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SFGate: Kenneth Baker
At 82, Los Angeles painter Ed Moses continues to produce work in new ways at a pitch that an artist 50 years younger might envy. His latest show at Brian Gross Fine Art mines two connected veins of recent abstract work, each attesting to his authority as a...
SFGate: Kenneth Baker
In introducing "The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now," which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rudolf Frieling, SFMOMA curator of media arts, made reference to Facebook. The existence of such social networking sites, he said, confirms...
SFGate: Kenneth Baker
Jochen Gerz's "The Gift" (2000/2008) looms large in "The Art of Participation" and beyond. The German conceptual artist has set up a photo studio on SFMOMA's third-floor landing, where any visitor can have a black and white headshot taken, printed and framed...
SFGate: Kenneth Baker
The sculpture of Martin Puryear, surveyed in an exhilarating show that opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, situates itself like no other contemporary art. Puryear, 67, belongs to a generation of American artists much concerned with where...
SFGate: Kenneth Baker
In a vein very different from Martin Puryear's, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will also open on Nov. 8 "The Art of Participation," a 50-year survey of art that depends on viewer interaction. The show, like some of the art in it, takes inspiration...
SFGate: Kenneth Baker
On Saturday the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens "Martin Puryear," a career retrospective devoted to one of the most admired American sculptors working today. Puryear combines a craftsman's touch with a sophistication regarding form and materials...
SFGate: Kenneth Baker
Every photograph, from the lowliest family snapshot to the intricately staged studio portrait, emits some sort of psychological tone. But only an artist can take control of that ingredient as Bay Area photographer Todd Hido does, with a minimum of...
SFGate: Kenneth Baker
Most people know Art Spiegelman as the author of "Maus: A Survivor's Tale," his two-volume recollection of the Holocaust in comics form. It won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. But Spiegelman was a big name in the small world of comics artists long before "...
SFGate: Kenneth Baker
The faintly disreputable air of Bay Area artist Dustin Fosnot's work may actually entice viewers conversant with modern and contemporary art, which has always had its seamy side. Resting on the floor at Steven Wolf Fine Arts are three mattresses that Fosnot...
SFGate: Kenneth Baker
As recorded grippingly in Thomas Riedelsheimer's 2002 documentary on the artist, "Rivers and Tides," Andy Goldsworthy frequently works outdoors in isolation on fragile, transient pieces that the public sees only in his photographs of them. True to this...
