Matthew Barney's film and related exhibit Drawing Restraint 9 at SFMOMA in the Summer of 2006 plays itself out as a poor follow-up to what can be seen as his magnificent opus and Gesamtkunstwerk: the Cremaster Cycle. Barney's new film and supporting exhibition portray a far-fetched, overly personal and extremely drawn-out (pun intended...) marriage ceremony between Barney and his pop-star wife Björk. Was it necessary to make a feature length film and further design a traveling film-prop exhibition at SFMOMA to show the world that he and Björk are sea-crossed lovers, clandestine whales in human form, delighters of Eastern tradition...as... Read More

Hey art aficionado! Are you tired of the summer art blockbusters? Have blue-chip gallery exhibitions got you down? Feeling a wee bit aggressive these days over the Bush administrations actions, or alternatively, have you got that sarcastic/patriotic feeling about the USA? Well, look no further than the farthest place from center: the Patriot Show II--The Art of War at Cricket Engine gallery in Oakland.... Read More

exhibition description from the BoCA website: THE MATTHEW BARNEY SHOW is an outgrowth of CremasterFanatic.com, a web-based project Eric Doeringer launched in 2004. CremasterFanatic.com appears to be a "fan site" dedicated to Matthew Barney but is actually a conceptual artwork exploring the idea of fandom and the intersection between the art world and popular culture. Doeringer chose Barney as a subject over other "art stars" because Barney's photogenic features and romance with Icelandic pop singer Bjork have propelled his celebrity beyond the confines of the art world. Timed to coincide with Barney's Drawing Restraint exhibition at SFMOMA, THE MATTHEW BARNEY... Read More

Beth Cook's latest work adroitly titled "It's not you, it's me", is more a professional research paper into the minutiae of Beth's life than it is a standard art show. With many artists using their own lives as the muse and working directly with personal experience rather than a fictitious character, often times art exhibits in this vain can begin to feel more like reality television shows rather than something worth leaving the couch for. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this was not the case in Cook's work.... Read More