BUFFALO RISING Buffalo, New York June 2006 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center: Paintings, drawings, sculpture, video by Frederick Hayes. The work of Frederick Hayes employs broadly expressionist means through a variety of subject matter to explore emblems of urban ritual. As an African-American artist originally from the South, Hayes’s work uses the vernacular of blackness and […]
Stanford Report, December 6, 2006 ARTIST GAIL WIGHT EXPRESSES BEAUTY, HORROR OF SCIENCE By Barbara Palmer Over the course of two decades of injecting a playful irreverence into issues concerning biology, the history of science, and technology, artist Gail Wight has read out loud to fish, executed medical illustrations on black velvet and translated EEGs […]
SFAQ INTERVIEW WITH KIM ANNO AND VILLE KANSANEN Kim Anno. “Men and Women in Water Cities, Chapter One,” 2012. Photograph, 22×32”. Shot in Oakland, California. Courtesy the artist. This is an unusual approach to an interview, in that it is more of a conversation between strangers: one that I staged without having actually […]
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to announce their participation in PULSE MIAMI 2015. This December the fair will return to its oceanfront home at Indian Beach Park with an airy layout and new dates, opening Tuesday, December 1 and closing on Saturday, December 5, 2015. At PULSE you’ll discover two adjoining pavilions housing a tightly-curated selection […]
Detroit, MI– Wasserman Projects, an independent, interdisciplinary arts space, will open its doors on September 25th, during Detroit Design Festival. Located in the historic Eastern Market, the new space will launch with two exhibitions featuring large-scale interactive installations by Markus Linnenbrink / Nick Gelpi and Jon Brumit. Opening reception: Friday, September 25, 6-10 pm. […]
In recent years Schulz has taken her sophisticated gestural abstractions down to a compact scale, and here followed an impulse to bring them off the wall entirely and into the realm of sculpture.
Helen O’Leary, Quarantine 2, 2015, 7′ x 12′ Diana Copperwhite Could you talk a little about the day-to-day process of working in the studio? Helen O’Leary I work every day and prefer like most artists long days unpunctuated by anything else. I keep distractions to the bare minimum; the dog, coffee, and the radio are […]
Culling from the aesthetic characteristics of printmaking, painting, drawing, collage, embroidery, tapestry, and other media, she successfully grapples with the complexities of the constructs of “landscape” and the natural world in her boldly ambitious and delightfully engaging compositions.
Anthony Merino May 27, 2015 Linda Sormin’s List, 23 in. (58 cm) in length, earthenware with found shards, figurines, 2013. There is a bit of hubris in titling an exhibition “Ceramic Top 40: New and Selected Works,” a show that was recently on view at Gallery 224 at the OFA Ceramics Program at Harvard University […]
A faint current of humor has rippled through the work of Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz for years. As her paintings’ profiles grew more eccentric and their aesthetics more confectionery, their humor began to look ever more risky.