Reviews

Magical Realism in Iceland? Maria Porges reports.

Mixing grace and savagery, Oropallo explores the romantic and visceral realities of food production.

Partners and collaborators, Hagler and Ruznic focus on the disasters of war.

Buck’s prints form a trenchant commentary on human frailties. They build the case for desolation chic.

Assaults on the linear conventions of reading are what power this annual event, now in its 9th year.

SF’s spring art extravaganza is back!

The former Mission School painter delves deeper into geometric abstraction

Contemporary woodcuts reflect the turbulence of Korea in the 1980s.

Their collaboration yielded some of the strangest most provocative conceptual art to emerge from the Bay Area.

Matt Lipps’ photos — appropriated from distant sources and fashioned into theatrically lit wunderkammers — remind us how strange a photo inherently is.

The art world creates and attracts polymaths. If you’re one of them, chances are you’ll be interested in this show. It probes the lives of two groups of artists whose practices intermingle.

SVC, with a mix of new and old media, scores a hit. Herein, some highlights.

A painter of emphatic confidence and supreme skill, Millei delivers a bravura performance, but takes few risks. Julia Couzens reports.

His hard-edged geometric abstractions call up big swaths of art history. Close inspection reveals a unique voice.

Bauer may be the most famous nonobjective painter you’ve never heard of. A retrospective seeks to change that.

Lake George may have been Stieglitz’s domain, but for O’Keeffe it was an exemplary muse. Patrica Albers reports.