To start the new year in the first floor gallery, ICA is pleased to present Dirt On Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, significant work in clay by 22 artists spanning four generations on view January 16 to June 21. Ranging from modestly scaled pots to large sculptures, these objects cross a spectrum of conventional delineations […]

This group exhibition—which takes its title from the infamous 1962 book by Sven Berlin—explores the influence of folklore, mysticism, mythology and the occult on the development of British modernism. Berlin’s novel is a fictional critique of an artist colony. It captures the topographical forces that tether the dark manipulation of symbolic forms. Alun Rowlands curated […]

Contemporary art from Africa is thriving. Significant work is being produced in time-based formats of video, film, and related photography. The works that fuse medium and message most effectively address shifting notions of self and identity, home and exile, and transnational movements through space and time.    Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts curated Continental Rifts: Contemporary […]

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the reinstallation of the exhibition Between Art and Life at the museum’s fifth-floor galleries. Organized by Gary Garrels, SFMOMA Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, the exhibition presents paintings and sculptures made in the past three decades, concluding with works by artists working […]

Bloody Beauty is a continuation of the 2007 work The Fabled Shoots. The difference in the current work is that it relies more on an entertaining orientation and goal, and less on a sermonizing, provocative kind of parody. For this work, I wanted to draw in the viewer with extraordinary beauty.        Su […]