Art

Speaking in front of people scares Corey Bernhardt. So does tattooing, painting and producing comic books. But he does all four. “I like to challenge myself,” the Sacramento native says. “Tattooing scares the shit out of me, but that’s why I do it. That’s why I paint. I make this…

Justin Wood’s work shows the possibilities of the digital image An olive-skinned woman with a smooth, red cap and jet black hair silently calls out into the distance; her piercing dark eyes are accented with the soft hint of blue balancing the crimson star shaped buttons of her button-up shirt….

Since photographing bands throughout the ’90s music scene in Sacramento, Allyson Seconds and Jay Spooner are now ready to share their combined 40-year span of stills with their show Retrospectives starting March 7 at Little Relics Boutique and Galleria (908 21st Street). Dividing time between writing music and whipping people…

Word to Your Motherland aims to break down cultural barriers between South Asia, Africa and America When Nisha K. Sembi and Mandeep Sethi last went to India, they met with a different kind of inspiration than what some might experience on the subcontinent. Sembi, then a Bay Area graffiti writer…

Here’s a feel-good local story for you: Just last week Estella Sanchez of Sacramento arts/culture/activism non-profit Sol Collective (2574 21 Street) won $10,000 for youth music programs through a national online contest put on by Siempre Mujer (Always a Woman) magazine. The contest was called “Mujeres Que Inspiran,” or Women…

Painter Mark David Manning tears into collage For those who know Mark David Manning’s art, next month’s exhibit at Gallery 2110 is atypical. Manning is a traditionally trained oil painter who uses both real life and imagery to portray a balance between man, nature and machine. His interests are environmental…

Sacramento artist taps into a childhood obsession for his latest show Pop art in the ‘60s and a growing critique of consumer culture at the end of modernism led art into an aesthetic of mash ups, parodies and pastiche. Pulp art, comic books, baseball cards and the developments of global…

Sculptor, installation artist and Sacramento City College professor Mitra Fabian turned an obsession with tape into an enlightened path toward a full-time life in the arts. The answer was on her desk, stuck to her fingers and keeping her chip bags sealed. Mitra Fabian uses tape a lot and not…

Daniel Herrera’s Vaudeville is the work of true photographic alchemy In medieval times, the practice of alchemy was based on the belief that base metals could be turned into wondrous things such as gold. It was the process of taking something common and turning it into something spectacular. Alchemy may…

From clutter, artist James Mullen assembles pieces of grotesque beauty If you are looking for art that is pretty, don’t expect it from James Mullen. This artist is not out to make art for beauty’s sake. What is more important to him is to turn heads, in the same fashion…