Elemental concerns animate two outstanding group shows. David M. Roth reviews.
Reviews
Peter Alexander @ Brian Gross
Water is the subject of the artist’s first posthumous painting show. David Roth reviews.
Tabitha Soren @ Mills College Art Museum
Artist examines how screen culture affected us during the pandemic. Renny Pritikin reviews.
Mark Van Proyen on William T. Wiley
His visual/verbal puns mapped the gulf between “consensus” reality and what we actually experience.
“Mode Brut” @ Museum of Craft and Design
Creativity Explored artists, with help from designers, stage a fashion show. Kristen Wawruck reports.
Hito Steyerl’s Zero-Sum Universe
A post-human fantasy powered by technology and disinformation. Anna Mirzayan reports.
Beyond Funk
Reappraising the Candy Store, the gallery that put Sacramento on the artworld map. Julia Couzens reports.
Remembering Hung Liu (1948-2021)
A life defined by momentous historical events.
Diego Rivera’s Pan-American Unity at SFMOMA
Prelude to an upcoming retrospective. John Zarobel reports.
David Huffman @ Berkeley Art Center
When Black consciousness met hippie mysticism. Renny Pritikin reports.
Mark Van Proyen on Afrofuturism
“Mothership” lands at the Oakland Museum of California.
Listening to Threads
Exhibition recalls Black Mountain College and Anni Albers. David M. Roth reviews.
Photo Based @ Brian Gross
Samples from the medium’s ever-evolving hybrid forms. Shaelyn Hanes reviews.
teamLab @ Asian Art Museum
Has the Asian been reborn as a ‘selfie’ museum? Renny Pritikin reports.
Hung Liu @ de Young
An iconic Bay Area painting, resurrected and writ large. Renny Pritikin reports.
Contested Territories @ Anglim Trimble
8 artists examine how identity affects our worldview. John Zarobel reports.