Art review: Sandy Walker's 'Forest' Nov 6, 2009
Their manner, bold but not self-advertising, cuts somewhere between that of Franz Kline (1910-1962) and the very spare drawings that helped Philip Guston (1913-1980) make the transition to his influential late style. Yet, Walker's style is his own, anchored in his struggle with the forest as a challenge to description and as a figure for all the worldly complexities art tries to master. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'Art of Richard Mayhew' at MoAD Oct 17, 2009
He studied with Edwin Dickinson, an American Impressionist, and Reuben Tam, an American landscape artist, and hung out at the Cedar Tavern in New York City, where he got to know some of the great Abstract Expressionists, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Mayhew, who is Indian and African American, also was a founder of Spiral, an organization started in the 1960s to fight for racial equality through art. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hyman Bloom, 96; painted works of grisly Expressionism Aug 28, 2009
I tried to show them near Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline and the Abstract Expressionists. The tradition of the Boston Expressionists is an important one. (Boston Globe)
The gravity of modern-art shift to Pacific Rim Apr 5, 2009
It also makes, or remakes, connections not considered in much of the art literature, such as a linkage between Brice Marden and Franz Kline (1910-1962) through their common interest in Chinese and Japanese calligraphy. The exhibition, and a catalog of lasting interest that accompanies it, also puts classics of late-20th century New York art, including works by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and Carl Andre, into an unaccustomed context with West Coast art and its... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Ogata's imagination fills Fresno's art museum Feb 19, 2009
He graduated in the mid-1950s from then-Fresno State College, where he studied art and embraced the influences of abstract expressionists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Franz Kline. Ogata has shown in galleries beyond Fresno, most notably in San Francisco, at galleries such as Chandler and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery. (Fresno Bee)
Meditations on Asia in American art Feb 8, 2009
" Now that he's gone - he died in 1997 - five small crystals take his place. Multimedia Photos: East and West meet? Today in Culture The show finds the museum unusually full of sounds, however faint. Bells held in a kind of cage periodically sail down the spiral and ring. Synthesizers drone and vibrate away somewhere, and an amplified buzzing of bees has, when you get close, the roar of fighter planes. Periodically, parcels of books descend by pulley from on high, as part of an elaborate... (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
