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Linc Art: Andreas Reiter Raabe; Desert Monochromes.

Comment: The postcard announcement shows a desertscape photo, referencing time the artist spent near Joshua Tree, California. However, the art is primarily paintings-- drippy, pooly, stripey, and/or thick-- plus a glued painted off-white newspaper pile sculpture on the floor, comprised of art sections from the New York Times, if I recall correctly ($2800), and a neat shadow-box piece made with paint cans, like "Let's make a painting without actually opening the paint." Artist Andreas Reiter Raabe is from Austria and is here with his wife and child. What a fun family vacation-- come to San Francisco; show your art.

I used to not understand each Linc show in varying degrees, but now I don't understand them all equally well, and that's a step in the right direction. Who says you have to understand anything anyway? Huh, huh? I know that owner/artist Charles Linder is intent on broadening the scope of what we consider art, and that he does a relatively canny job of it. There are precarious pinion points, of course, most notably the circuitous intertwining of art and explanatory necessary to advance a sale, but perhaps the idea is more that, as a buyer, you must take it on faith that your act of coughing up dough contributes to a broader evolutionary agenda and/or to the owner's unyielding efforts in that regard. Plus, if you look at it that way, it's like getting the art free.