Paintings by Bobby Wright at Humboldt
Bay Social Club
(December 5, 2019)
When you think about landscape, it's hard to get past the Impressionists. This has been true for more than a century, ever since Manet, Monet, Pissarro and the rest of...
Water and Power, works by Becky Evans
and Jerry Martien at Piante Gallery
(October 31, 2019)
Moon-shaped pools, underground flows and springs long-buried by sand inspired the poems, paintings and vessels in Jerry Martien and Becky Evans' new exhibition at Piante Gallery (and the gallery's...
(October 3, 2019)
Media Literacy week at the NCJ presents a welcome opportunity to reflect on the critic's (frequently misunderstood) role. The critic, here at least, is neither judge nor booster nor native...
Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross at College of the Redwoods Art Gallery
(September 5, 2019)
We cut from mariachi dancers to the softball diamond. Flat limitless fields, nondescript buildings, canals and barges flicker past. A hopper belches out a river of golden corn. High above...
(August 8, 2019)
At the block party for the second annual Eureka Street Art Festival, more than a dozen artists hailing from points ranging from Bayside to Buenos Aires were steadily moving...
Laura Corsiglia and Lida Penkova at the Morris Graves Museum of Art
(August 1, 2019)
To stand in the middle of the building that houses the Morris Graves Museum of Art and look up is to feel the pull of the former Carnegie library's Renaissance-derived...
Group shows at Redwood Arts Association and Brenda Tuxford Gallery
(July 4, 2019)
Summer is the season for group exhibitions. The 61st annual open-call summer exhibition at Redwood Arts Association, held in honor of longtime member Julia Bednar, opens this month with an...
Ian Carey's Blunder-Bus at the
Morris Graves Museum of Art
(May 30, 2019)
Ian Carey's solo show at the Morris Graves Museum of Art features large mixed-media figures with elements of collage. More painted figures than figure paintings, they've been clipped like paper...
HSU art department graduates at the Reese Bullen Gallery
(May 9, 2019)
The annual year-end exhibition of works by Humboldt State University art majors is up at the HSU Reese Bullen Gallery. Curated by the members of the museum and gallery practice...
Juried Student Exhibition at College of the Redwoods Creative Arts Gallery
(May 2, 2019)
The juried student exhibition that just opened at College of the Redwoods Creative Arts Gallery brings together a range of student artworks produced in this year's classes, from fantasy...
Group shows at Arcata Artisans and Upstairs Gallery
(April 11, 2019)
More than three decades in, veteran glass artist and Arcata resident George Bucquet isn't done with his medium yet. Arcata Artisans Gallery hosts works by Bucquet and Jim Lowry...
Nicole Havekost: Massed at Morris Graves Museum of Art
(April 4, 2019)
Nicole Havekost's new exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Massed, explores bodily experience through stitched three-dimensional forms and embroidered wall reliefs. Minnesota-based Havekost writes of one series of...
Lyn Risling at HSU's Gou'dini Native American Arts Gallery
(March 6, 2019)
Lyn Risling's clear, inviting images celebrate the Native Northern California in her exhibition Reconnecting: A Cultural Journey. Contour lines and panels of vivid color illustrate a world drawn from indigenous...
Marilyn Andrew, Harry Blumenthal and Scott Mitchell at Piante
(February 28, 2019)
Piante Gallery shows work by painter Harry Blumenthal, sculptor Marilyn Andrews and jewelry designer Scott Mitchell this month. Blumenthal's expressionist paintings are up front as you enter the gallery....
The first issue of an Arcata-based photography magazine
(February 7, 2019)
Lack of dedicated exhibition space poses a challenge for area artists, particularly students and recent grads. In the case of Humboldt State University photography students Elijah Howe and Jake Langston,...
