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 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 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 ›
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 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 ›
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 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 ›
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