Recent Press and Articles
Tony May @ b. sakata garo, by David M. Roth, SquareCylinder.com, Northern California Art, March 16, 2016
Art review: ‘Airplane Show’ soars at b. sakata garo, by Victoria Dalkey, Bee Art Correspondent, Arts and Theater, The Sacramento Bee, January 22, 2015 (pdf)
Airplane Show @ b. sakata garo, by David M. Roth, SquareCylinder.com, Northern California Art, January 19, 2015 (pdf)
Tony May: Old Technology, The San jose Institute of Contemporary Art honored a half-hidden treasure of the Bay Area art scene, a "conceptual craftsman" whose art emerges — sometimes not very far — from house renovation.
– Kenneth Baker (from critic Kenneth Baker's list of Top Ten Art Exhibitions for 2011, San Francisco Chronicle, p-10, Sunday Datebook, December 25, 2011) sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi (pdf)Practical Tasks Shape Tony May’s ‘Old Technology’, Art, by Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic, SFGate.com, January 27, 2011, (web archive) (pdf)
Tony May @ SJICA, by David M. Roth, SquareCylinder.com, Northern California Art, January 27, 2011, (web archive) (three minute video) (pdf)
The Exhibitionist: Tony May; by Maureen Davidson, SantaCruz.com, November 24, 2010 (pdf)
Why Aren't You Famous Yet? (pdf), Catalog essay by Renny Pritikin, accompanying the exhibition "Tony May—Old Technology", 2010-11
The ICA Galleries are Filled with Cerebral Gems, by Laura Cassidy Rogers, Art Practical, 2011
ICA archived website for Tony May: Old Technology, 2010-11, sjica.org/detail.html?eid=506
Tony May Turns Old Technology into New Art, (pdf), by Ben Marks, an Art Review for KQED, December 11, 2010
Tony May: The Meager Retrospective, (Work from the Basement Archives), (pdf), Essay by Valerie Patten, accompanying the exhibition of the same name, 2006