Unexpected Legends: Arneson, Eggheads, and Arts at UC Davis tells the surprising history and trajectory of one of the country's most dynamic creative environments.
George Adams Gallery's booth in The Art Show presents paintings by M. Louise Stanley and glazed ceramics by Elisa D'Arrigo.
In his cheekily titled 2010 print "Illegal Alien's Guide to Somewhere Over the Rainbow," artist Enrique Chagoya skewers the global scale of environmental destruction and xenophobia. It's one of several works on view in (Re)Print at the Print Center New York, open through December 14, asking us to consider the reproduced imagery that informs our deep-seated beliefs as anti-immigrant sentiment rages unabated in the United States.
Mark Van Proyen reviews Cate White's exhibition Wheel of Fortune at George Adams Gallery's pop up at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, California.
Julie Baumgardner writes about That '70s Show and Esther
Curators Heidi Zuckerman, Courenay Finn, and George Adams join Rail contributor Hearne Pardee for a conversation.
John Yau selects Tom Burckhardt: Ulterior Motif as a must-see show in April for Hyperallergic.
John Yau notes that "Each [gouache work] conjures a world governed by its own logic, yet the multiple domains hold together," in his highlight of Joanna Beall Westermann: Works from the Estate, our exhibition of works on paper and paintings for Hyperallergic.
"The works in Ulterior Motif continue to expertly use pareidolia - the tendency to impose meaning on random patterns, such as seeing animal shapes in cloud formations - to create fascinating tableaux of figurative shapes."
Tom Burckhardt is interviewed by Brainard Carey regarding his current exhibition, Ulterior Motif.
Works by Robert Arneson, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Roy De Forest, and William T. Wiley are included in Nuts and Who’s: A Candy Store Sampler, currently on view at the San Jose Museum of Art
Thanks to W Mag for listing our current exhibition of tapestries and drawings by Craig Calderwood as a must-see show of 2023!
Summoners by Craig Calderwood is included in Bay Area Now 9 on view at YBCA.
We’re delighted Arnaldo Roche Rabell's painting Aqui y Alla is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico.
In his monthly "What I'm Looking At," column, Ben Davis cites Matjames Metson's sculpture as his favorite recent find.
Congratulations to Enrique Chagoya, the artist honoree of the San Jose Museum of Art’s 2023 Gala & Auction!
We’re delighted to share that Luis Cruz Azaceta is the 2023 recipient of the Ogden Museum of Southern Arts’ Opus Award!
The New Codex Ytrebil by Enrique Chagoya (2023) is included in the exhibition Xican-a.o.x. Body, currently on view at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, CA.
Paintings by Katherine Sherwood are included in Beholding Relations, an online exhibition organized by Unit London.
"[The exhibition reveals] how the jocular artist employed humor to draw you into the remarkable craftsmanship of his wonderfully expressive art."
Paintings by Katherine Sherwood are included in Body Politics at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, CA.
We’re pleased a lithograph by Luis Cruz Azaceta is included in Lo que es, es lo que ha sido/What It Is, Is What Has Been: Selections from the ASU Art Museum’s Cuban Art Collection at the Phoenix Art Museum.
Robert Mann Gallery & George Adams Gallery are saddened to announce the passing of Doug Biggert (1941-2023).
Three paintings by Craig Calderwood are included in Figure Telling: Contemporary Bay Area Figuration at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa, CA.
The traveling retrospective Joan Brown, which debuted at SFMOMA in December 2022, has been garnering critical acclaim.
We are thrilled to announce that the website for the Robert Arneson Archive is now live!
William T. Wiley and Robert Arneson are included in an exhibition of Funk art.
The traveling retrospective Joan Brown is now on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA.
A sculpture by Craig Calderwood is included in the traveling exhibition Queer Threads, currently on view at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in San Jose, CA.
The retrospective Juan Francisco Elso: Por América is now open at the Phoenix Art Museum, AZ, following its debut at El Museo del Barrio.
Hearne Pardee has penned an insightful review of Borderless, our current exhibition of work by Enrique Chagoya in which he describes Chagoya's “subversive wit” and “vocabulary of politicized, graphic imagery” that extends into both his paintings and codices.
John Vincler notes that “Chagoya’s good-troublemaking remains ever fresh," in his review of Borderless, our exhibition of paintings, prints, and drawings by Enrique Chagoya, for The New York Times.
Work by Craig Calderwood is included in Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life, a group exhibition at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, CA.
Paintings by Amer Kobaslija are on view in Outside: In at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jackonsville, FL.
Major sculptures by Robert Arneson are currently on view in Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
Work by Enrique Chagoya is included in La Onda Chicana, a group exhibition currently on view at the Mattatuck Museum of Art.
Enrique Chagoya is included in group exhibition Positively Charged: Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s, split between the San Francisco Center For the Book and San Francisco's Main Library.
Works by Katherine Sherwood are on view alongside those of her former student and mentee, Cynthia Ona Innis, in the two-person exhibition Inside-Out at the Xela Institute of Art.
Enrique Chagoya is included in ‘Refined Reflections into the Formidable: Contemporary Latino Art from the Zoe Diaz Collection,’ an exhibition currently on view at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Russell Hill Rogers Galleries.
An exhibition of lithographs by Roy De Forest is on view at the UC Davis Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Philip Pearlstein at the end of last year, following an illness. An early and key member of the gallery’s program, as a painter, Pearlstein helped define a style of realism that flouted the conventions of postwar movements. His exacting and clinical images of models in the studio upended not only the dual tendencies of his contemporaries towards minimalism or expressionism, but were radical in their novel approach to the figure.
Our exhibition of prints and drawings by Sue Coe, Political Television, has a feature by Emily R. Pellerin in Flaunt magazine.
Joan Brown is the subject of a major retrospective, now on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through March 12, 2023. This retrospective is the most comprehensive reexamination of Brown's work in the past two decades, cementing Joan's legacy as one of the most original artists of her generation. It will travel to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, and to the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA.
This exhibition investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Juan Francisco Elso (1956-1988), who was part of the first generation of artists born and educated in post-revolutionary Cuba.
For her exhibition at the gallery, Political Television, Sue Coe has created a print especially for the occasion. The linocut Forced Birth is a benefit edition of 35, with the proceeds going to support Planned Parenthood.
Joan Brown is included in 13 Women, a multi-generational group exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Orange County Museum of Art, California.
Luis Cruz Azaceta is included in this year’s ‘Louisiana Contemporary’ at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.
Robert Arneson's sculpture 'Untitled (Urinal)' has been permanently installed at the San Jose Museum of Art, California, in a gallery celebrating SJMA’s collection as both a gift to and a product of its community.
