Art

Before his U.S. debut and solo art show entitled Exordium, the 23-year-old Australian street artist who goes by the name Leans is completing a series of unusual commissions. He has carved out a niche for himself by painting the exteriors of houses and large-scale public art in his native land…

Glitch: a harsh term for the beautiful errors bred in the formidably rapid tide of new technologies. What resembles the machine’s first serious grasp of art begins as a mistake, a failure of precision or control. Where machines express error and humans express precision, the fertile world of glitch art…

Duane Michals’ work is so incredibly full of life. There’s the playful portrait of Joan Didion, for one, looking through a smoked glass pattern on what must be an airport security door in such a way that it seems her eyes are playing peek-a-boo with the rest of her face….

It’s a warm night in Roanoke, Virginia, and a man wearing a ghillie suit is shuffling down the street. His pants, taped around his legs, are bulging and leaking with water, while the trash bag hat he’s wearing is newly inflated with air from the gas station down the street….

The creative energy in Sacramento is surging. From the diversity in the region’s live music scene to the legacy of innovation and creative vitality among its community of visual and performing artists, the feeling of civic pride is palpable. With creative businesses flourishing, creatives are taking hold of Sacramento and…

Jennifer Keller is a woman with art in her blood. She grew up in a creative space, earned her art degree and devoted her life to not only her own art but others’ art as well. To Keller, art “relaxes, heals, energizes and connects” and now, it’s your chance to…

Many Sacramentans support the local arts scene by frequenting events and thereby being a part of the fabric of our arts community. It isn’t every day, though, that we get a glimpse into the process, the mess and the commitment that it takes to create the works we love to…

Zahra Ammar makes thriving in a world of chaos look easy. On the inside she is chaotic, unplanned and has a catalog of creative ideas waiting to be set free. On the outside she is calm, cool, collected and truly a humble person. She likes to channel her creative ideas…

One of Sacramento’s most memorable and historic murals that had faded and been worn down over the years is coming back to life thanks to a group of local artists and businesses. The iconic Tower Records mural on K Street, originally commissioned by Tower founder Russ Solomon in 1973 and…

Whether or not the name Shepard Fairey automatically conjures images of pop culture subversion, punk rock idolatry or street-art politics is irrelevant at this point. The 48-year-old artist is responsible for some of the most iconic imagery to have ever befouled the sacred real estate of public spaces in the…