Yinka Shonibare, MBE
In writing to Yinka Shonibare, MBE to gain his support for the first exhibition of his work in the Western United States, curator Julie Joyce likened the colonial history of Santa Barbara to 'geological layers.' more...
Barkley L. Hendricks
Hendricks' imagery sticks mainly to the tradition of portraiture, but deserves recognition as conceptualist. more...
Moira Hahn
merges Japanese prints and an American sensibility. more...
Squeak Carnwath
The color palette and a wide ranging visual vocabulary, in combination with the artist's diaristic text are repeatedly reconfigured from one painting to the next in Squeak Carnwath’s work. more...
Victoria Haven
Victoria Haven, 'Untitled Fifth (Levitation Series),' 2009, ink on Gampi paper, 18 3/4 x 23'.
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James Kuiper
Veteran art professor from Chico State University, James Kuiper, brought 21 small- and medium-sized landscapes to Friesen Gallery for his second solo show in Seattle. more...
Inside/Outside: Artist Environments
This exhibition examines immersive environments ranging from homes, front yards, and gardens to visual representations of imagined worlds. more...
Walls of Algiers
The collection of images and texts here weave a complex picture of the changes wrought by the French presence on the physical structure of Algiers and the lives of its inhabitants. more...
Ben Jackel
Jackel creates fire axes, war ships, fire extinguishers, helmets Greek warriors--things that are about the processes of preparedness and emergency and the communities involved. more...
Armando Romero
In his sculpture and paintings Romero anarchically melds science, film, and literature with popular culture references to wrestling, the circus and comic books. more...
Scott Covert
Covert taps into the craft of frottage, transforming it into an art transcending time and vast distances. more...
Group Cityscape
Group Cityscape conveys that artist's drive to immortalize their surroundings is open to many interpretations. more...
Will New Media Ever Serve Its Fifty-Day Suspension?
So much art these days confabulates itself with exploring the line between art and some other endeavor. But can the pretense to abandon the methods and structures that worked for centuries succeed beyond academia? more...
Frederick Hammersley Remembered
Frederick Hammersley, abstract painter, born in 1919, died peacefully on Sunday, May 31, 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the age of 90. Hammersley is known as one of the Los Angeles-based 'Abstract Classicists' whose work gained international attention through the exhibition Four Abstract Class more...
La Biennale di Veneza
Yoko Ono and California's conceptual artist John Baldessari's receive Golden Lion Awards for Lifetime Achievement. more...
Beth Ames Swartz
The placeless and timeless work of Beth Ames Swartz allows her art to transcend ordinary strife and yet address the anguish of the world in a two-venue exhibition presents a survey of early work along with a selection of new work. more...
Novel Constructions
'Novel Constructions' consists of eight large scale constructions by six female artists who work within in the 'book art' genre. more...
R. Crumb
There was something about 'Zap Comix' that, when it first appeared in 1968, immediately struck a chord. The drawings were so 19th century, but the content completely fit that year of political rebellion and cultural invention. more...
Pattern Recognition
In Pattern Recognition, 3 artists address a key formal issue in works both abstract and representational. more...
Sandra Gallegos
Gallegos is one of those people who have obsessive collector's disorder. It's an impulse that works in her favor artistically, since her ideas derive from a life-long collection of objects. more...
Animating Agency
South African artist William Kentridge makes his mark
in an ambitious, multi-themed non-retrospective at SFMOMA. His hand-drawn animations deliver unflinching assessments of apartheid, the legalized system of racial segregation and violence in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. more...
James Havard
Abstract Illusionst James Havard's most recent exhibition featured characters demanding to know, 'What're you lookin' at?' more...
Whitney Bedford
Whitney Bedford's first job was printing Andre the Giant stickers for fellow RISD alum Shepard Fairey more...
Corey Arnold
With their exotic imagery and narrative quality, Corey Arnold's photographs are absurd, mythic and grotesque. more...
Blurring the Lines
It has been nearly 50 years since the contemporary lowbrow scene's inception, through comic and hot rod artists planting their anti-art-establishment roots. Now we are gaining the opportunity to gauge the progress and sophistication of the first few generations of that movement on a more level playi more...
Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain
Eirik Johnson poeticizes on the collapse of the natural resource-extracting timber industry in 'Sawdust Mountain' more...
'L.A. Noir'
In a group show curated by Jeremy Tessmer at Santa Barbara's Sullivan Goss Gallery, LA Noir is front and center. more...
'Rebels Without a Cause'
The art world once again conflates authenticity with self-destruction, witness the recent heroin overdose death of Dash Snow. So what role does the self-destructive artist play in our hopelessly corrupt cultural economy? more...
Patti Oleon
Oleon depicts period rooms and lobby spaces illuminated by natural and artificial light, turning ordinary spaces into fantastical places. more...
Phil Joanou
Figurative paintings by Joanou journey towards an integration of the mind, heart and soul's chaotic impulses. He applies his formidable skills as a draftsman to fluid and expressive ends. more...
Sandow Birk
Sandow Birk eschews his usual propensity for irony in favor of a more straightforward approach for the Qur'an. more...
Libby Black
Black reproduces exclusive brand name commodities such as Gucci, and Louis Vuitton using only acrylic paper and a hot glue gun. more...
DOWN TO EARTH: LAND/ART in New Mexico
Three years in the making, LAND/ART represents a collaboration between New Mexico art organizations and institutions exploring the relationship between man, nature, art and community, breaking new ground and moving beyond previous assumptions and traditions of 'environmental' art.
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Nick Cave
Nick Cave's sculptures-that double as costumes for staged performances and spontaneous public interventions-combine more...
Greg Miller: Recent Work
For Greg Miller the city of Los Angeles is a subject and a verb. While pages from spaghetti Westerns literally frame the perimeter of each panel, more...
Merrill Wagner
For her twelfth solo show at Traver Gallery since 1987, Merrill Wagner followed a traveling solo exhibition organized by William Paterson more...
Halim Alkarim
It is unclear if Halim Alkarim's 'Witness Archive' portraits are based on paintings of imaginary people or on photos of actual ones. more...
Richard Ehrlich
In concurrent exhibitions, Ehrlich's series of Holocaust photographs are unusual because they recall the persistence of human order and human horror in equal parts. And a series of new works record the sliced view of internal human anatomy made possible by cutting edge MRI and CAT scan technology. more...
Smart Art
What if looking at art not only lifts our spirits and gives us aesthetic pleasure but also makes us smarter? What if it increases our capacity to deal with the tsunami of information that floods over us every day? Brown discusses why our response to such questions should be fundamentally affirmative more...
Henry Hopkins Dead at 81
One of Los Angeles' seminal figures in the emergence and development of a vital contemporary art scene, Henry Hopkins passed away on Sunday, September 27. more...
Esao Andrews
Andrews has developed an oeuvre with his painting characterized by darkly fantastic visions derived from the world of childhood. more...