Enrique Chagoya is included in a group exhibition at the Colorado University Art Museum, celebrating the printmaking studio Shark's Ink.
Katherine Sherwood's 2014 painting Olympia is included in the exhibition Hella Feminist at the Oakland Museum of California.
Katherine Sherwood has works from her Brain Flower series included in the four-part exhibition, Symbiosis at the Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody.
Now on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: Women Painting Women, a thematic exhibition featuring 46 artists who choose women as subject matter in their works, including work by Joan Brown.
Roberta Smith has penned a complimentary review of the New Museum's exhibition Art and Race: The Career of Robert Colescott, which opened on June 28.
Now on view at the Saint Louis Art Museum is Catching the Moment, a group exhibition celebrating the museum's acquisition of 833 works of contemporary art assembled by Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons.
Robert Arneson’s sculpture General Nuke is on view at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, in their exhibition America: Between Dreams and Realities, Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Gregory Gillespie is included a group exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Boston, MA, celebrating the museum’s 60th anniversary.
"Robert Colescott, who died in 2009, was deadly serious about complexity and injustice, but the paintings he made about race in America also had a sense of humor..."
Our exhibition of photographs by Doug Biggert, Hitchhikers and a Sandal Shop, has been reviewed by Megan May Walsh for Musée Magazine.
Miss Rosen has written a feature article on Doug Biggert's photographs for i-D Magazine, on the occasion of our exhibition, Hitchhikers and a Sandal Shop.
Luis Cruz Azaceta is included in the group exhibition Radical Conventions at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, presenting a selection of Cuban American artists working in the 1980s.
Our exhibition of late abstractions by Elmer Bischoff and new paintings by Tom Burckhardt, A Dialogue, was reviewed by Megan D. Robinson for Art & Object.
Katherine Sherwood is included in The Art of Disability Culture at the San Francisco-based arts non-profit Ruth's Table, a continuation of the exhibition of the same name which debuted at the Palo Alto Art Center last year.
Luis Cruz Azaceta is the subject of a career retrospective, titled What a Wonderful World, at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, which brings together paintings, drawings, collage and sculptural works spanning over four decades of the artist's career.
John Yau recently penned an insightful review of our exhibition, Elmer Bischoff/Tom Burckhardt: A Dialogue.
Now on view at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, is their comprehensive exhibition, The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a Kick
Luis Cruz Azaceta is included in the exhibition On the Horizon at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, surveying contemporary Cuban art of multiple generations.
Congratulations to the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art on the opening of their exhibition, William T. Wiley and the Slant Step: All on the Line, celebrating Wiley’s exploration of philosophical, environmental and psychological questions through art in all media available to him
On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the gallery, In Passing, Amer Kobaslsija was interviewed by the Motreal Review about his personal background, working process and inspirations behind his recent work.
Congratulations to Enrique Chagoya on the opening of Borderless: Artist's Books By Enrique Chagoya at the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Enrique Chagoya is included in the exhibition ‘The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundations’ at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, showcasing how some of the most prominent artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have considered this universal subject.
Luis Cruz Azaceta is included in the group exhibition, Pop Crítico/Political Pop: Expressive Figuration in the Americas, 1960s-1980s, at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas. This exhibition gathers works from the museum's collection by American, Latinx and Latin American artists to explore their respective Pop sensibilities as a means to voice a political conscience in art.
Robert Arneson's monumental sculpture Impression of the Artist as an Incorporeal Witness to the Center of the Universe, 1979, is currently on view at the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA. The work was acquired by the museum earlier this year.
Congratulations to Enrique Chagoya and Kara Maria on the opening of their two-person exhibition at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA. Double Trouble: Enrique Chagoya and Kara Maria considers the revolutionary spirit of Chagoya and Maria as an artist-couple, artists-activists, and their decades-long contribution to the Bay Area arts scene.
Robert Arneson is included in the Sheldon Museum of Art’s traveling exhibition Sheldon Statewide, sharing selections from the museum's collection across the state of Nebraska.
Now on view at the Palo Alto Art Center, California: The Art of Disability Culture: Artists with Disabilities Dispelling Myths, Dissolving Barriers, and Disrupting Prejudice, including works by Katherine Sherwood.
It is with great excitement that we announce after 15 years on West 26th Street, the gallery will be moving to Tribeca this fall. Our new space at 38 Walker Street is centrally located within the growing arts community in the neighborhood and we are happy to re-join many longtime neighbors in this new setting.
Congratulations to Luis Cruz Azaceta on being included in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's annual juried exhibition, Louisiana Contemporary, which has reopened to the public following New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Ida.
Luis Cruz Azaceta is included in the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans' 2021 open-call summer exhibition, titled Behind Every Beautiful Thing: Encountering Bodies, Wrestling the Human Condition.
We're pleased to be participating in the annual Chelsea Gallery Walk, organized by the ADAA. Joined by nearly 30 other galleries in the neighborhood, we will remain open until 8pm for a rare opportunity to see our exhibition after-hours.
Gregory Gillespie is included in the exhibition The Voyage of Life: Art, Allegory and Community Response at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC. This exhibition features works from the museum's permanent collection which illuminate the tumultuousness of everyday life.
Luis Cruz Azaceta is included in a group exhibition titled New Flavors: Collected at the Candy Store at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, US Davis, CA. This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Adeliza McHugh and her trailblazing gallery, the Candy Store, in Folsom, CA.
Katherine Sherwood will be giving a lecture at the San Francisco Art Institute, as part of their Graduate Lecture Series. Sherwood will discuss how her life and art were significantly altered by a cerebral hemorrhage in 1997.
Enrique Chagoya was recently the subject of a lecture at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN. Sachi Yanari-Rizzo, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the museum, discussed Chagoya’s prints in-depth, mainly focusing on works in the museum’s permanent collection, as part of their series of Print Room Talks.
Robert Arneson is included in a group exhibition at the Belger Arts Center in Kansas City, MO, dedicated to the memory of William T. Wiley. The exhibition includes works from the Belger Collection by artists such as Wiley, who helped define the sensibilities of Bay Area art in the 1950s and 60s.
Robert Arneson is included in a group exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, titled Craft Front & Center. Organized into eight distinct categories, this installation of MAD’s permanent collection broadly surveys the history of craft in the United States and abroad.
Enrique Chagoya is included in a three-person exhibition alongside Francisco Goya (1746–1828) and José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) at the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Goya, Posada, Chagoya: Three Generations of Satirists exemplifies how these three artists examine their respective cultures through printmaking to establish a visual dialogue about the shared human condition.
