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RECΔCHING @ ArtStreet

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The recent heat wave has us missing the rainy days at ArtStreet from earlier February. Now we present to you a RECΔCHE of this memorable exhibition with photos we did not include in our first critical review (see CΔCHING OUT @ ArtStreet for our full write-up). We apologize in advance for any missing artist names or titles. Please comment below if you know the artist or title of the artwork, we would very much appreciate your help to give credit where credit is due!   Artist: Miles Toland Artist: @reverenddestructo Artist: Jose Di Gregorio Artist: John Horton Artist: Bryan Valenzuela Artist: Clarissa Pezone Artist: @superugly Title: Worth a Thousand Heads Artist: Danae Davis Artist: Vivid Venus (Giana Galati) Artist: Baily Anderson Artist: Nathan Caordero Artist: Robert Ortbal, Title: A Different Kind of Mantra, 2017 Artist: Alex Trujillo Artists: Silva/Thompson Title: Section ...
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CΔCHING OUT@ Artspace 1616

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Christine Hodgins For the month of September, Artspace 1616 housed two exhibits with distinctive style. Work by Christine Hodgins featured her large plaster hanging sculptures, and work by Susanne Isabel Bockelmann featured her large woodcut prints on fragile China paper. Two very different methods of visual art, in one space, and Artspace 1616 does it right, with vision and cohesion. “A’cross Town,” an art survey of the deceased artist, Christine Hodgins, was curated by Gwenna Howard. Hodgins' body of work was last exhibited in 2012 at the Morris Grave Museum in Eureka, and hasn't been displayed since her passing. The works were hung, drooping from the ceiling in their collected forms. The well-lit gallery may not harken ideas of being deep within a cave or crag, however, the stalagcite forms, pods, cocoons bring the viewer to a place of beginning, on the edge of time and place. Contemporary art forms can be challenging to view at times , but it’s sometimes the questi...
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CΔCHING OUT @ Manetti Shrem Museum

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 "...My interest in minimalism and conceptualism informs the way I look at my family, our history, subculture coding, celebration and resistance. I engage a hybrid aesthetic of minimalism and density, using text, glitter and found objects to demonstrate the necessity for poetry and abstraction in urban life and the power of the personal as political..."     -Sadie Barnette, artist statement, 2016   The newest art museum in the University of California system, the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis, has delivered a politically and personally charged exhibit of Oakland and Compton based artist, Sadie Barnette. Barnette’s first solo museum showcase Dear 1968,... is located in an isolated space within the museum, and fully utilizes all four walls to enact meaning and make public the narrative of her family’s history, and specifically her father, Rodney Barnette’s close involvement with the Black Panther Party. Dear 1968,... is a comprehensive exhibit ...
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