Monday, April 18, 2011 by Leah Garchik The arts: — “Manhole 452,” Jeanne Finley and John Muse’s exhibition at the Patricia Sweetow Gallery until mid-May, combines a series of charcoal and graphite drawings of Geary Street manhole covers with their 12-minute film about the possibility that those covers will blow up. (Most fascinating footage was […]
April 12, 2011 All that glitters Jamie Vasta updates Caravaggio for the literary queer By Matt Sussman HAIRY EYEBALL What happens to appropriation after camp? That’s the intriguing question posed and answered by Jamie Vasta’s glitzy and technically impressive homage to late 16th- and early 17th-century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, currently hanging at […]
22 mar 2011 By Nanna Skov (translated into English) Linda Sormin’s sculptures appear as weathered mixes of different ceramic materials (Photo: Linda Sormin) Doctors can be used for anything other than Christmas decorations and homemade ashtrays. In the hands of Canadian Linda Sormin, the clay is used to express themselves about complex social and social conditions. As […]
Zina Al-Shukri PAINTER, SAN FRANCISCO // MARCH 2011 “Often I’m most proud of individual pieces rather than bodies of work. Sometimes I manage to hit on exactly what I’m trying to say in just one painting. That’s what I’m after.” Zina’s studio sits in a massive, somewhat dilapidated building on an industrial tract of land […]
New American Voices a 4-Course Art Feast Roberta Fallon Feb 16, 2011 Crazy-happy collage paintings, mournful costumes, wizardly sculptures and candy-colored sweaters with pleatsNew American Voices at the Fabric Workshop and Museum is a four-course feast. The works, by artists recently in residence at the FWM, dont quite go together, but each artist is […]
ACTOR Natalie Portman is the star of Black Swan but there’s another striking aspect about the film. A print by Melbourne artist Sarah Amos, who also works in the US, appears in a crucial scene in a loft belonging to ballet director Thomas Leroy, played by Vincent Cassel
2.10 / Fortification Conversation with Kim Anno By Bruno Fazzolari January 26, 2011 Image: Sheer, 2010; oil on metal; 39 x 47 in. Courtesy of the Artist. Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and video artist whose work has been collected by museums nationally and shown internationally. Born in Los Angeles, Anno is the chair of […]
By Iunia Ratiu Published in Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 1 Linda Sormin, Mine (i hear him unclip me / blood runs cold), 2010–11. Glazed ceramic; souvenir kitsch. Photo by Jeff Wells. Tell us about the work you exhibited at the Overthrown: Clay Without Limits exhibition. This installation, Mine: i hear him unclip me, explores forms and […]
Cornelia Schulz & Joachim Bandau at Patricia Sweetow By Dewitt Cheng Joachim Bandau, ”Untitled DC16,” 2010, watercolor on paper, 22 x 30”. The cosmic battle between modernism and postmodernism having finally drawn to an exhausted close, like previous doctrinal disputes (e.g., classicism v. romanticism, and representation v. abstraction. Think of Goya’s cudgel-wielding duelists), we can […]
Kenneth Baker Saturday, November 27, 2010 Schulz and Bandau: In recent pieces at Sweetow, Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz goes deeper into a vein she has worked for some years: the multi-part shaped canvas as a foil for one of abstract painting’s potential weaknesses: the merely decorative. Around 1960, the traditional pictorial rectangle […]