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Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison at Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley
Global warming and its predictable dire consequences— melting glaciers, rising waters, receding coastlines, and the concomitant reduction of some of the Earth’s most critical land masses, which would...
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Old friends, new faces at Triangle Gallery, San Francisco
Triangle Gallery in San Francisco is featuring a nice selection of works by artists who have been previously represented by the gallery and introducing works by four artists new to the gallery. The...
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Small Treasures at Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco
The current exhibition of “small treasures” at Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery gathers together some thirty-five works in smaller format by ten gallery artists. All of the artists in this show are...
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Transformative processes in environmental art, Kala Art Gallery, Berkeley
Harrisons, Tibet is the High Ground, 2009.In conjunction with the very interesting exhibition on global warming at Kala Art Institute Gallery, Green House Britain and the Force Majeure by Helen Mayer...
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Realism crossing into fantasy: Patricia Tobacco Forrester at Braunstein/Quay...
Patricia Tobacco Forrester’s bright and vibrant, masterful watercolors of complex floral and arboreal landscapes and intense, vivid flowers are very well known and recognized throughout the world, but...
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Thomas Campbell, "YAR," at Gregory Lind Gallery
Thomas Campbell, Givein, 2010. Courtesy Gregory Lind GalleryThomas Campbell is a versatile, imaginative self-taught artist, photographer and filmmaker. His creative roots are in the street culture of...
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"What's It All Mean?" William T. Wiley in Retrospect
Rocks Keeping Our Secrets - With Abstract Colors, 1999.Acrylic, charcoal, and graphite on canvas, 68 3/4 x 71 1/4 inches. Copyright William T. Wiley, Drummond Pike, Mill Valley, California,...
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John Muir: Nature's beloved son
“When I discovered a plant, I sat down to make its acquaintance.”  ...
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Painters and poets of the First San Francisco Renaissance: Mythos Gallery
The artists and poets of San Francisco and Berkeley who contributed to and formed the First Renaissance in the Bay Area, from 1940 to 1955, were largely local and native California residents, some of...
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“Name the Car, Name the Palm”: Thos. K. Meyer photographs at Future Studio, LA
Thomas K. Meyer is a well-known and much respected Los Angeles photographer and artist who in fact has not had much national or international recognition or attention. For years he was, until his...
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Cheech Marin: "Chicanitas" - small paintings from his collection
Cheech Marin owns one of the largest and most renowned collections of Chicano art in America, and perhaps in the world. He has shown works from his famous collection at many venues throughout...
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Innocents Abroad: Travels with the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit and Humor
The San Francisco lawyer and bibliophile, Nat Schmulowitz, began earnestly to collect books on wit, humor, travel, and political satire when he took his first “Grand Tour” of Europe with his family...
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A Tribute to Seamus Heaney, 1995 Nobel Laureate in Literature
My hand is cramped from penwork,My quill has a tapered point.Its bird-mouth issues a blue-darkBeetle-sparkle of ink.Seamus Heaney, the most famous Irish poet since Yeats, died on Friday, 30 August, in...
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Sam Hernandez: "Focus on the Object" at Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
The famous critic R. P. Blackmur in his equally famous essay, "Language as Gesture," observed that "in sculpture we arrest or fix in physical mass and space those human or animal movements, or those...
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