At Drawing Rooms, forty-four artists gather to rip it up. The leaning tower(s): Elizabeth Finger's architecturally provocative "Torn Cityscape" A crumpled-up piece of paper and a mangled sheet of metal have certain visual similarities. In both cases, rough circumstances have given strange new facets to machine-flattened material. That which was once uniform and controlled has been shot through with irregularity. It feels like a metaphor for life. A curator could put both piec

An immersive installation in the truest sense: you're invited to get comfortable and dive in, in person. Relax, kick back, and enjoy the fraying strips of discarded fabric. Bayard asks us to remove our shoes before interacting with “T/HOWS@RT/HOWS,” his installation at Art House Productions (345 Marin Blvd.) We’re to approach his plush playpen barefoot. So much so expected: many creators of ambitious exhibitions make the same request. The joke — and it’s up to us to decide ho

Hot town: Deep Space celebrates its tenth anniversary with a full-scale art meltdown How will the sparrow survive? NTEL's "Trespass This Property" A rainbow hangs over the door to Deep Space Gallery (77 Cornelison). It’s about the size of a small boomerang, the color of Lucky Charms, and the texture of a welcome mat. This plush sign of the covenant is brought to you by enthusiastic yarn-tufter SarahGrace, a regular in these display rooms. Roy G. Biv is a guarantor of inclusiv