Articles by Erin Clark
It’s one of the most storied rock n’ roll cities in the world, and now San Francisco has a major music festival that does its history justice. One hundred fifty thousand people packed Golden Gate …
Caitlin Schwerin is a pixie; a Tinker Bell of the modern art world who greets a visitor with a mischievous smile and a Dickensian urchin’s glint in her eye – a delightful presence that’s both …
Oliver Jackson blindsided me. Setting up our interview on the phone, he was polite and seemingly mild-mannered. Driving up to Oakland, I somehow avoided the infamous traffic on Interstate 880. I located Oliver’s place – …
When Marc Trujillo goes to Costco, it’s an inspirational experience. He walks around the store, sometimes with his wife, Linda, other times alone, taking it all in. And not just Costco; he does it at …
Rex Ray is unexpected on so many different levels. He wields a pair of scissors like other artists grip a brush. With his bald head, chunky earring and gravely voice, it would be easy to …
As kids, many of us remember putting chalk to pavement and creating fleeting works of art – a child’s acceptable alternative to crayons on white walls. Parents were cool with the chalk art because it …
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Artistically speaking, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is always a hopping place, but in mid-July even more so. 75 galleries gathered in the high desert for Art Santa …
Sculptor and printmaker John Buck is the St. Nick of the art world, without the beard or the belly. Buck takes childhood things and elevates them. Each piece of his intricate and complicated wood blocks …
The art world has a few illustrious Lopezes: muralist Carlos Lopez, Antonio Lopez Garcia (featured in this issue), Smithsonian Institution-featured folk artist George Lopez, and then there’s OUR George Lopez – “America’s Mexican,” as he …
The world’s most beautiful chameleon isn’t from some exotic country, although she frequents them for her humanitarian work. She isn’t odd or scary, although some of her earlier habits may have appeared that way to …
Mary Lovelace O’Neal’s life reads like a screenplay: a young African-American artist immersed in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in love with one of its charismatic leaders and committed to changing the world. …
The one fact I know in this world is that cool people listen to Lenny Kravitz. And if your social status is in question, there’s a revolution underway that you need to know about. I’ve …
