(September 7, 2017)
I went to Arcata's Creamery District on foot before the heat wave broke to lay eyes on the new work of public installation art I'd heard about. It turned out...
(August 31, 2017)
In John Hylton's art installations, ravens lend a hand. Wooden pythons whiplash across the night sky. Rough-hewn wooden figures get lost in contemplation of a painted cosmos. This is...
(August 10, 2017)
This past Sunday festivalgoers at Reggae on the River reveled in good vibes, positive sounds and gorgeous summer weather. Any storm clouds that might be gathering in Babylon were...
(August 3, 2017)
Old Town Eureka twanged with the shock of the new last week when street artist Dan Kitchener unveiled an enormous new mural in its midst, the first to grace the...
(July 13, 2017)
Arcata's Phillips House is the oldest building standing in Arcata and it has lasted longer than is likely for any structure in a culture that prioritizes change. Built between 1850...
Conrad Calimpong at Piante Gallery, skate art downtown
(June 29, 2017)
One person throws a pot, one rides a board. Yet the subcultures that have grown up around ceramics and skateboarding center around membership in a group or tribe. This month's...
(June 8, 2017)
Viewing Subjective Realities at the Sanctuary Arcata feels like passing through a wind tunnel time machine. All major 20th-century sculptural tropes come at you at once, revenants with their wires...
(June 1, 2017)
When you visit a studio or a shared exhibition space, you're often able to interact directly with the artist. The resultant possibilities abound. You might meet an established artist you've...
(May 11, 2017)
It's May and the Blue Lake Museum just reopened for the season — two good reasons to head inland, toward the sun. A copywriter working for the now-defunct Hotel Korbel,...
(May 4, 2017)
Whether or not you've spent much time thinking about the wizardly effects that can be achieved with pen and ink, you should catch Kaye Buchman: Around the Whirled at the...
(April 13, 2017)
Not long ago, I found myself in the recently renamed California Redwood Coast Humboldt County Airport, looking at art. Perhaps you haven't given much thought to the airport as arts...
Shannon Sullivan and David Zdrazil at HSU's Third Street Gallery
(March 30, 2017)
David Zdrazil's gnarled, earth-toned vessels stay close to the ground, while Shannon Sullivan's sleek ceramic discs cluster like tethered balloons on the gallery walls, pushing back against their own intrinsic...
(March 9, 2017)
Elizabeth Berrien makes sculpture from tensile wire, crimping, twisting and winding silvery filaments around a central void. Her gossamer sculptures take the forms of living things — mostly animals and...
(March 2, 2017)
Jesse Wiedel paints moments when the down-home, corn-pone, howl-at-the-moon strain of crazy that burbles beneath the placid surface of Humboldt life rears its head. And he owns the niche. The...
(February 9, 2017)
A visual journal and a scattering of open letters kick off the Sanctuary's 2017 exhibition season. Concurrent exhibitions by Luke Forsyth and Molly Schaeffer provide a chance to contemplate...
