Galleries: Huston Wheels Up
Kenneth Baker
San Francisco Chronicle
March 21, 2008
Bay Area Artist Katina Huston has gotten a lot of artistic mileage out of drawings based on shadows cast by bicycle wheels, an image with surprisingly rich associations.
In her recent work at Dolby Chadwick, in an exhibition that ends today, shows her at the end of that road, beginning to turn in a new direction.
It takes a moment to recognize the indexical subject of “Light and Crystal” (2008) as a chandelier. The streetward orientation of Huston’s earlier pieces encourages us to see the image at first as a rubbing of a passage in the pavement, maybe a manhole cover. As in earlier work, her technique of flooding mylar with ink yields imagery that looks richly abstract inch by inch.
Another body of new work, involving a kind of flocking does not convince me yet, but it already stirs curiosity about her next show.