During July and August, George Adams Gallery will present a survey of paintings, drawings, and constructions by Roy DeForest and William T. Wiley, two prominent Bay
Area artists whose distinct oeuvres have addressed similar narrative and personal mythologies over the last forty years.
Present an exhibition of 17 Bay
Area artists whose work nudges the boundaries of what sculpture allows viewers to see and feel.
a group exhibition featuring the puzzling creations of three Bay
Area artists whose process - based work draw attention to societal chaos and conflict.
Home is Something I Carry With Me is an alternative art exhibition that features emerging, Bay
Area artists whose work...
Lauren YS is a Bay
Area artist whose work aims to create and populate a misfit wonderland in which imaginary heroines can address the absurdities of reality in the confines of a page or a wall.
Not exact matches
Bailey,
whose Baileys» Restaurants group owns several
area establishments, said he is hiring local
artists to paint on the boarded up restaurant.
It may feel great to say your work is in a gallery, but I see too many
artists whose work is just sitting on gallery walls, and sometimes in the gallery storage
area.
This exhibition is curated by art historian Kene J. Rosa and
artist Louis Jacinto,
whose work has been exhibited in the Southern California
area since 1980.
In Identity Unknown, Donna Seaman brings to life seven forgotten female
artists, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie, with her dark, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay
Area self - portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton, with her witty, oddly beautiful constructions; Loïs Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg,
whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson, an art - world superstar in her heyday but omitted from recent surveys of her era.
The exhibition's curators, Elisabeth Sussman and Elisabeth Sherman of the Whitney and Christine Macel of the Centre Pompidou, chose to round out the collection's context by including
artists whose works are destined for the Whitney as well as the Pompidou, some of whom, Weinberg noted, have their studios in the 10th and 11th arrondissements, the
areas afflicted by the worst of the carnage, where poets, dancers, critics,
artists and architects were among the dead — «a strike against the heart of Paris's creative community.»
«Working in a studio is actually a bit isolating; this is a chance to meet and interact with
artists and art appreciators in my
area,» said Scally,
whose paintings include stark, wild landscapes emblazoned with vivid images of man - made things and people.
- Wallace Stevens On occasion, the MATRIX program serves as a venue for an
artist of established reputation
whose work has not been shown in the Bay
Area.
On the edge of Culver City's industrial
area sits Scion Installation L.A. Space, currently hosting a group exhibition of
artists whose mission was to transform the gallery into eight individual rooms.
As the
artist's first West Coast presentation, the exhibition is an unprecedented opportunity for Bay
Area audiences to immerse themselves in the work of an
artist whose singular contributions to twentieth - century modernism anticipate today's renewed interest in the sculptural and material qualities of abstract painting.
«NEWD will feature a tightly edited roster of 36 participants —
area non-profits, galleries,
artist collectives, and project spaces —
whose work promotes new art initiatives and, taken together, demonstrates innovative methods for supporting
artists that would otherwise be under the radar.»
In addition to coincidentally being the best - known Manhattan
area code, 212 is the exact number of pathways that wind through Central Park, according to research conducted by the Italian - born, Paris - based
artist Tatiana Trouvé,
whose installation «Desire Lines,» which begins March 3, will be her first public art project in New York.
The Los Angeles — based
artist selected locations in the San Francisco Bay
Area that are emblematic of distinct urban - redevelopment episodes: Islais Landing, a former tidal bog that once served as a sewage channel and slaughterhouse dumping ground; San Francisco City Hall, a Beaux Arts monument
whose harmonious proportions and massive domed rotunda are meant to pique municipal pride (and good civic behavior); and Pacific Shores Center, a 106 - acre, 1.7 - millionsquare - foot corporate complex, planned during the dot - com glut of the late 1990s and built on marshland south of the city.
This 30 - minute documentary, produced by Elizabeth Sher, provides a unique and candid view of a vibrant
artist whose contributions to Bay
Area art extend beyond her work and include the many
artists she taught during her 36 years as professor of sculpture at the California College of Arts (CCA).
The first exhibition
area presents
artists like Gordon Matta - Clark, Tobias Zielony, Cyprien Gaillard and Francis Alÿs,
whose works reflect on the relationship between humankind and architecture.
The collective Don't Follow the Wind,
whose inaccessible, Fukushima - based 2015 group exhibition has been written about before in these pages, is now made accessible via A Walk in Fukushima, 2016 — 17, a 360 - degree video experience of what has been, since the 2011 nuclear - plant disaster, an uninhabitable
area, with crafty headsets made in collaboration with
artist Bontaro Dokuyama and three generations of a Japanese family who live in a zone deemed «safe to live» by the government but still subject to restrictions due to its proximity to a radioactive locale.
Chief curator Alexander,
whose job it was to consider and select
artists whose work represents important art historical moments captured by the Walker collection as well as some recent purchases that foreshadow
areas of possible growth, said: «I was interested in enabling a public vote and taking advantage of the natural impulse people have when encountering art to form an opinion.»
Break / Step at Radiator Gallery featured
artists, currently based in the New York metropolitan
area,
whose works embody deconstruction in creation and vary in techniques.
