Jean Shin made this reality strikingly visible in "Pause" (2020), an installation at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco for which she turned thousands of discarded phones, laptops, hard drives…
Alluding to nearby Silicon Valley, the exhibition's title also points to a series of cultural figures that have yet to be fully understood and imaginary landscapes already emerging as different…
David Gilbert's exhibition play fast and loose with art historical precedent, much like the glamorous architectural anachronisms evoked by the show's title: San Francisco's famous Victorian houses…
Around 1980, Matt Mullican began visually elaborating a cosmology of his own invention, for which he divided reality into five color-coded orders of being.
Vincent Fecteau's homecoming presentation of work revels in indeterminacy and turns over the question of what does or doesn't remain of something: the shape of a work in progress, a place, a…
Neither faithfully representative of the landscapes and figures they portray nor so abstract as to render them illegible, Brett Goodroad's latest paintings document his process of thinking through…
"To Fix the Image in Memory" demonstrates a sensitivity to the singular oeuvre of Vija Celmins, who was born in Latvia and has developed her practice over the past half-century, attesting to this…
The odd pairing of works by Brooklyn comic artist Austin English and Oakland painter Sam Spano and in Et al.'s exhibition "In the Cups" felt necessarily contingent, unexpectedly revealing, and a…
Monuments, in their scale, installation, and materials, generally prescribe our body's encounter with them.
In the Bay Area, the relationship between art and technology is a common topic for exhibitions. Such shows often focus on artists' use of new computer programs and hardware. But rather than simply…
