“Storytellers” If you enjoy people-watching, you will enjoy Jhina Alvarado-Morse’s vintage film-still protagonists in her newest series, “Storytellers,” opening at Manna Gallery on Friday. Our habit of contemplating a person’s life based on a glance causes us to imagine pasts and futures for Alvarado-Morse’s familiar-seeming subjects — and you don’t Read More…
At the 10 Year Anniversary Show at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco, one can explore the works of artists who have been responsible for injecting the world of contemporary art with street art and graffiti culture. Their work subverts, reinvents and pokes fun at the traditional art experience without Read More…
The title of Jessalyn Aaland’s show, “Thank You for Your Waiting,” now at Swarm Gallery in Oakland sounds like an awkwardly translated phrase. But instead of the name sticking in your head immediately, the tiny yet surprising details of her collages do. But these assemblages of miniscule cutout vintage ads, Read More…
Visual artists Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan took time to answer some questions via email about their project, The Thing Quarterly, a periodical that sends out objects to subscribers made by writers, filmmakers, artists and more. All of the objects incorporate the use of text and are of some function Read More…
“You could say that I’m a student of photography, and I am,” said renowned photographer Garry Winogrand just before his death when asked by fellow photographer Leo Rubinfien about his lifetime of work, “but really I’m a student of America.” This is an apt description of Winogrand — one that Read More…
“The Bay Lights” is the light art installation on the 1.8 miles of the Bay Bridge that artist Leo Villareal debuted on Tuesday with the click of his laptop instead of the traditional — or as he describes it, old-school — way with a switch. Read More…
“The Europeans,” now showing at the Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley, isn’t just a cheeky reversal of Frank’s groundbreaking work. Instead, Reyes explores the syncretism of immigration and modern European society. Read More…
Settle into the cushioned pews at Krowswork Gallery and Suzy Poling’s video, “Humans and Stones,” will hypnotize you — not in a trippy-stoner kind of way but toward a more subdued spirituality. The screen seems to enlarge as you watch and begin to feel the surroundings fill with the vortex Read More…
The Free Gallery by Free Utopian Projects at Pro Arts Imagine your hoarder great aunt’s attic. Now add some color and get rid of the spiderwebs. Next add Christmas-hued plaid suitcases, a sombrero, a cootie-catcher or two, and you almost have “The Free Gallery” now open at Pro Arts. Almost. Read More…
How to describe the comportment of the Israeli men in Kehinde Wiley’s portraits? Heads are tilted back and cocked to the side, jaws are tense. Stately and supercilious? Yes, but also guarded and defiant. “The head must be proud, proud,” Wiley says in an accompanying video, coaching a model. Rappers Read More…
