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We’re exploring identity and culture through the body in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Bring it Home: (Re)Locating Cultural Legacy through the Body presents work from artists representing diverse Bay Area communities, and centers thematically on how these artists grapple with cultural identity and its relationship to the human condition at San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries
2. In Katherine Bradford’s Fear of Waves , painting and swimming share immersion and a certain loss of control that is simultaneously wild and structured. The body in nature; we see ourselves situated in relationship to the deep other at Canada New York
3. The compelling work and storyof Vivian Maier at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
4. Tattooing in London has a long and rich history, dating back to a time before Captain Cook made his adventures to the Pacific. Tattoo London will offer insight into the history of professional tattooing in London as well as revealing life inside four contemporary tattoo studios in the capital via Museum of London
5. Expanding on her language that traditionally highlights misfits, outcasts, and the misunderstood – Allison Schulnik introduces a wild new cast of mythological creatures replete with centaurettes, unicorns, and otherworldly outsiders in various stages of liberation. Continuing her exploration of selfhood through diverse and rich allegories, her new subjects radiate gracefulness that is both vulnerable and stoic—a type of synthesis that is a hallmark in Schulnik’s work at Mark Moore Gallery
6. Lani Emmanuel’s figures of young women portray emotion and identity by focusing on body language, gesture and gaze. She captures each figure’s self-expression through their wardrobe. For most adolescent girls, fashion is a means of self-expression that allows for identity experimentation at Lora Schlesinger Gallery

 

January 26, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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Trees and the landscapes they inhabit are a prime source of inspiration in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Deedee Cheriel’s whimsical In Search For More Than Another Shiny Object at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
2. Known for her expressionistic, visceral explorations of the natural landscape, Joan Mitchell abstracted tree-forms throughout her career. Dating from 1964 to 1991, the paintings in this exhibition are inspired by the form and structure of trees at Cheim Reid
3. During and after her travels to a villa in Nice, France in 1979–80, Jennifer Bartlett embarked on an ambitious freehand drawing project of nearly 200 unique perspectives, experimenting with countless modes of representation of the villa’s garden. After her well-celebrated gallery installations of the works on paper, Bartlett embarked on equally riveting paintings that experimented with serial perspectives of the same scene and psychologically charged re-imaginings of her surroundings at Locks Gallery
4. With his new body of work, “Woods” Romanowski continues to build on his compositions of found objects, which aesthetically shed light on his keen eye and extremely competent sense of design at 111 Minna Gallery
5. Although the focus of “A Sense of Space” is landscape, it may well be considered an abstract exhibition. None of the works are literal, as each artist explores various concerns – light, atmosphere, weather, composition and mood at Seager Gray
6. The works of Anna Vogel’s exhibition focus on the nonchalance with which we treat the world, the unintended vestiges that we leave behind in it, the fleeting and superficial manner in which we perceive it at Sprüth Magers Berlin

 

August 26, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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It’s all about the ladies in this week’s choice gallery picks!

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1. This exhibition spotlights women artists who use media traditionally associated with women and painters whose subject matter speaks of women’s lives and concerns at Seager Gray Gallery
2. Mel Kadel’s All Tied Up at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
3. Bravely exposing personal traumas, fantasies, and nightmares, Maria Lassnig’s art offers instruction for courageous living in a time of increasingly spectacularized social interaction. at MoMA PS1
4. Beautiful children dressed like small monarchs reign against a backdrop of velvet and brocade, adorned with a crown that looks like a headset, bringing them into contemporary world despite the Baroque atmosphere at Zipper Galeria
5. Leah Fraser’s latest work is based on stories of diverse cultures worldwide at Arthouse Gallery
6. Dressed in costumes and masks she has collected on her travels, Jacqui Stockdale’s hybrid characters are layered with cross-cultural and personal references at Helen Gory

March 18, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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This week’s gallery picks explore the weight of the environment through color, texture and theme. Enjoy and explore!

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1. The effect of the weather on Mel Kadel’s work at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
2. Murielle White’s paintings delve into different worlds inspired by a range of cultural experiences at McMurtrey Gallery
3. Wavepacks by Ara Peterson presents eight new wall-relief sculptures that explore the hollow, arched forms of naturalistic wave-shapes at Ratio 3
4. Zach Harris’s work emphasizes that form is not merely an abstract visual language, but rather a connection between the physical world and the otherworldly realms that surround it and course through its center. David Kordansky Gallery
5. Cedric Michael Cox’s paintings and drawings express his experience of living in the inner city, with themes ranging from mythical literature to the relationship between the physical body, musical allegories and above all, the urban landscape at Five Myles
6. Exploring Ibrahim El-Salahi’s international career as a significant figure in African and Arab Modernism at Tate Modern

July 9, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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