What does it mean to call a group of young artists a school or a movement, or even group? Renny Pritikin reports.
Reviews
Ed Moses @ Brian Gross
At 85, Ed Moses continues to be one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures in contemporary art. This SF exhibition shows why.
The New Bay Bridge @ Vessel Gallery
The artists frame the bridge as an emblem of the “technological sublime”, celebrating its functional and aesthetic virtues.
Meech Miyagi & Mikko Lautamo @ Axis
Suspend your exalted notions of culture. When it comes to human destiny, biology rules.
Digital Madeleine @ Krowswork
Time and mortality are the ostensible subjects of this three-person show featuring Mary Hull Webster, Ilene Segalove and Margo Majewska.
Leibovitz, Liu & Hall @ San Jose Museum of Art
A media artist, a celebrity photographer and a history painter. An unlikely trifecta that works. David M. Roth reports.
Ann Weber @ 425 Market
Her recycled cardboard sculpture falls between art and craft, abstraction and representation. It thrums with satisfying tension. Maria Porges reports.
Contemporary Landscape @ Wendi Norris
How do you represent nature in the era of Google Earth? Ten artists create visions of a “New Sublime.”
Eric William Carroll @ Highlight
To understand the unknowable, Carroll seeks out conjunctions between the Earthly and the otherworldly.
Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years @ de Young Museum
A powerful affirmation of painting undertaken right before American art underwent five decades of upheaval.
55th Venice Biennial: Part II
In addition to the main events, this year’s Biennial featured 88 national pavilions and 46 collateral exhibitions. Mark Van Proyen reports.
The 55th Venice Biennial: Pt. 1
“Of the Venice Biennial exhibitions that I have witnessed, the 55th is the best and the most ambitious.” Mark Van Proyen reports.
Irmel Kamp @ Patricia Sweetow
Scouring Europe and the Mideast for surviving examples of the original Bauhaus buildings, the photographer demonstrates why those structures were revolutionary. Then and now.
Michael Jang @ Stephen Wirtz
Jang has a knack for framing decisive moments packed with details that make you look and keep on looking.
Lordy Rodriguez & Rina Banerjee @ Hosfelt
He creates cartographic mash-ups of disparate visual languages; she retools the art and architecture of ancient India.
Matthew Picton @ Toomey Tourell
Incorporating texts and musical scores, Picton’s fire-tinged paper sculptures present multi-layered views of urban history at pivotal junctures.