It’s April again in Berkeley, California and that means one thing – the Wisteria is blooming everywhere. It’s been a riot of purple for the past few weeks and I’ve been able to capture some of it on walks around the neighborhood. OK, it’s spring, so there are other blooming flowers, like jasmine, all over…
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Notre Dame And Rebuilding The Gothic
After seeing the images of the fire damage in Notre Dame it seems a relief that it was only the roof that burned and the structure itself remains intact and fit for restoration. Some of the beautiful Gothic cathedrals we have today were without roofs for years, some even for decades, and they survived. Stone…
Oliver Lee Jackson At The National Gallery Of Art
American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) has created a complex body of work which masterfully weaves together visual influences ranging from the Renaissance to modernism with principles of rhythm and improvisation drawn from his study of African cultures and American jazz. Jackson’s often large-scale paintings blend figural elements of bodies pointing,…
EPOCH At Gallery 16
Ep·och, /’epǝk/, noun: A period of time in history or a person’s life (fourteen years in the case of these artists) typically marked by notable events or particular characteristics. The long-standing friendship between Libby Black, Taravat Talepasand, and Josephine Taylor, has woven its way through many spheres of life: love, home, motherhood, work, culture, community,…
Lenka Clayton At Catharine Clark Gallery
Catharine Clark Gallery is presenting Lenka Clayton’s immersive exhibition of sculptures, typewriter drawings, photographs, and videos that engage with everyday materials and situations, extending the familiar into realms of the poetic, the absurd, and the profound. Clayton’s “Typewriter Drawings” – illustrated works on paper entirely rendered with a portable 1957 Smith-Corona Skyriter typewriter – line…
Jeff Wall At Gagosian New York
From his pioneering use in the 1970s of backlit color transparencies—a medium then synonymous with advertising—to his intricately constructed scenes of enigmatic incidents from daily life, literature, and film, Wall has expanded the definition of the photograph, both as object and illusion. The triptych I giardini/The Gardens (2017) was photographed in the gardens of the…
M.Louise Stanley At Kala Gallery
Louise Stanley’s paintings document current and fictitious events using myth and allegory. Commenting on the human condition, modern-day romance, feminism, and other political issues, her work has an amazing presence, balancing the colloquial and the sublime. Humor is the catalyst and a bridge to darker, more troubling issues. These themes resonate with the challenges of…
Setsuko At Gagosian Paris
Nature is my master. Without its guidance, how could I paint or work? My Swiss garden is surrounded by forests and mountains. I look closely; Nature shows me. — Setsuko Working across many mediums, from bronze to gouache, Setsuko combines sumptuous surfaces with tranquil subject matter, often suggesting an optimistic interconnectedness between natural and constructed…
Can’t Lock Me Up: Women Resist Silence At Turner Carroll Gallery
Turner Carroll is presenting this exhibition to showcase artwork by some of the most important women artists of our century: Hung Liu, Judy Chicago, Jenny Holzer, Fatemeh Baigmoradi, Lien Truong, sheri crider, Ambreen Butt, and Monica Lundy. These artists’ works are featured in some of the most esteemed museums throughout the world. They are unwavering…
