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SAN FRANCISCO

conceptual and "Body" art in the form of mirrors inscribed with such questions as "What is an Enemy?" and "What is an Original?" Terry St. John's charcoal drawings centered on nude figures posed in studio interiors, on the nuances of light and shade at different times of day, and on the cloistered, hermetic atmosphere peculiar to the artist's studio. Bill Snyder's drawings were emphatically illuminated, highly realistic, volumetric portraits of people wearing Disneyland costumes and enacting charades of benevolent banality. They were funny, and also curiously disturbing, projecting the sensation of science-fiction-style replicas who surreptitously take the place of real people and gradually gain control over everything. In one of the last issues of Life, Hugh Sidey speculated that Nixon's next four years may see the emergency of "a new culture linked to the vast middle ground of American society, which has just expressed its view." I think Snyder may be telling us something along those lines. 

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WENGER: Dan Snyder, untitled ceramic sculpture

The Oakland Museum staged a show by four black graphic artists, two of whom were very impressive. Leon Hicks presented intaglios that alternated between densely textured abstractions suggestive of microscopic views of field grasses, and equally rich, resonantly colored studies of strongly stylized faces and heads. The spindly ink drawings of Benny Andrews were as spare as Hicks' work was complex, but their understated ghetto genre scenes were rich in both satire and pathos.

The Hansen-Fuller Gallery provided the first large-scale local showing by Philip Pearlstein. It centered on his familiar paintings of studio-prop nudes, slack, flabby, relentlessly scrutinized, and irredeemable prosaic. Like any well-executed, academic exercise, Pearlstein's pedestrian works are the precise sums of their parts. If his reputation on the East Coast accurately reflects what's going on there, then the East Coast, in my opinion, is in serious trouble.

ARIZONA
HARLAN 
18 N. TUCSON BLVD., TUCSON 
exhibition to be announced. 

(602)325-4281
mon-sat 10-5

PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
1625 N. CENTRAL AVE. 
Watercolors-Graphics Biennial; A University Collects
-both thru Feb 11; The Art of Color Lithography-thru Mar 15

(602)-258-6164
tue-sat 10-5, wed to 9, sun 1-5

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles

ANKRUM 
657 N. LA CIENEGA BLVD. 
Africa & Extensions — Feb 9-Mar 2

(213)657-1549
mon-sat 10-5:30, mon eve 8-10

GALLERY 707 
707 N. LA CIENEGA BLVD. 
Rita Yokoi. cactus images - thru Feb 10
Susan Gallaway. paintings - Feb 12-Mar 10

(213)652-4095
tue-sat 12-5, mon eve 7-10

Southern California

GALERIE DU JONELLE 
241 E. TAHQUITZ, PALM SPRINGS 
recent paintings by Reuvin Rubin

(714)325-3732
daily 10-6, thur, fri eves

San Francisco

JOHN BERGGRUEN 
257 GRANT AVE. 
Wayne Thiebaud. pastels, drawings & prints- Feb 13-Mar 12

(415)781-4629
mon-fri 9:30-5:15, sat 10:30-5

CALIFORNIA PALACE 
OF THE LEGION OF HONOR
LINCOLN PARK 
prints by Shiou-Ping Liao - Feb 3-Apr 1
French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries
-thru Mar 11

(415)558-4441
daily 10-5

M.H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
GOLDEN GATE PARK 
paintings by Henry Alexander: paintings by Henry O. Tanner
-both Feb 3-Apr 1; Uncommon Clay: The English Potter Prior to the Industrial Revolution - thru Feb 25

(415)558-4374
daily 10-5

GILBERT 
590 SUTTER ST. 
paintings & sculpture by Leonardo Nierman: French landscapes by Jean-Louis Vergne: California landscapes by Bill Gregory 

(415)392-4119
mon-sat 10-6, fri to 8

GILBERT 
GHIRARDELLI SQ. 
drawings, graphics & sculpture of the 19th century

sun 11-6, mon-sat 11-8

HANSEN FULLER 
228 GRANT AVE. 
Alan Shields. paintings & mixed media

(415)982-6177
tue-fri 10:30-5:30, sat 12:30-5

MAXWELL 
551 SUTTER ST. 
A Comprehensive Exhibition of American Painting

(415)421-5193
tue-sat 9:30-5:15

MALVINA MILLER 
3489 SACRAMENTO ST. 
Ray Lauzzana. oil paintings & silkscreen prints - thru Feb 10; 
Arthur Secunda. original collages - Feb 13-Mar 10

(415)931-3489
tue-sat 11-5 & by appt

QUAY 
2 JEROME ALLEY 
Monoprints by Joseph Goldyne

(415)392-5532
tue-sat 11-6

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