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The Thriving Art Community of San Diego
Beyond the big headlines, the city's contemporary art scene is rooted in its diverse, community-centered art spaces.
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Processing the Trauma of Wildfires Through Art
Fire Transforms at the Palo Alto Art Center convenes artists to commemorate loss, survival, and growth in light of climate change’s exponential severity.
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The Unexpected Detours of Marshall Brown's Architectural Collages
By disrupting the reality of his images Brown's collages lead to surprises.
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Touring San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum in Sign Language
The museum enlisted the help of Linda Bove, the first Deaf actor to be part of Sesame Street’s recurring cast, to help bring artworks from the collection to a Deaf audience.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock's World-Building Power
The works, and worlds, on display in Hancock's exhibition seem saturated with a desire for narrative redemption through self-observation and aspects of his Christian upbringing.
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McEvoy Foundation for the Arts Celebrates Five Years in San Francisco With Color Code
This exhibition presents new commissions by Bay Area artists Sadie Barnette, Angela Hennessy, Clare Rojas, and Zio Ziegler alongside work from the McEvoy Family Collection.
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Alyssa Monks Captures the Energy and Anxiety of Being in Paint
With the numerous self-portraits Monks has painted throughout her career she offers her “self” to the viewers while also generating a sense of dissolution.
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For Kaari Upson, the Abject and Grotesque Were a Wealth of Inspiration
To see Upson's memorial exhibition at Sprüth Magers is to absorb the full intensity of the artist’s explorations of trauma, vulnerability, and abjection.
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Orange County Museum of Art Celebrates Its New Building With a 24-Hour Opening Party
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis Studios, OCMA reopens on October 8 with performances, film screenings, and more.
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Unearthing a Treasure Trove of Bay Area Women Abstract Painters
The Long View amply demonstrates that Jay DeFeo and Joan Brown may be the best known Bay Area women artists who worked in abstraction, but they were far from alone.
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The Otherworldly Work of the Transcendental Painting Group Opens at the Crocker Art Museum
Now on view in Sacramento, this traveling exhibition explores an oft-overlooked group of 20th-century artists who pursued spiritual illumination in the American Southwest.
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A New California Center Is Building a Legacy of Black Photographers
With The Black Image Center, a group of young photographers has established a space for Black image makers in need of a place to create.