Blog.SFGate.com — January 16, 2014
Interview: How an exhibition juror chooses what the public sees
Bay Area sculptor Weston Teruya was persuaded to winnow the scores of participant artists down to the few — 8, as it turned out — represented in “Feature.” Teruya and I spoke at the BAC while the full-scale members’ show was still hanging....

SFGate.com — January 15, 2014
Weston Teruya: Sole juror for 'Feature' show
Bay Area sculptor Weston Teruya, 36, was invited by the Berkeley Art Center to cull fewer than 10 outstanding things from its annual unjuried members' exhibition - more than 200 submissions...

SFGate.com — August 21, 2013
Bay Area visual arts picks
Works in many media reflecting on "risk" by 34 contemporary artists, chosen by Berkeley Art Museum curator Apsara DiQuinzio and Oakland gallery owner Kimberly Johansson...

East Bay Express— August 2013
RISK
All good art begins with a risk. Many of the ones in Risk, now at the Berkeley Art Center, pay off...

Berkeleyside— May 7, 2013
Berkeley Art Center showcases sculpture in new show
One of the many aesthetic pleasures of ORIGINS:Elemental Forms in Contemporary Sculpture — a provocative group sculpture exhibition now at the Berkeley Art Center through June 9 — is the installation itself.....

East Bay Express— May 1, 2013
Festival of Form
This enjoyably crowded, twelve-artist sculpture exhibition highlights a nature-focused sensibility....

East Bay Express
WONDER: 2012 Artists Annual
In an art climate heavily defined by the reign of the curator, an exhibition such as Wonder, Berkeley Art Center's annual open call, truly is a relaxing experience...

SFGate.com — September 5, 2012
Review: 'Beauty' at Berkeley Art Center
It came as no shock to learn from the Berkeley Art Center that "Beauty," its annual juried exhibition, has left some visitors agitated...

East Bay Express — July 26, 2012
Beauty
This year’s juried exhibition at the Berkeley Art Center, Beauty, offers a wide and rich, if thinly spread, survey on the theme...

East Bay Express — May 2, 2012
Healing the Wounds of War
Yelling Clinic offers perspective on the continued ravages of the Vietnam War...

East Bay Express — March 21, 2012
Jenny Bloomfield, Johnna Arnold, and JoAnn Ugolini Disclose Their Creative Process
The creative process is an elusive thing that most write off as either you get it or you don't. Yet scratch the surface and even the most mysterious artistic decisions are revealed as cogent solutions to deep aesthetic inquiry. Such is the case with these three artists, all of whom currently have art up now in Berkeley....

Examiner.com — March 6, 2012
Field Studies: Kenneth Baker at the Berkeley Art Center
The Lightning Field, a bristling grid of 400 stainless-steel lightning rods set out in the New Mexico desert, has attracted a lot of attention in Land Art circles since sculptor Walter De Maria created it in 1977...

Berkeleyside— March 1, 2012
The environment: Three art shows that reflect landscape
As a life long resident of Berkeley, being conscious about the environment and global justice comes as second nature in my daily life. Biking, gardening, beekeeping, or donating to a much needed cause are all part of what I live and breathe in Berkeley...

East Bay Express — February 22, 2012
Earth Pigments – Three painters who work the land show at Berkeley Art Center
In Terrain: Exploring the Language of Landscape, however, Jenny Bloomfield, Christel Dillbohner, and Danae Mattes see the landscape as geology and process, minus familiar fauna and flora....

The Daily Californian — January 29, 2012
Bay Area artist Deborah Oropallo digitally reinterprets
Take one look at Deborah Oropallo’s artwork, and you haven’t seen anything. This Bay Area artist’s hybrid prints are so intricate that one’s eye must linger and settle to take it all in, peeling away the layers to extract a narrative...

Berkeleyside — January 24, 2012
Book explores impact of Berkeley Art Museum’s Peter Selz
When Peter Selz arrived in Berkeley in 1965, the university only had a small art gallery to display its modest collection of art. Selz had been recruited from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to oversee the construction of a new, contemporary museum, the Berkeley Art Museum on Bancroft Way...

East Bay Express — November 23, 2011
Piece Work – Lena Wolff and friends occupy Berkeley
Known for her large collaged paper versions of traditional American quilts, replete with stylized animals, plants, and decorative motifs, Lena Wolff is exploring hard-edged minimalist abstraction of the kind we associate with 1960s painters like Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Ellsworth Kelly, and Victor Vasarely...

Berkeleyside — November 11, 2011
Paper Quilt Project raises thought-provoking questions
...Elements of the show play into the theme of the traditional patchwork quilt: compositions that unite miscellaneous and incongruous parts into a harmonious collaborative whole...

SFGate.com — August 4, 2011
Bay Area arts picks
"Abstract Visions: In an exhibition conceived as a centennial celebration of abstract painting's invention, art historian Peter Selz..."

East Bay Express — August 3, 2011
Roundabout: Three July shows for your urgent consideration at Basement Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, and Martina Johnston Gallery
by DeWitt Cheng
"...Abstract Visions, curated by art historian Peter Selz, presents eight mid-career artists who work abstractly (more or less) in traditional media..."

Berkeleyside — July 22, 2011
Panel to discuss whether abstract art refutes digital age
by Frances Dinkelspiel
"The Berkeley Art Center is celebrating the centennial of abstract painting with an exhibit curated by Peter Selz, one of the founders of the Berkeley Art Museum and an expert in German Expressionism..."

Contra Costa Times — July 21, 2011
'Abstract Visions' offers new views
by Jennifer Modenessi
"At its best, abstract painting, with its seemingly random, often mysterious brush strokes, rhythms, shapes and marks, can leave viewers reeling with emotion..."

