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Artists Explore the Beauty of Water in SF’s Presidio

Julie Davis — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:50:36 +0000

A rainy day in the Presidio is usually something of a disappointment, but it’s an atmosphere that only adds to the experience of viewing the new exhibit at the China Brotsky Gallery, Ways of Water. Hosted by the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, a green-centric nonprofit named after Henry David Thoreau (the 19th century American writer [&hellip

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Review of “Immaterial” at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:56:30 +0000

Artists often try to capture a moment, feeling or sensation in their work. Two notable installation artists, Amy Ho and Cathy Cunningham-Little, capture all of these in their exhibit, Immaterial, at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary in Oakland, California. Both artists use light as a medium to challenge the viewer’s sense of spacial and physical reality. The [&hellip

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Review: The Tirage Art Gallery’s “Holiday Salon”

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:00:15 +0000

The Tirage Art Gallery, tucked into the historic art and antique district of Pasadena, California, is exhibiting their annual “Holiday Salon.” The exhibition features a variety of eclectic artwork, including four female artists whose works particularly illustrate the flavor of the holiday season. Paulette Lee’s Snow Scene perfectly depicts the natural peace that often accompanies the [&hellip

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Review: The 40th Anniversary of Wimmen’s Comix

Julie Davis — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:00:11 +0000

To read the story behind the groundbreaking comics anthology Wimmen’s Comix is to be reminded of feminism’s past, and how much has (or in some cases, hasn’t) changed. In the early 1970s, while Zap and Weirdo kept on truckin’ with their counterculture stories about drugs, violence and the sexual revolution, female artists were feeling shut [&hellip

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Review: “b+w” Exhibit by Amy Kaufman

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:00:04 +0000

Every now and then, you walk into an art exhibit that physically stops you in your tracks and makes that little voice in your head say, “Holy shit.” This was my reaction upon viewing Amy Kaufman’s latest exhibit, b+w, on display at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. The exhibit is a series of [&hellip

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Feature: Contemporary Visions of the Necklace at Mobilia Gallery

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:57:52 +0000

In the earliest civilizations jewelry represented status, power and beauty. Today, jewelry is still often associated with wealth since the finest ornaments still boast diamonds and gold; however, jewelers are now redefining the meaning of what we wear. The recently opened exhibition, “Contemporary Visions of the Necklace” at the Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, MA showcases [&hellip

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Review: (In)security by Michele Pred

Elizabeth Coleman — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:21:16 +0000

If anthropologists were to assess items representing the aftermath of September 11, 2001, they might include the piles of random materials left behind at airport security checkpoints across the country. For over 12 years, conceptual installation artist Michele Pred has been an anthropologist of sorts, gathering items like lighters, matchbooks, sewing scissors and pocket knives [&hellip

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Review: Laura Cunningham’s “Before California”

Alicia Coombes — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:10:28 +0000

Laura Cunningham’s Before California exhibit at the Hazel Wolf Gallery in Berkeley is small but information-packed. A few walls showcase less than a dozen oil paintings and photographs side-by-side, opening up into a larger room dominated by sketches of native flora and a mural of a grizzly bear, two condors and an elk. Condors, elk and [&hellip

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Interview with Beverly Buchanan

Angela Son — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:43:04 +0000

Throughout her three-decade long artistic career, Beverly Buchanan has painted and sculpted wooden shacks of the American South. Her latest exhibition, All in the Family, celebrated its opening last Friday at GalleryDAAS at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, featuring a series of Buchanan’s structures and paintings. Buchanan was born in North Carolina but grew up in [&hellip

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Art on Track and CMYKittens

Mallory Nezam — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:56:00 +0000

There is nothing quite like Art on Track. This art exhibition is the largest mobile art gallery in the world. It challenges artists to convert the interiors of Chicago EL train cars into works of art. Yes, convert. What you will not find at Art on Track is hanging canvases and mounted sculptures. What you will find [&hellip

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