Posts by Kraig Cavanaugh
Jackson Pollock is Coming to SDMA!
Come swing with Frida’s Kahlo’s “Self Portrait with Monkey.” One must see Arshille Gorky’s surreal “The Liver is the Cock’s Comb,” but you will definitely pout if you miss seeing Jackson Pollock’s action painting “Convergence” at the San Diego Museum of Art!
Read MoreA Zucchini Saves Art Exhibit
Gemstone arses, secret codes, and a hilarious erect zucchini come together to salvage an experimental art exhibit filled with art-star pomposity and copycat mentality at Quint Gallery’s Horizon exhibition in La Jolla…
Read MoreFrench Curves Bared at R.B. Stevenson Gallery
Using a bright 1960s flower power palette, Ricardo Xavier paints floral designs with meticulous care in his current exhibition entitled “Kinetic Contrasts” at La Jolla’s R.B. Stevenson Gallery. Xavier creates his ornate canvases by using draftpersons’ French curves and meticulous silk screening technique. The newest paintings’ color and designs have evolved in both their power and complexity…
Read MoreA “Gem” of a show at the Bowers Museum
A review of “Gems of the Medici” now on view at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. The exhibition features carved gems, medallions, and gold amassed by the Medici—Renaissance Italy’s most famous and powerful family. The exhibition features important ancient cameos from the Hellenistic and Roman eras along with spectacular gems made during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Read MoreBrief Picture: Exhibitions at R.B. Stevenson, Scott White, & Quint Galleries
New painting exhibitions at three La Jolla galleries are within easy walking distance from a single parking spot on Girard Avenue. R.B. Stevenson Gallery features a group show, Scott White Contemporary Art has a solo-show by San Diego artist Gail Roberts, and another solo-show at Quint Gallery features works by L.A.-based artist Mara De Luca.
Read MoreA Time Warp of “Camp”: De Lucchi, Piranesi, & Factum Arte at SDMA
“Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design” is very much like “The Rocky Horror Show.” Like the musical’s pivotal gender bending mad genius character Frank ‘N’ Furter who continuously alters his persona, Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778) was also a mad genius who perpetually had to alter his persona from architect to printer and an influential designer of the Rococo and Neoclassical periods to finally become an architectural historian.
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