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'Altered' looks at changing planet
In an image not easy to forget, a coyote is captured howling at not the moon but a street light. Amy Stein's "Howl" photograph is part of "The Altered Landscape" exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art. A...
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Two artists with impressive résumés show works
Oliver Jackson and Peter Wayne Lewis have a few things in common. Both are abstractionists and both do works that come from a process that is intuitive, meditative and improvisational. Oliver Jackson's...
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Baroque paintings from Florence at the Crocker
Italian art seems to be everywhere this fall. "Masters of Venice," which opened in October at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, offers a rare look at Italian painters from Venice in the 16th...
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Second Saturday – stop in here
Here are our picks for Second Saturday art gallery showings. Alex Bult Gallery Bud Gordon's urban landscapes are in the tradition of the Bay Area Figurative painters and Central Valley scene painters....
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Size isn't the only topic in this 'Big Show'
On the face of it, "The Big Show" at Axis Gallery seems an incongruous title. But the "big" of the title refers to more than size. "Forest Window," a monoprint by Dixie Laws, is among the bold works in...
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Obituary: Kenneth Potter, world renowned water colorist
Kenneth Potter, an internationally renowned artist in Fair Oaks who was a leading exponent of the California Style of watercolor painting, died Tuesday of lung cancer, his family said. He was 85....
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Crocker Art Museum to feature three retrospectives in 2012
An early California plein-air painter, a groundbreaking feminist artist and a hometown boy who has become an international artist will be the subjects of three retrospective exhibitions at the Crocker...
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Time (already) to start filling in your 2012 entertainment calendar
Something there is that doesn't love an unmarked wall calendar, as Robert Frost might have said. Maybe it's those geometric rows of blank squares, fallow as winter fields, bereft of plans and absent of...
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Innocence meets the macabre in photo exhibit
A young boy sits in front of a dark opening into a decaying structure. He is wearing the mask of an old man and holding a doll in one arm. "Ambrose Bierce #3" (1962) represents Ralph Meatyard's...
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Second Saturday highlights
Alex Bult Gallery Old farm equipment, city grids and agricultural landscapes morph into each other in Jeff Myers' new paintings at Alex Bult Gallery, 1114 21st St., Suite B. (916) 476-5540. Old farm...
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Art picks: Jeff Myers' boldly colored farm machine scenes at Alex Bult Gallery
A huge farm machine rises up over tiny field workers in Jeff Myers' "Field Boss," a dynamic large-scale painting at the Alex Bult Gallery. Jeff Myers captures both the complexity and simplicity of...
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City's junk becomes a cautionary artistic vision
You would expect an exhibition at a college gallery to be educational. Gioia Fonda's show at the James Kaneko Gallery on the American River College campus is that in spades. Gioia Fonda's drawings...
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Victoria Dalkey: Science lies beneath the art of Christopher Taggart
Christopher Taggart started his college studies in physics and switched to art when he went to graduate school In "Kudu," geometric forms coalesce into an image. The seemingly organic form of "Ta Ta"...
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26 Sacramento museums free for the day Saturday
Free pass to the museums? Capital! For just one day, you're invited to ogle many of the region's priciest possessions and priceless artifacts, and it won't cost you a penny.
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Nonprofit behind Lincoln's Feats of Clay competition calls it quits
Citing a lack of financial contributions, Lincoln Arts, the nonprofit behind the nationally known Feats of Clay sculpting competition, abruptly announced Friday that it was ending operations. Workers...
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Exhibit at California Museum tells story of nuns in America
Religious sisters have long been iconic figures, sometimes foreboding (think: Catholic school), invariably benevolent and long shrouded in mystery to the outside world. Benedictine Sisters await...
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Victoria Dalkey: Five art picks for Second Saturday
Southern California painter Gene Cooper offers a series of portraits of famous artists, among them John Singer Sargent, at Alex Bult Gallery. Alex Bult Gallery Bill Chambers' serene and precise...
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Crocker opens new exhibit of Edgar Payne's work
Edgar Payne, one of the most accomplished California landscape painters in the early 20th century, seems to have been destined to become an artist. Edgar Payne, The Rendezvous (Santa Cruz Island, CA),...
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NEA chief to visit Yolo's Art & Ag Project
Bringing together artists and farmers in Yolo County is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the National Endowment for the Arts. Chairman Rocco Landesman will be in Woodland today...
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Victoria Dalkey: At Bult Gallery, Cooper exhibit is artistic game of Jeopardy
Looking at Gene Cooper's paintings at Alex Bult Gallery is a little like playing TV's "Jeopardy." The category is Art and Artists. and the clues are visual. Artist Jasper Johns is a subject of works in...
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