Katsuhisa Sakai
Katsuhisa Sakai brings a convincing pairing of form and soulfulness to his art. Drawing is the essence and permeates all his forms. He threads stones together like giant beads, the total form soaring over a broad open area as the sculpture becomes something akin to a huge, graceful and linear drawin more...
Brian Eno
'77 Million Paintings' uses up to the minute digital technology to constantly self-generate stunning patterns and designs against a background of ambient music. more...
'Automatic Cities'
This theme show demonstrates all the pitfalls and delights of working outward from an idea to actual art. more...
John Brosio
For three years John Brosio accompanied storm chasers in the Midwest, gathering actual sensory information and photographs to fuel his decades-long aesthetic relationship with the All-American twister. more...
Ann Weber
Sculptor Ann Weber taps into the zeitgeist, creating organic forms out of non-organic materials. The results are idiosyncratic but beautiful. more...
'Installations Inside/Out'
It speaks volumes that a local community gallery such as the Armory can draw from a pool of established contemporary artists like Kim Abeles, Daniel Buren, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Betty Saar and Pae White, to help celebrate it’s 20th Anniversary year. more...
Infinite Possibilities
After 44 years, Gemini G.E.L. keeps pressing forward its legacy.
Since 1966, Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) has opened the doors of its Melrose Avenue workshop, in Los Angeles, to some of the most influential artists of this century. Lichtenstein, Johns, and Rauschenberg (or Roy, Jasper more...
Roy Dowell
Dowell's work engages a wide spectrum of multi-cultural and design sources beyond its formal roots in European modernism and mid-century abstraction. more...
Suhas Bhujbal, 'Reincarnation'
Bhujbal's masterful semi-abstract paintings of his childhood village, near Pune, India, may use photos rather than visions as sources, more...
Catherine Green
In her recent show at Zane Bennett, Green has chosen to eschew the diagonal, creating the abstract spaces of her Suprematist compositions purely from horizontal and vertical divisions. more...
Betty Gold, 'Color'form'
Painter and sculptor Betty Gold takes science as the starting point for her lush geometrical abstractions. more...
'Road To Freedom'
'The Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968: offers us a look back at the events and personalities who put body and mind on the line to work toward one of thte 20th century's greatest goods - racial equality. more...
Maria Luisa Morando
Morando's large-scale photographs are so washed in light that only the barest traces are left. more...
'Tools'
'Tools' generously displays functional and non-functional material culture. It conveys a nostalgic perspective on the history of tools paired with a selection of visual artists who are beguiled by that history. more...
Wes Mills and Susan York
The unobtrusive works on paper by Wes Mills and Susan York, two mid-career artists whose work is profoundly and obsessively about mark-marking, is an adroit pairing. more...
Embracing Denver
Curator Christoph Heinrich takes on the difficult spaces inside the DAM's Libeskind Building with 'Embrace!'
It was back in the fall of 2006 that the Denver Art Museum rolled out its outlandish freestanding addition which is located directly across the street from the museum's Gio Ponti-designed more...
Hyesook Park
The German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann once advised an American art student to beware the blandishments of modern technology more...
John Baldessari, 'A Print Retrospective'
The 1990s were a productive decade for Baldessari's graphics projects, and in several series he worked with three-dimensional attributes added to two-dimensional works, or vice versa more...
Flora Kao
Supported by twin pillars of conceptualism and expressionism, Kao's paintings, and installation address the physicality and lure of L.A. more...
Bradd Skubinna
Bradd Skubinna's second solo show at Francine Seders Gallery since 1996 affirms the positive direction in which this more...
Merion Estes, 'Lost Horizons'
Active in Los Angeles for several decades, Merion Estes emerged in the 1970s with Pattern Painting, shared its inspiration in feminism, and clearly took heart more...
Jill Foley, 'The Mountain'
Jill Foley is a bricoleuse, making magic out of detritus and the ready-at-hand. A feminized version of anthropologist more...
Richard Garet
The technologically rooted work of Richard Garet reads as a palpably appropriationist wink-and-nudge to early Minimalism and Fluxus art. more...
E.V. Day
E.V. Day has found her unique take on something that defined, confined and classified women since humans began to walk upright: Clothes. more...
Larry Brownstein
Culver City-based photographer Larry Brownstein travels to the rim of the Pacific where he engages his latest subjects: Seagulls. more...
The Black Album
Printmaking and comics-both have suffered the scorn of artists and the public alike. There was a time when artists, curators and collectors alike looked at prints as the province of 'dull, pipe-smoking, corduroy, deep type artisans,' as artist Larry Rivers once described it. more...
Kelsey Brookes
The initial impression of San Diego-based artist Kelsey Brookes is that of the quintessential Southern Californian. He more...
Mark Calderon, 'Dominion'
For his eighth solo show at Greg Kucera Gallery since 1985, Mark Calderon continued to populate his dark and mysterious world with flora and fauna, reptiles and birds. more...
Margie Livingston
Margie Livingston exhibits her compelling work hung from the ceiling, splayed against the wall, and as egg-like forms held aloft on platforms. more...
'Melting Point'
Climate change forms the charged backdrop which heats up the icy images and scientific looking objects in 'Melting Point.' more...
Jonathan Saiz, 'Industry'
'Industry: features some of Jonathan Saiz's most recent efforts, and they're very intriguing. The title of the show is more...
Hadley Holliday, 'Paintings'
Holliday's process for applying paint might be described as dressing up the free-flowing fluidity of, say, Morris Louis more...
Dorothea Tanning
Despite her reluctance to 'carry the Surrealist flag,' Dorothea Tanning as seen here makes a prime candidate for the honorific. more...
Laura Ross-Paul
Laura Ross-Paul paints: 'the wonderment of our interconnection with nature and with each other, the web of life.' Based in Portland, more...
Stephanie Wilde, 'Harmed'
Stephanie Wilde is a Utah native who has spent most of her career as a painter, pen and ink artist, and printmaker more...
'MOCA's First Thirty Years'
The sprawling two-part exhibition of MOCA's permanent collection is notable for the sheer diversity of work it incorporates into one show. more...
Kristen Miller
'Here and Gone' is Miller's elegant exploration of time, memory, and the fleeting nature of human life. more...
'Sites of Latin American Abstraction'
'Sites of Latin American Abstraction' is a telling example of this transformation of Latin American, both aesthetically and socially. more...
Book Art Unbound
Artist's book, book art, art book, artist book, book arts, as similar as all these terms seem, the worlds they span can vary significantly, as can their definitions. Many such terms are used synonymously, or the same term may be used to refer to a very different object, concept, or practice. The set more...
Grant Barnhart
In 'Beg for It' Barnhart uses contrast to showcase sense and senselessness, especially as they pertain to transformation and spectatorship. more...
'Continuum'
'Continuum' was a 1969 show at the Downey Museum here revisited to trace the careers of original participants, along with a new generation. more...
