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Follow the arts long enough and moments of perfection occasionally present themselves.

Shotgun Reviews are an open forum where we invite the international art community to contribute timely, short-format responses to an exhibition or event.

San Francisco photographer Sean McFarland's exhibition at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery may seem to visitors more carefully composed than many of the

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue has announced the recipients of their Artadia Awards 2013 San Francisco.

The full-color prints by the California-based photographer Todd Hido at Stephen Wirtz Gallery depict decaying and deteriorating suburban developments

Little contemporary art that contains no text invites translation into words. But an emphatically felt resistance to analysis marks the work

To see a temporary exhibition of Catherine Wagner's photography, go to Stephen Wirtz Gallery at 49 Geary by Nov. 28.

Ruth Laskey has responded smartly to an artistic challenge with an extensive history in 20th century art: how to integrate figures and the surfaces

Bay Area painter Jeff Adams has a show of commendably fearless work at Braunstein/Quay: unafraid to displease, to be misunderstood or even dismissed.

Will Mel Ramos ever again make a painting or sculpture that we can reproduce in a family newspaper? Probably not, to judge by his show

David Maxim, a San Francisco painter whose accomplishment far outstrips his renown, has a show of works on paper at Lawson that anyone must see who

George Lawson, artist-proprietor of Room for Painting, Room for Paper, recently began operating the gallery under his own name. But he continues to

SAN FRANCISCO Kathryn Spence STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY The press release for Kathryn Spence's recent exhibition outs her as "an avid birder, gardener,