

Recommended San Francisco Gallery Shows in January 2012
This month the San Francisco art galleries are putting on powerful shows of a diverse range of artists. The following shows are not to be missed: Image courtesy of Brian Gross Fine Art Josephine Taylor at Catharine Clark Gallery. Ms. Taylor has produced another show of stunning and haunting works in colored pencil and ink. The works include her signature large scale drawings of complex figural arrangements, smaller scale portraits of figures, and the introduction of small col


Thoughts on the SECA 2010 Award Exhibition
The SECA Award show that occurs every other year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the main support mechanism the museum has for encouraging and engaging with Bay Area artists. This year, the award was given to Kamau Amu Patton, Ruth Laskey, Colter Jacobsen, and Mauricio Ancalmo. These artists work in a wide range of materials and their subject matter is also diverse. While I do not dislike any of the work, though the sound installation by Patton was beginning to g