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 […]
Christopher Miles By Constance Mallinson October 7, 2010 12:53pm In his first solo exhibition, L.A.-based artist Christopher Miles, perhaps better known as an independent curator and critic, filled the gallery with 16 oversize “Noggins,” glazed stoneware “heads” mounted on stainless steel poles (all 2010). The initial impression was of a grisly house of horrors or […]
“∞the∞quantum∞field∞” (2010), Jon Brumit, Christy Matson, Sarah Wagner This large-scale interactive installation involves two sheep made of hand-woven conductive fabric, and is inspired by, and adapted from, the early LucasArts 1989 fantasy adventure game LOOM, wherein the only people surviving the apocalypse are weavers, blacksmiths and carpenters. Q – How much time do you spend […]
August 5, 2010 By ROBERTA SMITH In Varieties of Abstraction Roberta Smith writes: … An energizing place to finish is Markus Linnenbrink’s “NOMATTERWHEREYOUGOTHEREYOUARE,” a site-specific painting in the tiny storefront gallery Number 35 (39 Essex Street). Mr. Linnenbrink has covered the walls, ceiling and floor with narrow bands of vibrant color that all seem to […]