My name is Anne Faith Nicholls. I am a 27 year-old artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. I call myself an artist for two reasons. The first and most obvious is that I make a living from the things I create. This is both amazing and freeing. It is also horribly […]

Digital art is an exciting and young genre. It presents new opportunities but also new challenges. Compared to the perceived authenticity of more traditional mediums like painting and sculpture, images made using an entirely digital process prompt a distance between the creator and viewer and sometimes lack personality. The digital medium has a soul of […]

Art is an uncontrollable passion and obsession. After many travels around the United States for such things as skateboarding and graffiti art, I found a home in San Francisco in 1997 and, among other things, a great community in which to exist and make art. The past nine years have brought me the development of […]

Inspired by Byzantine icons and early Renaissance painting, Chris Twomey explores themes of motherhood and identity as impacted by the latest scientific theories of ancestry genetics. The “Madonna Series” is her second solo show at the Tribes Gallery. Using all the tools available today; computer manipulated digital photography, printing,  scanning, DVDs, old fashioned painting and […]

The graphic strategies of mass media advertising have always played on viewers’ subliminal needs and desires in order to sell products. In the post-War period, the manipulative power of the media became synonymous with Madison Avenue’s seductive magic. Fast forward to the digital age: Vienna-based media artist Günther Selichar investigates how those advertising strategies of […]

The ‘temporary Museum of Painting likes to pretend that there are no visual arts other than painting and drawing and that these fundamentally create what we see. Its wall space is reserved for those artists that are largely oblivious to the technologies of instant image collection and continue to create individual artworks, by hand, with […]

The photograph is commonly imagined as the most literal of the arts: what we see in the image is what was there. Even in the age of the digital image this understanding of the medium persists. Yet photography too, from its earliest moments, was understood as a space for performance and a frame where the […]

Stare is an exhibition about the deconstruction and reconstruction of the figurative portrait through distortion—whether on a physical or psychological level. Each of the six male artists brought together in this exhibition address this same issue; yet create very different results from one another. I am fascinated by the way these male artists work on […]

Once upon a time, a Mochica princess ruled the northern coast of Perú. Her vast kingdom began where Ecuador is now located and reached down as far as Lima, the current capital of the Peruvian territory. Heir to the mythical god Aia Paec, our copper-skinned lady strutted around the hot sands of the Moche Valley […]

“Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance)” is an exhibition of new currents in conceptual photography. The exhibition is part of a three-show series entitled “The Mallarmé Propositions,” which addresses several key themes in current artistic practice. Photography has undergone two major shifts in the past few decades: the loss of its objective relationship to reality […]