Two exhibitions shed light on a small-town gallery with an outsize impact.
Reviews
Wanxin Zhang @ Catharine Clark
Chinese traditions meet Bay Area Funk. Renny Pritikin reports.
Jaimie Baron on the ‘Orchestration’ of Scent
MCD show examines our most neglected sensory apparatus
The Art of Resistance @ Manetti Shrem
Acts of artistic protest. Jaimie Baron reports.
Alec Soth @ Fraenkel
Humanism suffused with the oddness of life’s random moments. Renny Pritikin reports.
Mark Van Proyen on Dilexi Gallery
New book documents “the richest decade” in Northern California art.
Lisa McCutcheon @ Dolby Chadwick
Uncanny collages that trick the eye and elicit double-takes. Mark Van Proyen reports.
Josh Faught’s Poetry of Obsolescence
Reanimating pop culture signifiers from the past. Jaimie Baron reviews.
Matthew Picton @ Nancy Toomey
Must the past predict the future? Picton answers provocatively. David M. Roth reviews.
Catherine Wagner @ Crown Point
An exploration of the abstract language of simple forms. Renny Pritikin reviews.
Stephen De Staebler @ Crocker
Rarely seen masks and busts highlight an exhibition by the late Bay Area sculptor. David M. Roth reviews.
Jaimie Baron on Redirecting “The Gaze”
Two exhibitions @ McEvoy flip the script on female representation.
Tauba Auerbach @ SFMOMA
Objects that illuminate, contradict or embody the science of perception and consciousness. Renny Pritikin reports.
Michelle Yi Martin @ Municipal Bonds
Textiles, woven into cocoon-like shapes, reflect our pandemic-induced isolation. Jaimie Baron reports.
Best of 2021
Bay Area’s ‘Lucky 13’. Compiled by David M. Roth
David M. Roth on the Beatles’ ‘Get Back’
For Beatles fans, “Get Back” will likely be the Holy Grail of documentary films.