JAMIE VASTA AT PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY Reviewed by DeWitt Cheng If we accept modernist dicta, art should be pure and abstract, and appeal to the eye. If we adopt postmodernism’s analytical mindset, art should appeal to the wary, ingenious mind seeking fortification against the blandishments of an ideologically corrupt reality. For some, the extreme choices […]
The Washington Post February 15, 2008 By Michael O’Sullivan Hip-Hop Artists Take Center Stage Could there be any better indication that the once stodgy museum world has now fully embraced pop culture than the appearance of graffiti on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery? Well, that and the portrait of Stephen Colbert that hangs […]
curative projects better living through art February 6, 2008 WE INTERRUPT YOUR PROGRAM Mills College Art Museum, Oakland By Anuradha Vikram Guest curator Marcia Tanner brings her expertise in the areas of feminist and technology-savvy art to the Mills College Art Museum in an excellent group show featuring 14 artists. Mills is a women’s undergraduate […]
Jiha Moon: Peach pit Saltworks exhibition offers a state of grace By FELICIA FEASTER Wednesday January 23, 2008 For a time in the 1990s, the word “hybridity” was the kind of academic buzzword that burned up the tenure circuit. Hybridity attested to identity that was fluid, complex and not easily boiled down to one “essence.” […]
January 6, 2008 By Jessica Dawson Taking a Shine to Sound-Picture Symbiosis Not only did video fail to kill the radio star, it opened up possibilities for a generation of art stars. Jefferson Pinder, 37, grew up watching MTV and now relies on carefully considered soundtracks to enrich his video works. His latest, the 31/2-minute-long […]
November 21, 2007 Dark sparkle: Jamie Vasta’s art glitters By Johnny Ray Huston Sparkle, San Francisco, sparkle — the Bay Area is a birthplace for visions of glitter. The Cockettes weren’t averse to throwing a few antique trunks full of metallic iridescence over their song and dance routines, and the late Jerome Caja mixed glitter […]
Joachim Bandau A Painter Doesn’t Dare: A Dialogue Between Sculpture & Watercolor Patricia Sweetow Gallery October 19, 2004 – November 27, 2004 Reviewed by Jordan Essoe A Machine For Living In In the statement accompanying German artist Joachim Bandau’s new solo exhibit at the Patricia Sweetow Gallery, he writes of his watercolors that “the […]
Jiha Moon: Line Tripping To Saturday, Oct. 27, at Curator’s Office KRISTON CAPPS OCT 5, 2007 For all her fine-lined flourishes—the icons, ribbons, symbols, and content she lifts from both Eastern and Western orthodoxies—Jiha Moon revels in the muddy and abstract. In her latest works, now on display at Curator’s Office, the painter once again […]
by Jessica Gorman September 2007 Korean-born artist Jiha Moon talks with urbancode magazine in advance of her upcoming solo exhibition at the Curator’s Office micro gallery. The space is located in the District at 1515 14th Street NW, suite 201. Moon’s work will be on view from September 15 – October 20, 2007. JG: Process […]
Galleries: Painting turns conceptual as you look Kenneth Baker Saturday, September 22, 2007 Under what circumstances does painting turn into conceptual art? You can see it happen in the work of German artist Markus Linnenbrink at Sweetow, which at first looks excessively optical. Viewer fatigue effects the conversion. We reasonably demand that a […]