Visiting Di Rosa

Over the summer I visited the Di Rosa.  It is an amazing, exuberant collection of Northern California regional art.  It's fascinating, really.  The property has four major areas where the art is displayed; the gatehouse gallery (which...

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quench your thirst?

Thursday I attended this month's Art Mix at the Crocker in Sacramento.  The theme was water, titled 'Quench'.  I mostly went to check out the Armin Hansen exhibit and to see what the whole Art Mix thing was about since I had not been to it...

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Jiayi Young: Science and Culture

Wednesday Jiayi Young gave a talk about her work as a new media artist and briefly explained how her work and experience make her a worthy candidate for the open new media art teaching position at Sacramento State. Young has an MFA in new media and...

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On the Verge: Sorrentino, Arzabe, and Gilles

This weekend I visited Verge Center for the Arts in Sacramento and spent time in both of the really interesting gallery spaces.  Currently on view are works by Juan Sorrentino and Miguel Arzabe in an exhibition titled Las Cosas Que Pintan / Painting...

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Pop Culture Vs. Mass Culture

I've been thinking about the difference between pop culture and mass culture.  Recently a professor commented on an assignment of mine asking if we should differentiate between the two.  At the time I thought it was a really interesting question and I still do.  In the assignment I believe...

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So You Want to See Some Art: An Incomplete Guide to Disability Access

Previously, I talked about the issues of being disabled in the art world.  More specifically, having a walking disability and wanting to view and adsorb and be involved in art.  In the aftermath of that post, I started to think about the places I have been and what kinds of experiences...

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Miles of Art to See: Art Market SF 2015

Last Friday I visited San Francisco's annual Art Market.  I had heard about it but had never been, so I didn't really know what I was getting in to.  Art Market SF reminds me of other expo type events.  If you have ever been to the Dickens...

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Emerging Legacies: The 19th Annual New Generations Student Showcase

In the same trip as South of Market and Botticelli to Braque, I came across a really wonderful exhibit. Divergence: Emerging Legacies was a three day juried new generations student showcase that included student work from northern California art schools...

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Janet Delaney at the de Young

This weekend after a disastrous attempt to attend a lecture at the San Francisco Art Institute, I visited the de Young hoping to view the museum's featured Botticelli to Braque: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland and Janet Delaney's...

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Revisiting the Feet of Pistoletto

Last month I reviewed Lumpen, an installation by Julia Couzens and Ellen Van Fleet.  Julia Couzens' work, Standing on the Feet of Pistoletto, Memory Conspires to Mobilize a Blanket of Dreams was still yet unfinished at that point, according to...

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Here As Everywhere, Sac State's 11th Art History Symposium

On April 11th, the art department at Sacramento State held it's eleventh annual Art History Symposium.  This year's symposium, titled Here as Everywhere: Art of the Sixties and Seventies in Northern California, dealt with re-looking at regional...

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Award Winners: Sac State's Student Purchase Awards

Currently on view in the Union Gallery at Sacramento State are the results from the university's Student Purchase Awards.  The artworks selected for the awards are chosen by art professionals and then are purchased by the university to put into...

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