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 ›
For January, I’ll be exhibiting a collection of new small paintings at PURPLEMAROON in San Francisco, Noe Valley. The opening party is on Friday 1/12/24 from 5-8pm . Come on by 4089 24th Street.
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 ›
Originally posted on Art & Politics: The Matt Gonzalez Reader:
first published in?Juxtapoz, March 22, 2023 Tamsin Spencer Smith, Journey, oil on canvas, 14 x 18 inches, 2023. Object Lessons: A Review of Tamsin Spencer Smith @ Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco // March 24, 2023 – March 26, 2023…
I’ll be showing a new body of work that I’m calling OBJECT LESSONS at Upper Market Gallery the weekend of March 24-26. To celebrate the exhibit, I’m also creating a limited edition of 50 hand-bound chapbooks of recent poems. Titled Sister Shine, each chapbook is hand-painted and unique. Here’s the run of show for the weekend and here is […]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 ›
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