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5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Rigo 23
Front cover from Backtracking 1985, ARC/AIDS Vigil, UN Plaza. Courtesy Rigo 23. I first encountered Rigo 23’s work this past summer staying with friends in San Francisco’s Mission, where Rigo 23...
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5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Amy Balkin
Amy Balkin, "Public Smog is a Scheme," Flash loop still, 2006-2011. Courtesy the artist. For the past couple years, I have been teaching Bay Area-based artist Amy Balkin’s work within a curriculum...
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Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad
Photo soure: Guillaumelemay.tumblr.com In November 1991, Nirvana played on all of our car stereos. We smoked clove cigarettes and drove through the Oakland hills with Nevermind blaring over the...
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Open Enrollment: Something to Talk About
There’s nothing quite like the graduate critique seminar – a visit to a classmate’s studio where ten to fifteen artists are hopefully hopped up on enough caffeine that they’ll engage with the artwork...
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Bedfellows | Coded Cloth
Alberti cipher disk, used for encrypting text. Photo source: http://www.ncard.co.cc We speak in code when words aren’t safe to say. Faced with threats, our language goes subterranean, carving new...
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Open Enrollment | The Importance of Being Sketchy
I am freaking out! In one month, I’ll be installing my artwork at The Winery SF for San Francisco Art Institute’s MFA Thesis Exhibition. Last year at this time, my buddy and neighbor from my days in...
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Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco
The news of burritos available online sends office workers into a frenzy in this ad from Grubhub.com. Photo by author. One hundred feet below the Starbucks and suits of San Francisco’s financial...
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Monday Painter/Sunday Banker
I am so pleased to be a new guest blogger at Art21. We were encouraged to introduce ourselves in our first blog post, and so I thought I would write about art and economics. . . . In 2004, Daniel H....
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Under the Influence
Nathan Oliveira, “Standing Man with Hands on Belt”, 1960 Now if anyone happened to dial up the title of this post hoping to see me (or anyone, for that matter) reach down deep and start talking about...
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Open Enrollment | So Long Grad School!
Over the last four weeks, I daydreamed about my final post for my contribution to Art21 Blog’s Open Enrollment column. Since January, my final semester at San Francisco Art Institute had taken a...
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Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
S and B Oriental Curry Powder is the most popular curry powder in Japan and also artist Sita Bhaumik's initials; she took it as a sign. Photo: Onlyfromhawaii.com. New relationships are often built...
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Art21 Educators 2011-2012: Todd Elkin and Teri Hu
This week, we introduce the fifth pair of Art21 Educators, Todd Elkin and Teri Hu, hailing from the Bay Area in Northern California. Last week, we featured Jeannine Bardo and Mary Curry from...
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Inspired Reading | Geof Oppenheimer
This month, I had the pleasure of speaking to Geof Oppenheimer, a Chicago- and San Francisco-based artist, about his upcoming exhibition, Inside every man, part of him wants to burn down his own...
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Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Alison Kendall, "1/2 and 1/2 Grasshopper," 2006. Half ink wash, half colored pencil on paper. Courtesy the artist. Alison Kendall creates drawings and paintings in which viewers’ expectations are...
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Praxis Makes Perfect | Introduction Part 1: Just Another Night in The Art World
It’s 9 o’clock on a surprisingly warm September evening in San Francisco, and I’m already at my third art opening of the night. I should be in New York. Two years ago at a normal bar a few normal...
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New Guest Blogger: DeWitt Cheng
Thanks to last week’s guest blogger Tricia Van Eck for her inspiring series of posts on the Occupy movement and the political and aesthetics implications of happiness, which suggested that a concern...
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The Curious Creations of Cyrus Tilton
Cyrus Tilton. "Lovers," 2011. Steel, muslin, nylon, beeswax, damar. 11' L 6'W x 5'H. If you saw the science fiction movie Starship Troopers a few years ago, you have already seen Oakland sculptor...
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Bedfellows | Suburban Seriality
We were not the same, though when we came together, we acted as one. Growing up together, seven girls in the suburbs of Northern California, we told each other’s stories and slept in each other’s...
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Andy Vogt’s Everyday Science
Andy Vogt. Untitled studio piece produced at Headlands Center for the Arts. Certain contemporary artists find so much to explore in one material that artist and medium become almost fused in the...
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William Harsh on Tradition, Anonymity, Picasso and the Barbaric Yawp
William Harsh. Untitled. Courtesy the artist. This past summer, San Franciscans were treated to an art smorgasbord from Paris’s Banquet Years, before the Great War. A Picasso exhibition came to the de...
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