Wednesday, December 7th, 2016

Reverberations: Revisiting David Ireland’s “Skellig” Work

The life and work of an influential West Coast Conceptualist, and the estate that houses his legacy.

Saturday, April 23rd, 2016

Little Boxes: Samara Golden at Yerba Buena

A new installation holds a mirror to the stultifying nature of cookie-cutter housing.

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

Black Flag: CAPITAL at Minnesota Street Project

A short show of heavy materials and tough, beautiful artworks.

Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

Something Untranslatable: A Digital Homage to Smithson’s “Monuments”

An online project for the Kadist Foundation explores the codes and changes of Passaic, NJ.

Robert Bechtle, Six Cars on 20th Street, 2007, watercolor on paper, 25 5/8 by 33 3/8 inches. Courtesy of Barbara Gladstone Gallery.
Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

Bob’s Sebring: Robert Bechtle at Gladstone

Jewel-like paintings and drawings by the veteran Photorealist

cover of book under review. Chris Johanson, Survey by Bob Nickas, Interview by Corrina Peipon, Focus by Julie Deamer, writings by Chris Johanson, £35 / €49.95 / $59.95, Phaidon 2013, www.phaidon.com
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

In Praise of Peaceful Art: A Chris Johanson Monograph

The first comprehensive survey of the “underground” artist

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Sandy Walker at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco

This was an artcritical PIC in July 2009.

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Eleanor Wood: Mixed media on paper

Don Soker Contemporary Art 49 Geary Street San Francisco 415 291 0966 November 1 to December 14, 2006 Minimalism strikes me as being quaintly obsolete, deriving from a formalist aesthetic that indulges in endgame polemics, arrogantly defining itself as the logical terminus of all previous painting and as the ultimate position that painting can take. … Continued