http://www.shotgun-review.com/ en-us 2006-06-01T12:34:48-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000290.html Note from author: This was originally going to be a collective review, but it didn't work out that way. The failed attempt at collective art criticism has given me greater respect for collective art making.... Yerba Buena Center Sarah Lockhart 2006-06-01T12:34:48-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000289.html Manuscript pages on the wall detail written observations of a natural site. The writing looks conventional; handwriting flows left to right, page by page in an elegant but un-theatrical cursive. The handwriting is black and appears more rushed at times, but not by much. 24 manuscript pages in 4 groups... New Langton Arts Marcus Civin 2006-06-01T10:48:17-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000285.html A small, self-standing clock that sits atop a pedestal is among the first objects one encounters in the International Arts and Crafts exhibition at the de Young Museum. The clock is modest compared to many of the objects that surround it. It’s scale and hand-painted wooden surfaces seem quaint next... DeYoung Museum Scott Oliver 2006-05-27T16:15:46-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000283.html I attended the opening of “The Art of Tea” (or Why is Soda Pop More Popular than Tea?) show at the Cricket Engine Gallery last Friday and I did not see a single Mr.T related work. What a gyp! Although artist Lexa Walsh did create a piece titled “Cozy” constructed from hair extensions that did very much resemble something that would be very much at home on the head of George Clinton or Cousin It. Cricket Engine Gallery Andy Phares 2006-05-23T12:25:39-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000282.html "Animal Insurrection," Michelle Waters’ series of paintings at the Presidio’s Thoreau Center reminds us that art can, even in the apres-moi-la-Deluge decadence of the late Bush Regime, aspire to arouse the social conscience and foster a sense of ecological urgency. The Thoreau Center Gallery DeWitt Cheng 2006-05-22T18:37:48-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000281.html The concurrent solo exhibitions at Catharine Clark Gallery presenting Packard Jennings and Felipe Dulzaides made use of the unexamined life under scrutiny tying in several cases of suspect: suggestive advertising, target marketing, rediscovered perspective of the everyday, and the challenge of office culture on the human instinct.... Catharine Clark Gallery Petra Bibeau 2006-05-18T17:09:34-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000280.html Chad Stayrooks show at Ping Pong gallery mixes fantasy with mild psychosis via the scientific method… I think the best part of the show was not the images on the wall, nor the giant whale – Chad’s impromptu performance WITH the whale on the other hand, and his documentation via... Ping Pong gallery Catherine Czacki 2006-05-12T00:54:42-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000278.html Collectives are a new hot topic for museums across the country, institutions attempting to reaffirm their anti-establishment street-cred by showing work that challenges the organization’s own purpose as cultural mediator. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is hosting a year-long investigation into the phenomenon of artist collaboratives and the current... Yerba Buena Center Dina Pugh 2006-05-08T21:43:59-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000276.html I happened to be blabbing on my cell phone after leaving Mama Buzz in Oakland the other day and as I was jawing away aimlessly, my eye caught on something in the windows of the neighboring space called Keys That Fit. Meticulously painted branches with bands of bright colors leaned... Keys That Fit Gallery Zefrey Throwell 2006-04-20T11:38:27-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000273.html Snapshot Chronicles is a collection of album pages opened to a range of idiosyncratic moments, captured by accidental historians. In other words, while we can assume that these early point-and-shooters were aware of their role as agents of memory, some of them may have also been experimenting with a new... SF Public Library (Jewett Gallery) Joseph del Pesco 2006-04-14T10:02:25-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000272.html Varnish Fine Art is a classy little joint, with exposed brick walls, industrial steel walkways, and a wine bar, tucked away on Natoma Street behind the SFMOMA and the Academy of Art University. True to its environs, Varnish specializes in marketable, illustrative art. I personally do not take issue with... Varnish Fine Art Anuradha Vikram 2006-04-12T19:09:06-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000271.html The other day I went out and braved the elements to go see "Homegrown: Bay Area Media Art" at the RX gallery on Eddy and Mason. It's a smart, well put together show. The show consisted of a variety of work based in and around electronic media.... Rx Gallery Haden Nicholl 2006-04-08T16:38:15-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000269.html ]]> Southern Exposure Scott Oliver 2006-04-07T18:26:14-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000268.html Dave Lane’s day job is monitoring the water system of California. His real job is to be a scientist of intuition, a mechanic of vision. He is by profession someone who is intimately aware of the land, what flows over it and what its succeedingly deep layers contain. People like... City College’s Kondos Gallery Renny Pritikin 2006-04-04T20:55:41-08:00 http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/000267.html Beyond obsessive, BOMBASTIC! We are trapped in a bunker--10 seconds to implosion. Aesthetics spew and spew: Thomas Hirschhorn declassifies fashion victims as carriers of an imperialist virus. Wearing camouflage: style choice or signal of compliance with Bush’s war? Hirschhorn: “Anyone wearing camouflage clothing, puts him/herself in the situation of a... Wattis Institute at CCA 2006-04-04T14:51:05-08:00