Berkeleyside — April 11, 2011
New Enrique Chagoya print to benefit Berkeley Art Center
by Tracey Taylor
"The Berkeley Art Center has released a limited edition print by Bay Area printmaker Enrique Chagoya created in partnership with San Francisco's fine arts press Electric Works to raise funds for the gallery and as part of its new exhibtion, Light/Dark...."

East Bay Express — November 3, 2010
Green Zones: Beyond Nature and Intimate Nature
by DeWitt Cheng
"Nature as seen through temperaments at San Pablo Art Gallery and Berkeley Art Center..."

East Bay Express — September 22, 2010
Bumper Crop at Berkeley Art Center
by DeWitt Cheng
"Juried@BAC for 2010 was juried by Lauren Davies (Kala Art Institute) and Carrie Lederer (Bedford Gallery). The artist-curators praised this year's "wide array of imaginative works in a variety of media, including a surprising emphasis on portraiture." The eclectic mix provides something for everyone..."

SFGate.com — July 29, 2010
Art review: 'Local Treasures'
by Kenneth Baker
"As I looked through Local Treasures: Six Extraordinary Artists at the Berkeley Art Center, a coolly delivered but frightening line from Laurie Anderson's "O, Superman" buzzed in my head: 'Here come the planes!'...."

SquareCylinder.com — July 11, 2010
Local Treasures @ Berkeley Art Center
by David M. Roth
"Pairings of big-name artists, especially those of disparate sensibility, are always fraught propositions. One always wonders how and why such combinations appear and what the connections might be..."

East Bay Express — July 7, 2010
Work Life:
The Berkeley Art Center honors six eminent East Bay artists
by DeWitt Cheng
"Robert Brady, Squeak Carnwath, Jim Melchert, Katherine Sherwood, Livia Stein, and Gale Wagner are respected, established artists and teachers, so aficionados may recognize their works in Local Treasures..."

Contra Costa Times — July 1, 2010
Conversations with artists help "Treasures" shine
by Jennifer Modenessi
"GAZING AT sculptor Gale Wagner's delicate airplanes dangling from the wood beams of the Berkeley Art Center, I was both fascinated and intrigued..."

SFGate — June 3, 2010
East Bay Open Studios: Artists open doors to public
by Danielle Samaniego
"It's essentially a chance to view more than 450 artists' studios..."

Art Ltd. Magazine — May 2010
east bay open studios: doors wide open
by DeWitt Cheng
"While Art Murmur has brought new attention and larger audiences to Oakland, there are many artists, galleries, nonprofit venues and arts organizations—not Murmur-affiliated, for geographical or other reasons..."

East Bay Express — March 17, 2010
Genius Loci:
Former artists-in-residence compare experiences in Berkeley
by DeWitt Cheng
The old idea of a presiding spirit of place, or genius loci, seems pleasantly anachronistic in our brave, new, wired world, just as the idea of regional art styles...

CCC Preschool News — February 6, 2010
Looking at Art
Last month, Back Yarders enjoyed a field trip to the Berkeley Art Center in Live Oak Park, a short walk down the street from CCC...

PROARTS — January, 2010
PRO ARTS East Bay Open Studios Preview Exhibition Collaboration with Berkeley Art Center and Richmond Art Center (PDF)
East Bay Open Studios connects the public with over 400 artists in 14 cities in the East Bay. Pro Arts produces this annual event that runs Saturday and Sunday, June 5 -6 & 12 - 13, 2010...

The Berkeley Daily Planet — October 29, 2009
Lyric Representations of Sacred, Unattainable Worlds by Peter Selz
Abstract painting has been with us for about a century. At times it has descended into mere decoration or design or “color-field” painting with its thesis that painting addresses only the eye...

East Bay Express — October 28, 2009
Immanent Domain by DeWitt Cheng
A Berkeley show examines abstraction's spiritual side.

westmuse — October 3, 2009
Trans-Civic Arts Marketing: 510Arts.com Launch
"Public/Private/Community Partnership Shines Spotlight on Diversity, Quality, Volume and Accessibility of Arts in the East Bay as one of America’s Highest Per Capita Arts Regions..."

Daily Serving — September 4, 2009
Juried@BAC
"Tucked away amidst a tranquil, tree-shaded park in North Berkeley is the Berkeley Art Center, currently hosting an exhibition of mostly Bay Area artists who each have a refreshing take on traditional media..."

The Berkeley Daily Planet — September 3, 2009
Works on Paper at the Berkeley Art Center by Peter Selz
"Every year the Berkeley Art Center presents a juried exhibition. This year’s jurors were Rene de Guzman, curator at the Oakland Museum of California..."

East Bay Express — September 2, 2009
Paper View: As the Oakland Museum closes, its curator juries a show in Berkeley by DeWitt Cheng
"Thirty-six artworks by eighteen artists were selected from more than a hundred entries by the Oakland Museum of California's René de Guzman and Berkeley Art Center's former Acting Director, Kate Eilertsen, for this annual juried members' show..."

Art Ltd. Magazine — July/August 2009
The East Bay Resurgent by DeWitt Cheng
"Moving beyond commercial galleries, the Berkeley Art Center and the Richmond Art Center also appear to newly re-energized..."

East Bay Express — July 2009
Review: Perceive and Connect by DeWitt Cheng
Katie Baum, Jeanine Briggs,and Indira Martina Morre are exhibiting color photographs, assemblages, and paintings, respectively, at Berkeley Art Center...

Artweek — June 2009
Previews: Perceive and Connect
(Scroll down towards middle) "Three artists whose work was included in the Berkeley Art Museum’s most recent members showcase exhibition have been selected for a smaller group exhibition at the center..."