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 recognition that something is well executed, interesting, or smart. It only happens about once a year and I think it has less to do with the art itself and more to do with a certain chemistry of the situation. It also depends on factors such as how much art i've seen in the same day,... Read More

Mickalene Thomas "I Cant See You Without Me" 2007 "My love is a 187" is clearly a poetic statement. 187, in police code, translates to homicide / murder; it is also the title of a Samuel L. Jackson movie from the late 90s where Jackson plays a teacher in a Brooklyn high school who gets brutally stabbed in the back by a black male student whom he had failed in science. When I think of those who were both loved and murdered - Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, Marvin Gaye, and Tupac Shakur all come... Read More

Tavares Strachan brought the East Coast--at least a sizeable piece of it--with him on his recent visit to San Francisco. And he left it here, at The Luggage Store on Market at 6th Street. Strachan's project, Where We Are Is Always Miles Away is, quite literally, art made out of everyday reality--the transformation of a mundane urban fixture into a truly ominous spectacle.... Read More

Writing Letters is a three person show including work from Steve Powers, Joe Amherein, and Tauba Auerbach.... Read More