Lost: INTO THE WOODS

The ambitious but uneven group show INTO THE WOODS starts with a quote from the Brothers Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel:

“Early tomorrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest. …”

I hate Eric White’s Art, by that I mean I love Eric White’s Art

What living and dating in Hollywood has done to Eric White’s Art.

I think that there’s something about living in Los Angeles, as I once have, that breaks people. It hollows them out, and fills them with images that are not their own.

Mark Benson Answers One Of Life’s Eternal Questions in Solo Show “How was your weekend?”

But is any of that in the art? Is Mark Benson in the art? Is there heart in the art? No. It’s all too cynical. There is too much about other people and their stuff, and their stories – those dead vanished people and their awesome weekends.

Jordan Doner Blows Up Luxury at Serge Sorokko Gallery

Jordan Doner’s debut solo show at Serge Sorokko Gallery called A Revolution in Luxury, is part of the artist’s ongoing series about fashion, consumption, and vague concepts of utopia.

#ArtEverywhereUS, Fails to Break Through the Noise

Billed as the summer of great American art, and promoted as “the largest outdoor art show ever conceived.” The Art Everywhere US campaign was comprised of 58 artworks, reproduced to a total of 50,000 times, and seen from coast-to-coast throughout August 2014.

What is #Gorgeous at the Asian Art Museum? You Tell Me.

The Asian Art Museum partnered with the SFMOMA to present 72 artworks drawn in what appears to be a random sampling from both the collections of the Asian Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Wolfbat Wows in San Fransisco’s FIFTY24SF

Wolfbat is Dennis McNett, born in 1972 and living in New York since 2001. He carves mad, angry, surly block prints, and has for over 18 years. He is currently showing a selection of his works at FIFTY24SF, Upper Playground’s gallery.

Nature’s Art: Dahlia Show in Golden Gate Park

The Dahlia Garden celebrates the official flower of San Francisco with a diverse spread of colors that grow in a thick, fenced-in treasure trove of blooms.

Wendy McNaughton at SPUR

“Meanwhile in San Francisco” is the show at SPUR to accompany the book by the same name, an “illustrated documentary” as the author, Wendy McNaughton calls it, of neighborhoods from around San Francisco.

Jeremy Fish at FFDG

For the opening of Jeremy Fish’s current solo show, “Yesterdays and Tomorrows” at FFDG that opened August 15th, a huge crowd turned up and spilled out onto the sidewalk – and for good reason.