A nervy, blithe quality

A nervy, blithe quality

Stephan Fritsch lights up the George Lawson Gallery with a show that looks offhand, but bespeaks a confidence not easily acquired.

On Demand

On Demand

Berliner Thomas Demand received academic training in sculpture, but photographs have made his name in the international art world.

Art both live and whimsical

Art both live and whimsical

While Mrzyk & Moriceau say that traditional cartooning does not inspire their work now, their art employs both absurdity and black humor.

Art Features

Still rocking the fashion world

Some of the wild fashion designs by Billy Bower are on display in the  "Walt Disney Was Homosexual" show at Steven Wolf Fine Arts.

The end of an era

The show is called "The Last Kodachrome" but the last Kodachrome images aren't in the show. They are still in Pat Willard's Nikon camera.

Life in '70s Hunters Point

Images the late Barry Shapiro shot in Hunters Point from 1972 to 1982 are now compiled in the book "A Dangerously Curious Eye."

Art: The year in review

Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker looks back at the highs and lows in the art world of 2010.

Bright lights

Meryl Pataky lights up a.Muse Gallery with neon, a medium she says "hits it more than any other medium" she has worked with.

Art Reviews

A surprising cohesion

"New Artists, New Work" at the Hespe Gallery is a group show introducing emerging artists and fresh works by established artists.

Huck Finn in visual form

"Huckleberry Finn" at California College of the Arts completes a trilogy of shows responding to classics of American fiction.

A visual stutter,

Ruth Eckland's work anchors an exhibition at Meridian that borrows its title, "Speak, Memory," from Vladimir Nabokov's memoir.

Connect the works

The visions of William T. Wiley and that of H.C. Westermann converge at Berggruen.
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