Antiquarian photo techniques mine California’s Gold Rush past. George Philip LeBourdais reviews.
Reviews
Carleton Watkins and ‘Another West’ @ Fraenkel
Two exhibitions bookend the history of landscape photography. Mark Van Proyen reports.
Vincent Fecteau @ Wattis Institute
Sculptural forms culled from ‘the depths of intuition.’ Renny Pritikin reviews.
Annabeth Rosen @ CJM
A 20-year survey writhes with raw energy and material inventiveness. Maria Porges reports.
Kathy Butterly @ Manetti Shrem
A ‘four-inch’ universe teeming with exuberant life. David M. Roth reports.
‘Don’t Touch My Circles’ @ Catharine Clark
Protest and resistance are the nominal themes of this group show. David M. Roth reports.
‘Summer Sessions’ @ Anglim Gilbert
‘Introductions’ show spotlights new talent. David M. Roth reports.
Cate White @ Mills
Unruly art that addresses class and racial divisions. Derek Conrad Murray and Soraya Murray report.
Peter Sarkisian @ Modernism
“Videomorphic” sculptures hint at an impending dystopia. Mikko Lautamo reports.
‘I Like Drawings”: A Conversation with Todd Hosfelt
A gallerist’s musings on a sprawling, engrossing ambitious exhibition. Interview by Justin Manley.
Mark Van Proyen on Burning Man Co-Founder John Law
A retrospective of a leader of the Bay Area underground art scene.
‘What is an edition, anyway?’ @ McEvoy
A trove of artworks and ephemera is assembled to answer. Maria Porges reports
Ann Weber @ Dolby Chadwick
A fantasy world conjured from found cardboard. David M. Roth reports.
Lee Friedlander’s ‘Signs’ @ Fraenkel
Exposing the underbelly of America’s slick facade. George Philip LeBourdais reports.
Mark Van Proyen on Andy Warhol @ SFMOMA
A master of irony decades before Postmodernism made it an essential condition of art.
Amy Trachtenberg @ Luggage Store
Artist shows how abstraction can address our most pressing issues. Maria Porges reports.