Life Needs Internet -Jeroen van Loon It’s getting harder for a young 21st century American to imagine life without the internet. Yet, in some parts of the world, this technology is rare or even non-existent. This is where Jeroen van Loon has decided to take a closer look. Two years ago, the Dutch designer began … Continue reading
January 28, 2012 – July 1, 2012 New Dimensions Anderson Collection The original objective of Los Angeles–based print workshop Gemini G.E.L. was to print and publish prints. During its first decade, however, collaborations with visiting Pop artists such as Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg spurred the workshop into dimensions previously unexplored. In fact, … Continue reading
Leonardo da Vinci Uncovered -Frankie Addiego For centuries, historians, artists and art collectors have studied the work of Leonardo da Vinci, possibly the most influential artist of the era known as the Renaissance. Now, researchers believe that they may have stumbled upon a “lost” da Vinci piece in Florence. Researchers found what they believe to … Continue reading
February 18 – June 17, 2012 Mark Bradford Crafting abstract paintings from fragments of the urban environment — permanent-wave end papers, billboard paper, posters, newsprint — Mark Bradford has built a body of work that is richly layered in both material and meaning. The MacArthur Award-winning artist’s seductive works reinvigorate abstraction with social awareness: often … Continue reading
Agua Potable Corriendo por las Calles (Drinking Water Running Throughout the Streets) -Spanish Art Collective Insightful Art Protest For three decades, most of the drinking fountains in the city of Madrid have been rendered inoperative for any number of reasons. The Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus has decided to protest this by the power of sculpture … Continue reading
November 05, 2011 – February 20, 2012 Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was an artist decisively of her time, yet her photographs retain an undeniable immediacy. Thirty years after her death, they continue to inspire audiences with their dazzling ambiguities and their remarkably rich explorations of self-portraiture and the body in architectural space. This retrospective, the first … Continue reading
Urban Orbs -Masakatsu Sashi Masakatsu Sashie’s Urban Orbs paintings are as haunting as they are unique. These large-scale oil paintings feature orbs made up of idealic urban and suburban iconography floating above the remains of the modern world in a post-apocalyptic future. While clearly rooted in Surrealism, the paintings are somewhat ambiguous as to the … Continue reading
January 7th – February 11th, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 7th, 7-10pm Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Gareth Spor’s first solo show with the gallery. Spor often fixates on the physics of light, the cosmos, and the geometries of space and time. He works across a diverse range of media to explore the … Continue reading
January 5 – February 25, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 7, 3-5pm Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of paintings by Dana Hart-Stone, opening on Saturday, January 7th with a reception for the artist from 3-5pm. Drawing on his Montana roots, the works included in Exposition explore image, pattern, and … Continue reading
ChinaMan Gato has been purring around Avalon Radys for a couple months now and is happy to share a little more information about her. She is the new Art Debutant SF social media extraordinaire. At heart, Avalon loves art and appreciates all the hard work that goes into being an artist. Originally from the Great … Continue reading