Congratulations to Enrique Chagoya, who is the recipient of a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Long considered to be a top honor for artists, the fellowship is awarded to “exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions.”
Robert Arneson is included in an exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Titled Shapes from Out of Nowhere, the exhibition was organized on the occasion of a major gift of 125 modern and contemporary ceramics from the collection of Robert A. Ellison Jr. in honor of the museum's 150th anniversary.
Enrique Chagoya will be the subject of a conversation at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. In the conversation, Cait DiMartino, co-curator of their current exhibition For One and All: Prints from The Block Collection, will showcase two works by Enrique Chagoya and Murry DePillars respectively from the museum's collection.
Jack Beal is included in a group exhibition at the Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia. Titled The Art of the Still Life, the exhibition draws from the museum’s collection and traces the tradition of the still-life, beginning in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and looks to how the tradition has evolved in contemporary times.
Robert Arneson and Diane Edison are included in the exhibition Examining Identity Construction at the MW Gallery in Flint, MI, which presents selections from the Mott-Warsh collection. The exhibition features work by artists of the African-diaspora, or those whose work reflects on it, and is organized into three themed galleries: portraiture, scenes from everyday life, and artworks confronting racial myths and stereotypes.
Tony May will be the subject of two exhibitions at the New Museum in Los Gatos, CA, opening Friday, February 5, and running through Sunday, May 9. The first focuses on 'Views of the T. House,' a series of paintings May completed over the course of the early 1990s, documenting the construction and development of his ambitious, site-specific installation, the T. House, which currently lives on the artist’s San Jose property. Concurrently, May will be featured in the museum’s exhibition series In the Artist’s Studio for which a selection of ephemera chronicling the making of May’s Variable Book Construction (Bookmobile), 1991-95 will be shown.
Diane Edison will be participating in a virtual conversation lead by curator Shawna Harris at the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, in tandem with their current exhibition Emma Amos: Color Odyssey.
We’re pleased to share the video-format review of our recent exhibition of works on paper by Joan Brown, Drawn from Life, by Rob Colvin for Arts Magazine, the new, digital successor to the print legacy Arts Magazine (1926-1992).
Enrique Chagoya was interviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook on the topic of the upcoming trasition of executive power. Chagoya explains his reticence to depict the current president in his art, "In ‘Seven Deadly Sins,’ I have done one or two pictures of [Trump], but then I got sick of it. I replaced his face with avatars; instead of Donald Trump, I did Donald Duck."
Enrique Chagoya is included in a group exhibition at the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Inspired by Zoe Leonard's 1992 artwork 'I Want a President...,' Protest and Promise gathers artworks from the museum's permanent collection which address themes of protest and political unrest, dating from 1963 to 2019.
Enrique Chagoya is included in a group exhibition, LatinXAmerican, at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, which surveys the range of contemporary Latin American artists working across the United States.
Our exhibition of works on paper by Joan Brown was reviewed by Donald Kuspit for the January/February 2021 issue of Artforum. Kuspit provides a detailed and insightful analysis of Brown’s drawing practice, considering both the artist’s personal history as well as her place in the art-historical canon.
Luis Cruz Azaceta is included in a group exhibition at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Miami, FL. Global/Borderless Caribbean XII: Focus Miami is an outdoor exhibition which includes works by artists from the Miami region, or of Caribbean descent, exemplifying the multiplicity of histories, nationalities and ethnicities that define and connect Caribbean culture, all exhibited on the facade of the complex.
Jack Beal is included in an exhibition of significant portraits, Visionary: The Cumming Family Collection, at the National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition is centered around the museum's recent acquisition of over two dozen portraits commissioned by the Cummings in collaboration with the museum spanning over twenty five years, the first of which was Beal's 1995 Portrait of Dr. James Watson. Due to the museum's closure this past spring, Visionary has been reorganized to open with a selection of portraits by Robert McCurdy, with works by Beal, Chuck Close and Nelson Shanks to be added this coming December.
Enrique Chagoya is included in a group exhibition of prints by Chicanx artists and their cross-cultural collaborators at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. Derived primarily from the museum's permanent collection, ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now explores the rise of these graphics within early social movements, such as the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice and have shifted the notion of the word 'Chicano.'
Joan Brown is included in Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The exhibition, which opens Thursday November 19, draws from the museum’s permanent collection to examine the different approaches of women artists whose work engages or challenges ideas of space, whether it be physically or critically.
Elmer Bischoff, Enrique Chagoya, Tony May and Katherine Sherwood are included among many others in a group exhibition on the occasion of Wayne Thiebaud's 100th Birthday, at b. sakata garo gallery, Sacramento, CA. Titled Happy Birthday, the exhibition includes works by Thiebaud and his contemporaries such as Bischoff, David Park and Richard Diebenkorn; as well as works commissioned specifically for the exhibition.
Congratulations to Enrique Chagoya, who has recently been elected to the National Academy of Design. Chagoya is joining a storied community of over 2,350 artists and architects which extends back nearly two centuries. This year’s class includes artists Derrick Adams, Cecily Brown, Mitch Epstein, Rafael Ferrer, Beverly Fishman, Charles Gaines, Carmen Herrera, Jennifer Packer, Walid Raad, Betye Saar, Beverly Semmes, as well as architects Michael Maltzan, Toshiko Mori and Claire Weisz.
Recently opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is David Park and His Circle: The Drawing Sessions, which accompanies a major retrospective of Park’s. David Park and His Circle considers the importance of the drawing sessions: weekly, informal gatherings where artists drew from a live model. Initiated in the early 1950s by artists such as Park, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn and Paul Wonner, these sessions were a result of the camaraderie amongst artists in the Bay Area at the time.
Luis Cruz Azaceta and Enrique Chagoya are included in a group exhibition at the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia. A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience channels the widespread feelings of personal and collective anxiety evident in contemporary art. The exhibition includes over 70 works, all by Latinx and Latin American artists based in the US, from the collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody.
Enrique Chagoya is included in a group exhibition at the Jewish Museum, We Fight to Build a Free World, organized by New York-based artist and curator Jonathan Horowitz. The exhibition looks at how artists have historically responded to the rise of xenophobia, authoritarianism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry. Originally slated to open earlier this year, the exhibition has become increasingly relevant in the wake of recent events this year surrounding police brutality and systemic racism in America.
Enrique Chagoya was recently tasked as a guest juror for The de Young Open, which opens this fall at the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Together with Mildred Howard, Hung Liu and four of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s curators, Chagoya selected the works in the exhibition from over ten thousand submissions. As a lifelong activist and a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area for several decades, Chagoya has been an advocate for Bay Area artists throughout.
