Posts by Kraig Cavanaugh
New Athenaeum Art Center And School Opens In Logan Heights
Logan Heights was awash with art lovers during a large neighborhood open house for the newly completed Athenaeum Art Center that opened to the public on Saturday, February 6th, 2016. The center is the new offsite campus for the Athenaeum Music & Art Library’s respected art school, which also still holds classes at their La…
Read MoreS.D. African American Museum of Fine Arts Swings High with New Exhibition
Featuring a stellar roster of talents such as artists Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, and Jonathan Green, the recently revived San Diego African American Museum of Fine Arts presents a major cultural gift to San Diego. Alone, worthy of rushing to view the exhibition is Catlett’s magnificent, rare bronze sculpture titled “Portrait of a Man,” 1973. The museum’s new temporary art exhibition is on display at the SDSU Art Gallery’s (Downtown) venue… (read more).
Read MoreScarce Painting by Famed Artist Vermeer On View in Balboa Park
Johannes Vermeer’s “The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter” now on exhibit at the Timken Museum of Art is one of the artist’s very best paintings, but other images and objects included in the boutique exhibition titled “Vermeer” serve to distract rather than enhance the Dutch Baroque masterpiece. With only thirty-five surviving paintings attributed to this baroque master, the odds of normally seeing one of his jewel-like canvases in San Diego are greater than winning the SuperLotto. This is real jackpot!….
Read MoreThe Klines: My Dinner with Yahweh at La Jolla’s JCC
Michelangelo sculptures, an entire Gothic cathedral made from plain aluminum crutches and huge tacky postcards are all part of an irreverent and provocative but definitely worth seeing exhibition titled “Seeing is Believing: A Reinvention of Articles of Faith” that was curated by 2013 San Diego Art Prize winners Debby and Larry Kline. Now on exhibit at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, the exhibition is a very odd success due to amazing structure, overtly tacky kitsch, and spectacular failure… (read more…)
Read MoreKevin Winger’s Paintings Begin to Soar
Imagine “Candy Land” ruined after a devastating cyclone strike! Kevin Winger’s paintings from his new “Organic Demarcation Series” feature strong map-like landscapes in saccharine sweet hues that appear gathered from the sickened remains of a child after becoming ill from consuming every colorful confection in an old time candy store. Read more…
Read MoreSuccessful Word Play at the Athenaeum
Do words have fixed meaning or are they arbitrary? The artist Allison Wiese poses this question by creating illuminating signage in her solo-exhibition “Speaking Otherwise” at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in La Jolla. Read more…
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