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Looking Outward: Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The ninth iteration of Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts asks of-the-moment questions about knowledge production and creation.
A Question of Hu: The Narrative Art of Hung Liu
Through her process, subject, and material choices, Liu uplifts subjects that historically would not have the socioeconomic power or privilege to be memorialized in paint.
Q&A with Amy Adler
We talked to the Los Angeles-based artist about her solo exhibition Audition on view at Night Gallery in LA.
Textile as transcript: Adriene Cruz in Converge 45’s Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship
Vibrant, mixed media textile works honor the history of Black women.
Good Taste: interview with Courtney Dailey from Nike
We talk to Courtney Dailey from Nike about art, design, and creative inspiration in everyday life.
Love Letter to Toby Bluth
Before Disney ever introduced family-friendly gay characters, Bluth used the saccharine visual language of his employer to create a queer fantasy world of his own.
Dispatch: Unraveling the myth of the cowboy at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Three West Coast artists in a vast exhibition expose the diverse histories that have often been overshadowed by Hollywood’s enduring influence.
Who do you carry with you? Malcolm Peacock at SE Cooper Contemporary
Through audio, participatory sculpture, and memory, the exhibit poses the salient questions: “who are you carrying with you?”
Facing Life: Pendarvis Harshaw & Brandon Tauszik interviewed
A two-year conversation chronicles a multimedia project about California prisons and formerly incarcerated individuals.
Painting Toward Life: Jesse Murry at Reed College
Painting as a matter of life or death.
Political agitation through reflection: Zarouhie Abdalian at KADIST San Francisco
A group exhibition from KADIST’s collection demonstrated how artists make powerful political statements by abstracting language and material.
Metamorphosis Happens Every Morning: Danielle Mckinney at Night Gallery
With an arresting sense of empathy, Danielle Mckinney’s exhibition “Metamorphic” asks: “what does rest look like for Black women?”
When We Were Here Last: Muzae Sesay at pt. 2
Muzae Sesay’s latest solo exhibition, When We Were Here Last, prompts a contemplation of personal and public history.
Opening Space for Bay Area writing: Claudia La Rocco and Jackie Im in conversation
La Rocco and Im discuss (art) writing, editing and curation, and the roles of community and institutions in the art world
Emotional Rhythms: Jeffrey Gibson at Jessica Silverman
Melika Sebihi reviews Jeffrey Gibson’s ONCE MORE WITH FEELING on view at Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco.
We are having this conversation now, yesterday, and tomorrow: Michael Espinoza interviewed
The Portland-based artist talks about Queer Ancestors lost to persecution, disease, fatal sadness, and closets.
Good Taste: interview with Jessie Manning from Street Disco
Good Taste is a new column about West Coast creatives in all industries.
Q&A with Angela Anh Nguyen
We talked to the Los Angeles-based artist about her first solo exhibition, How We Hegemony, at One Grand Gallery in Portland.
Exit interview with PICA’s Executive Director Victoria Frey
We talked to the Portland-based trailblazing director about her time at PICA and what the institute is looking for in it’s next Executive Director.
Leveraging Strengths, Moving Forward: Elena Gross and Kimberley Acebo Arteche Interviewed
Roula Seikaly talks to the two co-directors of Berkeley Art Center about how they approach collaboration, creating meaningful life-work balance, and how BAC welcomes diverse audiences.
Q&A with Ellen Garvens
Sponsored: We talked to the Seattle-based artist about her work in the exhibition Holding Unsteady at Koplin Del Rio in Seattle.
Emily Yong Beck: Spoonful of Sugar at New Image Art, Los Angeles
In Spoonful of Sugar, Emily Yong Beck asks: What is beneath the veil of beauty that we buy into?
Love Letter to Ben Cuevas
Fiber sculptures explore gendered constructs, feminist ideologies, and the restraints of the body.
The Casual Intimacy of Women Caring for Women: Anne Buckwalter at Friends Indeed and Rebecca Camacho Presents
In the two-venue exhibition, Buckwalter’s domestic scenes have a revolutionary proposition: what would a world of care and support for the needs of all women look like?
The Power of Discrete Things: Ricki Dwyer at Anglim/Trimble in San Francisco
Ricki Dwyer’s vast textiles and small sculptures examine the gravity of human relationships.
Traveling West: Art and Cars in the 2022 Whitney Biennial
LA-based artists bring West Coast car culture to New York City.
John Baldessari and Bad Photography
Seattle-based photographer Natalie Krick on making her own rules about good photography.
Flirting With the Uncontrollable: Peter Gronquist at Winston Wächter Fine Art in Seattle
Felted wool, steel, river rocks, and sound combine to illustrate the vulnerability of all life.