Congratulations to Luis Cruz Azaceta, who will be included in two group exhibitions this fall, at the Ogden Museum of Southern art and the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans. The 2020 edition of the Ogden’s Louisiana Contemporary is curated by René Morales, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at the Pérez Art Museum. Opening September 5, it will include works by 56 artists highlighting Louisiana’s unique visual arts culture. Opening September 18 at the CAC New Orleans is the group exhibition Make America What America Must Become. Deriving its title from a 1963 quote by James Baldwin, the exhibition examines and challenges power structures in America through art.
Enrique Chagoya is included in a group exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona. Drawing from its permanent collection, this exhibition reveals the vast range of source material and artistic approaches utilized by contemporary Latin American artists: figuration, abstraction, science, social commentary and everything in between.
We’re pleased to announce that the online viewing room to accompany our current exhibition,Documents is now available. While the gallery is open by appointment, the page serves as an opportunity to virtually tour the exhibition for those who may not be able to visit the gallery in person.
We were saddened to only recently learn of James McGarrell’s passing earlier this year. One of the most celebrated painters of his generation, he was generally grouped with other realist painters such as Jack Beal and Philip Pearlstein. However he considered the term “fiction painting” to better describe his work, and the combination of allegory and wide-ranging literary and artistic references in his paintings defies easy categorization. McGarrell considered that “[his] canvases… are informed by invention, which is simply memory recharged by idea and imagination."
Luis Cruz Azaceta was interviewed by François Vallée for Hypermedia Magazine's The Bunker, a series by Vallée which focuses on contemporary Cuban art. In the interview, Azaceta discusses his upbringing in Marianao, Cuba; the experience of living as a Cuban exile for the past 60 years; how emmigrating to New York at the age of 18 formed his outlook on art and life; and the ways in which his artistic process has evolved over the years. Azaceta explains, "I have always considered myself a New York artist, my training has been done in this city with all its influences and, of course, with my Cuban idiosyncrasy and my particular way of thinking about art, which is a fusion of the two cultures in that physical and mental space called exile."
Enrique Chagoya was in conversation with Bud Shark, as part of an online program co-organized by the International Print Center New York and the Manhattan Graphics Center. The talk focused on art-making, cultural dialogue, collaboration, and the current crisis, moderated by Sarah Kirk Hanley, Executive Director of MGC, and Judy Hecker, Director of IPCNY.
Congratulations to Katherine Sherwood, who will be receiving an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, during their 2020 commencement address! Alongside artists Mel Chin, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell and Gerald Williams, Sherwood will be recognized for her work addressing intersectionality, feminism, and art history through the lens of disability.
Elmer Bischoff is the subject of a survey exhibition at the Marin Museum of Contemproary Art. The exhibition includes over thirty works from private and public collections that illustrate Bischoff's visual journey from abstraction to figuration, and back again, over the course of four decades. Bischoff is internationally recognized as a founder, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, of what has come to be known as Bay Area Figuration. His paintings are sensual and lyrical, with marks and compositions influenced by his love of music, including New Orleans Jazz and classical music. Regardless of what he sought to capture, Bischoff was continually engaged in searching out an elusive harmony from his subjects.
The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art will be hosting a talk on Robert Arneson's Black series. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw will examine the controversial body of work, which shows Arneson wrestling with complex ideas about racial stereotyping, political demagoguery and his own identity as he simultaneously battled the debilitating cancer that would take his life in 1992.
Peter Saul is the subject of a survey exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Saul's first museum retrospective in New York, Crime and Punishment spans five decades of the artist's career. The show illustrates his evolution from early gestural paintings on American consumerism to a sharp, brightly-colored aesthetic drawing from elements of Pop Art, Surrealism, history painting, vernacular illustration and the shock of current events, embued with persistent ethicality and a biting sense of humor. Spanning roughly sixty paintings, Saul addresses topics varying from '60s California counter-culture to the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan, Angela Davis, race and gender politics, art criticism, US history, and self-examination.
Enrique Chagoya is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art. Aliens is a survey of the artist's career: works included illustrate the artist drawing from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the late '70s, and also in Europe in the late '90s.
Enrique Chagoya is included in a group exhibition at the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, which gathers a range of works investigating the genre of portraiture in contemporary art.
Joan Brown, Roy De Forest and William T. Wiley are included in a group exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico. Featuring a selection of works on paper from the museum's collection, Cartoon Formalism examines the Funk aesthetic cultivated in Northern California in the 1970s. Moving away from the kind of abstraction that triumphed in New York at the time, these artists created work that is ironic and playful in appearance, while presenting serious psychological and personal subjects.
Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest and William T. Wiley are included in a group exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Gesture: The Human Figure After Abstraction presents the work of the first-generation artists of the UC Davis art department at a pivotal moment in art history. As part of what came to be known as the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Davis artists looked to abstract art while nurturing a distinctive identity for modernism.
Jack Beal is included in a group exhibition at the Huntington Museum of Art. Pastels & Drawings presents significant works on paper from the museum's collection that chronicle the history of drawing, contextualized as independent works of art as well as preparatory and ephemeral materials.
Amer Kobaslija is included in a group exhibition at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens. Eclectic Ecology: Landscape Perspectives from Ponce De León to Florida Man surveys how artists over time have engaged with the Floridian cultural landscape. Since Jacques le Moyne, the first European artist known to have visited Florida, arrived in 1564, artists have wrestled with how to capture this dichotomy between the natural landscape and its inhabitants in their depictions of the state.
Joan Brown's 1975 The Room, Part 1 is currently on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Crossroads, mined from the museum's permanent collection, illustrates the artist's critical role in everyday life, at the intersection of history and society. Beginning in 1945, the installation is broken up into chapters that create a visual dialog of global post-war history.
Robert Arneson is included in a group exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019 surveys how artists have explored craft in their respective practices over the past seven decades. Stemming from the museum's permanent collection, the works included in the exhibition challenge and expand upon ideas of abstraction, popular culture, feminist and queer aesthetics, and relationships to identity and place.
Enrique Chagoya will have a solo exhibition at Coulter Art Gallery at Stanford University. Detention at the Border of Language will be a survey of paintings, drawings, prints and multiples focusing on the idea of alienation and cultural identity. Chagoya, who is a full professor in Stanford's department of Art and Art History, says in a statement "I believe that everybody is an alien. I think that we all come from somewhere else. Nobody is pure ethnically. Those times are gone..."
