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Art ReviewEdgeless: In the Expanded Field of Painting · SDSU University Art Gallery
Four painters cross painting's edges at SDSU's University Art Gallery. The exhibition around them never draws any.
By Sisif J. Patrick, Chief Art Critic
Art ReviewVisiones Nocturnas: Queer Nightlife in Contemporary Art · Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla)
MCASD fills its La Jolla galleries with queer nightlife's floors, curtains, and disco balls. The best objects in the building are holding a funeral.
By Sisif J. Patrick
Art ReviewBryan Ali Sanchez: Raíces en el Campo · Bread & Salt, San Diego
Back from Yale with confident brushes and the oldest subject in painting, Bryan Ali Sanchez fills Bread & Salt's main gallery with skill, scale, and a first person holding a camera.
By Sisif J. Patrick
Art Reviewnoé olivas: Tierra y Cielo · BEST PRACTICE, San Diego
noé olivas gilds the fence, turns tires to clay, and un-knits a cactus-shaped hole in the golden cage. Every move is handsome. Every move is pre-owned.
By Sisif J. Patrick
Art ReviewThao Huynh French: Future Flowers · Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego
Thao Huynh French's debut solo show holds a family archive that brought some at its opening to tears. Whether the art earned them is an older question than it looks.
By Sisif J. Patrick
Art ReviewMargaret Noble: Drift · Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
At the Timken, Margaret Noble draws death back into a Boucher paradise. The painters who first put death in Arcadia made it as beautiful as the paradise. Hers is scribbled on — though, to her credit, it comes off the wall in September.
By Sisif J. Patrick
Art ReviewEss Whiteley: listening materials · Athenaeum Art Center, San Diego
Hazelnuts jitter in speaker cones and harmonicas hang silent at the Athenaeum Art Center, where Ess Whiteley treats the fact that sound moves things as a discovery.
By Sisif J. Patrick