MOCA Tabs Jeffrey Deitch
Naming of successor to interim Director Charles Young, a prominent New York gallery owner, stuns the art world. more...
University Galleries- Part I
Despite the variations in available resources at university galleries, one constant is an ambitious vision of possibility, perpetuated by the multi-tasking curator/directors of these spaces. Chiefly the role of director encompasses every aspect of the venue, and regularly combines art scholarship wi more...
Owen Smith
Owen Smith communicates the powerful connection between the aesthetic, the political and the commercial in Social Realist styled paintings. more...
'Food for Thought'
Four artists offer differing views of the domestic world in “Food For Thought.” Desire Engle, Kathy Breaux, Janice DeLoof, and Janet Adams convey unscripted delight. more...
Ruth Pastine
The seeds of Ruth Pastine's paintings-systems of color, structure, and perception-were planted in youth. Raised in New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, and the Guggenheim were her 'backyard.'
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Miguel Osuna
Though the road to hell may be paved with good intentions, the freeway-hell itself in these parts-may also be a backdoor to the divine. more...
Reuben Nakian
Reuben Nakian's sculptural forms draw on clasical tales that imply the female figure using fluid or serrated masses and titillating titles. more...
Theodora Varnay Jones
'Manifold' is a beautifully selected and installed retrospective. The title both describes Jones' artwork and her working methods. more...
University Galleries-Part II
If universities and art schools play a crucial role in the ecosystem of the art world, the Los Angeles art world, in particular, seems rooted in its educational infrastructure. more...
Alyssa Monks, 'Steam'
Behind large plate glass windows at Sarah Bain Gallery in Anaheim a group of Alyssa Monks' new oil paintings glow more...
Lauren DiCioccio
In her recent solo exhibition, Lauren DiCioccio reminds us of life before Kindles and Blackberries. She stitches and embroiders more...
Gegam Kacherian
Leopards prance across cerulean skies, Thai dancers emerge from floating cities, and twists of color dart across a fuchsia haze more...
Jenene Nagy
In her expansive installation, 'Tidal,' Jenene Nagy questions the veracity of space and perception. more...
Joe Goode
Ccontinuous constructing and tearing down provides the model for the subject of Joe Goode's latest show, 'Golden Dreams.' more...
Homare Ikeda, 'Voicers'
Ikeda emerged in the top ranks of Colorado art out of the Neo-Expressionist scene of the 1980s. It was in this context that more...
Bernadette DiPietro and Richard Gilles
The quotidian subjects found in the photographic works of both Richard Gilles and Bernadette DiPietro are the billboard, and the clothesline. more...
Mark Bradford
The sign reads 'The Greatest Artist in the World' in bright, fluorescent colors. It's sitting on a number of similar, handmade signs hawking 'Cash for Homes,' 'Funerals for Less' and 'Sober Living.' They're all neatly stacked and placed in a cubby in the back of Mark Bradford's tidy studio more...
Karen Woods, 'Inside Looking Out'
When Karen Woods moved from California to Boise fifteen years ago she brought with her an art background that included more...
Tom Miller
Tom Miller's acrylic on paper and Masonite are slick on the surface--literally as well as figuratively. more...
'Body and Soul'
A group of three classically trained artists each bring a unique style and vision to the figurative equation. more...
Bean Finneran
It was Bean Finneran's 'Eureka!' moment. As she approached her fiftieth birthday, she took a long look at her past and present. From her roots
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Luc Tuymans
The most comprehensive showing of Luc Tuymans work to date places one of Europe's most influential painters on the map for American viewers. more...
'Vessels'
A diverse selection of California and Ohio-based artists add fresh and eye-catching breadth to one of our most ancient visual traditions. more...
Jonathan Lasker
A post-modern/hybrid aesthetic remains technically sound, emotionally vibrant and as dependable as ever in the paintings of Jonathan Lasker. more...
Mary Henry
In this retrospective the late Mary Henry's vibrant geometry builds upon itself to create an imposing and provocative body of Constructivist work. more...
Mayra Barraza
Mayra Barraza paints ghosts, or rather images of people who disappeared into the history of violence. more...
'Face to Face'
'Face to Face' is more that a varied selection of portraits, this show challenges given notions of identity and its representation. more...
'Eden is Burning'
If scary is sublime, we have clearly entered a rather sublime century. With natural cataclysms from tsunamis to Katrina reminding us ever more...
Gregory Euclide
Growing up in Wisconsin, Gregory Euclide didn't visit museums or art galleries. Instead, he went on long walks in the woods with his father. 'We would walk, my father in front and me behind
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Laura Ross-Paul
The current paintings of Laura Ross Paul are invigorated by dueling impulses to portray dark mysteries and illuminate metaphysical truths. more...
Steven Simon
Steve Simon presents works loaded with subtext that has myriad possibilities: political, satirical, sociological, and all intellectually playful. more...
Mary Heebner
Mary Heebner combines rhythmic hints of the body blended with a suggestion of enduring nature while challenging now outmoded tropes of gender identity. more...
Mark Chamberlain
Chamberlain came to art with a strong impulse toward environmentalism and social activism. This motivated him to open BC Space. more...
Mark Chamberlain
Mark Chamberlain's photographic retrospective consistently reveals his strong sense of conscience for the individual, society, and the environment. more...
'One on One'
'One on One's' overall visual sensibility is heated, but with the stability of intelligence keeping the elements from getting out of control. more...
Lawrence Gipe
Lawrence Gipe's new '1962' series offers his latest ironic response, here to Soviet-era propaganda images from the year of the title. more...
Charles Gill
The source material for Charles Gill's 'chip paintings' are simple index cards on which he daubs pigment to test hues for works in progress. more...
Jorge Santos and Adam Normandin
Jorge Santos' new paintings reach beyond the bounds of immediate reality, which Adam Normandin's convey wonder in the mundane. more...
Morris Graves
The mysterious, silent paintings of Morris Graves make for a noble alternative to mass culture's increasingly invasive and acquisitive razzle-dazzle. more...
Creating the CA+E
The objectives of the Center are to promote the creation, study, and collection of work addressing art and environment, on a very broad scale. 'We define the environment,' explains Fox, 'as natural, built, and virtual.' To promote the creation of work, the Center just announced more...
Karen Kitchel
Landscapes have informed Karen Kitchel's practice for nearly 30 years. Her detailed renderings of animals, flora, and leaves of grass with oil on wood panels reflect a sense of dislocation, more...
Donald Judd
Donald Judd is currently the subject of an exhibition of prints, a presentation of sculptural works, and a scholarly conference. more...
Aimee Garcia and Carlos Montes de Oca
Paintings and photographs by Aimee Garcia and Carlos Montes de Oca focus on a re-viewing of the self in her case and on the re-contextualization of space in his. more...
Lucy Gaylord-Lindholm
This series of small oil paintings by Bay Area artist Lucy Gaylord-Lindholm are enchanting, strange and impeccably painted. more...
