I remember reading the exhibition catalog for the exhibition Island Thresholds: Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, curated by Sam Scott, Assistant Curator in the Russell W. Knight Department of Mari...

You've read the story of Laura James in her Artist Statement in Voices. In this Gallery, she speaks specifically about her Nannies and Other Mothers painting series. Additional information about each...

This is a collaborative project. The artists include:

Charlie Michaels
Rex Akinruntan
Kwadwo Asare Apori
Ralitsa Diana Debrah
Faisal and his Family who own a home in Kumasi, Ghana
Video Documentation...

Berlin's new Moeller Fine Art shows Mildred Howard's work in a three person show entitled Manifest Destiny, the nineteenth century doctrine used to justify the territorial expansion of the United St...

Rameses Muslim will receive his BFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA in May 2009. He came to San Francisco from Milwaukee, WI where he had been a licensed tattooist since 2000....

Colleagues often make me aware of work by some of their students. Mildred Howard sent me images of one of her student's work, which I am sharing with you here.Ubiquitous pink plastic grocery bags hav...

This January, David Damoison sent me a link to a set of photographs that he took during a festival in Paris celebrating the cultures of African descendants from Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti,...

These photographs are soft and ethereal. Shot at night in Bamako, Mali by Amadou Keita, they show residents in sparsely populated scenes, where electric street lamps illuminate the night in this urban...

"In the Light of Play" eschews a prescribed framework to highlight multiple connections, interconnections and even disconnections in the work of individual artists. Through this format the exhibitio...

Growing up in Southern California, I had an affinity for works by artists who were drawn to the water--Richard Diebenkorn and his Ocean Park series, Hopper and his swimming pools, and Paul Wonner and...

Mercedes Girona's paintings have been associated with that of male painters because of the large scale of the work and also the force and confidence in attitude when she puts brush to canvas. Like Am...

Women secure in their sensuality exist in surreal landscapes of intense color and quasi-distorted space. Their gaze is direct and guarded yet feigns a coquettishness that invites the viewer to join t...

Eduardo Carrasquillo moved to New York from Puerto Rico in 1970 and by 1975 he was one of the founding members of Teatro 4 teaching theater tech to at-risk youth. He traveled with the organization as...

In the last issue of OD-CAP I spoke about artist interventions. In the spirit of encouraging viewers to seek out and find creative people and the artwork that they create, we will continue to include...

This exhibition coincides with the current effort to restore The Ohlone Journey mural in Berkeley California. The Berkeley Civic Arts Commission awarded prominent Native American artist and activist <...

I became aware of Daria Davidson's paintings when we shared a residency at Sainte Columbe sur l'Hers this past fall. I was writing and she was painting--we both took lots of photographs and discover...

Justin Randolph Thompson describes his life and work in Italy as an African American expatriate artist in terms of Benedict Anderson's notion of an "imagined community" in which affinity and invent...

Do you feel the same when you see a Black man in a suit and tie as you do when you see a White man in a suit and tie? How do you perceive an Asian woman in a skin tight mini dress with high heels ver...

Food has forever been correlated with art, whether as muse, subject matter or symbolic tool and has itself been raised to an art form not only here in the Bay Area, but around the world. The very ess...

Bayete's work poses questions of freedom and equity in an ever-increasing global society where mass movement is controlled and perceptions about the "other" and even "ourselves" is shaped by the...