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Art review: Michael Sarich’s visual diaries at JayJay
JayJay exhibit shows drawing is the lynchpin of Michael Sarich’s art. “Good-Bye,” a 2012 acrylic on canvas that is part of the “Michael Sarich: Butting Heads” exhibit at JayJay, includes a Pinocchio...
View ArticleCrocker Art Museum receives national award for exhibition
Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum has received a Best Show award for excellence from the International Association of Art Critics-USA for an exhibition that spotlights the interplay of poetry and art in...
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Best of Second Saturday: Paintings, photographs and porcelain
Sacramento art critic Victoria Dalkey recommends five exhibits to see on the Second Saturday art walk. Porcelain and paintings by Shimo are featured at Shimo Center for the Arts. Works by Marcy...
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Art review: 'Intimate Impressionism' a must-see exhibit in S.F.
Nearly 70 intimately scaled impressionist and post-impressionist works from the National Gallery are on view at San Franciscos Legion of Honor. “Madame Monet and Her Son,” an oil on canvas painting by...
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Art review: Chronicling Carlos Villa
b. sakata garo displays deeply moving works of the influential American artist of Filipino descent. Carlos Villa’s “State of the State” includes a chicken head and bones placed over a whirling vortex...
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Sacramento performing arts center could be next big-ticket item for city
Nearing completion on plans for a new Kings arena, city leaders are starting to look at whether it makes sense to also build a new performing arts center in downtown Sacramento. The Mondavi Center at...
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Art review: At Evolve the Gallery, civil rights-inspired works by African...
Curators Brady Charles Blakeley and A. Michelle Blakeley have put together an important and groundbreaking show of artists who deserve to be better known. “The Garden” (1955) by Earl Miller is part of...
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Sacramento gets bike racks that double as art
Councilman Jay Schenirer and the Sacramento Metro Arts Commission on Thursday installed the first of 10 artistic and playfully designed bike racks in District 5 parks created by local artist and...
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Sacramento’s planned downtown arena also seen as art showcase
Sacramento’s planned downtown sports and entertainment arena may also be one of the city’s most notable art galleries.
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Best of Second Saturday
Art critic Victoria Dalkey recommends five exhibits to see at the Sacramento art walk. Pat Mahony‘s “A Pensive Brooke” May 8-31 The Temp (Sacramento Temporary Contemporary), 1616 Del Paso Blvd. Livia...
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Francis Bacon work could bring $80M at auction
A triptych by Francis Bacon of his longtime companion is poised to sell for about $80 million at Christie's as the spring art auction season revs up with sales of postwar and contemporary works. This...
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Art review: America’s ClayFest II in Placer County
More than 80 pieces at Blue Line Gallery in Roseville range from utilitarian objects to figurative and abstract sculptures. Colleen Sidey Yerian‘s “Let Them” took second place at “America’s ClayFest...
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Art review: Quilt masterpieces at the Crocker
Crocker Art Museum explores 200 years of quilts “Workt by Hand,” including Mary A. Stinson’s crazy quilt, is at the Crocker through Sept. 1.
View ArticleMaya Angelou memorials scheduled in Sacramento
A variety of remembrances are scheduled this week in Sacramento for the American poet and writer, Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday last week at the age of 86.
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Verge Center opens with vibrant show
In its new space, non-profit center is set to become one of Sacramento’s premier art spaces. Chad Hasegawa’s grizzly bear made of scrap wood towers over “Champagne,” the inaugural exhibit at the Verge...
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Dumpsters become art objects in Sacramento’s Power Inn area
A new public art project on Power Inn Road uses dumpsters, a symbol of the area’s reputation as Sacramento’s aging industrial center, to show visitors that the neighborhood has a creative side as well....
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Art: Best of Second Saturday
Sacramento art critic Victoria Dalkey recommends five exhibits to see on the June art walk. Sacramento Temporary Contemporary artist: Rogelio Manzo “Winter Abstraction” by Diana Jahns, at Axis Gallery,...
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Artists breathe new life into wooden forms from the 1970s
Sacramento artist William Ishmael, 68, saw more than dusty pieces of wood in four boxes that were presented to him – he saw an opportunity to repurpose them for art. Haile Amonson, 20, of Sacramento,...
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Art review: Thoroughly modern works from National Gallery
An exhibition from the National Gallery is a good sampling of the kind of the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection. “Perilous Night,” by neo-dadaist Jasper Johns, is among the nearly four dozen...
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Art review: 1950s style at Roseville gallery
A gleaming 1957 Nash Metropolitan sits at the center of “Mid-Century Madness” at the Blue Line Arts gallery in Roseville. The compact red-and-white auto is in primo condition and calls up memories of...
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