Morning on the San Joaquin Plains, 1921, oil on canvas board I finally made it over to the Grace Hudson Museum for their show, "Space, Silence, Spirit: Maynard Dixon's West." It is up through June 20th. The Hudson website notes that it is a coup for a small town museum to display work by an [...]
Interesting observations on the art of photography, on KQED radio "Perspectives." Listen to the recording at http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/perspectives/ Wed, Apr 28, 2010 -- 7:35 AMToolsThe most probing questions Peggy Hansen gets about her photography are all about the camera she uses. But the key to good art has little to do with the means of producing [...]
(ReBlogged from "Working Artist's Journal") Another spectacular weekend spent visiting artist open studios . . . this time it was in the Mission district which, according to Mission Artists United, "has more artists than any other neighborhood in San Francisco." I hit the big buildings, spent two days at it, still didn't get to see [...]
Jonathan Adler. Utopian Menorah. 2006 (Theme: Building) For most of us, the morning ritual consists of falling out of bed, stumbling to the bathroom, putting on the water for coffee and reading the paper - or the Internet. Some of us check our e-mail first thing. Some have to walk the dog. But the current [...]
I stopped by South Beach Artist Studios on Sunday, the last day of SOMA Open Studios in SF. I'll write more about Sandra Yagi in the next post, but two of my other favorites were Susan Rippberger and Florence Gray. (That's Florence's work above - a couple of huge paintings in the hall outside her [...]
Bias Blue, 1965, @ Helen Frankenthaler To be young, talented, and ambitious in the NY of the 1950's was not such a gift if you were also a woman. But if you were all of the above, and smart/and or lucky enough to fall in with the most influential art critic of the times (Clement [...]
The Museum of Performance & Design is making preparations for a new exhibition featuring the world of toy theatres. Toy Theatres: Worlds in Miniature opens in July and will showcase 21 rare toy theatre models from around the world, some dating back to the 18th century. Toy theatre certainly isn't dead. In recent years contemporary [...]
Haven’t gotten out much to see art in the last 4 months, with the exception of the early February opening of Love, Art and Chocolate at 323 Gallery, and more recently a quick sprint through SFMOMA 75th Anniversary exhibit. On an early morning walk the other day, I came across a row of boxy 1950s-style [...]
Just a few quick notes about a show I saw today: "Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future - Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China" at the Cantor Arts Center, through July 4, 2010I was really excited to see this show. Not only was it a room full (100 pieces) of ink & watercolor paintings, but [...]
Just a quick run-down of a few galleries we saw this evening: F*cal Face Dot GalleryMarco Zamora & Derek Aalbeck - Extremely small gallery (one room, about the size of a master bedroom) but bold art. Incredibly rendered graphite drawings by Derek Albeck and interesting ink & watercolor paintings on wood by Marco Zamora. Octavia's [...]