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“Some shows you leave. This one loops.”

At UCSD’s Mandeville Art Gallery, Off-Screen Space gathers sixteen works about everything past the edge of the frame — Lorna Simpson’s empty theater seats on felt, a handwritten memory of a car crash with more drivers than the car ever had, moths circling on the ceiling, and a seventy-six-second film on a secondhand kitchen TV that Sisif J. Patrick calls the best single work he’s reviewed this season. Finally, a yes. Read his review of Alison O’Daniel’s exhibition, on view through December 4, at the link in bio.

📷 Installation view of “Off-Screen Space” at the Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego (photo by Sisif J. Patrick / Sees Journal)

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“San Diego, the minutes are open. Go see. Come back. Write it down.”

Sees Journal’s first editorial. In ten weeks this city filled rooms from Logan Heights to La Jolla — and almost nobody wrote it down. We looked for when the silence started and found it has anniversaries: 1992, 2010, 2019, 2025. The critics never left; the pages kept dying. So here is an argument for honest criticism over applause, a salute to the writers who kept San Diego’s minutes in other cities’ papers, and an open invitation — to writers, artists, institutions, and anyone who goes to things. Read “The Unwritten City” at the link in bio.

📷 Ten weeks, seven exhibitions, August 29 – September 25, 2026 (photos: Sisif J. Patrick / See Journal)

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“The field is expanded, all right. The diagram is missing.”

At SDSU’s University Art Gallery @sdsu_art @sdsuartgalleries , Edgeless gathers four painters who cut, stitch, burn, and fire their way past painting’s borders — beeswax honeycomb lit with cotton wicks, kiln-fired counterfeits of canvas, thirty-one issues of a house-painters’ trade magazine strung on a clothesline. Sisif J. Patrick finds two artists with real reasons to leave the stretcher, and an exhibition hung with none — no beginning, no sequence, no edges where edges are the curator’s whole art. Read his review, on view through December 3, at the link in bio.

📷 Installation view of “Edgeless: In the Expanded Field of Painting” at the SDSU University Art Gallery (photo by Sisif J. Patrick / Sees Journal)

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“Death earned its place in Arcadia by being as beautiful as Arcadia. This one doesn’t try.”

For her residency at the Timken Museum of Art @timkenmuseum , Margaret Noble @margaret.noble surrounds a projected Boucher pastoral with a car-sized skull, crows, and creeping shadows, painted in ink on the museum’s wall. Sisif J. Patrick weighs the intervention against the painters who first put death in paradise — and against the painting itself, hanging thirty steps away. Read his review of “Drift,” on view through September 6, at the link in bio.

📷 Installation view of “Margaret Noble: Drift” at the Timken Museum of Art, San Diego (photo by Sisif J. Patrick / Sees Journal)

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“In the club, you are the vibrating material. Here, hazelnuts have the experience on your behalf while you observe from a respectful distance.”

Ess Whiteley’s @ess_whiteley sound installation at the Athenaeum Art Center @athenaeumartcenter fills upturned speaker cones with rocks, ping-pong balls, and hazelnuts, wires the lights to the buzzing, and asks visitors to marvel that sound moves matter. Sisif J. Patrick had already learned that lesson, standing too close to a subwoofer. Read his review of “listening materials,” on view through October 17, at the link in bio.

📷 Installation view of “Ess Whiteley: listening materials” at the Athenaeum Art Center, San Diego (photo by Sisif J. Patrick / Sees Journal)

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Don’t let this shortlist fool ya! There is a magnitude of excellent art currently on show, just download the April calendar to see what has opened so far 🤩

Link on bio to download

#AOTT #ARTOFTHETOWN #SANDIEGOART #SANDIEGOARTEVENTS #Art

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Curator Walk & Talk
Saturday, April 25th from 12-1pm
@losnotrequired in La Jolla

…though I won’t be there on Saturday, it’s such a great way to learn more about artists practice and the stories behind the art, but first….

tonight’s Opening Reception for “Space to Exhale, a group exhibition presented by @sandiegoartdirectory in collaboration and located @herahubcarlsbad from 5-7 pm
Artist Panel hosted by @lisanebasquiat a curated wine tasting, live communal canvas painting, and an opportunity to win art

#mdferrera #figurativeartist #sdartevents

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What a Wonderful Art Walk it was this weekend at @lajollabythesea!! We are so fortunate to get to meet so many other creative artists and to spread so much joy through what we do. Happy Easter and Happy Spring to one and all!! 🌷🎶🎨🌊 #acapella #acapellasinging #lajolla #sandiego #artwalk

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More March art 😍 What are you seeing hearing buying this full weekend?

*note: The show listed at Revision will be at Best Practice, 1955 Julian Ave, San Diego

#AOTT #ArtOfTheTown #SanDiegoArt #letsgoseemoreart #neverenoughart

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Selections from my new works. You can see a few of these “in the flesh” at
LOS/NR: Human Body Artist Award Show
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In this series, I explore the deep-time connections between earth and mars by using wild local beach clay that almost exactly mirrors clay structures found on Mars. These bulbous, swelling, human and cloud-like sculptures echo both body parts and the mutability of atmosphere that suggest bodies dissolving into other bodies—human into cloud, Earth into Mars.

"Findings suggest red planet was warmer, wetter billions of years ago" (and San Diego too) by my step son Dr. Adrian Broz/Perseverance team.

Paper: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2025/Q4/findings-suggest-red-planet-was-warmer-wetter-millions-of-years-ago/)

#marsclay #wildclay #tropicalsandiego #tropicalmars #ceramicsculpture

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“Human Body”
Opening & Awards
Next Friday - March 13th 6-8pm
@losnotrequired

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‘Celestial Navigator (Shroud)’ is part of ‘Human Body’, a group exhibition at LOS/NR Gallery @losnotrequired in La Jolla, CA.
Opening Reception 6-8pm, Friday, March 15, 2026.

My work has always been inspired by the body, and I’ve used black & white infrared thermal video technology since 1995 in 2D works on paper and in experimental films to express ideas about our stellar origins as part of the universe, that we are beings of light. A decade of work as an end of life doula of “being at the veil”informs my artistic practice.

‘Celestial Navigator (Shroud)’, 2025, IRT video still, archival pigment print on Royal Silk chiffon, plexiglass dowel, 40 x 60 inches, unique. Special thanks: model Kate Thompson

“LOS/NR Gallery was founded in San Diego, CA by four physicians who are also visual artists with the goal of showcasing non-conformist artists with bold perspectives about the human body and quintessential human experiences and emotions.”

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