In her San Francisco exhibition as part of SF MOMA's "New Work" series, Mai-Thu Perret employs a language of symbols to refer to a private world, a society of her own invention. The range of her influences is wide and the materials are refined but still somewhat roughly constructed when necessary, for example in Sylvania, the faceless papier-mache figure who is contrastingly adorned in a couture dress inspired by wood grain and raising her arms in adoration and celebration, possibly of the very textures that she bears on her body and in her namesake. Piles and clumps of vaguely recognizable... Read More

Assembly Instructions, installation view Assembly Instructions is the second solo show for Brooklyn-based artist, Alexandre Singh. For the audience that is drawn to technophobic savvy collage techniques, [myself included], Assembly Instructions continues to embrace Singh's photocopy chic aesthetic. I was lucky enough to catch a talk by the artist at the opening of his show. Accompanied by three overhead projectors, Singh translated the concept for his show by walking the audience through his own mental conduit. Assembly Instructions is an installation of over 120 framed works that map out a series of tangential associative thoughts expounding from one initial... Read More

Do you love Jack Hanley Gallery? For better or worse, in many ways Jack's our King Midas, the only guy in the last decade to make a deep and convincing dent in the international art scene from a perch in "provincial" San Francisco (Paule Anglim deserves credit for doing this a decade or two earlier). Jack does deserves more credit here and especially among curators and other dealers for his vision and follow through; where many have simply complained or been pushed aside, Jack's got things done and perhaps in some tiny way inflected the course of contemporary art history.... Read More