Art critic, Bob Pincus, is an invited catalog writer. To request a catalog essay for your upcoming show,
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Catalogs by Year
2023
“The Inner Landscape of Ellen Soffer,” in Ellen Soffer: Pink Sky, Shreveport, LA (Artspace)
2022
The Chair: An Artists Showcase, Carlsbad, California (William D. Cannon Gallery)
Mark di Suvero, La Jolla, California (Tasende Gallery)
2021
“From a Dark Woods to a Sacred Mountain: Irma Sofia Poeter’s Artistic Quest,” in Herself and the Other: Irma Sofia Poeter, Tijuana, B.C. (Centro Cultural)
2020
“Cautionary Tales of Nature and Culture,” in 2020 Scripps College 76th Ceramic Annual, Claremont: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, 2020
“Independent Study: Christine Oatman’s Visionary Classroom,” in Stories of Innocence and Experience: Altered Mid-20th Century Children’s Books in Pedagogic Tableaux, La Jolla: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 2020
2019
“Patterns in Space and Time: The Inclusive Art of Doris Bittar,” Doris Bittar: Migration Patterns, Los Angeles: El Camino College, Art Gallery 2019
“Real Dragons and the Imagined Fears: Guns and the Art of David Adey,” in David Adey: There Be Dragons, San Diego: Quint Gallery
2018
“Between World and Interior: The Art of Oliver Lee Jackson,” in Oliver Jackson: Someplace Else, at the Rena Branstein Gallery
“Manny Farber” in Collecting On the Edge, ed. Bolton T. Colburn, at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University
“Freezing Flux: Art and Artifice in Astrid Preston’s Paintings,” Astrid Preston: Echoing Light, at the R.B. Stevenson Gallery in San Diego
TRIO: Richard Allen Morris, Allan Morrow, Tom Driscoll, at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla, California
2017
Robert Irwin: Drawings, at the Quint Gallery in San Diego
PLaY: Lee Materazzi, at the Quint Gallery in San Diego
Art & Heritage: Three San Diego Jewish Artists, Braun, Baranceanu & Sternberg, at the San Diego History Center
2016
Curator: Poetic: Artists in a Visionary Mode, featured Eugenie Geb, Han Nguyen, and DeLoss McGraw, at the William D. Cannon Gallery in Carlsbad
Robin Bright/Tom Driscoll: A Dual Retrospective, at the Oceanside Museum of Art
2015
“The Attentive Eye: Perception and Vision in the Art of Astrid Preston,” in Astrid Preston: On Reflections, at the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica
Essay on John Jaylo: As the Moon Draws Water, at the Distinction Gallery in Escondido, California
2012
“Aggregate Nation: The Evolution of American Art in Three San Diego Museums,” in Behold, America! Art of the United States from Three San Diego Museums, ed, Amy Galpin, a collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, and Timken Museum of Art
William Glen Crooks: The Point of View, at the Oceanside Museum of Art
2011
Mark Di Suvero: Sculpture and Drawings, at the Tasende Gallery in La Jolla
Robert Wilson: Video Portraits, at the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego
2000’s
‘Precise Design and Deep Delight The Art of Eileen Monaghan Whitaker for The Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation
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Sophie Calle: The Reader, at the Whitechapel Gallery in London
Gordas: Tania Candiani, Tijuana
Natural Connections: Joanne Hayakawa and Gail Roberts, at the William D. Cannon Gallery in Carlsbad
Innocence: In Response to the Works of Joseph Cornell, Lewis Carroll and Richard Brautigan, Deloss McGraw, at the ACA Galleries in New York
Johnny Coleman: Song of a Landscape for Nyima, at the William D. Cannon Gallery in Carlsbad
1990’s
Anne Mudge: Traces, at The Claremont Graduate University, 1997
“Of Angels and Algae: An Essay in Which Deloss McGraw’s Passion for the Pictorial and Poetic Visions of William Blake is Explored,” in As a Poem, So Is a Picture, ed, Debra L. Hopkins, at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1997
“The Making of Manuel Neri: Figures, Fragments, Heads and Drawings,” in Manuel Neri: Early Work, 1953-1978 (Hudson Hills Press), in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., 1997
Liza Lou: Kitchen, (John Natsoulas Press) at the The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, 1996
1980’s
“Phillip Hefferton,” in L.A. Pop in the Sixties, at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1989
“Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz,” in Australian Biennale 1988 – From the Southern Cross: A View of World Art, c. 1940-1988, for the The Biennale of Sydney and The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1988
Astrid Preston: Near Paradise, at the Laguna Art Museum, 1987.
The Sculptural Stage: John Frame and Jim Lawrence, at San Diego State University, 1987
Robert Sanchez, for Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego, 1985
Jud Fine, for the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, 1985
Curator: Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant, at Japanese-American Cultural Center/Los Angeles Visual Arts Association, 1983
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