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Chris Cobb is best known for an installation he did at the Adobe Bookshop in San Francisco in 2004. He has shown at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, ATM Gallery, and Gallery Onetwentyeight, among others. He is represented by the Eleanor Harwood Gallery.

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An Interview with Artist Saskia Wendland Many will never make the effort to meet their heroes. Blocking the way is a great psychic chasm between desire and fulfillment, ...

“Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it.”

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An Interview with Ted Alexandro New York’s comedy scene can best be described as one big, dysfunctional family. Comedians see each other perform in clubs, they watch each ...

A Perfunctory Affair

Chris Cobb
Dec 1 2008
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a ...

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