Reviews

Artists examine the significance of trees — from symbols of regeneration to omens of destruction. Tirza True Latimer reports.

Six internationally recognized Irish artists make their SF debut. David M. Roth reports.

Mining his past for inspiration and ideas, the Berkeley sculptor charts fresh territory by building on his roots in primitive and tribal art.

He established a new aesthetic, paving the way for photography’s acceptance as fine art.

Dynamic tension between the metaphysical and the worldly, and between high and low characterizes the painting of Sarah Walker.

What are the literary and philosophical implications of re-presenting the contents of a book? Dettmer explores the question.

Webster’s hermetic, alchemy-influenced work focuses on the spiritual journey of two fictional characters.

Dublin-based Patrick Graham makes grave and complex paintings that are hard to like and absolutely impossible to disrespect.

To concretize the ephemeral, Kandel pulls from several strains of abstraction to reinvigorate an old subject: the play of light on water.

The exquisite beauty of her pictures nearly obscures the tragedy that underlies them.

Taggart’s art is about turning one thing into another and then turning that thing into something else.

With perception-bending collages Bell reframes the epistemological question: what do we know and how do we know it?

Building on the qualities that catapulted her into the front rank of ceramic sculpture, Rosen expands the possibilities of clay.

Serial methods underpin some of the most important art of the past century. 13 Bay Area artists weigh in.

Wilderness now exists only through acts of human beneficence. Three Bay Area artists examine this state of affairs.