Selections from Patrick Chambon's graphic novel Michel Foucault: Histoire de Folie (History of Madness) offer a vivid, embodied exploration of the renowned French philosopher's work on madness and social control.
Rosie Lee Tompkins is widely considered to be among the most accomplished and inventive American quilters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Her work is no longer viewed solely within the context of quiltmaking but celebrated as one of the great American artistic achievements of our time.
In an exhibition of selected works from the past five decades, documentary photographer Ken Light probes social and political issues in America.
Livia Stein's paintings depict tentative and often failed efforts at communication between human beings and other beings — whether animal or monster, real or imagined.
Kara Maria's "cheerfully apocalyptic" paintings engage with a host of political issues, including war and environmental destruction.
Michael Hall, an artist whose perspective is deeply shaped by his family’s military background, presents Remnants, a selection of paintings on display at the Townsend Center.
San Francisco artist Jennie Smith infuses her detailed drawings of the natural world with an imaginative sensibility.
Allan deSouza, chair of UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice, presents an exhibition that reenacts and upends the traditional colonial relationship, positioning modern-day England as the object of investigation by an explorer from Africa.
This selection of digital prints, drawn from the collection of the Bancroft Library to mark the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), showcases political posters designed by leading graphic artists of the era. Harnessing the communicative capacity of imagery and text, these pieces give striking expression to the anti-fascist Republican cause in its fight against Francisco Franco and the Nationalists.
Jerry Carniglia: Paintings
Abstract expressionist Jerry Carniglia found in aerial landscapes of the American West a point of departure to create layered, spiritually evocative paintings.