
Peter Gutkin, Paul Harris, Tom Holland
After a series of dull shows—not dreadful, but too little gold per square foot of floor space—the San Francisco Museum of Art devoted its main gallery to three of the Bay Area’s stronger artists.
Peter Gutkin makes souvenirs of some fancied world, occupying half a gallery or small enough to rest on your night table. His work is about boundaries and artificiality, among other things. The largest piece in the show, From Piccolo’s Fancy, shows crystallike forms suggesting obelisks or the recurring metal slab in the film 2001. They grow out of an artificial earth; in this piece, the artificial earth