The Green Museum
The museum's featured artists exemplify not only the organizational mission, but also the work ethic of the sometimes difficult to categorize 'eco-artist' whose practice draws from socially-responsible activism and various sciences, often across a wide and unruly range of artistic practices. Those f more...
Ron van der Ende
Inspired by history and pop culture, Ron van der Ende works at the peripheries of painting and sculpture. more...
''Mind Games''
The artists in 'Mind Games' verge on the cusp of abstraction, and are linked by works' underlying complexity and poetry. more...
Laurie Lipton
Laurie Lipton's virtuoso drawing skills are yoked to a visionary and historical sensibility that runs from Goya to Bosch. more...
Without Reservation
When the arts collective Postcommodity was invited by Arizona State University Art Museum to participate in the exhibition 'Defining Sustainability' last fall, one aspect of the project seemed especially noteworthy. Tasked with representing Native American artists more...
John Grade
Inspired by both biological and anthropological sources, Grade's work displays a sensitivity to the subtleties of organic architecture, which provides the formal more...
Andrea Dezso
Known for her small 'tunnel books,' Andrea Dezso takes them to large scale with spectacular results. more...
Thomas McGovern
'Hard Boys + Bad Girls' is Thomas McGovern's exploration of a youth-dominant professional wrestling culture located in San Bernardino, California. more...
Gus Van Sant
Director Gus Van Sant took Polaroids of his actors for years. They turn up in unexpected form here in 'Cut Ups.' more...
Linda Vallejo
Linda Vallejo's series 'The Electrics' is the subject of a gallery exhibition; and she receives a concurrent 40-year retrospective in a separate community gallery location. more...
Chris Beas
'Tamburello' is the name of a notorious turn at the San MArino Grand Prix in the latest sports themed series by Chris Beas. more...
Ai Weiwei
Conceptualist sculptor Ai Weiwei engages our curiosity with works the provide easy points of entry to at times difficult subjects. more...
Stephen Sollins: 'New Thoughts'
In Borges' story, 'The Approach to Almutasim,' the narrator discerns the influence of a holy man in the transfigured more...
William T. Wiley in Retrospect
In 1969, a thirty-two year old William T. Wiley found himself using the despised medium of ink and watercolor on relatively small sheets of precious paper, inaugurating a long-standing practice that was far out of that year's art world fashion, even more so than more...
Esther Pearl Watson
The artist recasts her childhood in a naive style that evokes American 'primitive' folk art and the camp of '50s sci-fi space odysseys.
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Roger Herman
Like his savvy, richly sensual paintings, Roger Herman eschews easy labels. During the 1980s, he was briefly dubbed more...
Storm Tharp
The works indulge the artist's fascination with minimalism and offer him the opportunity to loosen his arm with broad
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Eric Zimmerman and Emilie Halpern
In 'Cosmos,' Eric Zimmerman and Emilie Halpern respond aesthetically to Houston's history as the control center of manned space flight. more...
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky is often and legitimately portrayed as a liminal historical figure. This retrospective invites a consideration of the artist on his own terms. more...
Kathleen Henderson
Kathleen Henderson's drawings are as staged as any painting could be, and manage to gain something extra from their economy of means. more...
Fang Ling-An
After discovering the common practice of Chinese children being adopted by American parents, Fang Ling-An placed the topic at the center of much of her current work. more...
Richard Walker
Richard Walker's deceptively simple, 6-minute video entitled Successive Inconceivable Events (2005) simultaneously undermines and partakes more...
Gaylen Hansen
Nature is now in a permanent state of panic for Hansen, whose flat spaces and distant vistas act as gentle jeremiads more...
The Hilton Brothers
Their collaboration began seven years ago when they were traveling together, and copied each other's shots as a game; now Makos and Solberg shoot images separately more...
David Nakabayashi
David Nakabayashi's current exhibition, 'Winterstate,' connects personal trauma to the feeling of a nation whose dreams are now uncertain. more...
Todd Schorr
Todd Schorr's lush paintings read like the Mad Magazine of contemporary angst, telling fantastic tales that are both nutty and discomforting. more...
Matt Browning
In this, his first major solo show, instead of Matt Browning going for the big splash, his entire installation takes up the space of a fireplace mantle. And it all works. more...
'World Maps'
This group of four artists display political and conceptual savvy in this exploration of mapping and the dissolution of borders and barriers. more...
Mark Harrington
Mark Harrington mixes multiple disciplines to establish a dynamic interplay of coalescence and contradiction. more...
Erin Cone
Erin Cone paints stylized figures, general solitary and flat, that use cropping and placement to dramatic effect. more...
John Baldessari
John Baldessari would cringe to read that he is regarded as the founder of West Coast Post Modernism. Ironically, it's true. more...
Richard Marquis
In new series of WWI-era warship forms and more Richard Marquis shows that implication can be more potent than explication. more...
Aaron Curry
'Two Sheets Thick' is an immersive installation that contrasts black-and-white silkscreened walls with brightly colored freestanding sculptures. more...
'The Dissolve'
'The Dissolve' is a selection of artists who colonize the digital domain without eschewing the individuality of their gestures. more...
Gustavo Acosta
Gustavo Acosta paints architecture, but these are not architectural illustrations but artist-created worlds of magical realism. more...
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) played many roles in his turbulent life, and from numerous descriptions, the toughest proved to be himself. Whether channeling the self-destructiveness of his close friend more...
Pard Morrison
Morrison begins by creating forms in aluminum, and then has them powder-coated in various colors. The colors--and the aluminum forms--invariably have more...
Editor's Pick: Jeff Jahn
In "Vection" artist and critic responds to ideas encountered during months spent researching for the recent Donald Judd conference. more...
Jenny Morgan
Jenny Morgan's portraits are as much about painting as about a person. 'I love to see the paint build and get luminous more...
Patrick Dintino
Patrick Dintino has created an artistic lens through which he looks at everything that interests him: consumer culture, news media, karma, advertising, endangered species, and now, leisure more...
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson suffered a devastating injury years ago that derailed her art career. Now healed, she has come back stronger than ever. more...
Clare Rojas
Clare Rojas is rightly associated with the Mission School artists. Her work continues to gain distinction, as this museum show demonstrates. more...
David Tomb
Portraitist David Tomb may not be a dedicated wildlife artist like Audubon or Fuertes, but he is a dedicated more...
Denver Arts
Denver hosts a new international Biennial of the Americas, and a panoply of exhibitions emphasizing energy, objects, politics and more. more...
Nellie King Solomon
Nellie King Solomon makes luscious, ephemeral large-scale abstract paintings on Mylar, addressing issues of space and environment
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Keer Tanchak
Keer Tanchak's painterly versions of Rococo arcadias are impossible to see today outside the context... more...
