Reviews

In drought-stricken Ghana life is measured a gallon at a time. Those gallon jugs are the raw material of Clottey’s art. Lawrence Gipe reports.

A conceptual artist with formidable literary skills stages what may well be his most elaborate spoof yet.

Vertiginous representations of Panama’s Canal Zone, where the wild meets the tamed. Maria Porges reports.

One of Northern California’s great unsung conceptualists at the top of his game.

Sculpture that challenges conventional ideas of internal and external space, suggesting there isn’t much difference between emptiness and fullness. Julia Couzens reports.

An artist high on color itself, Bonnard used chromaticism to reach beyond the purely visual. Mark Van Proyen reports.

Decades-old paintings from a deceased master prove startlingly current.

Kaufman’s soft-focus minimalist abstractions evoke geometry, botany and linear magnifications. Julia Couzens reports.

Villareal seeks the spiritual via the experiential, the literal flicker of LEDs replacing optical flicker of paint. Mikko Lautamo reports.

From the macro to the microscopic, BAM’s debut show truly describes the “Architecture of Life.” Meredith Tromble reports.

Valledor, a leading exponent of hard-edge abstraction, takes a star turn.

Two exhibitions pay tribute to one of SF’s greatest conceptualists.

Maisel uses beauty as a cudgel — to goad us into confronting our always fraught relationship with industry. Mikko Lautamo reports.

SF artist Amy Trachtenberg recalls her time with the late conceptualist.

A show that conjoins two practices: one of art ideas and materials, the other of a finely honed appreciation of nature.