2/23/10 PATRICIA SWEETOW by derek conrad murray SAN FRANCISCO “EVERYTHINGEVERYWHEREALLTHE TIME,” Markus Linnenbrink’s latest exhibition, was an impressive showing of 17 works—many of which are a continuation of his now well-known drip paintings made of epoxy resin on wood panels. While the German artist’s color field works are distantly reminiscent of the striped […]
CRITICS’ PICKS: Jiha Moon / SALTWORKS / January 23 – March 6 By Rebecca Dimling Cochran February 2010 Jiha Moon’s increased confidence is evident in this new series of paintings. The tension between figuration and abstraction still pervades her repeated layering of traditional Asian landscapes and gestural expressionism. But this new work seems to […]
Life and death: Jiha Moon at Saltworks, Gyun Hur at Get This! By Catherine Fox Feb 11, 2010 Pairing two Korean-American artists in a review smacks of the subtle racism of Black History Month. Yet seeing the solo shows of Gyun Hur and Jiha Moon in adjacent galleries — Get This! and Saltworks, respectively — makes it irresistible. Both commingle Eastern and Western art modes and cultural […]
February 5, 2010 At the Aldrich, the sky’s the limit with new geocache exhibit By Deb Keiser RIDGEFIELD — Five new exhibits opened at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum last weekend, and while one zooms in on museum interiors (the unseen views), another shows us that in art, the sky’s the limit. All in all, […]
The Washington Post The State of Black Art Folk video artist Jefferson Pinder seeks to cast off ‘black art’ label By Blake Gopnik Sunday, January 24, 2010 Jefferson Pinder stands in the Jacob Lawrence room at the Phillips Collection, studying the great “Migration” series Lawrence painted in 1941. Watching Pinder look, you realize how much […]
Preview: Jiha Moon’s new solo opens Saturday at Saltworks by Jeremy Abernathy January 21, 2010 The imagery in Jiha Moon‘s paintings can thunder with laughter, whisper of legends long forgotten and some yet to be lived, and shed mournful tears of dripping blue and pink paint. Her new exhibition, opening at Saltworks Gallery this Saturday, […]
NATURE|Vol 462|3 December 2009 By Marc Weidenbaum Gail Wight, artist of science Restless Dust by Gail Wight Imprint of the San Francisco Center for the Book: 2009. 36 pp. $280 Gail Wight explores the habits and history of scientific practice in this installation of pinned butterflies. The artist Gail Wight has examined X-rays with neuroscientists, […]
November 19, 2009 Art in Review By Roberta Smith FREDERICK HAYES ‘Build an Empire’ Number 35 Frederick Hayes is an encouraging anomaly. At 54, he is only now having his first solo gallery show in New York. Mr. Hayes’s subject might be defined as both the richness and harshness of urban life. His drawings depict […]
The Washington Post October 9, 2009 By Jessica Dawson Colossal Transformations at Hillyer and G “El Museo del Ghetto,” a joint project by Jefferson Pinder and José Ruiz. (By Paul Vinet — G Fine Art) A curious two-person show landed at G Fine Art’s temporary space on E Street downtown. (Remember Cheryl Numark’s old gallery? […]
October 4, 2009 Kim Anno: Liquescent By Zachary Scholz PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY The works in this tranquil exhibition reward prolonged interaction. Their quiet presence, reminiscent of Morris Louis’ veil paintings, offers viewers a hushed space within which to reflect. Like much of Kim Anno’s previous work, they are painted in oil on sheets of aluminum. […]