What's New Today In The Art World?

       Amongst the hustle and bustle of the San Francisco city streets lies one of the largest and most popular modern and contemporary art museums in California, the SFMOMA. As a Bay Area native, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has been a source of inspiration in my artistic journey since I was a teenager. I visited the museum for the first time with my mom on a nice chilly Saturday morning when I was in the 8 th   or 9 th   grade. As most kids transitioning from middle to high school, I did not know what kind of college career I wanted to pursue but I always knew I loved to make art. That first time visiting the SFMOMA opened my eyes to the immeasurability of artistic possibilities and creations in which I instantly knew I wanted to be a part of. To this day, I am still witnessing ways in which art concepts, processes, and boundaries are being explored and contorted.   An exhibition I visited recently this month at the SFMOMA, that exemplifies...

   My Mother in front ot the exhibition.      "The Visitors," an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, is among the most profoundly touching displays I have ever seen. The installation is set up with nine enormous screens, each featuring a different musician performing an instrument, in an a dark room similar to a movie theater. They are all performing the same song, each contributing an individual component to the symphony from a different room or space than the other.  Completely immersed in this hour-long performance, the audience gathered in the main room, either sitting on the bench or lying down on the floor.        Instead of reading the name of the exhibition and artist statement before going into the experience, I decided to read it after.  While reading the sign and doing my research, I soon discovered that this piece was created from nine separate rooms in a sing...

        Who is that man? What's in the wheel barrel? Where did she come from? All these questions were flowing in my head only 5 minutes into Vicki Hall's reenactment of her 1970's presentation of Fresno Sleezo. On Thursday March 7, my Art 112 class gathered in the University Library Gallery at Sacramento State to watch what will go down in history as my first ever performance art show. After reading the pamphlet it was of my understanding that this show had only been performed once before. Vicki Hall stated in the Q&A portion of the show, that she did performances for specific audiences and that is one of the reasons she did not want to perform it again. Although we may have not been her intended audience, I think we all appreciated and gained something from this one-of-a-kind performance piece.       Before the performance began there were two older women in blonde wigs dressed up like flight attendants who silently ushered me into a sp...

       This artist's conversation with curator Francesca Wilmott and artist Stephen Kaltenbach delves into Kaltenbach's most well-known and important works while also providing some background information on his significant personal life. Giving a brief overview of Kaltenbach's life from the 1960s to the 1980s, Francesca opened the discussion. The artist wrote for "Artforum," a publication dedicated to art, back in 1968. He once sent brief, motivational notes in anonymous messages. The artist's profound thought came forth mostly from the words "Teach Art." In a 1970 interview for Artforum magazine, Kaltenbach says, “My teachings is one of my most important conceptual art involvements now.” He desired to move away from instructing students and other artists directly on how to make art, preferring to let them observe and gain knowledge from his methods, mistakes, and answers. The students can now reflect on what they have observed and learned via this ...

       Haley Titus is an abstract painter who has left a very colorful footprint on many areas of  Sacramento Ca. If you've ever picked up a latte at  Phillz Coffee on Freeport Boulevard or have any little ones attending Phoebe Hearst Elementary School, you may have already run into Titus's work. Haley Titus mostly works with bright colors and big shapes to create abstract scenes that bring comfort and fun to her viewers. Many botanical and or floral images can be found in many of her works. This very fact makes Titus's new exhibition of paintings even more interesting.                                                       On Monday February 19th, Haley Titus's art exhibit titled, "Cosmic Dance" was debuted at Sacramento State located in the University union gallery. I visited the show on February 29th and was instantly...