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RadiaLumia Lights Up the Desert at Burning Man Like a Disco Ball
Imagine a spiky dandelion puff that’s illuminated from within by an LED light show at night and you have RadiaLumia, a five story-tall geodesic sphere, covered with giant radiant spikes and 42...
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Break Up Bay Area Monotony With a Bevy of Visual Art this Fall
Somewhere, leaves are turning colors and people are using words like “autumnal.” But here in the Bay Area, we’re just happy the Labor Day weekend won’t bring us another freak heat wave like it did last...
View ArticleLook Out! Chris Eckert’s Machines Are Watching You
Ever feel like you’re being watched? You probably are. Surveillance cameras are a fact of everyday life, so omnipresent we often forget about the implications of being recorded—and just who is...
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Fire Inspection at Oakland Art Space Prompts ‘Renegade’ Show at Lake Merritt
On Friday, Aug. 17, Grumpy Green was busy installing a group exhibition at the East Oakland art space known as Trash Palace when they heard loud knocking at the door. As soon as they opened it, fire...
View ArticleMeet the East Bay Artists Redefining Pride
The Bay Area’s LGBTQ community has far more to celebrate than can possibly fit into one month of Pride—or even two months, including Oakland’s Pride in September. And for the visual artists profiled in...
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Redefining Pride: For Nicólas González-Medina, Printmaking is Protest
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Redefining Pride: The East Bay’s Queer Artists, a series highlighting the work of queer-identified artists in Oakland and Berkeley. Through printmaking, photography, filmmaking...
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Petalumans Fundraise to Block City’s First Public Art Commission
An artist rendering of ‘Fine Balance,’ which involves bathtubs on stilts. (Brian Goggin) A 13-year effort to bring city-sponsored public art to Petaluma is encountering a small but vocal group of...
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Expansive, Exciting ‘Bay Area Now 8’ Lives Up to Its Name at YBCA
Whether you love it, hate it or have no idea what I’m talking about, Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ triennial survey of Northern California art, is a big deal. It’s not that inclusion...
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At the Edges of Perception, Lisa K. Blatt Redefines Landscape Photography
I struggle to make out the image in an otherwise completely black photograph Lisa K. Blatt shows me in her studio. The overhead studio bulbs glare across the photograph, but eventually, hidden behind...
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Redefining Pride: Mia Nakano Collects Stories for Revolutionary Archives
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Redefining Pride: The East Bay’s Queer Artists, a series highlighting the work of queer-identified artists in Oakland and Berkeley. Through printmaking, photography, filmmaking...
View ArticleCoalition on Homelessness’ Annual Art Auction Fundraiser at SOMArts
On Thursday, Sept. 13 at SOMArts Cultural Center, hundreds of artworks will be auctioned to benefit the Coalition on Homelessness, a grassroots social-justice organization working at the levels of...
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‘Early Days’ Statue in SF, Deemed Racist, Will Be Removed Following Re-Vote
The San Francisco Board of Appeals voted Wednesday to allow the removal of a Civic Center Plaza statue deemed racist by activists, cultural organizations and much of the city’s political establishment....
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Advice From Justin Bua to Oakland’s Next Generation of Artists
Luis Lopez walked into SoleSpace in downtown Oakland last week with his classmates from Oakland School for the Arts for a brief lecture from renowned artist Justin Bua. Lopez strolled right past the...
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Eviction of 71-Year-Old Oakland Painter Raises Loophole Concern
Robert Gill has lived in the same place in East Oakland for nearly 18 years. But now, Gill, a disabled, 71-year-old painter, faces imminent eviction. Tenant rights activists say that the process by...
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Redefining Pride: Roaming Through Torreya Cummings’ Off-Camera Histories
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Redefining Pride: The East Bay’s Queer Artists, a series highlighting the work of queer-identified artists in Oakland and Berkeley. Through printmaking, photography, painting and...
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That Club-Like Room at the Asian Art Museum is Actually a Religious Portrait
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum has had, until recent years, a somewhat stodgy reputation as a traditional showplace for precious jades, exquisite porcelains and lyrical scroll paintings. There’s...
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Vintage Signs of San Jose Light Up Forever in Suhita Shirodkar’s Sketches
If you see a woman gazing at the city skyline in downtown San Jose, watercolor brush in one hand, sketchpad in the other, chances are it’s Suhita Shirodkar. And you’d best take note of what she’s...
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What Happens When All the Curators Are Gone?
Two months before she lost her job, Katie Hood Morgan sat in a board meeting, watching her department’s budget get cut in half. “It was a little weird to be sitting there,” she remembers of her final...
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At Rena Bransten Gallery, Lava Thomas’‘Mugshots’ Are Drawn Out of History
Multimedia artist Lava Thomas‘ practice centers on social justice, female subjectivity and shifts in historical discourse over time. Her latest work, Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus...
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Redefining Pride: Eli Thorne Paints at the Edges of Discomfort
Welcome to KQED Arts’ Redefining Pride: The East Bay’s Queer Artists, a series highlighting the work of queer-identified artists in Oakland and Berkeley. Through printmaking, photography, painting and...
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