To followers of Albert Oehlen's work it is great pleasure to see his paintings out here in San Francisco, finally; and this might be another sign of how the city is becoming a global art center. This would mean that the aesthetic taste in the Bay Area, long judged as provincial, is venturing to join the rest of the greater artworld. But to be fair, the majority of the American art viewing public is not familiar with Oehlen's work. As a quick review, Oehlen's career began in the wild neo-expressionism of the '80s along with his more famous friend Martin... Read More

Displaced involves two extremes of location: the individual in their immediate environs and the zoomed-out to cruising altitude map where all life is reduced to the size of dust. This pairing of macro and human-scale views, of continents and bodies in space, points to two ways of locating ourselves in the world and for the exhibition, establishes distance as context. A series of watercolor drawings of stow-aways enclosed in an audio speaker, compressed into a glove-box or car seat, remind us why long-time Bay Area artist Julio Morales has found international success. These surreptitious vessels made transparent equate human... Read More