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 […]
Finley and Noda: Imagination flourishes with small-scale artwork By Kimberly Chun Published 7:31 pm, Wednesday, May 20, 2015 Small-scale realms — both natural and strange, avian and alien-like — unite two exhibits at Spun Smoke. One focuses on San Francisco artist Jeanne C. Finley’s video work “Protocol,” which captures the birth of […]
New Exhibits Open at Tarble Arts Center Nov 16, 2017 The Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University announces its exhibit openings on Nov. 18: Jiha Moon: “Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here,” “Living Room” and “In All Around I See.” Featured in the main gallery, Jiha Moon: “Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here” is […]
Paint on its own terms. Cornelia Schulz is a venerated abstract artist who taught at UC Davis for three decades, but you wouldn’t know her age from looking at her recent paintings. Sarcastically gloppy and garishly colorful, they are all brag and bluster — grand gesture, stunted by canvases less than a foot square. They […]
A few years ago, Ramekon O’Arwisters walked away from a civic museum art administration job to devote himself fulltime to engaging with the public in meaningful ways through public art making.
As an artist, I was liberated to paint and draw whatever I had the courage to envision. And I did.