Amer Kobaslija's recent solo exhibition Florida Noir at Arthur Roger Gallery was reviewed by Francesca Aton for Art in America. The article examines the nuances and references in Kobaslija's new body of work surveying Florida's cultural and natural landscapes. Aton writes "Kobaslija’s scenes of hunters and police officers patrolling forlorn lands suggest a postapocalyptic world, but his paintings also envision quotidian experiences during a slow-moving ecological crisis, with desolate landscapes inhabited by families, children, and pets."
Enrique Chagoya is the subject of a solo exhibition at Florida Gulf Coast University Art Galleries. Everyone is an Alienígeno: Enrique Chagoya is the first survey of the artist’s work in Florida. The exhibition includes prints and paintings on his political and social activism, addressing issues such as national borders, immigration and cultural conflict.
Karen Nikos-Rose has recently posted a story to the UC Davis Arts Blog on Robert Arneson's Anti-War works, as well as Kathryn Olmsted's contribution to our catalog on the series. The post provides an overview of Olmsted's essay for the catalog and her previous work, as well as details on Arneson's career in context to Bay Area politics and his thirty-year tenure as professor at UC Davis.
Enrique Chagoya is the subject of several recent essays by Ruben Cordova for Glasstire. This three-part series of long form essays discusses heroes, villains, and all things satire in Chagoya's work and practice. Cordova references specific works as well as recent conversations with the artist, analyzing Chagoya's work in a critical and art-historical context.
Luis Cruz Azaceta is included in 10: Artist as Catalyst at the Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University. This exhibition revisits a 1992 portfolio of prints made by a group of 10 artists to benefit the Alternative Museum in New York which was targeted in the '80s "culture wars" for its dedication to mounting exhibitions of social and political relevance.
Robert Arneson and WIlliam T. Wiley are included included in Slant Step Forward at the Verge Center for the Arts. The exhibition centers itself around the "slant step," an infamous slanted stool originally procured by Wiley back in 1965. Over five decades the slant step was passed around between artists from Northern California such as Bruce Nauman and Richard Serra, and went on to inspire countless works of art and literature, including an artists' book published in 1969 by Phil Weidman.
Enrique Chagoya is included in a group exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Ancient History of the Distant Future juxtaposes PAFA’s storied permanent collection with thirteen contemporary artists whose work engages with or reacts to art history in some capacity. In a suite of eight etchings titled Return to Goya’s Caprichos, Chagoya revisits Goya’s series of Caprices from the late 1700s, using its critical perspective on 18th century Spainish society as a jumping off point to analyze today's history in a similar vein.
Enrique Chagoya, Amer Kobaslija, and Andrew Lenaghan have works included in a group exhibition at the Oakland University Art Gallery. Your Very Own Paradise offers a conduit to inspire the viewer to repose in a visual culture that is less pessimistic and more open to the abundance of a positive and inclusive world view. Including over a dozen artists, this exhibition serves as a visual break from the tumultousness of our times.
Tony May is included in a three person exhibition titled Secret Language at b. sakata garo gallery in Sacramento, CA alongside Lonny Tomono and Chris Daubert. The exhibition presents three artist friends who have long lived far apart but have influenced, inspired or amused one another's work since their first meeting in San Jose, CA circa 1974.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has recently acquired Joan Brown's Self Portrait from 1977. Self-portraiture was a major part of Brown's practice, this one being of particular significance. Brown directly challenges stereotypes that women artists often face, depicting herself seated in her studio wear white gloves, a billowy dress and heels painting a still-life when in actuality she wore sensible clothes often splattered in paint.
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art first launched Louisiana Contemporary, Presented by The Helis Foundation, in 2012, to establish a vehicle that would bring to the fore the work of artists living in Louisiana and highlight the dynamism of art practice throughout the state. The 2019 edition, which opened to the public on August 3, includes 23 artists and 44 works of art, spanning painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper and mixed-media installation.
Enrique Chagoya will be giving a lecture at the San Antonio Museum of Art early next month. The talk will focus on Chagoya's appropriation of Western art from the perspective of a non Western artist to address topics such as immigration and colonialism in his art.
Tony May is included in a three-person exhibition at 871 Fine Arts, alongside Léonie Guyer and Dan Max. This exhibition juxtaposes the work of long-time Bay Area artists. May's work in the exhibition comprises a selection of paintings, sculpture and constructions dating 1980-2019.
Luis Cruz Azaceta is named in a complimentary long form review of Art after Stonewall: 1969-89 in the New York Times. Holland Cotter notes "...though we’re in the era of AIDS, the sense of urgency that absolutely defined that time is missing. This is not to say there’s a shortage of good work." He goes on to say that "The show would be valuable if it did nothing more than showcase artists like Laura Aguilar, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Jerome Caja, Lenore Chinn, Maxine Fine, Luis Frangella and Marc Lida..."
A long-form article on Amer Kobaslija's current exhibition Florida Diaries is featured in Oslobodjenje, one of the most iconic publications based in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Irfan Hosic writes "the "Florida Diaries" series is an integral part of [Kobaslija]'s psychological tissue, in which the experience of violent relocation and alienation, as well as voluntary acceptance and rapprochement, is permanently recorded."
Enrique Chagoya is featured in What is an edition, anyway? at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. This exhibition explores the traditions, conditions, assumptions, and inventive expressions of the contemporary artists’ multiple, featuring works from the McEvoy Family Collection and the collection of Thomas Cvikota, alongside projects by Chagoya, Daniel Clowes, Ala Ebtekar, Jonn Herschend, Stephanie Syjuco, and Hank Willis Thomas.
Enrique Chagoya was recently in conversation with Nick Naughton for The Print Cast, a podcast focusing on artists, designers, and printers in regards to the work they do and how it intersects with the trade and the craft of printmaking. Chagoya and Naughton discuss Chagoya's art, how satire can provoke an array of responses, and what it's like working with Master Printers. This episode is Part 1 of this interview.
Our booth of monumental paintings by Joan Brown at Frieze New York is featured in artnet News. 8 Booths You Won’t Want to Miss at Frieze New York 2019 highlights eight booths as a "must-see." On Joan Brown, the article states "Throughout her career, California artist Joan Brown devoured art history, absorbing influences from ancient cultures to the Old Masters. The culmination of these studies were her 1983 series of Homage paintings, four of which are on view for the first time together here. Each of these monumentally scaled works (each measuring 6 feet x 10 feet) is dedicated to the symbolism and visual language of a culture that inspired Brown."
Enrique Chagoya will be a panelist in an upcoming talk at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art titled The Art of Appropriation and Intellectual Property. Chagoya and other panelists Sonia Katyal and Sriba Kwadjovie, moderator, will discuss how appropriation manifests itself in visual art, shifting our understanding of creativity and the meaning of ownership.
