 Bold, 2011 Archival inkjet print 11 x 14 inches Edition of 2 With the eye of an experienced forager, San Francisco-based artist Cassandra C. Jones collects photos from anonymous individuals on the Internet, and assembles them into works of art. For her current exhibit, “Photos Taken #drawings, ” now showing at the Eli Ridgway Gallery in San . . . → Read More: “Photos Taken #drawings” by Cassandra Jones at the Eli Ridgway Gallery in San Francisco  
Kansas City-based artist Anne Lindberg builds room-sized installations made from thousands of strands of threads suspended from the wall. Taking into consideration each unique space and its light sources, Lindberg painstakingly maps out the precise angles and extensions which will create the seamless gradients in the radiating works. In one of the pieces, Raume Yellow, over . . . → Read More: Room-sized installations composed of thread by Anne Lindberg  (left) "The Sooner We Will Find Their Money" Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas 75×59" (right) "If You Hate Me Live This Way, Don't Make Me Live This Way" Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas 6×10 ft The exhibition “Loving the Exiled” by the German duo artists, Hera and Akut, or Herakut, show images of society’s . . . → Read More: “Loving the Exiled” by Herakut at 941 Geary in San Francisco  "Centralized Division" (2012) Gouache on paper. 50 x 130 inches. As I lean in to examine the work of artist Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian, I hear the pounding of footsteps of characters from an action movie chasing one another through dark alleys, atop buildings, around bustling traffic. The high-speed maneuvering, car crashes and rapid change in point-of-view perspectives . . . → Read More: “Maximalism: Utopia” drawings by Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian at the Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco  "You, Too" by Giuseppe Capozzo, Winner: ScratchCam category Once upon a time, mobile phones were used only for making phone calls. Today, they can do everything short of giving you a massage! But… amazing art can make you feel more inspired than any spa treatment. Just look at the winning entries from the First International MOBILE . . . → Read More: “Mobile Photo Awards” cell-phone photography at ArtHaus Gallery in San Francisco 
I have mixed feelings about female superheroes. On the one hand, it’s great to see powerful women characters. On the other, I cringe at the over-the-top sexist costumes. Fetching to males, but troubling to females. “Heroine,” an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Deborah Oropallo, appropriates comic book iconography by taking images of women . . . → Read More: “Heroine” new paintings by Deborah Oropallo at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco  "Justified Unruly Shoe (Silver/Black)" Ink on Mulberry Paper 44×32" The amazing work of Amsterdam-based artist Niels Shoe Meulman (NSM) has arrived on the shores of San Francisco and now graces the walls of 941Geary is San Francisco. “Justified Scriptures” features the artist’s current discoveries in what he calls “Abstract Expressionism with a calligraphic origin.” Most pieces . . . → Read More: “Justified Scriptures” by Niels Shoe Meulman at 941Geary in San Francisco  "Mansion" oil on canvas, 12" x 12" "Palance" oil on canvas, 25" x 25" If you are longing to be inspired, or re-inspired, by painting, you must see Pang-Chieh Hsu’s exhibit at the Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco. In this show, Hsu paints hyper-realistic images of paper currency from his native country, Taiwan. As indirect sun . . . → Read More: Pang-Chieh Hsu paints old paper money at the Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco  Untitled (wadi) 2012 Ink and watercolor on hand-cut paper, 48 x 48 in Los Angeles based artist Sherin Guirguis has an exhibit, entitled Duwamah (or “rip current” in Arabic), now showing at the Frey Norris in San Francisco. Inspired by last year’s “Arab Spring” events, Guirguis’ work references the still evolving power struggle in the Middle . . . → Read More: “Duwamah” by Sherin Guirguis at the Frey Norris in San Francisco  a time-lapse photo of Judith Braum while she was working on "Diamond Dust" Primates do it. Toddlers do it. Finger painting has to be the most primal (and exhilarating) way of making art. New York City based artist Judith Braun is known for her enormous symmetrical wall paintings created using her fingers along with the motion . . . → Read More: “Diamond Dust” a finger painted mural by Judith Braun |
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