VISUAL ART: Roz Chast and the Influence of Anxiety

VISUAL ART: Roz Chast and the Influence of Anxiety

(Published in SF Weekly on May 4, 2017: http://www.sfweekly.com/culture/art/roz-chast-and-the-influence-of-anxiety/) Roz Chast is very funny. Everyone who reads her New Yorker cartoons knows this. In fact, that’s all they really knew about Chast until 2014, when she published her graphic memoir, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, which details her stressful childhood and the demanding…

Peabrain-ism and a Love Supreme
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Peabrain-ism and a Love Supreme

The new Leonardo Drew exhibit at the de Young. (Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco) (Published in SF Weekly on April 5, 2017: http://www.sfweekly.com/culture/art/peabrain-ism-and-a-love-supreme/) On a recent Friday afternoon, the de Young Museum’s atrium — the one that a million art-goers pass through every year — was experiencing a radical metamorphosis. Gone was…