Recently featured in the Museum of the African Diaspora’s exhibition “Decoding Identity: I Do It for My People,” the art of John Yoyogi Fortes reads like a subconscious amalgam of popular imagery and street art. The work exudes the same energy as graffiti or political murals that are created quickly and surreptitiously. Fortes truly shines when working large (six-foot-plus canvases), where the physical involvement with the painting pays off in terms of dynamism and resolve.
In a series of work about the world’s most formidable land formations (Utah’s Lake Powell, the continental lithosphere, Alaska’s Matanuska Glacier), Jessalyn Haggenjos lets opaque, viscose enamel paint mimic the movements of magma and silt, permitting the paint to move along its own course.
Mike Narciso shows a photo series that looks at details of an abandoned place (the Mare Island Shipyard in Vallejo) and discovers a plethora of formal possibilities. In Six Drawn Tarps, the viewer is asked to look at the same subject repeatedly only to realize that it is not the same. Everything the camera records — the light, the shapes and compositions — is slightly different.
“Tip Of The Blade” is new show curated by Renée de Cossio highlighting the work of three contemporary artists.
In remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, photographers Pamela Belknap and Jason Winshell and multimedia painter George Pfau present three distinctive bodies of work dedicated to the theme of civil and human rights. Belknap shares a sampling of the twenty five hundred images she photographed at San Francisco City Hall between June and November 2008, when same sex marriage was legal. Winshell’s poignant documentary photographs portray a sense of immediacy as they engage the viewer and offer insights into today’s American social fabric. Pfau explores concepts of recognition, identity, category, and stereotype through his visually complex, multidimensional paintings that reference the human body in both physical and virtual space.
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