I was wandering downtown Petaluma with my friend Jo this weekend and we stopped in to Dimensions Galleria on 115 Petaluma Blvd. North. Two groups of pieces really caught my eye. First, in the window, were some delightfully funky and whimsical ceramic cars by Jon Gariepy. Inside the gallery, we were also shown a couple [...]
In the 1980s, when I was collecting stamps, it always bugged me that the French could continue to produce amazingly beautiful stamps, a few every year, that showed treasures of French art. They were engraved, the colors were both rich and subtle, and having a page of them was like a poor person's art collection. [...]
Something's Happening Here: The San Francisco Rock Scene The Charlatans, 1966 @ Herb Green (courtesy MPD) San Francisco's neighborhoods are full of little known but interesting spaces. To me, one of the more fascinating is the Museum of Performance and Design. Tucked away on the 4th floor of the Veterans Building (401 Van Ness Ave) [...]
Gage Opdenbrouw, Coit Tower (oil on canvas, used with permission) If you can't make it to the new Impressionist show at the De Young, don't fret! There's another blockbuster show this weekend at Fort Mason. There's parking at the site (for a minimal cost) and you can lunch at Green's or one of the local [...]
I hope nobody minds that this is not Bay Area - wasn't sure how or where else to share this website I just found. Like some of the pieces I've created, it initially reads like an extended joke but is a serious project:The Stray Shopping Cart Project What I really enjoyed, as an artist, is [...]
Whistler. Arrangement in Black and Gray (aka The Mother). Seriously, is there anybody in the western world who doesn't know this painting? (@ Musee d'Orsay/used with permission) Because the Musee D'Orsay in Paris will be closed for renovations and because "our" Dede Wilsey, President of the Board of Directors of the De Young, has the [...]
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Normally, I'm fairly tolerant of student work. I realize that students don't have that much experience and their work shows it. I realize that this is the time for experimentation. But this show is so bloody bad that I am non-plussed to find anything positive to say about it. Tags: Fort Mason Related posts San [...]
From Monica Lundy's show at Mills College (up until the end of the month) New pieces up at the Examiner on the various MFA shows. http://www.examiner.com/x-13996-SF-Museum-Examiner Tags: MFA, Mills College Related posts related posts :
For technical and industrial artists and other creative types whose spectacular ideas never make it past the napkin they were designed on, TechShop seems like a really good idea. TechShop has been in Menlo Park for a while and has just opened in SF, according to an article today in the San Francisco Chronicle. Photo [...]