Not long after I graduated with an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, Ella King Torrey, the school’s president during my time there, hanged herself in her house without leaving a note…
Images washed over the walls like waves and sculptures dotted the floor like stalagmites, lending a surreal sensibility to Won Ju Lim’s installation Baroque Pet Shop (2010). As part of a media…
Simon Bill’s second solo at Patrick Painter was titled “Buttercups and Daisies,” but “Chalk and Cheese” would have been truer to the artist’s approach. This generation-YBA painter, established in Brit…