Our exhibition of new paintings by Amer Kobaslija is reviewed in Hyperallergic. "With a documentarian’s eye," Edward Gómez writes, "a stylist’s deft handling of his materials, and a local’s appreciation for his subjects, Kobaslija again demonstrates that his art may be seen simultaneously as landscape painting, portraiture, and a form of contemporary history painting."
Luis Cruz Azaceta will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989, at New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Azaceta's AIDS Patient 1989 is included among over 200 works of art and related visual materials exploring the impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) liberation movement on visual culture.
The Orlando Museum of Art has recently announced that Amer Kobaslija is one of ten artists artists for the 2019 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art. Organized and curated by the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA), the Florida Prize exhibition brings new recognition to the state’s most compelling and progressive artists. Artists range from emerging to mid-career, and each is engaged in exploring significant issues of contemporary art and society in original and visually exciting ways.
Currently on view at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is Building a Different Model: Selections from the di Rosa Collection curated by Dan Nadel. The exhibition features works by 40 artists including Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Robert Hudson, Peter Saul, William T. Wiley and others, which address the world by offering generative visions of transformation and repair through social, physical, and ceremonial relationships.
Chris Ballantyne was interviewed by critic Cody Delistraty for Modern Painters Magazine on his solo exhibition Temporal: Recent Paintings and Watercolors. Delistraty writes "Ballantyne’s unpopulated landscape paintings maintain the vestiges of humanity in their architecture and buildings, but they ultimately question where this development is taking us, and how we’ve come to relate to nature."
Elmer Bischoff's 1967 painting Girl With Arms Raised is included in artnet News' "6 Dazzling Works at the ADAA’s Art Show." The article features six highlights from this year's show. Eileen Kinsella writes that the painting "immediately evokes Picasso’s moody harlequin paintings."
Enrique Chagoya was recently interviewed for the National Portrait Gallery to discuss his 2016 lithograph Aliens Sans Frontières. This work is included in NPG's current exhibition Eye to I: Self Portraits from 1900 to Today, on view through August 18th.
Robert Arneson's 1965 sculpture Scale has been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. An iconic work from early in his career, Scale is a prime example of Arneson’s brand of irreverent Pop and represents an important milestone in the development of Robert Arneson as an artist.
Enrique Chagoya will be speaking at the San Francisco Hunters Point Shipyard later this month. Enrique Chagoya: His New Paintings, Aliens Sans Frontières, an artist’s slide talk, is the third program in the To The Point series. Chagoya will speak about his recent work, which focuses on immigration and colonialism.
During her tenure as 2019 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence, Diane Edison will have a solo exhibition at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University. The exhibition will consist of self-portraits and images of family members, co-workers, and friends dating from 1997-2015. Edison will give a lecture focusing on the exhibition on February 7 at the Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center.
Enrique Chagoya's work is featured in a group exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print draws from the museum’s collection, featuring work by contemporary artists who exploit printed and photographic media in ways that intentionally reveal the confusing line between art and information, fact and fiction.
Joan Brown is included in the exhibition One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. This group exhibition is inspired by American painter and film critic Manny Farber and his legendary underground essay “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art” (1962).
Our previous exhibition of work by Luis Cruz Azaceta was reviewed in Diario de Cuba. Writer Alejandro Anreus notes "Unlike Francis Bacon or José Luis Cuevas, the self-portrait in the hands of Cruz Azaceta is never the usual narcissistic grimace of Anglo-Irish or Mexican. Cruz Azaceta uses his face and body to disembowel, showing us without any pain his wounds..."
Roy De Forest and William T. Wiley are featured in West by Midwest at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. This exhibition illuminates the ways that contemporary art practices spread and develop by tracing the intersecting lives of artists who have migrated from the American Midwest to the West Coast since the mid-20th century.
Robert Arneson, Enrique Chagoya, and Robert Hudson will be included in a 40th anniversary exhibition at Sonoma State University Art Gallery. 40 by 40 celebrates the University Art Gallery's anniversary with an exhibition presenting one work each by 40 artists who have been featured in either solo or group shows since the Gallery first opened in 1978.
Enrique Chagoya is featured in Califas: Art of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands at the Richmond Art center. Featuring works by 21 contemporary artists and collaborative groups, Califas explores the origins of migrant memory, the consequences of boundary line fortifications, the mixing of border cultures, responses to injustice and inequality, and solutions to advance the borderlands and its peoples.
Joan Brown's 1971 painting Portrait of a Girl has been acquired by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The work will be included in the upcoming exhibition New to Mia: Paintings of All Shapes and Sizes!, highlighting recent aquisitions at MIA by modern and contemporary artists across genres and cultures.
Enrique Chagoya has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Enrique Chagoya: Reverse Anthropology features Chagoya's deceptively subversive prints that explore issues of immigration, colonialism, the economy, the government, the commodification of art, and the recurring subject of cultural clash that continues to riddle contemporary life.
Works by Jack Beal, Enrique Chagoya, and Gregory Gillespie are featured in the National Portrait Gallery's upcoming exhibition Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900-Today. Drawing from the National Portrait Gallery’s vast collection of self-portraits, this exhibition critically considers how American artists have chosen to portray themselves over the past two centuries.
Works by Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown are included in the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: Artist's Choice at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. For this exhibition, Thiebaud delved deep into the museum’s storage vault. His choices include both old friends and new discoveries by European Modernists.
Joan Brown and Diane Edison will be featured in the upcoming exhibition at Concord Center for the Visual Arts titled In Her Own Image: Self Portraits by Women from 1900-2018. This exhibition, curated by Amy Sudarsky, includes paintings, drawings and prints designed to present the evolution of images that women have made of themselves since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Robert Arneson and Joan brown are included in HINDSIGHT/INSIGHT: Reflecting on the Collection at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. This exhibition highlights over 50 artworks acquired since the museum was founded in 1962, with a focus primarily on international art movements of the 1960s and 70s including Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Art and California Funk.
Diane Edison will spend Spring Term 2019 serving as Hollins University’s Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence. The artist-in-residence program enables the university to bring a recognized artist to campus every year to work in a campus studio and teach an art seminar open to all students. During their time at Hollins, the artist-in-residence is a vital part of the university and greater Roanoke communities.
Luis Cruz Azaceta will be included in Pop América, 1965-1975 at the Nasher Museum at Duke University. This exhibition will examine the participation and significant contribution of Latin American and Latinx artists working at the same time and alongside their U.S. and European counterparts during this period, and will make a timely and critical contribution to a more complete understanding of this artistic period of Pop.
