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The Hardest-Working Man In The Art World
The exhibit of approximately 300 pieces spanning the forty plus years of Richard Tuttle's artistic output begins with a group of twelve paper octagonals pasted directly to the wall. Barely perceptible they teeter on the edge of being and nothingness. Richard Tuttle is not a master craftsmen or virtuoso painter. He wills his works into being. His personality can be felt in each one of his pieces. It's a quality that separates him from so many of his peers and the reason why The Art of Richard Tuttle will be enjoyed by a broad-range of museum visitors. More
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The Body Horrific
It's no surprise that artist Marilyn Minter, whose current body of photorealist paintings seductively grace the austere walls of the SFMOMA, was influenced by Diane Arbus, that most lauded archivist of the macabre. In fact, Minter, while an undergraduate at the University of Florida in the 1960s, studied under the auspices of Arbus. Minter's eye for both eeriness and irony was blatant in her photographic documentation of her mother, an aging beauty and drug addict whose haggard demeanor was only matched by her cosmetic obsessions More
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Internal Dialog
One can easily imagine the ecstasy of 15th and 16th century artists and anatomists, especially Leonardo da Vinci, had they been able to see what we can now do -- carefully and accurately preserve human bodies, dissected, sliced, and revealed in almost any way possible. Thanks to a technology called plastination, whereby water and lipids in biological tissues are replaced by curable polymers (otherwise known as plastic), cadavers can be transformed into odorless, dry, durable specimens invaluable for anatomical study and analysis. More
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Passing on the Baton
The 2004 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Awards portend a shift in modern art -- from the sweeping, dramatic debacles so many of us associate with "modern art" to a subtle, softer, and perhaps more complex, representation of the uncertainty that serves as a book end to the modern experience. Currently on exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The SECA Award Exhibit, a biennial juried show that honors local artists, features works by Rosana Castrillo Diaz, Simon Evans, Shaun O'Dell, and Josephine Taylor. More
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Riding the wave of the surf renaissance in San Jose
Surfing's been an integral part of Left Coast identity for the past half-century, but lately the sport is experiencing a pop culture renaissance. Recent movies like Blue Crush and Step into Liquid, not to mention MTV's Surf Girls, have brought wave riding back into the country's consciousness, so it's only fitting that the San Jose Museum of Art would get in on the action by bringing this mammoth show to the South Bay. More
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The latest exhibit to find its home on the fifth floor of SFMOMA is a career retrospective of modern artist Marc Chagall's work. This 153-piece collection spans Chagall's life and clearly illustrates the artist's reluctance to follow any avant-garde style, despite incorporating several styles from movements in the various locales in which he lived. More
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"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize." So writes Diane Arbus - the painfully talented photographer whose work is currently on display at the SF MOMA's exhibition of her photographs - Revelations. Giving more than a passing glance to the disenfranchised or, more precisely, the freaks of this world, Arbus also pays homage to a dichotomy of subjects. From the glamorous to the disturbing, her pieces very often conjure both at the same time, for example, "The Vertical Journey" for Esquire, 1960... More
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Marking their ten-year anniversary as one of the most influential contemporary art spaces in the city, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has presented Ten by Twenty, an exhibition comprised solely of collaborative works. The teams are made up of one artist who has previously shown at the Center, and another who has not, in the attempt to create dialogues that can span age, geographical and cultural distances, mirroring Yerba Buena's own mission to do the same in exhibitions of the last ten years. More
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A comprehensive body of Tania Candiani's work fills MACLA's recently renovated and expanded gallery, transforming it into a funhouse of the female form, a futile cycle of binge and purge. Pepto Bismal pink exercise machines, a punching bag swinging like a pendulum in a boxing ring, a looped video of a fitness instructor demonstrating his routine, and so many distorted lines and protuberances of women's bodies come at the viewer with a relentlessness that rivals the commercial world outside. More
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Natasha Garcia-Lomas is closing her gallery at the end of December. Manager of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and 2003 Goldie winner in Visual Art (very rarely do curators receive this award), Garcia-Lomas is at the top of her game. In Glen Helfand's article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian announcing her win, Garcia-Lomas received praise from Bay Area heavy hitters such as the Headlands Center for the Arts Director Kathryn Reasoner, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Director Rupert Jenkins, and from art critic Helfand, who granted her the award. More
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