Alli Lemon, Morning Fall (Oakland), 2026, mixed media on panel, 48x36” I first encountered Hedda Sterne as a literal head above the rest in a 1951 Life magazine picture of the then labeled “Irascibles”, a group of artists who had drafted a protest targeting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a “conservative art establishment” repressing the modernist movement.  Hedda was the one and only female among the 15 artists pictured, a who’s-who of the modern art elite th

Existence precedes essence. Or so says Jean-Paul Sartre. But I do think that explains why I like art so much... it consistently reminds me that we simply are before we become . And I think Patricia Bellan-Gillen gets that. Her recent show at Zynka Gallery, familiar rabbits and persistent beast s , was extraordinary.  It featured works that evoke fantastical fairy tales, weave folklore with nostalgia, and parody ornate vignettes, usually within thicketed labyrinths welcomi

There's a momentariness to Natalie's paintings, as though what you see might change the next time you see it, and that could be just a blink or a glance away.