Joan Brown is included in an exhibition at the University Art Gallery at UCI. First Glimpse: Introducing the Buck Collection offers a preview of the Gerald Buck Collection, acquired by the University gallery in 2013, in anticipation of the construction of the UCI Institute and Museum for California Art.
Amer Kobaslija's solo exhibition Spirit of Place is on view at the Lycoming College Art Gallery. The show features small-scale, tightly executed oil paintings of Kobaslija's cluttered art studios from a bird’s eye view, along with recent landscapes inspired by travels to Florida, Japan and Switzerland. Painted in oil, the seemingly idyllic scenes are charged with turbulent histories.
The San José Museum of Art's exhibition Rise Up! Social Justice In Art From The Collection of J. Michael Bewley features works by Robert Arneson, Enrique Chagoya, Luis Cruz Azaceta, among others. The works included in this exhibition embody the value system of their collector. They explore issues that resonate with current political movements such as Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and the contemporary LGBTQ movement.
An exhibition of drawings by Diane Edison is currently on view at the Neil Britton Art Gallery at Virginia Wesleyan University. Portraits surveys a group of eleven portrait drawings depicting Edison herself as well as friends, family, and fellow artists, dating from 1997-2015.
Gregory Gillespie's Tomb II from 1998-99 is on view at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. This installation, made from mixed media on wood panels, is one of many shrine-like self portrait constructions made by Gillespie.
Robert Arneson is included in The Incongruous Body, a group exhibition at the American Museum of Ceramic Art. The exhibition includes fourteen artists who represent, stylize, hybridize, and deconstruct the human body to starkly different comic effect. The work being exhibited invites the viewer to revel in the awkward, to embrace the weird and to scrutinize a little bit too closely themselves and the world of which we are all a part.
Roy De Forest is included in A Time Before We Were Born: Visions of Arcadia In Contemporary Painting at Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery. Taking its title from the 1983 Talking Heads song “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody),” this group exhibition surveys how painters have drawn inspiration from existing and invented mythologies to create interpretations of natural and fantastical paradises, illustrating a necessity for visual hope and harmony.
Enrique Chagoya currently has a solo exhibition Reimaging the New World of his prints and codices at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, NV. Chagoya often appropriates the visual tropes of Western modernism in his works, just as the masters of Modern art cannibalized so-called primitive forms without properly contextualizing them. His codices, based on the pre-Columbian format, illustrate an imagined world in which the European conquest of the New World failed and the normative culture of the Americas is based in indigenous ideology.
The current exhibition, Way Bay, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) puts together an exposition of diverse works of Bay Area art, film and poetry spanning 200 years of creativity. Works by Enrique Chagoya, Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff and David Park are included in the exhibition, among many of their contemporaries.
A brief survey of work by Enrique Chagoya, Aliens Sans Frontiéres is currently on view at the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery of the State University of New York at Fredonia. The exhibition highlights Chagoya's approach towards upending Modernist principles, featuring a range of the artist's work. Included are a selection of paintings, the series of etchings Recurrent Goya, based on Goya's Caprichos, as well as examples of the Chagoya's Illegal Alien codexes, derived from Pre-Columbian books and featuring painted, drawn, and collaged images.
Our exhibition of painting by Joan Brown is reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail. Writer David Carrier notes "Brown’s absolute mastery of the medium of painting" and identifies her minimalist tendacies as part of the tradition of modernist painting, which (quoting Baudelaire), “fills you with a pleasure which is absolutely divorced from its subject.”
Our current exhibition of paintings by Joan Brown has been featured as a Critic's Pick in Artforum. Reviewer Beau Rutland calls it a "concise and satisfying sampling of Brown's oeuvre."
Joan Brown: In Living Color is on view from September 12 - November 11 at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California. The exhibition contains works on paper showcasing Brown's bold style that breaks the formalism in upholding narrative.
Amer Kobaslija's upcoming solo exhibition The Fear of the Unknown opens September 16th at the Galerie zur Matze in Brig, Switzerland and will run through October 22nd. The show is a part of the 2017 Wallis Triennale, a national exhibition which focuses on Swiss art, as well as other European artists. Kobaslija was invited to represent Brig after his residency last year at AiR Brig.
Enrique Chagoya's work will be featured in the upcoming exhibition How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney, at the Schindler House and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex from September 9, 2017, through January 14, 2018. The MAK Center presents at these two locations "an exhibition of over 150 works by 48 Latin American artists who investigate and challenge nearly one hundred years of cultural influence between Latin America and Disney. Spanning painting, photography, graphic work, drawing, sculpture, video, documents, and the critical responses generated, the joint exhibition explores the idea that there are no clean boundaries between art, culture, and geography, and deconstructs how such notions are formed and disputed."
Our exhibition of paintings by Albuquerque-based artist, Xuan Chen, was reviewed by John Yau in Hyperallergic. Described as "definitely an exhibition to go see", Yau summarizes the work from Chen's 'Light Space Intimacy' series as: "[she] likens the viewer’s experience of her painted constructions to 'exploring a newly acquired digital device,' but they have much more staying power than that."
Now on view at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt through September 3rd is a major retrospective of the oevre of Peter Saul curated by Martina Weinhart. A catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibtion, including an interview with the artist and contributing essays from Martina Weinhart and Richard Schiff. The exhibition spans Saul's career from its origins in the '60s to the present day, and includes such pieces as Saigon (1967), The Government of California (1969), and Ronald Reagan in Grenada (1983).
The Oakland Museum of Art presents Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest now through August 20. Featuring 50 paintings and sculptures, this is Roy De Forest's first full career retrospective. The exhibition is accompanied by a major monograph by curator Susan Landauer, which can be found here. Said Landauer about De Forest, “His unconventional style of painting is so profound—he’s an extremely important figure in American art. The exhibition offers a great variety of his works, from the humorous and serious to the whimsical and wondrous.”
Peter Saul: Pop to Politics was reviewed in this weekend's LA Times, courtesy of Christopher Knight. His description of Saul's early paintings and drawings runs the gamut of art-historical references: "...Max Beckmann collides with jingoist all-American Thomas Hart Benton within an abstract structural armature of Willem de Kooning, all slathered with a cheeky overlay of Mad Magazine irreverence."
For the innagural exhibition at the new Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, Out Our Way explores the development of the revolutionary UC Davis Department of Art, founded in 1958. The exhibition revives the “spirit of defiant provincialism” which, in merely 10 years, propelled the program to be recognized as one of the most courageous and wildly inventive communities of artists working in the world. Featuring the work of Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Arneson, William T. Wiley, Roy De Forest, Roland Petersen, Manuel Neri, Ralph Johnson, Ruth Horsting, Daniel Shapiro, Tio Giambruni, Jane Garritson and John Baxter, Out Our Way is on view through March 26, 2017.
