SEPTEMBER 2008
September Art Picks

As I sat down to draft this month’s art picks I noticed we were a little heavy on Sac State selections-- and for good reason...more.

AUGUST 2008
How Sweet It Is?
The Rise, Fall and Subsequent Explosion of the Second Saturday Art Walk
By Liv Mo
Photos by Jesse Vasquez

Picture this: it’s the second Saturday of the month and you’re in Midtown. The streets are alive with people eating, shopping, drinking and visiting galleries. A quick ten-block stroll might take you 30 minutes or more to complete because of the sheer mass of bodies on the street and suddenly you wonder to yourself, ‘can this really be Sacramento?’...more...

JULY 2008
July Art Picks
Geoff Tuttle and Eddie Stein team up for an exhibition entitled Monument, inspired by, and created for the first earthling to have reached the orbit of the earth in 1957...more...

JUNE 2008
June Art Picks

Would you like a better vocabulary when it comes to art? Are you an avid patron of the arts who struggles with the deeper meaning of what it is you're looking at?...more...

APRIL 2008

Not Only, But Also
Lucy Puls in Sacramento
by Tim Foster

Lucy Puls rarely shows in Sac. The internationally known sculptor, a longtime professor at UC Davis (and current chair of the Art Department), shows regularly in New York and San Francisco... more ...

MARCH 2008

On the Road
Doug Biggert’s Hitch-Hikers
by Tim Foster

Type “Doug Biggert” into YouTube and you will come up with an excerpt from TV5 Monde, a French network news show. Sandwiched in with terrorist alerts and sports coverage is a report on visiting American photographer Doug Biggert and his show Hitch-Hikers. Biggert gets more time than the terrorists. more ...

“If there’s one thing the world needs, it’s more homoerotic centaur art.”
The strange, strange world of Skinner
by Tim Foster

Eyeing Skinner’s frenetic landscapes of destruction, torment and ecstasy, it is easy to imagine the artist as a force of nature—some sort of magic human hurricane of focused intensity. Actually, the image isn’t far from the truth. more ...

Geoff Tuttle Q-and-A

Geoff Tuttle is a mixed media installation artist living and working in Sacramento. He’ll be presenting control_alt_delete at Oak Park’s BrickHouse Gallery this month. I had the opportunity to check out Geoff’s studio as well ... more ...

SEPTEMBER 2007

Perception / recognition
The art of Chris Daubert
by Tim Foster

Chris Daubert is on a roll. The local artist and Sacramento City College professor has recently been profiled in both Sacramento and Sactown magazines and is about to open a highly anticipated solo show at the B. Sakata Garo gallery. What happened to make this low-key local artist the Sacramento equivalent of an art star? more ...

East meets West Coast
Jovana Stokic brings Eastern Europe’s finest feminist art to Sac State
by Liv Moe

Despite our aspirations toward world-class city-hood, Sacramento still has a way to go in developing a sophisticated fine art scene. more ...

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