Youngsuk Suh
Youngsuk Suh's 'Wildfire' photographs reference recent fires in Northern California from far behind the front lines. more...
Felipe Ehrenberg
The title ''Manchuria: Peripheral Vision'' of Felipe Ehrenberg's retrospective refers to ''a land difficult to locate.'' His work is certainly that. more...
Einar and Jamex de la Torre
For their second solo show at William Traver in Seattle, the de la Torre brothers, Einar and Jamex, expanded their mixed-media more...
John Seery
John Seery came to prominence in New York some four decades ago as a central figure in the Lyrical Abstraction movement more...
Jim Marshall
Jim Marshall documented over 40 years of American culture, focused almost exclusively through the lens of popular music. Although his name may not be a household word, his works certainly are. His photo-journalistic-style photographs adorn over
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Kim Abeles
'Art and Activism' covers an important slice of Kim Abeles' body of work over the last 25 years. more...
David Trulli
David Trulli's corporate multi-storied facades of sterile glass references what man hath wrought but does not apparently inhabit. more...
Sherrie Wolf
What were background figures drawn from familiar art historical sources, Sherrie Wolf now places squarely in the foreground. more...
Buff Monster
Street artist Buff Monster presents a colorful cast of amorphous characters in tie-dye camouflage. more...
Il Lee
Ballpoint pen on paper drawings by Il Lee glide past the basic simplicity of the medium to provide insights on how art, and the universe, work. more...
Editor's Pick: Sabin Aell / Emma Hardy
Among installations, Emma Hardy's use of paper and tape are parlayed into a social blueprint, and Sabin Aell expresses 'The Economics of Happiness' with recast billboards. more...
Heather Gwen Martin
The elegant abstractions of Heather Gwen Martin may not be quite what you, at first, think they are. more...
Jana Flynn & Jill Gallenstein
Linear sculptures by Jana Flynn and organic works on paper by Jill Gallenstein bring out the best in each other. more...
Jules Olitski
In the late 1960s, Jules Olitski aspired to create 'colors sprayed into the air and staying there.' Airbrushed atmospheres of atomized color more...
Hadar Sobol
Stitchwork and the senescent woman is the central combination in the poignant work of Hadar Sobol. more...
''Prelude to an Apocalypse''
Four artists personify how the subject of landscape today addresses a wholly new set of concerns from 19th and 20th century traditions. more...
Sarah Fox at Space Gallery, Denver
Though her oeuvre reveals a relationship with mid-20th century Abstract Expressionism, there are also decorative features to Fox's paintings that are decidedly not AbEx. The paintings are examples of a kind of thing that's being done nationally right now more...
Jian Wang
At age twelve Wang was accepted into the Dalian Youth Palace of Arts, where he studied for six years. At the urging of his parents he earned his degree in engineering, a discipline more...
John O'Brien
John O'Brien is interested in the histories and practices of museums. This interest is more in the conceptual tradition of Marcel Broodthaers more...
Ala Ebtekar
Many artists draw upon their individual histories to create works which speak to their experience. For artists of Persian descent, in particular, the personal is also political... more...
Joe Deal
Joe Deal's final works, 'West and West,' on view this summer at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson more...
Dena Schuckit
Dena Schuckit is not the first artist to be inspired by the graphic nature of imagery that bombards us from the daily news more...
Zer01 Festival
In 2000, ZER01 was established in San Jose, California, to aid the exploration of the intersection between technology, digital culture, and art--a fitting endeavor to highlight the abundant progressive talent of Silicon Valley. Six years later more...
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros' 1932 activities in Los Angeles are the topic of one exhibition, his output as a landscape painter is a concurrent one. more...
Dana DeKalb
The illustrational naturalism of Dana DeKalb may be lucid, event blunt, but it is packed with cultural and historical points of reference. more...
Judith Belzer
Tree bark may be the source of Judith Belzer's current paintings, but their panoramic views and aerial perspectives are simply grand. more...
Deborah Aschheim
There is more than just 'Nostalgia for the Future' in Deborah Aschheims' drawings and sculptures of vintage L.A. modernist buildings. more...
Meeson Pae Yang
Macrospores consists of 125 globes in four sizes, hanging in space via nylon filament tied to overhead grids. The larger ones more...
Michael C. McMillen
Take the tour through the shifting time and tides of Michael C. McMillen's 'Lighthouse' for a journey of altered awareness. more...
Vik Muniz
Vik Munitz recreates a selection of historical masterworks with paper collages. But what you see on exhibit is NOT those collages. more...
Elise Wagner
In 'Solar Flare,' painter Elise Wagner played variations on the theme of the music of the spheres. In semi-abstract oil more...
James Gobel
Gobel is known for his evocative portraits of burly, hirsute guys in romantic environments done more...
Mark Ruwedel
Lurking behind every discourse on ruins is nineteenth-century Romanticism with its melancholic more...
'Seedlings'
Curated by New York curator Regine Basha, 'Seedlings' is proof of the old Miesian adage that more...
Eva Lake
Widely known in the Northwest for her finely graded abstract paintings in the Op Art tradition, Eva Lake shared more...
Deborah Bell
For her eleventh solo show in Seattle since 1990, 44-year-old Deborah Bell continued to extend more...
Marianne Kolb
When Sue Greenwood Fine Art first introduced painter Marianne Kolb to intrigued more...
Susan Danis
Surrealism extolled the imaginative transformation of found objects (objets trouves) as exemplified in more...
Age and Innocence
One might be inclined to see 'A Voyage of Growth and Discovery' as an adventure into regression, where Baby Ikki reflects the same values and subtext of Burning Man and its Dionysian participants more...
Lari Pittman
Lari Pittman combines disciplined painting skills with wild intuition. It adds up to work that is by turns funny, seductive, horrifying, and ultimately pleasurable. more...
James Magee
James Magee's 'Revelation' encompasses an array of sculpture the carries enough pent-up sonic jolt to create a whole new world. more...
Kim MacConnel
Recently retired, MacConnel has been a mainstay of UCSD's renowned visual arts department since the 1960s, evolving from more...
Elizabeth Patterson
Colored pencil may not be the most popular or poetic medium, but in the deft hands of LA artist Elizabeth Patterson, it proves more...
50 Years of Tamarind
It was the best of art openings: wall-to-wall people, fine wine and food, great talk and observation. But it also marked a unique moment: the renowned lithography workshop Tamarind Institute had unveiled more...
Roland Reiss
Given the way that he continuously and relentlessly looks forward, it seems strange for Roland Reiss to look back. Reiss makes objects that are smart and conceptually driven. He morphs periodically more...
Patrick Merrill
Patrick Merrill left a rich legacy, substantiated in these two shows, that resonates beyond his 40 year career as a printmaker, artist, and gallery director. more...
Andy Moses
These semi-curved abstract paintings by Andy Moses mixes landscape with minimalism in these stylized and refined new works. more...
