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 […]
Art in America July 2002 Markus Linnenbrink at Margaret Thatcher Projects By Jonathan Goodman Markus Linnenbrink, a German artist in his early 40s, has become known for creating installation-sized paintings on walls and floors, as well as for more traditional works on canvas. He almost always favors stripes, whose hues blend and comment on each […]
By Robin Laurence November 14th, 2007 At the Surrey Art Gallery until December 16 It’s not quite what you expect to hear when you enter an exhibition of ceramic sculpture. But walk into Linda Sormin’s mixed-media installation, part of Mobile Structures at the Surrey Art Gallery, and there it is, the distinct sound of clay pots […]
Inconsistency pays off Cornelia Schulz’s technical finesse links diverse work By Kenneth Baker Too often artists preparing for a show will worry their work into a false consistency. Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz has resisted this temptation in her new work at Sweetow. Multiple canvases or panels make up many of the pieces. Schulz frequently […]
International Contemporary Art No. 71, Fall 2001 Supersize Child By Si Si Penaloza Art Chicago, Festival Hall, Navy Pier (Closed May 14, 2001) This year’s international Invitational at Art Chicago featured eighteen innovative contemporary art galleries from around the world, most of which were making their inaugural appearances in the United States. […]
May 26, 2001 Drips of color at Sweetow By Kenneth Baker Linnenbrink and Lazzari At a glance the work of German painter Markus Linnenbrink at Sweetow recalls the ‘60s “stripe paintings” of Morris Louis and Gene Davis. But Linnenbrink’s canvases express none of the American painters’ faith that some color sequences have […]
Wednesday, Mar 7, 2001 Reel World By Michael Fox Big Bad Mama As a responsible member of the Fourth Estate, I can in no way condone the five-finger discount. But filmmaker Jeanne Finley, back in town and teaching at the California College of Arts and Crafts after a few years in New York, can be […]