Review: Suburban Escape
Ann M. Wolfe's Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl has been receiving great praise, both for the book and for the exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art of the same name.
Theo Douglas of Orange County Weekly claims that Suburban Escape "finds a ruinous beauty in the sterile sameness so many of us call home."
Karen E. Steen of Metropolis Magazine considers how Suburban Escape confonts our prejudices: "If you think nothing good has ever come out of the suburbs, consider the history of art and literature about suburbia. . . ."
Tracy Vogel of Wave Magazine credits Suburban Escape for its balance:
Suburban Escape takes an artist's-eye view of what folk songwriter Malvina Reynolds famously called "little boxes made of ticky-tacky," and the landscape that surrounds them. But this is no one-sided anti-development screed. It's clear that the artists hold complex and differing viewpoints. . . .
Read the Exhibition Review in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Read the Exhibition Review in the San Jose Metro