As part of the Tajan ARTSTUDIO program, a series of special exhibitions held at L'Espace Tajan, Paris, is a special exhibition focusing on artists of the Bay Area, from 1960-1990. Including the work of Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Roy De Forest, Peter Saul, Mark di Suvero, Wayne Thiebaud and William T Wiley, it is the first exhibition of its scope and focus to be presented in Paris. A catalog with essay by Hilarie Faberman has been published for the occasion.
The Ringling College of Art and Design will be exhibiting a survey of paintings by Amer Kobaslija in the Willis Smith Galleries from January 15 to Feburary 20, 2016. A Ten Year Survey highlights the various subjects that have occupied artist Amer Kobaslija over the last decade, including views of Kesennuma, Japan where the tsunami came ashore in 2011, his personal studio, Bathus' studio, and landscapes of Switzerland and Florida.
Our survey exhibition of painting by Amer Kobaslija has been reviewed by Hovey Brock for the Brooklyn Rail. Brock writes: "The twenty-two paintings in this ten-year survey of Amer Kobaslija’s work at the George Adams Gallery varied widely in size. The two largest were well over six feet across, while the smallest measured three-and-a-half inches to a side. The subject matter fell roughly into two buckets: interiors with the flattened perspective of a fish-eye lens, and panoramic, often equally distorted views of desolate or ruined landscapes—Kobaslija’s “spaces” and “places.” For all these scenes, people were noticeably absent, as if they represented empty stages waiting for an entrance. In a few exceptions there was at most a solitary figure in the picture, usually with his or her back turned. Kobaslija’s virtuosic paint handling—the true dramatis personae—united this body of work. While the larger pieces had wonderful passages, the densely packed brushwork of the very smallest paintings was electrifying..."
Recently featured in Hyperallergic is a long-form essay by Nicole Rudick discussing Joan Brown's life and legacy, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Brown's death. Rudick writes, "Brown died twenty-five years ago this month, leaving behind a substantial body of work, yet the trajectory of her art and art making, as well as her role in the Bay Area scene, is under-recognized. Solo exhibitions of her paintings are infrequent, and large-scale shows on the East Coast are unheard of. A small survey at George Adams Gallery in New York last spring, Joan Brown: Major Paintings from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, gave shape to Brown’s enthusiastic reception of Bischoff’s example, showing how she searched her immediate environment for things to paint."
Our exhibition of figurative paintings by Elmer Bischoff has recently been reviewed by Simon Carr for The New York Sun. Carr notes, "This absorbing show is the first gallery exhibit in 25 years to focus exclusively on Bischoff’s figurative works. On leaving the gallery, for a moment, the world is changed, its colors and shapes seen through Bischoff's eyes."
Our exhibition of figurative paintings by Elmer Bischoff has been reviewed by John Yau for Hyperallergic. Yau writes, "The eleven paintings in the exhibition date from 1954 to 1972, covering all but the first two years that he worked figuratively. I found the experience paradoxical: happy to see paintings from different phases while simultaneously wishing that there could have been a larger selection in a more spacious setting. Bischoff may have gotten his due in San Francisco, but he certainly hasn’t gotten it in New York, and I hardly think of him as a regional painter."
Our exhibition Elmer Bischoff: Figurative Paintings has been featured in the 'Goings on About Town' section of The New Yorker. The article reads: "Large, moody, startlingly strong paintings, made between 1953 and 1972, argue for greater recognition for the Bay Area peer of Richard Diebenkorn and David Park. Bischoff countered Abstract Expressionism (which he knew first hand, as a student of Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko) with a stubborn loyalty to figuration..."
Our current exhibition of figurative painting by Elmer Bischoff has been reviewed in The New York Times by Ken Johnson. On Bischoff's work, Johnson notes "...While these landscapes may imply a retreat into archaic fantasy, in the context of the 1960s and early ’70s, they suggest something more urgent: a Whitmanesque search for the spirit of America."
We are excited to anounce the publication of a new monograph on the life and work of Amer Kobaslija, the first of its kind. The monograph includes essays by Michael Amy, Edward M. Gomez and Patterson Sims, as well as an interview with the artist and 102 color plates.
Congratulations to Andrew Lenaghan, who has recently been awarded the Distinguished Professor Award at The Pratt Institute for the academic year of 2015-16. The award is decided by votes from the Institute's entire student body.
Enrique Chagoya was recently interview by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 'The Artist Project.' In the interview, Chagoya discusses Goya's Los Caprichos, the meaning behind the suite of prints and how they relate to contemporary society.
Our exhibition of paintings by Joan Brown has been reviewed by the Rhino Horn Artists Blog, in tandem with an exhibition of works by Leon Golub at the Serpentine galleries, London.
"Two seminal Figurative Expressionists have concurrent exhibitions in two continents. An exhibition of many seminal large canvases by Leon Golub entitled Bite Your Tongue is currently at Serpentine Galleries in London, and Joan Brown’s Selected Major Paintings and Sculptures 1957-1975 is up at George Adams Gallery in New York City..."
Our current exhibition of paintings by Joan Brown has been reviewed by Peter Plagens for The Wall Street Journal. Plagens notes, "Joan Brown (1938-1990) was a prodigy in the “Bay Area Figurative style,” and “Portrait of a Chair” (1958), which serves as a kind of frontispiece to this exhibition, is a stunning example of someone mastering scale, composition, color and hell-for-leather brushwork at the tender age of 19..."
Amer Kobaslija and Kako Ueda are included in Objects to be Contemplated at the Selby Gallery at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. The exhibition focuses on the notion that the average art viewer spends 27 secounds looking at a work of art, highlighting artworks which encourage viewers to spend more time with it.
Congratulations to Kako Ueda, who has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for the 2013-14 cycle. Ueda has received the award in the Crafts & Sculpture category for her work using cut paper and collage.
Our exhibition of hard-edge paintings by Jack Beal has been reviewed by Alanna Martinez for The New York Observer. In the review, Martinez points out that "Between 1968 and 1972 the New York Realist painter—known for his nude studies and the public murals he produced for the U.S. Department of Labor building—departed from his thick-brushed signature strokes to paint in blinding neon, flat foregrounds, and sharp geometric compositions."
Joan Brown is included in XL: Large-Scale Paintings From the Permanent Collection at the Frances Leman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. The show consists of large-scale paintings - those that measure over 6 feet - which because of their size are rarely exhibited. The show was continues in the vein of the now-iconic 1947 MoMA exhibition Large-Scale Modern Painting.