Articles tagged with: artworks
Help us – Help you! We at ARTWORKS have been noticing a trend. In tough times, artists tend to step up and take action. There are a lot of good things going on in the …
The Psychedelic Experience: Rock Posters from San Francisco Bay, 1965–1971
March 21– July 9
Take a trip back in time with approximately 300 psychedelic posters – as well as album covers, underground newspapers, and other items – …
I have always wondered how one gets classified as a genius. And no, I don’t have any delusions of grandeur; it’s just a thought. Is it some type of pyramid voting process where you can …
In a corner of Michael Kenna’s studio, a few dozen medals hang from a hook – inexpensive medallions attached to brightly colored ribbons and imprinted with words like Boston and New York. They are marathon …
Locked in layers of plaster is a story of endless love. She represents a tension so thick it can only be cut by a machete. Yet she must be carefully crafted because their deep affection …
Bruce Haley – – – The goldenstate project is about the inevitability of California’s man-altered landscape, and the degree to which we accept (or perhaps no longer even notice) what we have lost. Specifically, the …
For most people, a vase is a vessel used to display a floral arrangement. For Steve Wynn, it’s a vessel to bridge and expand cultures. Hotelier and world renowned art collector Steve Wynn’s …
The class was called “Steinbeck Country” – a high school English class that had a profound impact on artist Warren Chang. As a kid, growing up on California’s Central Coast, Warren Chang connected emotionally …
Russell Chatham has constructed a surprisingly elegant life in south central Montana. On the welcome sign, Livingston is heralded as the “original” gateway to Yellowstone. Apparently Gardiner, a tourist town now thriving just outside the …
It was a simple chore, really. Being something of a neglectful gardener, San Francisco photographer Francis Baker was cleaning out some pots whose inhabitants had long ago left the land of the living. As he …
Krawczyk’s first foray into art was a painting class in college. He says he wasn’t all that good at it, but he loved it and kept at it, turning his college room into a mini-studio. …
He was a sixteen year old junkie. Nothing mattered except the drug and a powerful unrelenting need for more. Barry Masteller was a child of divorce. His mother worked hard to take care of him …
