The Walker Evans exhibition spreads across two large sections of the 3rd floor of SFMOMA – it would take more time than I had to really see it. His work captures the ordinary uniqueness of people and places. Some of his most well known work from assignments for the Farm Security Administration is difficult to […]
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Portrait – HOPE GANGLOFF
The broken brush strokes, bright colors and skewed perspectives in Hope Gangloff’s paintings not only suggest van Gogh, but also carry traces of Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt. Ms. Gangloff’s acrylic flat surfaces, however, look as if they’ve been drawn with felt pens, and her electric colors have the backlit brightness of liquid crystal displays. […]
Jeff Wall, “A Sudden Gust of Wind”, 1993
A Sudden Gust of Wind, the source material is a Nineteenth Century Japanese woodcut. Jeff Wall’s large-scale photographic tableaux, many made in the 1980s and ’90s, could perhaps be seen as a kind of bridge between work that uses appropriation as a way to explore ideas about authorship – a key concern in post-modernism – and […]
Samantha Bittman
In Material Data, Samantha Bittman presents a new body of work including a series of paintings on handwoven textiles, custom digitally printed wallpaper, and a handmade tile floor sculpture. In her paintings Bittman exploits the limitations of the basic floor loom. By designing and executing weave drafts, which consist of simple sets of numerically based […]
Philip Taaffe
An alchemist of form, process, and imagery, while remaining a thoroughly modern painter of complex and thought-provoking paintings. Taaffe’s work is a synthesis of processes and techniques; silkscreens, stencils, collage, marbling, staining, and many other modes of picture-making are all interwoven by Taaffe into richly complex and highly meditative canvases. An encyclopedic range of imagery results […]