Michael Todd, YELLO ENSO, cone 6 stoneware, 16" x 16" x 6"
The Crocker Art Museum, in Sacramento has recently acquired YELLO ENSO. For more information on Todd’s art making practice, please read below.
John Belingheri, ''Cyprus,'' 2010, mixed media on linen burlap, 60 x 60''
The Huffington Post recently reviewed the current top exhibitions in the Western United States. John Beligheri’s latest solo show was among the standouts.
John Belingheri
at Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recommendation by Dewitt Cheng, Visual Art Source
The idea of art defining and being defined by its medium was one of the prime directives of the modernist credo that was superseded a generation ago by the aesthetic free-for-all that is postmodernism. Hybrid combinations of media that deal with multiple definitions of art? More like artists jumping from medium to medium as ideas dictate, as if from one dying warhorse to another? Fine. Immaterial art made of nothing more substantial than words? Tell us more!
Larry Williamson, "Ancient Bird , Old Face", 39 x 27 x 33.5 inches
Works of Art: Local fauna inspires sculptor’s work on display in new exhibition
by Geralda Miller, 10.24.10
Sculptor Larry Williamson loves to run the hilly terrain near his Gold Hill home with his dogs. He jokes that the daily 2 to 3 mile runs are so his wife of 45 years, Lorna, can stand him. That might be true. However, Williamson’s love of the Nevada landscape is the real reason why the 68-year-old wouldn’t miss starting a day in his running shoes.
Michael Sarich: Hush & Babel
Missoula Art Museum, September 17 – December 23, 2010
These recent works by Michael Sarich include paintings, ceramics, and large assembled puppets, all laced with his characteristic imagery and wry social commentaries. Read More
- Tom Uttech, Enassamishhinjijweian, 2009. Oil on linen, 103 x 112 in. © Tom Uttech, courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York.
Tom Uttech was honored by a resent purchase from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Crystal Bridges houses a permanent collection of masterworks of American art ranging from the colonial era to contemporary work.
Painter Leonard Koscianski turned 58 in April, and a fair amount of water has flowed under the bridge of his life. There have been losses along the way, including a son and a first marriage, but his art is burning brightly. When his solo exhibition, which Koscianski feels is his “most visceral show ever,” opens at OK Harris Works of Art on September 11th he will unveil a suite of paintings that have the clarity of waking nightmares.
"O California, Best Loved Land" from Ann Weber's new sculpture series, Ode to Montalvo
In June 2010, Montalvo Arts Center collaborated with East Bay sculptor Ann Weber to create a series of new commissioned works. Weber created large-scale, site-specific impermanent sculptures constructed of recycled cardboard. The series will be on view from June 30 to October 31. Read More
Tom Judd. "The World is Flat" mixed media on reclaimed cardboard. 12 feet by 25 feet. 2010
Tom Judd. "The World is Flat" mixed media on reclaimed cardboard. 12 feet by 25 feet. 2010
“The World Is Flat” by Tom Judd – 8200 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia-based artist Tom Judd transforms the “old” Magarity Ford building in Chestnut Hill into a temporary studio – resulting in the creation of The World Is Flat, a large-scale site-specific installation.
Craig Mitchell, "At the Crossing III"
Local artist Craig Mitchell was recently honored by an acquisition from the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neurological Immune Disease at the new center for Molecular Medicine on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. Mitchell’s oil paintings explore the process of creation and engage viewers into looking at a captured and transient moment in time and place, one that often eludes the busy experience of everyday life. Read More
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