‘New In Town?’ leaves you hungry to create–and eat candy

EDITH ABEYTA’S MYTHICAL BEAST SWEET SHOPPE
An exhibit has to believe in itself before it can win over the audience, and “New In Town?”, up now at Angels Gate Cultural Center, is a very convincing show. These artists—new arrivals to Angels Gate’s studio artist program—seem to have [...]

What’s good at ‘California Visual Artists’? Decide for yourself

PAUL PITSKER’S “SUCKER”
Juried exhibitions are great if they don’t make a big deal about who won—and “California Visual Artists: An Open Exhibition” doesn’t. Comprising an open call for art, there’s something here to offend or appease almost anyone.
It’s an election year, so let’s quickly consider Tamara Carlin’s [...]

Elizabeth Berdann’s motherly, painterly sense of humor

ELIZABETH BERDANN’S “SMILEY”
DDR Projects opened in August with a show of designer toys-made-art—and owner John Geldbach explaining how this was nevertheless an art gallery. (Sometimes, you still have to say that.) “Crybaby,” Elizabeth Berdann’s exhibition of pop realist oils, is all the proof he needs—and she does it with [...]

‘Inked Hearts’ likes it natural

SUZANNE SHIFFLETT “SELF PORTRAIT”
Public intellectual Mark Dery called them urban aboriginals—those San Franciscans who reacted to the Tom Wolfe/Bret Easton Ellis go-go ’80s by replacing chiffon neck bows and mannish suits with neck bolts and labial studs, their skins (and septums) their canvasses. It’s a good term, Dery’s, as all his [...]