Andrew Schoultz
Big, bold and colorful, Andrew Schoultz' current paintings and sculpture are playful, exquisitely detailed takes on nature, history, globalization and other stories. more...
Michael Goldberg
In concurrent exhibitions the second generation Abstract Expressionist painting of Michael Goldberg conveys boundless energy and a spirit of fearless search. more...
''The 1960s Revisited''
Historical revisionism in 'The 1960s Revisited' proposes that the breadth of experimentation was much wider than our historical orthodoxy would have us believe. more...
Lee Friedlander
A half-century of Lee Friedlander's photography is represented here by two images for each year since 1960. more...
Martin Durazo
Fresh off an April show at Gallery Lara in Tokyo, a critically acclaimed and controversial residency at the 18th Street Art Center more...
Michael Schultheis
Growing up on a cattle ranch in Eastern Washington, Northwest painter Michael Schultheis had limited options. If he ever wanted more...
Dimitri Kozyrev
Landscape painting often evokes quietness, stillness; bringing solitary contemplation onto a distant horizon. In the hands of more...
Mary Snowden
'I feel like I've come full circle,' says Mary Snowden--Bay Area artist and chairperson of painting and drawing at California more...
The Crocker Expands into the 21st Century
Against a backdrop of stalled urban renewal projects and a paralyzed state legislature, Sacramento's tripled-in-size Crocker Art Museum stands out like the nuggets that once shone from nearby riverbanks more...
Steve Roden
Steve Roden is one of the most intricate artists in Southern California, and perhaps all of America. One might say more...
Colleen Sanders
Aesthetic transcendence is a delusion, according to the current thinking of aesthetic agnostics or atheists, but art-lovers more...
Paula Castillo
Castillo's abstract sculptures are made from worn metal bits found in the mountainous country of her hometown--a land that looks more...
Vernon Fisher
Fort Worth conceptual artist Vernon Fisher has been known for the use of language in his painting-based installations at least since more...
David Buckingham
Some contemporary artists make much ado of criticizing consumer capitalism, an economic system not without grievous faults more...
Will Rogan
Will Rogan's recent exhibition at Altman Siegel Gallery, 'Stay Home,' quietly reflected on contradictions of awareness and more...
Lezley Saar
Lezley Saar's 'Autist's Fables,' an oeuvre she created over a span of two years, seems to be a continuation of her former body of work, more...
Don Quade
Over the last several years Denver painter Don Quade's work has been changing. When he first started to show his pieces some more...
Jordi Alcaraz
Every now and again one comes across an artist whose vision is incontrovertible and absolutely without measure, and it's as if more...
Eric Adrian Lee
Eric Adrian Lee's solo debut in Seattle at Gallery IMA was a modest but promising group of 15 mostly square, abstract paintings more...
Pablo Picasso
A show including about 150 works is normally large and sprawling; when the artist is Pablo Picasso, however, it is a tight sampling of one of the most prodigious bodies of work ever. more...
William Eggleston
Photographer Willam Eggleston is one of the great locators of found objects that represent vanishing worlds left behind by time and progress. more...
John Belingheri
John Belingheri's fields of dots are the product of activity and process that is rich but never completely resolved. more...
Astrid Preston
Astrid Preston's close-up landscapes integrates Japanese aesthetic premises into her high density realism. more...
Charles Arnoldi
Work from a decade back by Charles Arnoldi features a 'Potato' series that applies the tuber to the bulbous forms he had been experimenting with during the mid-1990s. more...
Catherine Wagner
Photographs of splints by Catherine Wagner set the medical devices against dramatically black backgrounds, their isolation and detail speaking volumes. more...
William Dole
This selection of watercolors and collages by William Dole focus on the aftereffects of a two year sabbatical to Italy, which are sometimes quite clear, other times hidden in his mid-20th century abstract idiom. more...
Christian Bonnefoi
Christian Bonnefoi's mixed media works are all dark color and shadows, but spring out at you with a joyful energy. more...
William Brice
A low key but persistent force in the L.A. art landscape for decades, William Brice's evolution is traced by this cogent exhibition of drawings. more...
'2010 California Biennial'
The latest 'California Biennial' emphasizes younger artists who promise to extend West Coast art. They also make visible the diversity that is now firmly established here. more...
William T. Wiley and H.C. Westermann
H.C. Westermann and William T. Wiley share in a quirky funk spirit that is fun but sophisticated, philosophically weighty but ironic as hell. more...
Joachim Bandau / Cornelia Schulz
The paintings of Cornelia Schulz and watercolors of sculptor Joachim Bandau defy aesthetic categories to deliver both intellectual vigor and optical pleasure. more...
Shane McAdams
Shane McAdams' current work integrates microscopic forms with macrocosmic landscapes, many of them inspired by the artist’s childhood in the southwest American desert. more...
Olga Sinclair
Olga Sinclair is a fine colorist whose still lifes of fruit are over-sized and sensual. more...
Yrjö Edelmann
Packages left sealed with twine or tape constitute the subject matter of Yrjö Edelmann's paintings. more...
The Fisher Collection
Throughout its brand history, big theatrical productions cum ads for Gap clothing have always been instantly recognizable. Akin to a Broadway musical, they feature a diverse fleet of characters, as they dance and sing to funky classics--one favored example over the years was Bill Wither's more...
Einar and Jamex de la Torre
Einar and Jamex de la Torre are Mexican-born brothers who currently split their time between Ensenada and San Diego, California. Born in Guadalajara in 1960 and 1963, respectively, and studied art in the late 1970s and early 1980s at more...
Andy Diaz Hope
Andy Diaz Hope’s creative interests are vast — change, perception, evolution, immortality — and his process is communally minded. more...
Jonas Wood
Jonas Wood's studies of Greek vessels channel through them a classic Modernist sensibility. more...
Rolando Briseño
Orlando Briseno addresses repressed histories and unresolved conflicts through glowing depictions of food. more...
Andy Goldsworthy
Using only materials found in nature Andy Goldsworthy shows why he is recognized as one of the world's most engaging environmental artists. more...
Vernon Fisher
Vernon Fisher's 'K-Mart Conceptualism' has left it's mark on cutting edge art while managing to remain visually splendid. more...
Lee Kelly
A current retrospective at the museum traces the Oregon artist’s career while an accompanying book, “Lee Kelly,” includes lush photos of many of Kelly’s public art works as well as those in private collections more...
Frederick Wight
Frederick Wight was first a prominent museum curator and director at UCLA, and then became best known for landscape paintings he produced after retirement. more...
Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam
The Chicago creative couple Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam leaves an impression in the Bay Area with meticulous paintings and expansive assemblages. more...
Vija Celmins
A small but very focused survey illuminates the early transition of Vija Celmins painting and sculpture. more...
Ansen Seale
Ansen Seale deploys slitscan photography to show us the world as it unfolds over time. more...
Phyllis Green
Phyllis Green is a sculptor who blends in traditional craft materials in a manner that is playfully subversive. more...
