bits of pottery, mourning their damage and attempting — futilely, […]
Crochet Jam creator makes art a form of liberation By JEN CHIEN • 21 HOURS AGO Crosscurrents Courtesy Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts Listen 7min. 45sec. Ramekon O’Arwisters is a fabric and social practice artist who likes to say he has “no reverence for systems of control.” He is best known for creating a series of […]
In his recent body of work, Ramekon O’Arwisters explores the idea of mending as art practice: of restoration as a kind of reincarnation in a new and more exalted form.
Ramekon O’Arwisters 6 Jan — 10 Feb 2018 at the Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, United States 13 JANUARY 2018 Ramekon O’Arwisters. Courtesy of Patricia Sweetow Gallery Patricia Sweetow Gallery opens 2018 with the crocheted fabric sculptures of San Francisco Bay Area artist Ramekon O’Arwisters. The exhibition opens Saturday, January 6th through February 10th, […]
Cornelia Schulz @ Patricia Sweetow “If anyone understands the hugely plastic and seductive physicality of paint, it is Cornelia Schulz,” wrote Julia Couzens. “Troweled slags of cadmium yellow, puckered splots of minty green, and regressive planks of flat black collide, slip, slide, splat, and skid into the chunky-luscious concoctions that constitute Schulz’s new paintings. Where […]
By Charles Desmarais Updated 3:08 pm, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 In the galleries Many art galleries in San Francisco will open exhibitions this week and over the weekend. Here is a selection of exhibitions I have seen and recommend highly, followed by a list of shows I intend to see before they close. Admission is free […]
Published January 17, 2018 Janis Carr Professor Tony MarshTony Marsh, renowned ceramicist and professor at Cal State Long Beach, was named a 2018 USA Fellows, a group of artists and collectives from across nine creative disciplines. He will receive an unrestricted $50,000 cash award. The Fellowships honored 45 artists, who come from a broad cross […]
by Stacia Yeapanis. FELICITA NORRIS’s large-scale, figurative paintings are disturbing, empathy-evoking and ambiguous. The intimacy of confined domestic spaces is the setting for power dynamics to play out. Physical bondage is mostly self-imposed, but hints at the possibility of violence. And yet, these haunting works are metaphors for emotional truths, not stories to be taken literally. Felicita earned her BFA at San Francisco Art Institute (2013) […]
DECEMBER 18, 2017 IN ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS, MARKUS LINNENBRINK, NEWS BY MANON MARKUS LINNENBRINK Interview by Frédéric Caillard, November 2017 Can you tell us about the cuts, those thick layered paintings into which you literarily dig trenches? Yes, the cuts make up the latest body of work that I introduced in the last two years. They are similar to my drill pieces; it is […]
Posted on 29 November 2017. by Julia Couzens If anyone understands the hugely plastic and seductive physicality of paint, it is Cornelia Schulz. Troweled slags of cadmium yellow, puckered splots of minty green, and regressive planks of flat black collide, slip, slide, splat, and skid into the chunky-luscious concoctions that constitute Schulz’s new paintings […]