Category: Art

Concentric Circles: The Bay Area Figurative Movement Revisited

May 14, 2025

My friend Delma and I went to a talk and an exhibit at the Pamela Walsh Gallery in Palo Alto. We are familiar with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and admire the purpose of this collective born and developed from the 1950s to the 1960s in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco. It was spearheaded by … More Concentric Circles: The Bay Area Figurative Movement Revisited

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Ellen Rosenthal in Spring Open Studios at Art Explosion

April 3, 2024

You Are Invited! San Francisco artist and photographer Ellen Rosenthal will participate in Spring Open Studios on Friday, April 12th, Saturday, April 13th, and Sunday, April 14th at Art Explosion. “Photography is a means of self-expression for me. It is also a means to an end: the only way to share what, to me, is … More Ellen Rosenthal in Spring Open Studios at Art Explosion

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To Look Without Fear

November 8, 2023

By Lupita Franco Peimbert Renowned photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has been in San Francisco for the last couple of weeks, organizing his photos. He and a curator finished the layout throughout the 10-room galleries on the 7th floor at the San Francisco Museum of Art. He likes to be involved in his exhibits. “I have been … More To Look Without Fear

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Joan Brown in a self-portrait, holing her cat.

Joan Brown: Her Life Through Painting

November 21, 2022

By Lupita Franco Peimbert Joan Brown was a San Francisco-born artist whose work spans four decades. She is credited with popularizing the San Francisco Bay Area as an arts destination. Her paintings are vivid, her sculptures are creative, and her style changed as she incorporated aspects of her life, travels, and exposure to other cultures. … More Joan Brown: Her Life Through Painting

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San Francisco Artists Reflect on Reopening

May 22, 2021

Home to hundreds of artists, San Francisco is reopening little by little to the relief of some and the concern of others. There seems to be both, a sense of reluctancy to let all guards off and a desire to remain protected against COVID19. Businesses and organizations still require facemasks inside their establishments and recommend … More San Francisco Artists Reflect on Reopening

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Renoir Died On a Day Like Today

December 3, 2020

French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of impressionism. He died on December 3, 1919 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Among his works there is a dancing series called “Dance in Bougival,” featuring three couples in movement. Bougival was a suburb of Paris. A film about Renoir’s last years in Cagnes-sur-Mer and his last model/muse … More Renoir Died On a Day Like Today

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Why it is extremely important to go to SFMOMA or any art museum these days.

November 24, 2020

By Lupita Franco Peimbert Uncertainty, the pandemic, the Holidays…I am not crazy when I assert that millions of people have worries about the current state of the world, in every town and city. I am talking about regular people who can handle many things in life. I am one of those and if you are … More Why it is extremely important to go to SFMOMA or any art museum these days.

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Happy Birthday José Clemente Orozco!

November 23, 2020

On November 23, 1883, Mexican painter Jose Clemente Orozco was born. Orozco, along with Diego Rivera and others contemporaries created what is known as Mexican Muralism; this was a post Mexican Revolution movement and it had political and social justice connotations. There is a great mural by José Clemente Orozco at the Pomona College here … More Happy Birthday José Clemente Orozco!

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