Reviews

Winner of the Headland’s Tournesol Award, Baker blends the tropes of Minimalism with Native American ceremonial practices.

A selection of contemporary video art, from abstract, generative pieces to musical software, and from cyber poetry to games.

Ellingson’s art confronts “the enormity of contemporary virtual experience” while asserting “the humanness of painting.”

Material engagement forms the connective thread in a distinctive summer group show of Bay Area artists.

Britton’s collages depict the world in abstract terms, reflecting its tensions, anxieties and fragilities.

Working from memories of a childhood in Japan, Katano strives to express the ineffable.

Sudduth’s paintings speak of the isolation and unease of people in public places.

Bonick’s pattern paintings probe infinity; Yankosky’s repurposed tape measures examine the psychology of how we size things up.

South African artists paint a sad and sobering picture of broken promises and unfulfilled dreams.

50 years after the Civil Rights Act, Davidson’s photos remind us that race relations can’t be described only in black and white.

Maggi seeks to concretize the ever-widening gap between knowledge and knowingness.

A museum-quality gallery show of contemporary drawing, from the ’60s to the present.

A master of the mammoth plate albumen process, Watkins receives his due in this superlative exhibition.

Gleason employs a metallurgic approach that evokes high Modernist design and LA Finish Fetish painting of the ‘60s.

Maychack’s hybrids re-animate the Modernist debate about how painting and sculpture ought to behave.