A projection of an asian-influenced city scape at night lit up by neon signage hangs in a gallery space.

APICC presents Grow Our Souls

Inspired by Grace Lee Boggs, Grow Our Souls showcases twelve artists who are reimagining labor in an era of climate change and late-stage capitalism. From yoga mat paintings celebrating Black and Brown humanity to seed installations speculating sustainable food futures, artists present sumptuous and abundant possibilities while illuminating industry practices that maintain labor inequities.

In the middle of a dark room, one glimmering, digitalized image hovers.

Indira Allegra: TEXERE: The Shape of Loss Is a Tapestry

Allegra’s TEXERE: The Shape of Loss Is a Tapestry is a living, interactive memorial to losses of all sizes in our lives.

Review

Joke’s on Us: Hugo Montoya’s “Florida Man” at Et al.

by Danica Sachs
Posted on March 15, 2022March 15, 2022

Through found objects and wry humor, Hugo Montoya reveals problematic cultural stereotypes.

Circles are cut out of white paper and opened like flaps in this dizzying, polka dotted array.

Zaida Oenema: A Clear Day

Oenema’s work is a meditation on cultivating clarity, the resonance of quietude.

A canvas is divided roughly in half with blocky abutting picture planes that echoe Diebenkorn, and a strange, flattened depth of space akin to Matisse’s interiors. The top half shows a figure lying awake in bed, tucked in and trying to sleep. In a line vertically from the top of her head are several yellow and blue painted question marks. Below her, in the bottom half of the canvas is another figure who looks to be reclining in a bath. Sheff painted her head from several different angles, like she’s shaking her it in confusion or dismay. There’s a clear feeling of restlessness here from both characters: one trying to find sleep but with a questioning, anxious mind, and the other also struggling for peace in a soothing bath.

Review

Insatiable Exuberance: Daisy May Sheff at Ratio 3

by Danica Sachs
Posted on February 1, 2022February 2, 2022

When you walk into Ratio 3, one of the first artworks you encounter doesn’t initially…

A painting of a single slice of pie on a white plate in a slim, rectangular glass case. The edges of the glass are hues of blue and green, the shadows are blue, the counter and the wall behind it are a chalky white.

Pairings

Wayne Thiebaud & Ghia’s Le Spritz

by Angella d'Avignon
Posted on January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

Wayne Tiebaud’s distinctly Californian sense of lighting and the perfect non-alcoholic aperitif.

On the surface of a square with crude edges radiate exact circles, etched into what looks like a rose gold brass, from the center to the far edges.

Datum

Ironically and satisfyingly, the highly intellectual process of creating these works — grounded in physics and color theory — generates supremely sensuous and transcendent paintings.

Review

Artists Fill San Francisco’s Cliff House with Warnings of Environmental Disaster: “Lands End” Reviewed

by Danica Sachs
Posted on December 2, 2021December 6, 2021

Jutting out from the rugged coastline at Lands End, near barbed Seal Rock and the…

Photograph of an old white theatre before brown green desert hills, the name neon "GEM" blank white in the daylight and "STAR WARS" fixed on the marquee.

Ingeborg Gerdes: Out West

Her fascination with the American West began with a road trip to Nevada in 1982 and became a decade-long project, and her German upbringing allowed for a curious yet critical outsider’s outlook of America.

Kronos Festival: Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK

Discover a site-specific, GPS-enabled musical installation with new music by Kronos Quartet in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

Variable West

New Voices on West Coast Art

Tag: San Francisco