MATRIX/REDUX at BAM.

My review of the Berkley Art Museum's self-celebration went up Saturday on KQED.

The tease is:

Not to be outdone by last year's CCA centennial survey at the Oakland Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum is currently offering a vanity exhibition of its own. Assembled by BAM's Elizabeth Thomas, MATRIX/REDUX is a self-curated look at the Museum's acclaimed program of a similar name.

Begun in 1978 by then BAM director, James Elliot, the MATRIX program was a way to present -- almost immediately -- work from rising or influential contemporary artists. The idea was revolutionary for its time. In the late '70s it took most museums a few years of planning to mount exhibitions of art. MATRIX shows could be up and running in a few months.

Nowadays, MATRIX is the norm, and any museum of modern art worth its nettle has a similar project space program of its own.

Read the rest hee-yer.

photo: Full Frontal, Zoe Leonard.