Studio Tutto: Seed Spires
Theodore Payne Gallery 10459 Tuxford Street, Sun Valley, CAThe work layers abstracted imagery of LA’s urban hardscapes and lifeless landscaping with textured and diverse native habitats.
Wendy Red Star: American Progress
Anderson Collection at Stanford UniversityWendy Red Star: American Progress presents work by the artist, Wendy Red Star, who was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. Red Star’s work is informed by her cultural heritage and engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance.
A History of Photography salon-style lecture series at The Image Flow
The Image Flow 328 Sir Francis Drake, San Anselmo, CAPhotographer and art historian Jeffrey Martz returns to The Image Flow, presenting the origins of photography and the trajectory of this new technology from the early 1800s to early 1900s. From the first chemical experiments of the 1830s to the digital works of today, photography has fundamentally shaped our modern world. Join photographer and veteran teacher Jeffrey Martz as we learn the varied, complex story behind history’s most consequential revolution in communication.
Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CADrawing from years of material research, Lin has created a new body of work that is grounded in the uncanny sense of isolation yet collective experience that has marked our lives during these pandemic years.
A Sieve for Infinity
/ 1150 25th St, Building B, San Francisco, CAThe artists selected for the exhibition test materials and technology, both
traditional and modern, incorporating handcrafted and industrial production.
A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II
Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CAThis second presentation in the Hammer Museum’s new works on paper gallery highlights acquisitions of the last decade as well as important promised gifts.
Josh Callaghan: Family Tree
Night Gallery 2276 E 16th Street, Los Angeles, CAJosh Callaghan’s sculptures uncover the relations between commodity and culture, creating humanistic forms out of consumer products.
Liz Deschenes: Works 1997 – 2022
Fraenkel Gallery 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CAFraenkel Gallery is pleased to present a new survey of the work of Liz Deschenes,…
Yulia Pinkusevich: Very Yellow-White Flash
Round Weather 951 Aileen St., Oakland, CARound Weather’s first solo show highlights the powerful work of Yulia Pinkusevich. Born in Kharkov, Ukraine, the bodies of work represented range in tone from Pinkusevich’s scarily prescient Isorithm series based in a declassified military manual for mapping predictions of the impacts of nuclear bomb airbursts to her grandly soothing Sakha series meditating on connections with the ancient Siberian spirituality of her ancestors.
SARA LISCH: THE MIND GARDEN
Mercury 20 Gallery 475 25th Street, Oakland, CAIn her new show, The Mind Garden, Sara Lisch creates collages that explore and grow consciousness.
Collective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists
Museum of Sonoma County 425 Seventh Street, Santa Rosa, CACollective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists features art by contemporary Black artists who have participated in interdisciplinary collectives. Collectives have served both the revolutionary and creative practices of Black, queer, and femme people across the diaspora. The artworks in Collective Arising—which includes textile, sculpture, glass, print, painting, photography, video, and installation—speak to this dual purpose at the core of the formation of artist collectives.
Craig Calderwood Artist-Led Tour
Mills College Art Museum 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CAJoin Craig Calderwood for a special walkthrough of her exhibition, The Light Bulb Sound, and…
Fainting Couch: A Contact Improv Dance Performance
Mills College Art Museum 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CAJoin artist Christy Chan for a walkthrough of her exhibition, Patterns, followed by a contact improv dance performance by members of UNA Productions dance company in response to Chan’s Fainting Couch. Light reception to follow.