In conjunction with Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, we’ve restyled our weekly in-gallery talks with a superb lineup of past SECA Art awardees. Each Thursday at 6:30pm an artist talks about something on view. Last week, Maria Porges (1992 ... »
Last month, January 19th to be exact, I convinced a friend to come with me to an exhibition at California College of the Arts’ Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art to see Baldessari Class Assignments (Optional). I’d been overhearing, and participatin... »
Though I first encountered them when I was barely 20, few artists since have made as strong an emotional and physical impact on me as Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman. I suppose one could write this off as the romantic over-identification of a young ... »
from Jessica Brier: It is unusual to think of an artist as contemporary, of our own moment, years after her death. Even more unusual is a museum exhibition that focuses on work made in art school and as the artist was just beginning to develop a practi... »
