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 […]
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.
William Eckhardt Kohler ,Contributor painter, writer Helen O’Leary at The Irish Art Center 12/31/2014 11:25 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2017 A Measure for Happiness/Armour White, 2013-2014, 17 x 20 x 4 inches, Oil and egg emulsion, wood Helen O’Leary’s show, up at the Irish Art Center on 51st St through Jan. 5th, […]
Please click here to read the article By Kathleen Whitney December 2014 Linda Sormin’s work is agile and gymnastic; it vaults from floor to ceiling grasping space and defying gravity. The quantity of parts and pieces is overwhelming, there’s enough detail to produce information overload. Heraclitus said “you can’t wade in the same river twice;” […]
Twenty miles outside of Los Angeles there happens to be one of the best shows of the
season. “Another Thing Coming,” the Torrance Art Museum’s group show of new
sculpture from 15 Los Angeles-based artists is a remarkably successful and compelling
show.