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Memories of Art (Fair) San Diego 2014
Confession: I haven’t traveled to any of the art biennales – not in Venice, Gwangju, Florence, Basel, Miami, Herzliya, Berlin, Munich, Liverpool, Sydney, and the like. Nor have I traveled to art fairs...
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Paola Villaseñor: Transborder muralist and The Savagery of Women
Paola Villaseñor is a San Diego-born and raised artist with her studio based in Tijuana. Living the life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in sufficient measure helps cultivate a transborder...
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What if small paintings became murals: An opportunity for the empty wall...
In a companion artblog, I discuss Paola Villaseñor's mural, The Savagery of Women, painted on the large empty wall space viewed directly across the entry to the San Diego Art Institute's gallery. The...
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Omar Lopex: The Photography of Pretend Families
Families come in many configurations ─ polygynous, polyandrous, extended, nuclear, blended, and the like. But pretend families? We can find them in Sesame Street, the Familyquins, faux family...
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Sculptural Photography
I remember an online conversation about whether there was an advantage to painting with real paint as opposed to using software and pixels. The crushing blow delivered against pixel-based painting (as...
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A personal commentary: Visual art in 2014 - in San Diego, of course
This is not a commentary about the best art in San Diego in 2014, nor the most expensive, the most brilliant new artist, and certainly not the most clicks and blinks (virtual or otherwise). Some have...
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Celebrating the Balboa Park Centennial – The California Tower reopens after...
One of the most famous San Diego buildings is the California Tower. You’ve likely seen it at a distance or up close as part of the Museum of Man. Now it is open to the public after an 80 year hiatus....
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Long live Charlie Hebdo, long live freedom
Will we forget the recent murder of the 12 in Paris for the crime of free speech and satire? Will we follow the challenge of the murdered Charlie Hebdo Editor Stephane Charbonnier: “I prefer to die...
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Jean Isaacs’ Dances of Love, Laughter & Loss at UCSD Mandell Weiss Theatre
By Joe Nalven A dance inspired by “The Atlantic Man.” What better way to restart the new year than to visit with Jean Isaacs Dance Theater. The performances are always delightful and create a sense of...
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Balboa Park Centennial: Art in 1915, Art in 2015
In the year of Balboa Park’s Centennial, the many museums and activity centers located there are finding ways to reflect on the park’s past and wonder about its future.A Point of Departure: Visual Fine...
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Finding the Sublime: Leah Hochman - Scholar-in-Residence Program at Beth...
Some might think that regional and ethnic studies are too narrowly focused, but without such specific area and demographic focal points, we run the risk of studying generalities that lack application...
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Ever think about art law? How about mastering it?
Discussions about art and copyright infringement become the topic du jour from time to time. One often hears the rule of thumb, 'if you take less than 10% of another person's image, that's OK.' But is...
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Picturing a San Diego Dream: Exhibits at L Street Fine Art and the Oceanside...
The danger of blissful dreams is that they invite others to dream those dreams as well.And so, we have San Diego Dreaming at the L Street Fine Art in downtown San Diego and a collaborative location at...
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Rethinking the Garden of Eden as a Dance Video: The Conversation between Eve...
As far back as we can trace our cultural memory, there has always been a question and a story. How did we get here? Why? A question and a story about the creation of man and woman. I was intrigued by...
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Rethinking Soviet Posters: Exhibit at San Diego City College Visual Arts Gallery
The Soviet Union? Yes, that was a country and one worth remembering. The Soviet Poster Show at the San Diego City Art Gallery provides both answers and questions to why it is worth remembering the...
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Latin American Arts Festival Comes to San Diego
It is worth celebrating San Diego's First Latin American Art Festival, hosted at Liberty Station.There have been other noteworthy exhibits of Latin American artists in San Diego; still, this framing of...
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The Son Reflects the Father: Mario Torero talks about Guillermo Acevedo's Art...
It is not uncommon to find parents who were painters and their children likewise: N.C. Wyeth - Andrew Wyeth – Jamie Wyeth (U.S.); Orazio Gentileschi - Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian); Jean Cousin the...
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Contours of Thinking: A Show at the Museum of Art - Black on White
Author's note: A recently published article on the BRAIN Initiative (April 2, 2015) listed seven goals for the ambitious brain project. The goals emphasize STEM (science and engineering,) rather than...
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Buhm Hong Awarded Digital Art Guild Prize at SDAI 2015 International Exhibit
The 53rd San Diego Art International Exhibition for 2015 awarded Buhm Hong the Digital Art Guild Prize. As one walks into the SDAI entryway, about to descend to the lower level gallery, one senses the...
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100 Artists, 100 Years: Celebrating San Diego Art at OMA
The Oceanside Museum of Art is exhibiting works from artists who belong(ed) to The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild. The time span is 100 years and 100 artists have been honored.One of those...
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