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Review: ‘African American Art’ a revelation at the Crocker

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The Crocker Art Museum is the only venue on the West Coast to host this vibrant show of 100 works by 43 artists is a revelation.

Frederick Brown’s “John Henry” (1979) is part of “African American Art” at the Crocker.

Sacramento’s Hot Italian restaurant exhibits soccer ball art during World Cup

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The popular pizzeria is hosting an art exhibit featuring six unique soccer balls created by local artists.

“Hot Sox“ by Sid Wellman

“Dogs in Space” from artist Gary Dinnen.

Eric Dahlin’s soccer rabbit

“Ups, Downs, Scores” by Donnie Wellman

Art: Best of Second Saturday

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Sacramento art critic Victoria Dalkey recommends five exhibits to see.

“Bound By Love,” Martha Rodriguez, acrylic on canvas 24" x 30" 2013

Shimo Gallery

Garry Knox Bennett, “Krusty” lamp

Micah Crandall-Bear, “Sunset Tide,” acrylic & modified oil on canvas. Image courtesy of Elliott Fouts Gallery

Sacramento gallery celebrates return with Kahlo exhibition, contest

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Bridgett Rangel-Rexford and Lauren Rangel stepped into La Raza Galeria Posada on Saturday afternoon with their hair braided and pinned up, lips painted red and handmade costumes in tow. The sisters were preparing to compete in the first Frida Kahlo look-alike contest in Sacramento.

Frida Kahlo look-alikes Bridgett Rangel-Rexford, left, and Lauren Rangel won the contest at La Raza Galeria Posada in Sacramento on Saturday, July 12, 2014. The contest accompanied the gallery’s art exhibition, Bound By Love: Homenaje a Frida Kahlo.

Sisters Amanda Jimenez, 19, left, and Monica Jimenez, 17, admire the artwork at La Raza Galeria Posada in Sacramento.

Natalia Deeb-Sossa of Sacramento photographs the Frida Kahlo look-alike contest Saturday at La Raza Galeria Posada.

Frida Kahlo look-alikes compete at La Raza Galeria Posada in Sacramento on Saturday. The contest accompanied the gallery’s comeback in a new location and its current exhibition, “Bound by Love: Homenaje a Frida Kahlo.”

2014 California State Fair art show a genteel one

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This year’s conservative show is genteel, not challenging.

“Myrtle and Joe,” by Ed Chaney of Citrus Heights, was awarded the juror’s prize for paintings at this year’s State Fair art show.

“Emily ‘Tumbleweed’ ” by Annie Murphy-Robinson took the Best of Show award at the fair.

Wilton-born magician takes stage on ‘America’s Got Talent’

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Twenty years before he touched Howie Mandel’s scalp on national television – mysteriously taking away the talent-show judge’s ability to read – Leeman Parker fell in love with magic at the California State Fair at a booth that taught card-and-coin tricks. Born and raised in Wilton, Parker performed his first illusions for a talent show at Dillard Elementary School soon after.

Leeman Parker, left, and David Blatter appear on “America’s Got Talent” Tuesday at 9 p.m. on Channel 3.

Rancho Cordova artists aim to spread beauty by abandoning art for others to find

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A group of artists in Rancho Cordova is trying to put the city on the map in the art world and spread kindness to strangers by creating hundreds and perhaps thousands of unique pieces of artwork and then abandoning them for someone else to find.

Florence Skiadas of Rancho Cordova displays a couple of her floral water color paintings on Thursday. She planned to give the pieces away at the cancer center at Kaiser Permanente.

Victoria Smith of Rancho Cordova does a “drop” at the children’s museum. Smith, a local art teacher, spearheaded the abandoned art project to try and put Rancho Cordova on the map in the art world.

Emma Colwell, 2, and her 5-year-old brother, Will, play with ceramic hearts made by their grandmother, Robyn Slakey, for the Abandoned Art project. The siblings later got to hide some of the hearts around their neighborhood.

Emma Colwell, 2, and Will Colwell, 5, play with ceramic hearts made by their grandmother, Robyn Slakey, for the abandoned art project. The siblings got to hide some of the hearts that morning in their neighborhood.

Best of Sacramento's Second Saturday art walk

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Sacramento art critic Victoria Dalkey recommends five exhibits to see on the Second Saturday art walk.

“View of The I Street Bridge” by Ray Franklin at Gallery 21Ten

Tony Berlant, “Untitled” at Alex Bult Gallery

“Fort Bragg Cypress” by Kurt Edward Fishback at Archival Gallery

At Axis Gallery, Madelyn Covey’s "Sherlocks"

Art review: 9th Axis National Juried Exhibition

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This year’s show at the new site of the Axis Gallery includes 58 pieces.

“Sherlocks,” a watercolor on wallpaper by Madelyn Covey of Emeryville, is part of the 9th Axis National Juried Exhibition.

“Bleach Bottle” by Ryan Fontaine is one of the compelling works in the Axis show.

“Vent and Dining Room Floor” by Brett Eberhardt

“Gateless Gate, Part 9” by Michael Miner

Sacramento artists transform utility boxes into works of art

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Artist Melissa Uroff’s newest piece is not on a canvas or in a frame – it’s on a utility box on the corner of 16th and J Streets in midtown Sacramento.

Artist Sam Seller’s design is a photo collage of architectural details from Sacramento’s midtown.

A pedestrian dances next to Jim Piskoti’s colorful design in front of Firestone Public House.

