Studio Artifacts is an interview series, which invites artists to select, examine, and discuss some of the significant items they keep in their studios and gives readers an intimate glimpse into their practice. Kerry Cottle is a Sacramento-based artist who creates hypnotic, abstract paintings composed of fields of color, repetitive marks, and iconic shapes such … Continue reading
Studio Artifacts is an interview series, which invites artists to select, examine, and discuss some of the significant items they keep in their studios and gives readers an intimate glimpse into their practice. Bryan Valenzuela is a Sacramento-based artist who creates complex figurative drawings with a unique mark making technique. His whimsical images of subjects, … Continue reading
Studio Artifacts is an interview series, which invites artists to select, examine, and discuss some of the significant items they keep in their workspace and gives readers an intimate glimpse into their practice. Alexis Arnold is a San Francisco-based artist who uses natural and manmade materials to explore time, transformation, and visual experience. TUBE. Magazine: … Continue reading
Studio Artifacts is an interview series, which invites artists to select, examine, and discuss some of the significant items they keep in their studios and gives readers an intimate glimpse into their practice. Diana Dich is a Sacramento-based artist who creates wire sculptures and drawings. Her recent sculptures explore her personal experiences with mental illness … Continue reading
Studio Artifacts is an interview series, which invites artists to select, examine, and discuss some of the significant items they keep in their workspace and gives readers an intimate glimpse into their practice. Alyssa Lempesis is an Oakland-based artist who uses strange and innovative materials to create mysterious sculptures and animations inspired by our internal … Continue reading
The annual Sac Open Studios program, now in its 11th year, includes 150 artists in over six cities in Sacramento County. From 10am – 5pm on Saturday and Sunday, participating Sac Open Studio artists welcomed visitors into their normally private studio spaces where they answered questions about their ideas and processes, talked about past and future … Continue reading
2500 minutes, Sarah Marie Hawkins’s most recent series, consists of 50 pen and ink illustrations of anonymous female figures, each rendered within 50 minutes or less and priced in relation to the amount of time they took to complete. Most of the drawings in this series feature a single female figure, which is fragmented or … Continue reading
The mutual support and camaraderie between Sacramento’s artists sets its art community apart from many other urban centers. This camaraderie is celebrated in the fifth iteration of the Sacramento-based group exhibition, If You Do Me, I’ll Do You, currently on view at the Warehouse Artists Lofts Public Market. The premise of this exhibit is … Continue reading
According to the exhibit description at Christie Noh’s current solo show at the Warehouse Artist Lofts Public Market, “[Noh’s] paintings show simple, mundane experiences of the human condition.” While Noh may illustrate mundane human experiences, the paintings in the exhibit, titled “Things Whose Purpose Is Slowness,” are anything but ordinary. Within her fictional environments, which … Continue reading
In her paintings of private interiors, fragmented figures, and abstracted flowers, Christie Yuri Noh makes the invisible, unspoken aspects of the human subconscious visible. Noh’s own inner life plays a prominent role in the creation of her paintings. Instead of meticulously planning each image in advance, she allows the process of painting itself to inspire … Continue reading
This is an art show inspired by David Bowie. Life On Mars was released on 1971 on Bowie’s album Hunky Dory. Originally 40 artists were randomly assigned a line to create from the song Life On Mars. We have now added on 20 additional artists who will create a piece inspired by the song in … Continue reading
It seems unlikely that art gallery visitors would press themselves against gallery walls and attach handwritten wishes to a tree. Yet these are the exact activities that attendees took part in at Verge Center for the Arts opening night reception of do it, a traveling exhibition of artist instructions conceived and compiled by the internationally … Continue reading
“Get 180 lbs. of local wrapped candy and drop it in a corner.” – Felix Gonzalez-Torres While 180 pounds is a lot of candy, Felix Gonzalez Torres’s odd command is just one of the hundreds of artist instructions that form Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Do It. This project has assumed many forms, such as manuals, websites, … Continue reading
Stephanie Gularte’s original adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Norwegian domestic drama, A Doll’s House, thoughtfully explores the individual’s yearning for self-discovery and expression within restricted societal and cultural roles. Directed by Janis Stevens, Gularte’s adaptation is set in a comfortable but conventional home during the holidays in post-World War II America. In the mid 20th … Continue reading
This month’s edition of Five To Watch brings you on a tour of the spooky, the lightly airy, the quirky, and the sublime. Put on your walking shoes and let’s go! Maldición– As Día de los Muertos approaches, there is no better time to follow Maldición on Instagram. Explore the intricate vibrancy the Sac-based apparel brand … Continue reading
From October 3 – October 31, 2015, a two-part exhibition of paintings, drawings, and a sculptural installation, Joyce Nojima: The Space in Between and Kayla Cloonan: Deceptive Clarity, is on view at En Em Art Space. Despite distinct differences in media, color, and composition, both artists create intuitive, non-representational imagery that exposes subconscious aspects of … Continue reading
This month’s edition of Five to Watch will take you on a roller coaster ride through the strange worlds of miniaturist artists, bone jewelers, non-gentrifying muralists, and surrealist creators. Fasten your seatbelt and let’s go! Sabine Timm– Timm is the best kind of scavenger. Her work is primarily done with collected and found items. The photographer and … Continue reading
As a partial survey of Lucy Puls’s prolific career, [just you] features 48 artworks, which range from photographic collages to eclectic assemblages, created from 1987 to the present. The retrospective format of the exhibition illustrates how Puls has combined quotidian objects, photography, and raw materials to explore the complex human relationship to material possessions. Since … Continue reading
The Instagram artist article is back and ready to highlight artists from all over the world we found through the virtue of the internet! This month we will introduce you to a photographer living in the mountains, an illustrator taking happiness to the street, an artist who straddles the line between sculpture and painting, a … Continue reading