By Kenneth Baker January 14, 2006. Page E-10 Schulz at Sweetow: Marin County painter Cornelia Schulz still takes seriously the idea, rooted in the ’60s, that abstract paintings ought to exploit their own physical profiles, to make parameters of their perimeters, as author William Gass might say. Schulz’s recent pieces at Sweetow take her […]
Anno at Sweetow: Just four pieces at Patricia Sweetow by Bay Area painter Kim Anno make a substantial exhibition. Anno paints in oil on aluminum, a completely nonabsorbent surface that forces her to modulate color by thinning, wiping and scoring it. These operations in themselves give rise to a kind of abstract pictorial drama. […]
Symbioland Jeffry Cudlin October 7, 2005 When contemporary artists play with traditional media, it’s often a tongue-in-cheek affair. Arguably, then, Jiha Moon isn’t doing anything new. Even her collision of traditional Eastern brushwork with elements of kawaii— Japanese pop-culture cuteness—has already been thoroughly mined by better-known artists such as Takashi Murakami. But however familiar her […]
On Exhibit: Jiha Moon’s Shining Contrasts By Michael O’Sullivan Friday, September 16, 2005 “SYMBIOLAND,” the title of Jiha Moon’s exhibition at the Curator’s Office, pretty much says it all. Suggesting not just the term symbiosis, which describes an interdependent relationship between two often disparate entities, but a rough fusion of the words “symbol” and “land,” […]
Jiha Moon’s Fantasy Islands By Jessica Dawson Thursday, September 15, 2005 Just a few days after winning the $10,000 Trawick Prize, painter Jiha Moon triumphed again with the opening of her solo show at Curator’s Office last weekend. Moon’s detailed ink-and-acrylic paintings on rice paper evoke fantasy worlds, ancient scroll painting and the “Hello Kitty” […]
A more Minimalist branch of Ab-Ex is found at Patricia Sweetow Gallery on Geary Street, where the 68-year-old German artist Joachim Bandau presents a careful selection of monochromatic watercolors and drawings and geometric lead sculptures. In his works on paper, Bandau achieves a rich black surface from a meditative process of layering. The artist switched […]
Kenneth Baker, Art Critic San Francisco Chronicle October 23, 2004 JOACHIM BANDAU’S BLACK WATERCOLORS PUT SILENCE ON EDGE The black watercolors of German sculptor Joachim Bandau at Patricia Sweetow Gallery can induce in viewers a mental state parallel to the artist’s own as he made them. They illustrate nothing yet create the sensation of looking […]
Kenneth Baker, Art Critic San Francisco Chronicle October 23, 2004 JOACHIM BANDAU’S BLACK WATERCOLORS PUT SILENCE ON EDGE The black watercolors of German sculptor Joachim Bandau at Patricia Sweetow Gallery can induce in viewers a mental state parallel to the artist’s own as he made them. They illustrate nothing yet create the sensation of looking […]
Living in Paradise On the Meditative Black Watercolors of Joachim Bandau Dr. Katja Blomberg, Art Critic, Berlin When all doors open, when all abysses of fear have been overcome and every subjective desire has been switched off, when the view gets clear like a mountain lake in spring, when the excited play of thoughts is […]
REVIEW OF KIM ANNO SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Paintings on aluminum take advantage of reflective surface -Kenneth Baker, Art Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, June 12, 2004 Painting as an art endures partly because it shows us things we need to see. To anyone who has followed the work of Kim Anno, her new […]