painting

Visitors may be surprised that the gallery staffers themselves are the artists whose work is exhibited; depending on the date of one’s visit, they may benefit from access to the artists who offer unparalleled insight into the works shown.

With school out of session, many college students are looking for enriching things to fill their free time. So, I’ve decided to make a hobby guide with some suggestions of fun activities to try out this summer. 

Surreal art isn’t above the real or in any way beyond it; it simply offers a different, newer way of looking at the real world, constructing a different perspective.

Paint was all over me. My fingers were blue, the floor was brown and my camera was bombarded with hundreds of “artsy” photographs. I got in so much trouble for spilling paint all over my family’s rug, but it was all worth it. 

“Lines of Thought: Gestural Abstraction in the BAMPFA Collection,” on display at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive through July 3, set itself up with a noble task: Expand the artistic narrative of abstract expressionism to include artists who aren’t old white men.

Mercury 20 Gallery’s dual solo show features the works of artists Andrea Brewster, titled “The Fragile Balance that Lies Beneath,” and Esperanza, titled “The Succulent Garden.”

After experiencing tumultuous changes during the pandemic, Phillips’s exhibition offers an ideal place to see changes of the past and envision hopes of the future.

I dived into the unbounded archive of my mind, seeking something meaningful to paint and to show that I wasn’t an empty, echoic body.

Whether you’re creative or not, making art can help you cure boredom, wind down and potentially improve your mental health.

I’ve written about love in years worth of poetry, but I never considered painting it.