A dirty handprint on the pristine white wall of an exhibition space is usually something to cover up--not call attention to, but the five-fingered smudge beneath the frame of When Paradise Arrived, the anchoring image in Enrique Chagoya's Borderlandia exhibition at Berkeley Art Museum, was so fitting I had to wonder whether it was intentional. The hand and the tracks of its direct contact with charcoal and paint is a signature symbol in Chagoya's visual... Read More

Every once in a while I walk into an art show and find myself happily disoriented. It's a rare feeling of being instantly affected by the work, without initially knowing why. And to clarify, what I'm talking about is a feeling beyond the intellectual... Read More

I am certainly biased, but there is something great about a solo show that could be mistaken for a group exhibition. Rather than offering a one trick pony collection of ho-hum iterations, such shows present a network of varied artistic production that can, when successful,... Read More

Ever since I saw that animated polar bear slip off that bit of melting iceberg to its watery doom in the movie An Inconvenient Truth icebergs and polar bears seem to be everywhere. It is therefore not so strange that Lauren Davis solo show, When... Read More

It is rare for a show of small works not to feel diminutive. Misfits, Todd Bura's second solo outing at Triple Base Gallery, manages this with style. Triple Base's small space helps the modest sized work shine, but the lion's share of credit must go... Read More

Todd Bura's second solo show at Triple Base Gallery entitled Misfits is a tidy collection of minimalistic pieces that are both quiet and rebellious. Bura's honesty for his medium and style show with the cavalier and intentional formal quality of his work. Bura's work reflects... Read More