An Endless Pursuit to Describe the World in Watercolor
Artist Alexa Grambush uses painting to understand the world and its complexities.
We Vessels of Existence: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery
Religious images question the multifaceted nature of human lives.
Who Do I Think I Am? Lynn Hershman Leeson at Altman Siegel
A multi-media artist on the West Coast gets up close and personal with their viewers, unsettling the notion of a fixed identity.
Balancing Buoyancy and Desolation: Emily Kepulis at Lolo Pass
A painter meditates on the impending and preventable horror of environmental destruction.
Support, Opportunity, and Liberation: Month of Sundays at Eugene Contemporary Art
An ambitious group exhibition steps in to show the world that liberation requires both trouble and quietude.
Surreal Society: Marika Thunder Interviewed
Class, tradition, gender roles, race, and celebrity take center stage in Marika Thunder’s exhibition at de boer gallery in Los Angeles
Immersive Frida Kahlo & Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino
What do blockbuster immersive art exhibits and junk food have in common?
Aaron Shurin’s Poetic Punctuation
A writer discusses how an unlikely combination of punctuation changed his writing forever.
Mixed Feelings for Strange Fruit: Genevieve Gaignard at Vielmetter Los Angeles
A daring but imperfect exhibition challenges notions of racism and colorism.
Raúl Guerrero & Mexican food in the United States
Raúl Guerrero’s paintings of food celebrate the Mexican-American experience.
Theaters for Frankensteins: Yuyang Zhang Interviewed
Yuyang Zhang’s paintings and digital collages offer cultural commentary through memes, Chinese-American culture, and dark humor.
Love Letter to Julie Green
An Oregon-based educator and artist inspires her students to find beauty in everything.
Nasim Hantezadeh and summer stone fruit
An LA-based artist’s biomorphic works on paper evoke the vocabulary of food.
Love Letter to Kenjiro Nomura
A Seattle-based painter captures 1930s Seattle, Japanese Internment, grief, loss, and recovery—all with his brush.
Srijon Chowdhury’s “Groundhog Day” at SE Cooper Contemporary
A Portland-based painter conjures the otherworldly to meditate on the shrouded interiority of his subjects.
Art of Glass: Emily Endo Interviewed
Through scientific discovery and mysticism, Emily Endo explores the possibility of glass.
A Condemned Building Gets a Last Breath of Life Through Sacramento Artists: Faith J. McKinnie, Liv Moe, Molly Stroud, and Genesis “The Mayor” Torres Interviewed
Four curators and thirty-five artists transform a soon-to-be demolished building in Sacramento’s rapidly gentrifying Ice Blocks district.
How Technology Feels: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Interviewed
In a bilingual conversation, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Sofía Córdova question the human relationship with technology.
Finding Meaning in Forgotten Objects: Pamela Ramos Interviewed
Found objects give intimate clues to the lives of strangers, and are given new lives as artworks.
Love Letter to Essie Somma
A painter challenges the traditional approach to classical painting through vice, intimacy, and the quotidian.
Unknowable Spaces: William Matheson’s “Dissipatio” at Nationale
Evocative oil paintings on jute canvas trouble the perception of figure-ground relationships.
Jim Shaw and The Apple Pan’s egg salad sandwich
The globby Americana of Jim Shaw paintings and an overstuffed egg salad sandwich.
Treasure Hunting in Grass Valley: Elizabeth Dorbad Interviewed
Two artists from Grass Valley, CA, talk about making art in rural communities and the magic of stones.
Joke’s on Us: Hugo Montoya’s “Florida Man” at Et al.
Through found objects and wry humor, Hugo Montoya reveals problematic cultural stereotypes.
Compendium of Scars: Pained Vistas at Photographic Center Northwest
Eleven artists depict landscapes framed by conflict, trauma, and beauty.
Love Letter to Jeannene Przyblyski
A Bay Area-based educator inspired students to look harder, ask deeper questions, and to take a stand.
The Importance of Meaningless Things: Sara Cwynar at ICA LA
At ICA LA, Cwynar probes what we can learn from our fickle taste and consumerism.
Love Letter to Carlson Hatton
A Los Angeles-based painter’s ripples in time on canvas immerse his viewers in another world.
Each One of Us Was Fastened to the Other: Josh Smith and Vanessa Woods at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA
A wife and husband artist duo explore their identities as artists and parents.
Love Letter to Jessie Homer French
Paintings for the end of the world made in the middle of nowhere.
Dance That Spans Continents: Tumelo Michael Moloi Interviewed
A South African artist in Eugene, OR, uses dance and poetry to encourage compassion for difference.
Love Letter to Lawrence Oliver iii
A Portland-based artist layers personal narratives in whimsical sculptures.
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