The chemigram — a brew of photo chemicals, art materials, foodstuff, chance and light — yields dazzlingly images. Maria Porges reports.
Reviews
Ruby Neri and Carter @ Paule Anglim
Raw expressivity drives Neri’s figurative paintings. Carter collects and reorders cultural signifiers.
Richard T. Walker @ di Rosa
Alone in the desert, a video/performance artist aims at communicating the ineffable.
Cornelia Schulz @ Spun Smoke
With fresh sculptural works, Schulz continues to expand painting’s frontier.
Bruce Conner @ SJICA
Works on paper illuminate important facets of this massively influential SF artist’s career.
Yvette Gellis @ Toomey Tourell
Urban and architectural space seen through an Abex prism.
She Who Tells A Story @ Cantor Arts Center
What does it mean to be female in the Middle East? Twelve photographers offer their visions. Mark Van Proyen reports.
Ann Weber @ Dolby Chadwick
Attenuated and bulbous, open and closed, abstract and representational, Weber’s cardboard sculptures radiate unmitigated joy. Maria Porges reports.
Data Clay & Chris Eckert @ MCD
The industrial revolution took production out homes and into factories. The digital revolution reclaims it for engineers and artists. Mikko Lautamo reports.
The Object & the Void @ Bedford Gallery
4 Bay Area Sculptors probe late modernist ideas of form and space.
Tony DeLap @ Rena Bransten Projects
88 years strong , DeLap’s long been an icon in the overlapping realms of SoCal Minimalism and the Light and Space movement. This exhibit shows him in peak form.
Nate Boyce @ YBCA
His mash-ups of illusionistic space and computational simulation illuminate the frenetic contemporary mind, insistently tugged between actual space and electronic device prompts.
David Olivant @ CSU Stanislaus
Dada-inspired mash-ups capture our “no-zeitgeist” era. Mark Van Proyen reports.
Material Matters @ Seager Gray
Two shows that bridge the supposed difference between thinkers and makers.
The Return to Reason @ Wendi Norris
Five photographers re-examine the ideas of Man Ray.
Tucker Nichols @ Gallery 16
Minus the cacophony of his installations and wall works, these standalone paintings and drawings reveal a droll sense of humor and abundant invention.