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Hung Liu at Rena Bransten
Art with political content has, arguably, more currency in this decade than it has at any time since the '60s. However, politics has always been...
Art in America, 06/01/08 by Peter Selz · More from publication -
Mies: Nazi or not?
To the Editors: To the Editors: Franz Schulze in his review of Martin Filler's book Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank Lloyd Wright to...
Art in America, 04/01/08 by Peter Selz · More from publication -
Wolfgang Paalen at Frey Norris
In 1937 the Surrealist painter Wolfgang Paalen invented "fumage," a technique that consists of passing a candle under a freshly prepared surface...
Art in America, 03/01/08 by Peter Selz · More from publication -
Clinton Fein at Toomey-Tourell
Clinton Fein currently exhibits horrifying high-resolution C-prints depicting (through carefully staged reenactments) the torture of prisoners by...
Art in America, 12/01/07 by Peter Selz · More from publication -
The persistence of suffering: in his painterly, often multi-paneled paintings, Jerome Witkin takes a long, hard look at human vulnerability and the cruelty, both private the historical, that it repeatedly summons into being
Attempting to keep a distance from his protagonists, Franz Kafka once remarked that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. In a different...
Art in America, 03/01/07 by Peter Selz · More from publication -
Carlos Villa at SFMOMA Artists Gallery
In 1968 Carlos Villa returned to San Francisco after several years in New York, where he had made sculpture in a Minimalist mode. He then began...
Art in America, 04/01/06 by Peter Selz · More from publication -
Raymond Saunders at Stephen Wirtz
Raymond Saunders's work is about passion--the passion for making paintings, which for this artist has remained unabated since his first solo show...
Art in America, 03/01/06 by Peter Selz · More from publication -
David Ireland: the alchemist: San Francisco artist David Ireland transforms ordinary materials, such as concrete and domestic debris, into playful sculptural installations inspired by Zen precepts. A traveling show surveys his work since the 1970s
When curator William Seitz popularized Dubuffet's term "assemblage" with the exhibition "The Art of Assemblage" at New York's Museum of Modern Art...
Art in America, 12/01/04 by Peter Selz · More from publication -
Travis Somerville at Catharine Clark - San Francisco
Travis Somerville's The Raft of the Grand Wizard (2003), from his recent exhibition "More Songs of the South," appropriates Theodore Gericault's...
Art in America, 03/01/04 by Peter Selz · More from publication -
Ciel Bergman at R.B. Stevenson - San Diego - Art gallery
Ciel Bergman, formerly known as Cheryl Bowers, started her career in San Francisco in the 1970s in a vibrant artistic milieu with artists such as...
Art in America, 07/01/03 by Peter Selz · More from publication