Margie Livingston
Starting with a hairball, Margie Livingston works her way to objects constructed of paint. She remains a painter. more...
Mayme Kratz
Fish bones, cicada wings, rattlesnake ribs: these form the palette of Mayme Kratz. She uses these things to make magic; but she is not a witch. more...
West of Rome Public Art
West of Rome began in 2005 in a private residence located in the suburban hills of Pasadena. Emi Fontana, who had operated Galerie Fontana in Milan since 1992, had recently arrived in Los Angeles, and wanted to work more...
Mark Dion's 'Marvelous Museum'
For 'The Marvelous Museum,' Dion mined the Oakland Museum's vast collection in order to stage a series of situations through the calculated installation of various objects. In particular, he has focused on more...
Ingrid Calame
Originally a native of New York, Calame made the move west to attend the California Institute of the Arts in more...
Larry Mullins
The works of Larry Mullins signal a rare moment where the fragility of language is met with an equally more...
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder's work as seen here form a triumvirate of form, balance and joy. Particularly joy. more...
Charles Garabedian
Charles Garabedian has had a career engagement with figuration as the arena where humanism sorts out its psychic, social, daily and mythic conundrums. more...
Rusty Scruby
Starting with snapshots from the family album, Rusty Scruby duplicates source images from scores to hundreds of times to create evocative tessellated patterns. more...
Mike Kelley
Two projects, 'Kandor' and 'EAPR' have Mike Kelley creating theatrical props from a comic book world and the art world. more...
Astrid Preston
From her earliest renditions of architectural fragments on aluminum cutouts in the 1970s, to the patterned formal gardens more...
John Yoyogi Fortes
Eclecticism and hybridity may be common practice these days, but who would have thought that graffiti art, pop surrealism, and identity art (loosely defined) could combine more...
Hap Tivey
Hap Tivey projects light directly on gallery walls as slowly changing colorscapes that induce subtle perceptual epiphanies. more...
Maritta Tapanainen
A trio of collage artists, Echiko Ohira, Maritta Tapanainen and Alan Valencia expand the boundaries of paper usage more...
''Einfluss: 8 from Dusseldorf''
This selection of artists affiliate with the Kunstacademie Dusseldorf buttresses the already burnished reputation of one of the world's great art schools. more...
A New Scene Takes Root In Potrero Hill
Where the old warehouses, high-tech lofts, and chic eateries of San Francisco's Potrero Hill rub up against the gritty streets, ecstatic murals, and colorful Latino and hipster cultures of the Mission District more...
Martin Mull
There is a certain air of poignancy that wafts through the paintings of Martin Mull. Sifting through the attic more...
Street Art Comes Alive in New Mexico
Street artists who paint, paste and sculpt on urban space haven't always received a warm welcome from the fine art world. Reactions to the art form in the past have ranged from a yawn to more...
Adam Ekberg
For Adam Ekberg light is both subject and object in his seemingly casual domestic settings. more...
Cork Marcheschi
In this mini-retrospective Cork Marcheschi's more than 40-year engagement with light is seen to be varied and multi-faceted. more...
''Radioactive and Bright''
Luminosity is the shared characteristic in this group show, which builds on the tradition of jewel-like glazes applied to whimsical and elegant forms. more...
Suprasensorial
Latin American artists interest in light and space actually predated LA's breakthrough movement, as 'Suprasensorial' demonstrates, and to generally good effect. more...
Judy Pfaff
In a series of multi-layered collages Judy Pfaff confers a powerful sense of movement as much about the work of the hand as they are about landscape. more...
Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen aestheticizes photographs that document military and intelligence surveillance operations. more...
Amy Cutler / Runa Islam / Ruth Claxton
Three shows feature works that are produced at a high level of craft and intent, but end up speaking far more to themselves than to the excluded visitor. more...
Theodore Svenningsen
Theodore Svenningsen is a latter day conceptualist whose use of the word serves as the central formal element in intensely visual images. more...
Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha sharpens the distinction between the car as fetish object versus a tool for viewing the world in 'Road Tested.' more...
Camille Seaman
As the polar ice caps grow endangered Camille Seaman preserves images of icebergs that she treats as portraits. more...
''Gods of Angkor''
This selection of 26 bronzes produced by the ancient Khmer empire symbolizes the mystery and wonder that surrounds that civilization. more...
Beili Liu
Titled 'Extent,' Beili Liu takes miles of thread and lengths of wicker to create thoughtful sculpture whose delicate presence belies the tangible effort behind them. more...
Norman Zammitt (1931-2007)
You tend to stand in front of a Norman Zammitt painting like you would a Mark Rothko--that is, silenced by its transcendent quality. You're awestruck by the subtly gradated bands of color stretching across mural-size canvases. The expanses often evoke more...
''New Image Sculpture''
Common materials used to replicate everyday objects in 'New Image Sculpture' add up to anything but the ordinary. more...
Laura Karetzky
Laura Karetzky's paintings are subtly deceptive, seeming at first to be common everyday scenes. But nothing is quite what it seems. more...
''Framing Abstraction''
Carefully curated, 'Framing Abstraction' successfully shuttles between the poles of the spiritual and nihilistic traditions. more...
Halim Alkarim
Halm Alkarim's photo-based faces are among the most moving being produced today, and manage to meaningfully examine more...
''In the Dark''
A trio of artists eschew color in favor of the dark; and they extrude the subtle joys of tone, texture and context. more...
Doug Aitken
In a culture over-saturated with media, how do we make sense of the information that bombards us? The constant input of sights, sounds and smells has made us accomplished multi-taskers, capable of diverting our attention from one thing more...
Geoffrey Todd Smith
Psychedelic, hypnotic, dizzying, hallucinogenic. Standing in the midst of Geoffrey Todd Smith's recent show at more...
Mayumi Nishida
Glass and acrylic spheres serve to amplify minute shifts in ambient light in Mayumi Nishida's reliefs and an interactive installation. more...
Deborah Oropallo
Deborah Oropallo explores gender power, the symbolism of the uniform, and the role or iconic imagery in shaping female identity. more...
Ray Turner
In a long series of portraits Ray Turner's obsession in recent years with the face has gelled thanks to his free but disciplined painterly attack. more...
Marvin Zindler
Marvin Zindler was for decades a popular news icon at Houston's ABC Channel 13, but before that he was an intrepid crime photographer. more...
David Levinthal
This sampling of photographs from various of David Levinthal's series is a great introduction to grown up narratives that can be drawn from toys. more...
Michael Kessler
There are apocalyptic undercurrents to Michael Kessler's mixed media paintings that impose organic messiness on orderly grids. more...
Linda Fleming
Linda Fleming's sculptures are geometric, but enlivened by nature that imbues them with mystery. more...
