“Dancing By the Marsh”
View of Crissy Field from near “Presidio Sites” Site #4; The Presidio, San Francisco, CA; November 2013 An adapted excerpt from my Presidio Sites project is featured at The Center For Humans &...
View Article“Experimental Space”
Exhibited research by Luke Gilbert, PhD, in “Experimental Space”(Photo by SD Willis) “Experimental Space,” the current exhibition at Oakland‘s Aggregate Space Gallery (ASG), is a collaboration between...
View ArticleDecoy model in Gray’s Sporting Journal
“Allure of Decoys”; November/December 2014 issue of Gray’s Sporting Journal Earlier this month, when one of my photographs led a Bay Nature article that also included a reference to the work of my...
View ArticleTytia Habing’s Quiet Praise
“A Clew,” from Tytia Habing’s series, “The Gift” After recently being introduced to photographer Tytia Habing‘s series, “The Gift” (via Emma Kisiel‘s terrific Muybridge’s Horse), I added Habing’s blog...
View ArticleSecondhand, at Pier 24
Melissa Catanese, Dive Dark Dream Slow, 2010 [Installation view, 2014, Pier 24 Photography] Courtesy Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco A few months ago, I visited Secondhand, the current exhibition...
View ArticleSFMOMA’s Open Space: BAASICS & unexpected projects in conversation
Two-and-a-half weeks ago, I shared lunch and a very enjoyable conversation about the nature of collaboration with artists Jenny Salomon, Jennifer Stager, and Selene Foster. As two collaborative pairs,...
View Article“Some Remove” @ City Creatures
I recently reworked an essay that I hastily drafted in 2012, during a short art and writing residency in the Catskills. The piece is about my coming to terms with a then-recent cross-country move from...
View Article“Art + Science = Magic (Or Not?),” in Art Practical
In her brief introduction to the special “Art, Science, & Wonder” issue of Art Practical (7.2, October 30, 2015), Selene Foster notes, “It can be argued that every discipline carries with it the...
View ArticleFind Me On Instagram
It’s true, I haven’t blogged in ages…but I invite you to visit my Instagram feed, where you’ll find me waxing poetic or ranting about art and natural history. Unlike 99.9% of Instagram users, I...
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