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 ›
This article first appeared in JUXTAPOX on October 24, 2023 Close on the heels of Banned Book Week 2023, the Arion Press presents an exhibition of 10 Bay Area Artists to spotlight contemporary and historical attempts to censor books in schools and libraries. No state in the nation has proven to be immune to the […]Read Post ›
This essay first appeared as the forward to the monograph Alex Kanevsky Paintings 2003-2022, published by Dolby Chadwick Gallery in September 2023. A draped form, a field of grass, a bath, a running dog. Peeling wall or crashing wave. Skin, space, sensation. Distillation, escalation, suspension. Sifting and shifting enchantment. Our eyes are transfixed by the […]Read Post ›
This article first appeared in Juxtapoz on April 18, 2023. To celebrate the upcoming publication of their fine letterpress edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Arion Press has placed the themes of this richly imaginative, provocative, and essential text in the hands of five Bay Area artists: Taraneh Hemami, Oliver Hawk Holden, Kevin Keaney, Josué Rojas, […]Read Post ›
This article first appeared as a review in Juxtapoz Magazine on February 8, 2023. Cheers to the Asian Art Museum and exhibition organizer Yuki Morishima for presenting the first solo exhibition of Yoshida Hodaka in the United States. Hodaka was an influential Japanese artist with a voracious appetite for innovation and experimentation. Schooled in traditional […]Read Post ›
October 22nd sees the opening of the Dyslexic Dictionary Exhibition at Arion Press in San Francisco. Our goal in establishing a gallery program at this unique institution is to cultivate, celebrate, and showcase the enduring dialogue between writers and artists that has been fundamental to each of the conceptually unique handmade books we’ve created over […]Read Post ›
Preview: Donald Bradford’s “Lazarus Paintings” Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco // October 6 – November 11, 2022 first published in JUXTAPOZ on September 29, 2022 Arizona-born, Oakland-based artist Donald Bradford presents a solo show at Andrea Schwartz Gallery that is full of provocations. At first blush, the viewer will encounter naked mostly male forms draped, […]Read Post ›
Tamsin Smith : everything indicates 