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This article was first published by The Roborant Review on January 6, 2026. What is art? Is it personal or social? Must it communicate a conscious idea or emotion? Must it be beautiful or should it resist mainstream notions of beauty? Should it be transgressive? Sellable? How about the notion of art as a way […]Read Post ›
This article first appeared on Roborant Review on November 6, 2025. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) — Walt Whitman, Song of Myself 51 Human beings often aspire to a still point of harmony or balance. And yet… as Galileo Galilei muttered after Roman Inquisitors […]Read Post ›
This article first appeared in the Roborant Review on October 7, 2025. This year would be the 90th for Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists of monumental, ephemeral public art installations. Some of their most iconic projects also celebrate milestones in 2025: the 20th anniversary of The Gates (New York City), the 30th anniversary of Wrapped […]Read Post ›
This essay was first published online at Roborant Review on September 4, 2025. It might be strange to call Danae Mattes, an artist who enlists evaporation, gravity, and patience as creative collaborators, an action painter. Yet, the raw emotion and surrender to serendipity integral to her process invite the viewer to contemplate similar existential questions. […]Read Post ›
Written for Dolby Chadwick Gallery, March 2025 Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents Light + Glass, an exhibition of ground-breaking images by Amanda Means. This will be the gallery’s first show with the artist renowned for extending the limits of the photographic medium. Means reanimates common objects by reinventing their method of capture and rendering extraordinary portraits […]Read Post ›
Originally published by Juztapoz Magazine on February 19, 2025 An over-the-top quality makes Cate White’s paintings endlessly entertaining and intriguingly ironic. Susan Sontag would have characterized this aesthetic sensibility as “camp.” But beyond the playful use of glitter, mica flakes, and plastic flowers lies a tenderness that can be profoundly moving. This is not an […]Read Post ›
Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco, Nov 8-10, 2024 Put nine artists together under the prompt INVISIBLE CITIES and an unspoken dialogue emerges. INVISIBLE CITIES takes its inspiration from Italo Calvino’s tale of a fictional conversation between the Mongol Emperor Kubla Khan and Marco Polo. The worlds conjured by the young explorer are inventions (magical, surreal, […]Read Post ›
This essay was originally published in 2024 by the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in the Reverberations 3 exhibition catalog, which is available for purchase here. Welcome to this third volume of Reverberations, in which the Sebastopol Center for the Arts has paired Northern California poets with individual works of art owned by intrepid Sonoma County collectors. […]Read Post ›
Now available for purchase. What some mighty fine poets are saying about New Species of Color: “I loved reading Tamsin’s Spencer Smith’s New Species of Color. I was immediately drawn into the irresistibly mysterious and original worlds of these poems: their charms, their sly humor, their precise questions and generous, open, suggestions of answers. Deeply intelligent, […]Read Post ›
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