This article first appeared in Juxtapoz Magazine on December 27, 2021. In the waning days of 2021, Bay Area art institutions offer an embarrassment of riches. There are some not-to-be-missed exhibitions currently running, but I won’t be distracted by giving in to the temptation to drop names as there’s a lower-profile show I’d like to […]Read Post ›
This article first appeared in Juxtapoz Magazine on December 3, 2021. John DiPaolo’s 10th solo show at Dolby Chadwick opens in San Francisco on December 2nd. The exhibit will gratify and surprise. There hang, in all their sculptural power, the large-scale gestural and multi-textural abstractions for which he is known. The disjunctive but somehow harmonized […]Read Post ›
This essay with four poems was first published in September 2021, by Hollis Taggart Gallery, as part of their exhibition catalogue for the presentation of “Entanglement: Hollis Heichemer.“ The modern mind is encouraged to satisfy curiosity via a ticking of boxes. The quest for inspiration is often presented as a shopping expedition—think TED talks, listicles, […]Read Post ›
This article first appeared in Juxtapoz Magazine on July 19, 201. On View at Hashimoto Contemporary In NYC July 17th – August 7th, 2021 Too much can be made of the difference between the art scenes associated with different cities. So, let’s begin by simply celebrating the arrival of a great San Francisco-based artist for […]Read Post ›
This article was originally published in Juxtapoz Magazine on June 25, 2021 Beauty Will Be Convulsive / Dolby Chadwick Gallery / July 1-August 29, 2021 Not to be missed is Beauty Will Be Convulsive, new work by Matt Gonzalez, which runs concurrently with the Terry Powers show at Dolby Chadwick Gallery. The exhibit includes 20 […]Read Post ›
This article originally appeared in Juxtapoz Magazine on June 24, 2021. Why do we even bother to look at art in this day and age? Is it for the hope of a deeper exchange or some promising sign, if not of a better life, of a finer, more dear appreciation of this one. In The […]Read Post ›
This is an expanded version of an essay that first appeared in the catalogue published by George Adams Gallery,in conjunction with their exhibition: Joan Brown “Drawn from Life” (October 8 – December 19, 2020). Throughout the summer of 1976, five Bay Area artists met every Sunday to draw. Among them were Joan Brown, her former […]Read Post ›
This essay originally appeared in Juxtapoz Magazine on September 30, 2020. Alex Kanevsky’s exhibition of new work at Dolby Chadwick Gallery focuses on the human figure. Whether lying on a bed, sharing a meal, or riding a horse, each subject appears in syncopation with their surroundings. Each painting comprises still life, landscape, and portrait. Interior and exterior […]Read Post ›
LewAllen Galleries // August 30th, 2019 through October 12, 2019. This article originally appeared in Juxtapoz Magazine, September 5th, 2019. David Ligare: Elements of Radical Renewal By Tamsin Smith David Ligare had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1969. Elements at Santa Fe’s LewAllen Galleries marks his forty-eighth. In the way that Homer, Virgil, […]Read Post ›
Tamsin Smith : in Verse 