He paints with a bravura technique and uses its seductions to disarm viewers who disdain so-called “retinal” art.
Reviews
Jun Kaneko @ Rena Bransten Projects
For the past three decades Kaneko has occupied the top rung of ceramic sculpture.
Chris Fraser @ Wendi Norris
Fraser’s installation shows light behaving in ways foreign to everyday perception. Mikko Lautamo reports.
Robert Ortbal @ JayJay
Spiky, bulbous, dumb, and perverse, Ortbal’s sculptures point to the collapse of the distinction between nature and culture.
Covert Operations @ San Jose Museum of Art
Eleven media artists look at the post-9/11 national security state. Mark Van Proyen reports.
Jay DeFeo @ Hosfelt
An exhibition of photo-based, mixed media works show the iconic artist innovating right up to the end of her life.
Francesco Igory Deiana @ CULT
Deiana’s drawings and installations blur the distinction between handmade and digital.
Kara Maria @ Catharine Clark
Using a pastiche of historical styles Maria’s seriocomic works pit man-made maladies against cataclysmic natural forces
Andrew Hayes @ Seager Gray
Hayes builds a visual language that is rooted in the past, but utterly unique. David M. Roth reports.
Stephen De Staebler @ Montalvo
De Staebler’s work probes the eternal tension between spiritual aspirations and the sagging fault lines of our mortal experience.
Night Begins the Day @ CJM
“An opportunity to…. wander through a modern-day experience of the sublime,” writes Maria Porges.
Naomie Kremer @ SJICA
With video projected onto paintings, Kremer creates hybrids that feel animate.
Pard Morrison @ Brian Gross
Using the language of hard-edge painting and architectural space, Morrison proves there’s more to be squeezed from Minimalism.
J.M.W. Turner @ de Young
An exhibition of Turner’s late works captures the precise moment at which the radical subjectivity of Romanticism pivoted to Modernism. Mark Van Proyen reports.
Venice Biennial (Pt. 2): Pavilions & Collateral Exhibitions
Part 2 of Mark Van Proyen’s review.
The 56th Venice Biennial (Part 1): All of the World’s Futures
Okwui Enwezor’s Biennale gestures toward a world in crisis. Mark Van Proyen reports.