Lilly Wei is a New York - based independent curator, writer, journalist and critic
whose area of interest is global contemporary art and emerging art and
artists, reporting frequently on international exhibitions and biennials.
Rebecca Edwards, of arebyte, interviews
artist Rosana Antolí
whose residency, and current exhibition Virtual Choreography, maps the local
area by researching the common Continue reading →
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They include Ai Weiwei, the Chinese
artist whose multiroom installation on Alcatraz was a Bay
Area sensation, and British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, the creator of four popular works in the Presidio made from natural found materials.
Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Nick Cave, Kara Walker, and Saya Woolfalk are all prominent African American
artists whose presence in the collection contributes to MAM's strengths in this
area.
Much of the recent work of GCC — the group of
artists whose eight members hail from various Persian Gulf countries, and
whose name references the acronym for a regional political and economic alliance known as the Gulf Cooperation Council — has focused on the growing popularity in the
area, among both governments and the wider populace, of the «positive energy» movement.
Each year, LACMA also honors exceptional
artists and filmmakers
whose achievements have greatly influenced their respective
areas.
This year,
artists who live and work in Latin America, or
whose work is influenced by the
area, were given priority as a means to strengthen the identity of Latin America in the global art market.
13 Squared is a collaboration of thirteen female St. Louis
artists whose work supports art organizations in the
area.
Bay
area artist and muralist Lauren YS brings her latest body of work entitled Brujería to Mexico City for a solo exhibition full of chimerical women
whose halfling bodies express dark internal forces.
They include giants like Braque, Miro, Jasper Johns, Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Weston; video - art pioneer Nam June Paik; contemporary German sculptor Katharina Fritsch; Bay
Area sculptor Gay Outlaw; and young
artists whose careers may get a boost from this show.
Amie Potsic is a photographer and environmental
artist based in the Philadelphia
area whose work addresses cultural, personal, and natural phenomena through the lens of social responsibility.
Lilly Wei is a New York - based independent curator, writer, journalist and critic
whose area of interest is global contemporary art and emerging art and
artists.
Agathe Bouton is a French
artist living and working in the Philadelphia
area whose boundary - pushing printmaking and paper works exhibit influence from living and working in exotic, international locations.
However, it's derived from a softer California tradition of domestic architecture as espoused by such Bay
Area masters as Joseph Esherick, architect Rudolph Schindler and
artist Donald Judd,
whose asymmetrical masterpieces Johnson also holds to the light.
And in the New York
area, with some 140,000 practicing
artists living within its five boroughs,
whose median age is 38, suffice to say that many
artists here aren't exactly spring chickens.
Gary Hume is an English painter and a part of the Young British
Artists movement
whose work is distinguished by a bright palette, reduced imagery and flat
areas of color
Perceiving critical dialogue to be a crucial component toward meeting their mission, the organization funded the ACAC Writing Fellowship for Art Practical, which creates a platform for emerging writers and aims to encourage critical thinking and writing on Asian contemporary art practices in the Bay
Area.6 The inaugural fellow is Ellen Yoshi Tani, a graduate student at Stanford University,
whose research centers on «work of transnational
artists, attending to how they activate sites of difference or sameness, using race and / or identity as medium rather than positioning it as subject.»
Bay
area artist and muralist Lauren YS brings her latest body of work entitled «Brujería» to Mexico City for a solo exhibition full of chimerical women
whose halfling bodies express dark internal fo
American
artist Trevor Paglen,
whose work tackles mass surveillance and data collection, has been chosen for his project The Octopus — an installation that includes pictures of restricted military and government
areas and the flight paths of drones.
Brett Flanigan is a bay
area - based
artist and muralist
whose abstract, illustrative style draws from a set of self - imposed constraints that he designs for himself.
Fall into Art is a group exhibition featuring artworks by ARTsisters, a Philadelphia
area - based group of 25 professional women visual
artists whose creative affiliation empower each other and their community.
I felt strongly that there were a lot of young
artists in the
area whose work deserved to be shown, so we restricted it to East London.
Thomas Dane Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in the St James
area of London,
whose international
artists include Steve McQueen, Kelley Walker, Glenn Ligon and Abraham Cruzvillegas.
The loaded symbolism and complicated history of gold in California is sifted through in works by Bay
Area artists such as Sarah Smith,
whose «Gold in Peace, Gold in War» was recently on display in the San Francisco Art Commission Galleries Window Installation Site, and Zachary Roberts.
In the Grey
Area, Roberto Lugo, an
artist who grew up in the Kensington district of Philadelphia and
whose work reflects his own personal experiences, presented new and recent ceramic works, which focused on issues including identity, racism, and class division.
«I believe in doubt,» says Barbara Kruger, who recently worked with Los Angeles —
area high schoolers in the Getty
Artists Program to create her
Whose Values?
For the milestone year of the forward - thinking exhibition series, the curators asked former featured Project Series
artists — including CalArts alumni Christina Fernandez (Art MFA 96) and Hirokazu Kosaka (Chouinard 70) and School of Art faculty Charles Gaines — to each nominate two emerging or lesser - known
artists based in the Los Angeles
area whose work contributes to the vibrant contemporary - art dialogue.