Richard von Busack reviews the Bay Area Currents show at the Oakland Art Gallery.
Alanna Risse’s two oil paintings address the riddle of the disappearance of the bees, with hazmat-suited figures posed against patterns of honeycombs and lavender skies. And in the corner, Bill Domonkos’ sci-fi landscape DVDs play in loop. “Wormhole” has an inconsolable space girl weeping, as toy cars race around her on an autopia of the future. The artist says this piece demonstrates his “affection for the ineffable, ” an affection all these artists share.