The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery is proud to present Cut / Woven / Spoken, featuring a thoughtprovoking body of work by UCSC Art Department Alumna Pilar Agüero-Esparza. The artworks featured in Cut / Woven / Spoken locate Agüero-Esparza within a small group of diasporic artists that choose abstraction, over figurative depictions of their cultural identities, as fundamental expressions of their explorations and creative freedom.
In her sprawling new solo exhibit “Uncertain Ground,” the celebrated multimedia artist Linda Rotua Sormin draws upon myth and memory.
“The low murmur of distant voices surrounds you. The image of a tiger flickers across a door.
Over the Moon 🌚 – to announce the accession of DEMETRI BROXTON’S , “How You Gon’ Win” by the NORTON MUSEUM OF ART, West Palm Beach, Fl
The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC has accessioned Demetri Broxton’s mixed media sculpture, Bombs Over Baghdad (Don’t Pull the Thang Out)
‘Continuum’ and ‘Unbound’ From MoAD’s 20th anniversary to new talents at Ikea, there’s a month’s worth of outstanding works to explore. After six and a half months of renovation-related closures, the Museum of the African Diaspora has reopened just in time for Bay Area Black Art Week. The museum is offering twin exhibitions. “Continuum” celebrates […]
Exhibitions RAMEKON O’ARWISTERS: SCHISM September 10, 2025 Following the success of the solo exhibition HOUSE OF (2024–2025) at the Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles, Patricia Sweetow Gallery presents SCHISM through October 18, 2025, marking Ramekon O’Arwisters’ first solo exhibition at the gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. The term schism, by definition, refers to […]
By Graham Womack September 13, 2025 5:00 AM On the floors of the Crocker Art Museum, a name pops up again and again on placards next to works of art: Simon Chiu. Since George Floyd’s 2020 murder spurred a public reckoning, including in the art world, Chiu has helped the Crocker acquire more than 100 […]
by Emily Wilson Friday, July 25, 2025 Artist April Bey thinks we need material Black queer representation. That’s why she wanted to have her work be part of “To Be Seen” at Jonathan Carver Moore, a galley on San Francisco’s Market Street. Her pieces in the show, “Miss Bilquis! How is Your Life? /Up and Not […]
This year’s Expo Chicago had more than the usual number of fiber pieces. We are not talking about 1960s macramé or traditional weaving; this fair showed unorthodox and innovative works using fiber in unconventional ways