Category Archives: Art Reviews

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang @ Gallery Route One

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Satri Pencak

Currently showing at Gallery Route One, in Point Reyes Station is an exhibition of work by Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang. The show, titled The True Cost of Plastic, is part of a larger, ongoing collaborative project by the … Continue reading →

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Hung Liu: Offerings @ Mills College Art Museum

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Satri Pencak

A taste of the Bay Area’s East-West cultural fusion can be seen at Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, where the current exhibition, Hung Liu: Offerings, is on view. The exhibition consists of two large-scale mixed media installations along with … Continue reading →

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Revolutionary Island: Tales of Cuban History and Culture @ Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Satri Pencak

Cuba, a small island nation located in the Caribbean, is just 200 miles South of Miami across the Straits of Florida. Yet the name alone conjures up so many things, from food and music, to cigars and baseball, as well … Continue reading →

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Inez Storer @ Seager Gray Gallery, Part II

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Satri Pencak

I originally posted this article on January 10, 2013, but recently I discovered a painting by Edouard Manet, called The ‘Kearsarge’ at Boulogne, 1864. I found it on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website. I don’t know if Inez ever … Continue reading →

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Terry Sauvé @ RiskPress Gallery; Inez Storer @ Seager Gray Gallery

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Satri Pencak

The new exhibition at RiskPress Gallery in Sebastopol is Scenic Journey: Sonoma County and Beyond, paintings by Terry Sauvé. Terry begins her landscapes by painting en plein air, which is a French expression that means “painting out-of-doors”. Typically when an … Continue reading →

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Larry Thomas & Handmade Paper @ Sonoma Valley Museum

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Satri Pencak

Tree bark and leaves, seed pods and grasses can be a source of creative inspiration for artists as well as the components of papermaking. Being both delicate and tough, such fibrous elements are the focus of two inspiring exhibitions at … Continue reading →

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Sound, Image, Object: The Intersection of Art and Music @ SSU

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Satri Pencak

The hills are filled with the sound of art, or . . . is it the sight of music? Actually it’s both, at least at the Sonoma State University Art Gallery, where currently on view is Sound, Image, Object: The … Continue reading →

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Adela Akers @ Quicksilver Mine Co.

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Satri Pencak

Currently on view at Quicksilver Mine Co., in downtown Forestville, is Adela Akers, Threads of Illusion. The exhibition features large and small-scale hand-woven tapestries created over the past ten years, including work completed just this year. Adela’s beautifully crafted weavings … Continue reading →

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Best Bets, 7.9.12

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Satri Pencak

Here are my Best Bets in the visual arts for this week. Currently at di Rosa in Napa, is Entering the Wild, an exhibition that features over thirty pieces by six Northern California artists. Some years back Barry Lopez wrote an … Continue reading →

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Chester Arnold: Trees @ Sonoma County Museum

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Satri Pencak

Through his paintings Chester Arnold brings us face to face with the harsh realities of “life in the country”; meaning we want the beauty of the forests, but we also want lumber for building, wood for burning. To help us … Continue reading →

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