…‘Black yo-yo’s on green hanging (Stevie).’ (Photo by Terry Lorant/OMCA) Yo-Yos & Half Squares: Contemporary California Quilts Oakland Museum of California Sept. 12, 2015 – Feb. 21, 2016 OMCA starts the fall season with the work of five Bay Area female quilters, showing 20 quilts from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Seeking orderly patterns and demure fabrics in your textiles? This show is not for you. Working with full denim pant legs, v…

…compared with other genres, like paintings or bronzes. Artists in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly those in the California Clay Movement, worked to counter the perception and elevate the medium beyond craft to fine art. Now, a new generation of ceramicists is further innovating through inventive carving, firing and glazing techniques coupled with allusions to race, gender, politics, digital media and the environment. For example, Linetzky explai…

…h policies such as mask mandates, timed tickets and social distancing rules, perhaps the most notable difference can be found at the Cantor, which is now being led by two interim directors, Elizabeth Mitchell and Maude Brezinski. Mitchell, who is the curator of prints, drawings and photographs, has worked at the museum since 2010. Brezinski is the executive director of development for the arts and has led capital campaigns and annual giving progr…

…ands, was included in a Park retrospective exhibition organized by the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, that traveled to the Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, in the 1970s, and was finally acquired by Jantzen and Beth in 2016. Jantzen and Beth are thrilled that the painting is entering the Anderson Collection and becoming available to the community to enjoy. “We are dedicating this gift to the museum’s staff and volunteers…

…have been making. So, I went to the Anderson Collection on a Saturday morning by myself, because museums have a calming effect on me. I needed to find my center again. As I entered the Anderson Collection, I climbed up the stairs to reach the permanent collection. I was in the middle of a room surrounded by large canvases of colors. One of them, covering almost the entire wall, was simply a large pattern of burgundy, black and white. However, th…

…at even oft-seen and familiar pieces take on a whole new light. In another gallery, a Soundsuit by sculptor Nick Cave, constructed of discarded materials, faces off against Robert Hudson’s funky “Plumb Bob,” also a standing figure constructed from found materials. On the wall in this space is Deborah Oropallo’s painting, “Three Man Patrol” which was inspired by the Rodney King riots. “Nick Cave has said that he considers the Soundsuits to be like…