March 2019
Visualizing Social Change: Prints and Printmaking
Past and Present
Past and Present
An exhibition being held in DESIGNSPACE at San Francisco State University will be commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Student led strikes on campus initiating in 1968.
⬆ San Francisco / Sacramento ⬇
February 2012
Light
The thematic shows organized by Tangent Gallery will come to an end with this final tangent on light...
Matter
Under the direction of Chris Daubert, a group of local artists collaborated on the installation String Theory...
Society
The exhibition Poking at Beehives at the Nelson Gallery features artists reflecting on nature to address pressing social issues...
Society
The exhibition Poking at Beehives at the Nelson Gallery features artists reflecting on nature to address pressing social issues...
Painterly Traditions
The art of Jeff Myers follows along the painterly traditions of heightened color to render the paysage however he disrupts the playful plasticity with grim undertones...
Hybrid Art
Technological art is not immediately accessible (conceptually) to the average viewer, particularly in places like Sacramento where the traditions of painting and sculpture continue as the dominant art forms. The Center for Contemporary Arts offers a refreshing alternative with the exhibition Time Fugitives featuring the work of Christopher Taggart...
OCTOBER 2011
October Occupied
The month of October was the beginning of Sacramento's emergence into the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has gathered momentum on an international level spearheaded though multiple media platforms, and notwithstanding, the poster print continues to be an effective format. Paul Imagine is a local, silkscreen poster-artist that exemplifies the efficacy of this tradition...
Voice for the Voiceless
The art of Malaquias Montoya is one of social awareness that aims to give voice to those who are marginalized and advocates for social change...
SEPTEMBER 2011
Comadres Artistas
The women based collaborative Comadres Artistas, has been active in the Sacramento area for over 20 years. These women have contributed as viable members in the Sacramento Chican@ community by supporting cultural and feminine values through their artistic production...
CAST
The Center for Contemporary Art organized their sixth annual Capitol Artists’ Studio Tour which featured more than 150 artists and involved a number of spaces on and off the grid, offering an opportunity to experience the diversity of artistic approaches in the area...
1/2 and 1/2
The E Street Gallery presents a dynamic display of two local artists, Chris Botta and Melanie Brown...
One Whole Nation
Axis Gallery is currently showcasing the 6th Annual National Juried Show, curated by Dena Beard, Assistant Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive...
Chaotic Consumers
The multi-media exhibition designed by artist/physicist
couple Jiayi Young and Shih-Wen Young along with collaborator M. Azevedo,
brings to the fore the social and environmental issues of a voracious consumer
society...
City/Country
The exhibition Clusterfucks and Countryfolks of the work by Melinda and Melissa Arendt at Bows & Arrows continues the polarized argument between rural and urban environments...
Recycling
Nathan Cordero’s solo exhibition titled Are you destined
to become your mother? at the Nelson
Gallery brings together a prolific body of work predominantly from 2011...
JUNE 2011
Solo
As a nod to the Facebook boom, the exhibition Miráme (Look at me) by guest curator Ella Díaz, simulated
the layout and the prevailing standard of the individual page or “shrine to
self”...
Duo
The two-man show at B. Sakata Gallery brings a series of collages
by bay-area artists Matt Gonzalez and Gustavo Ramos Rivera in the exhibition
titled Codices Urbanos...
Non Solo
A collective of eight artists from diverse disciplines
presented as Non Solo agreed to jump in a van for six weeks to travel the
country and collaborate on site-specific shows...
Oaxacan Textiles
From floor to ceiling, the main gallery of La Raza Galería
Posada was draped with colorful Zapotec tapestries by master weaver Sergio
Martínez...
Sacramento Spirit
International visual and performing artist David Garibaldi,
also a Sacramento native, painted a mural last Second Saturday celebrating the May
3rd announcement that the NBA Kings will stay in Sacramento...
Sacramento International Film
Festival: Portraits of Greatness
The Sacramento International Film Festival presented two
short films showcasing the biographies of two visual artists, David Johnson and Eloy Torrez—both who have been
considerably overlooked...
Works on paper from the
collection of Ada Brotman
There was an impressive attendance at the silent auction of
the Ada Brotman collection held at the Law Offices of Michael Solomon...
Virtual Reality
The Real-Fake
exhibition at the Sacramento State University Library brings the latest
avant-garde that challenges the art world: Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)...
A Deflated Status Symbol
There is an element of pleasure that can be enjoyed through
the inventive humor and wit in the work by sculptor Linda Fitz Gibbon. Her
exhibition Not your grandmother’s Wedgwood
on display at B. Sakata Garo Gallery playfully challenges historical notions of
high culture...
Indexical Prints
The photography currently on display at Viewpoint Gallery, Beyond
Borders: Immigration Images and Stories
brings people, communities, and the grappling issue of immigration to the
fore...
Iconography
The whimsical woodwork by John Buck dazzles with fine
precision as well as critical commentary...
Human Banners
Projecting back a pressing cry for justice and awareness,
the photography of Lou Dematteis gives voice to individuals at the grass-roots
level of the Amazon...
The Inferno
Gottfried Helnwein renders his canvases with intense
veracity, as though to lose oneself in the painting in order to escape the
horrors it portrays...
The peculiar engagement of
collecting
Another open forum presented itself with the screening of Herb
and Dorothy at the Crest Theatre...
New Spaces: The Nelson
The Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Art Collection at
Davis has more than tripled the square footage of exhibition space, offering
greater possibilities for displaying concurrent shows...
New Generations: Jason
Caldera
The first public showing of Jason Caldera’s work accounts
for a number of elemental concerns—exhibiting for the first time,
entrepreneurialism in the art world, the science of painting, a genealogical
retrospective—and to tackle them all in one sitting is quite admirable...
A quick needed overview of the past artistic events I
observed upon returning to Sacramento this last June, will help establish a
point of entry from which to begin this task:
Mariana Castro de Ali, Domestication
Ernesto Palomino, Coatlicue: A Farmworker's Truck
Fred Dalkey, The Church Series
10/10/10 The Grand Opening of the new Crocker
CSUS Library, New Wave of Chinese Contemporary
Art
A new beginning for SD Gallery, and the (continual) shift in
artistic spaces...