Artist Melissa Uroff’s design mixes photographs of friends with splashes of paint.

A prankster drew a small mustache on Jim Piskoti’s design for the utility box at the corner of 16th and L streets.

Anderson: Mural project gets closer to goal of brightening underbelly of Sacramento’s W-X freeway

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Tre Borden, Sofia Lacin and Hennessy Christophel are nearly two-thirds of the way toward funding their $150,000 Bright Underbelly project, a mural project that will put a 70,000-square-foot image on the underbelly of the W-X freeway.

Sofia Lacin and Hennessy Christophel created this computer image spruce up the drab underside of the W-X freeway.

Alex Bult Gallery showcases sculpture collected by Sacramento artists

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The Alex Bult Gallery departs from its schedule of one-person shows with an exhibit of sculptures from three collections.

“Falstaff’ by Robert Mallary, from the Wayne Thiebaud Foundation collection, is on exhibit at the Alex Bult Gallery.

“Untitled” by Mark Di Suvero, circa 2003, is from the collection of the Wayne Thiebaud Foundation. It is part of the sculpture exhibit at the Alex Bult Gallery through Sept. 6.

Northern California art shows fill up the fall

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Several exciting exhibitions loom on the horizon this fall at regional art museums.

“El Tamalito del Hoyo,” an oil painting from 1959 by Roberto Chavez, is among the works in a coming exhibit at the Crocker.


Best of Second Saturday: Victoria Dalkey's picks for September

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Sacramento art critic Victoria Dalkey recommends five exhibits to see on the Second Saturday art walk

“Running Away” by Mark Emerson at JayJay

Maija Peeples-Bright’s “Beast Given a Big Hand” at b. sakata garo

“The Jhanas,” Dixie Laws, Axis Gallery

“343 Dresses: The Chromatic Convergence Project” Mary Younakof, Verge Center for the Arts.

Broadway art exhibit offers more than the eye can see

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“Broadway Augmented” allows viewers – using a smartphone or tablet – to see 16 virtual-reality art pieces interacting with the existing landscape along Broadway between Ninth and 21st streets.

Rachel Clarke, background, stands near 16th Street and Broadway in this mobile phone screen capture image of her piece called “Tower”, which features animated images using the Broadway Augmented app. The art project is part Broadway Augmented, where 16 locations along Broadway will have virtual artwork only visible through the Broadway Augmented app on smart phones and tablets and opens on Saturday.

Rachel Clarke, artist and professor of new media art at Sacramento State, looks at a virtual piece of artwork by Rebecca Krinke, called “Known,” on 17th Street near Broadway. The piece is part of the exhibit “Broadway Augmented,” in which artwork visible through a smartphone app will decorate Broadway.

Above, Rachel Clarke, a professor at CSU Sacramento, shows Arnulfo Marin a piece by Jose Carlos Casado called “Dis_Placed Phone” at Broadway and 18th.

Smartphone screen captures display Malcolm Cochran’s “The Peaceable Kingdom,” above, and Clarke, in background, next to her piece, “Tower,” near 16th Street and Broadway.

L.A. artist dresses up colors at Verge Center for the Arts

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Walking into the gallery at Verge Center for the Arts, you are surrounded by color. Arranged around the room are hundreds of dresses in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet – the seven colors of the chromatic spectrum.

Los Angeles artist Mary Younakof stands in the center of her creation “343 Dresses: The Chromatic Convergence Project” at the Verge Center for the Arts.

Strong Latino works abound at Crocker’s ‘Our America’ exhibit

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As soon as you step off the elevator on the Crocker Art Museum’s third floor, you are surrounded by compelling images from “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art,” another spectacular show from the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Frank Romero, Death of Ruben Salazar, 1986. Oil on canvas, 72 1/4 x 120 3/8 inches. Smithsonian American Art Museum purchase made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment.

Luis Cruz Azaceta’s “No Parking Here at Any Time” from 1978 is part of the “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art” exhibit at the Crocker Art Museum through Jan. 11, 2015.

Olga Albizu, Radiante, 1967. Oil on canvas, 68 x 62 inches. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of JP Morgan Chase.

Carlos Almaraz, Night Magic (Blue Jester), 1988. Oil on canvas, 54 x 54 inches. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Gloria Werner.

Art review: Disparate visions at JayJay

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Both are abstract painters, but that’s where the similarities between Mark Emerson and Tom Leaver end.

“Orange for Kathy,” a work by Mark Emerson, is on display at JayJay Gallery.

“Where II” by Tom Leaver is on exhibit at JayJay.

“Note For Note” by Mark Emerson is at JayJay Gallery.

“Wait II” is one of Tom Leaver’s oil-on-canvas compositions in the JayJay exhibit.

Victoria Dalkey: Best of Second Saturday

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Sacramento art critic recommends five exhibits to see, from watercolors to urban landscapes.

“Olan Sun” by William Gatewood at Shi Mo Gallery.

Works by Bryce Vinokurov are at Alex Bult Gallery.

“Nothing Surprises” by Margaret Woodcock at Sparrow Gallery.

“Vacation” by Jerald Silva at b. sakata garo

Contemporary art a new phase for museum

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The new show in Bentonville, Ark., is an effort to introduce contemporary art to a mainstream audience.

A visitor studies the artwork at a new contemporary show called “State of the Art” at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. The work shown is titled “Ghosts of Consumption” by Pam Longobardi and includes ocean plastic and steel.




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