Monday, May 30, 2011

When your intuitive sense overwhelms your critical voice, you have to give in.

--Cory Arcangel

Sunday, May 29, 2011

The vernacular of beauty, in its democratic appeal, remains a potent instrument for change.

--Dave Hickey

Saturday, May 28, 2011



We’re trying to save the world, one sub-basin at a time.

--Oscar Romo

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The Political Equator (click here)


June 3 and 4 in Tijuana and San Diego.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Monday, May 23, 2011

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Tuesday, May 17, 2011



(The mighty San Joaquin River at Mendota and at Firebaugh.)

Monday, May 16, 2011


(The San Joaquin's own Lightning Field.)

Sunday, May 15, 2011





(About 12 miles from Mendota, CA.)

Wednesday, May 11, 2011





End of the semester student work: Radiolarians, Arthropods, and other cool creatures.

Thursday, May 05, 2011




(Paintings by George Shaw)

Wednesday, May 04, 2011



(Photographs by Ingrid Hernández)
To some, an explicit social mission redeems the art object; to others, it compromises it. For some, the social is figural, for others, it is literal.

--Shannon Jackson

Monday, May 02, 2011

“Just make all kinds of little things happen. Wherever you think they should be, that's -- there's one right there -- that's where they ought to be, where you decide. Because this is your painting, your world. Let it happen. Okay …”

--Bob Ross, 1986