BY DYLAN ANSLOW MARCH 31, 2017 Artists create art and community at the dump A halting music box tune creaks out as a birdcage packed with pottery shards spins on a video screen. The forlorn melody doesn’t damper the spirits of the crowd gathered around a table heaped with reclaimed fabric scraps. Artist Ramekon O’Arwisters presides over […]

By Julia Krolik March 24, 2017 Gail Wight is a new media artist based in California. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford. A SciArt pioneer, Wight integrates biology, neuroscience, technology, and other sciences into her art. In her work Copepodellia, she explores the worlds of copepods through […]

by Julia Krolik March 24, 2017 Gail Wight is a new media artist based in California. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford. A SciArt pioneer, Wight integrates biology, neuroscience, technology, and other sciences into her art. In her work Copepodelia, she explores the worlds of copepods through an […]

Chandra Cerrito, Johansson Projects and PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY would like to invite you to visit our exhibitions Saturday, March 25th. Chandra Cerrito Contemporary 480 23rd Street, Oakland Closing Celebration! Sarah Bird: the fullest measure of you, is you Lewis deSoto: ARBOR/ARDOR Join Us for Coffee and Cupcakes and a Fundraiser for the Environment* Saturday, March […]

Don’t miss Adia Millett’s video. She talks about her paintings for the exhibition The Guest House. We’re looking forward to opening the exhibition March 25, 2017. Please join us for the reception Wednesday evening, March 29th from 5 – 8pm. See you there!!

2017 ART AWARD WINNERS New York City, March 23, 2017 — The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the nine artists who will receive its 2017 awards in art. The awards will be presented in New York City in May at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial. The art prizes and purchases, totaling over $250,000, […]

Recycle, Reuse, Create. The Latest from Recology’s Artist in Residence Program BY ASHLEY VILLARREAL ON JAN 17, 2017  Ramekon O’Arwisters in a bathtub of dinnerware for “Smooth the Edges” Artists have been borrowing resources to help formulate their works before there were words to really describe ‘art’ as a concept. These days, the number of objects that are […]

Redefining Touch: A Conversation with James Fleming, Kelly Lovemonster, and boychild by Claudia La Rocco, boychild, Kelly Lovemonster + James Fleming The aftermath of boychild’s performance at the Touch On opening reception at the SOMArts Cultural Center. Photo by Kelly Wu. On the occasion of Touch On: Aesthetics in the Art, Politics and Ontology of Touch, a group exhibit at SOMArts, Open Space editor-in-chief Claudia La […]