Tony Delap / Ruth Pastine
Tony Delap brings his trademark master of illusion to paintings keyed in green. Ruth Pastine works with elegant systems of color more...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: 'Over the River'
For more than half a century, environmental artist Christo, in collaboration with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, has created non-objective interventions into the landscape and cityscape typically on an enormous scale more...
Darren Waterston
Nothing is what it seems to be in the work of San Francisco artist Darren Waterston. Barely-there orbs ooze from one more...
Some Assembly Required
'Some Assembly Required' is a panoramic survey of assemblage and collage, an especially vital tradition over the last century in Southern California. more...
''Art in the Streets''
'Art in the Streets' raises that classic question: what happens when art is shifted from its natural context to the refined precincts of a museum? more...
Matt Sellars
It's not the sea as subject that make Matt Sellar's current show so distinctive, it's the unexpected stylistic interpretation of it. more...
Cig Harvey
Cig Harvey often inserts herself into witty and richly ambiguous color photographs that get you to create your own story. more...
Naomie Kremer
The sheer scope of Naomie Kremer's body of work is impressive, but so much the more for her mature clarity and relentless inquiry. more...
Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew's gridded constructions of recycled wood serve as an aesthetic wake-up call to global consumerism's endless party. more...
''Surface Truths''
"Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties" shows how sincerely the post-Abstract Expressionist artists admired their forebears. more...
Eric Elliott
They may be still lifes, but Eric Elliott's paintings are filled with near monochrome daubs of paint the nearly obscure their subjects. more...
A Lens on the Land
The American West has been defined by its landscape, and its landscape, in turn, has been defined by photography. While the paintings of Thomas Moran, William Keith and Albert Bierstadt already fascinated the Eastern... more...
Tom Cramer
Tom Cramer's new paintings and wood reliefs of Oregon landmarks strike a quirky truce between romantic homage and kitsch. more...
Felis Stella
IKEA inspired art sounds like an oxymoron, but Felis Stella brings mixes an informed etymological interest with just enough creative mischief. more...
LA Sculptors: Nathan Mabry
Among the new generation of young, LA-based sculptors who reference modernism explicitly in their work, few do it with the wit, smarts, reverence, irreverence, and sheer jaw-dropping more...
Marie Thibeault
Although Marie Thibeault's paintings look frenetic at first glance--teeming with blocks of bold, jumbled color and more...
Julio Cesar Morales
Having grown up on the Mexico/U.S. border, Julio Cesar Morales has straddled two worlds since childhood. Wearing multiple identities more...
Johannes Girardoni
Johannes Girardoni merges architecture and light in two distinct bodies of work that somehow work together. more...
Eric Zener
Trees and bushes replace water as Eric Zener's visual interest. Photo real at a distance, they are as chaotic as nature up close. more...
Dario Robleto
Like music 'sampling,' Dario Robleto brings literal elements of source material to images that are meticulous evocations of more...
Sarah Moon
Sarah Moon was among the first female haute couture photographers who is both a technical innovator as well as a probing intellectual. more...
Hung Liu
Painter Hung Liu feels she 'has lived many lives, some of them my own.' Liu came of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution more...
Roland Bernier
Roland Bernier has been making art for 50 years. His chosen medium--words. While many of his artworks have more...
Heidi Norton
Like many of us, Heidi Norton doesn't start out with the intention of killing her houseplants. On occasion more...
Tim Bavington
While not the typical cultural hub, Las Vegas has been essential to English-born artist Tim Bavington's success. Bavington left more...
LA Sculptors: Patrick Nickell
Patrick Nickell understands Modernism with all its complex implications, how at the heart of the modernist impulse is a pervasive self-consciousness, the desire to externalize the more...
Thomas Glassford
Thomas Glassford received international attention last year when his permanent light installation Xipe Totec wrapped a... more...
Shepard Fairey
A collaboration between Obey Giant Art, Subliminal Projects, and Robert Berman Gallery, 'Revolutions' features 80 original more...
Cole Sternberg
Conceptual art was the big news at the end of the last century, and also at the beginning of this one. When it comes to painting, more...
Robert G. Stevens
The career of Robert G. Stevens started pragmatically as a scientific illustrator at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories. Then they asked him to switch to computer graphics. more...
''Eight ELAC Alumni Artists''
''Roundtrip: Eight ELAC Alumni Artists'' both opens this new museum facility and provides an early local counterpoint to the coming ''Pacific Standard Time.'' more...
''Mysterious Content of Softness''
Softness has never looked so sinister as it does in ''The Mysterious Content of Softness,'' a selection of fiber artists who eschew all delicacy. more...
John Frame
John Frame's figurative sculpture has often suggested actors in a grand drama. So now the artist has undertaken to spin a grand tale. more...
David Maisel
David Maisel takes X-rays to old artifacts instead of young bodies and works them into ghostly images that surpass the power of the original. more...
Mark S. Greenfield
Using automatic drawing technique Greenfield's portraits of minstrel performers explore prejudicial symbols and stereotypes. more...
Tracey Moffatt
The film montages of Tracey Moffatt compress clips from numerous popular movies and TV shows into visual impressions that stand on their own merits. more...
Feitelson / Lundeberg
The aesthetic interplay of the first couple of early California modernism is highlighted in this broad selection of their more...
LA Sculptors: Thomas Houseago
British-born, LA-based sculptor Thomas Houseago's work reveals an unabashed appreciation for the past, inspired by the myths of ancient Greece and the abstraction of the Modern era. more...
Paul Kos
In a mini-restrospective of one of the Bay Area's founding conceptualists, Paul Kos' work is calm, yet inspires insight at every turn. more...
John White
Pioneering L.A. performance artist John White later turned primarily to painting. This cogent survey makes sense of his diverse body of work. more...
Pacific Northwest Contemporary Glass
It is a material that glows and oozes when hot and hardens as it cools, creating a record of the processes that brought it into being: lava, the material that formed the volcanic more...
Meow Wolf
Art collective Meow Wolf creates a sprawling, wild narrative installation, 'The Due Return,' that's about as much fun as art can get. more...
Ryan McGinness
Ryan McGinness exposes the context of back room business deals by making deals with corporations to use their logos not in but as his art. more...
Nicole Eisenman
The artist as an existential clown is the posture assumed in the current paintings of Nicole Eisenman. more...
Tony Berlant
In his new collages Tony Berlant dispenses with recognizable images, though his signature hammered brads remain firmly in place. more...
John Frame
'Three Fragments of a Lost Tale,' John Frame's first solo show since 2005, is a brief look into the artist's ambitiously scaled current project. The exhibit at the Huntington Library... more...
Alex MacLean
Alex MacLean's photography declares Americans' historical consumption as a way to life to be over, and does so with subtly and beauty. more...
Kent Williams
Reflections of the uncertainty of life inform the emotionally charged figurative paintings of Kent Williams. more...
Sharon Kopriva
The Catholic themes addressed by Kopriva take a lighter, more hopeful tone in her current series of 'Cathedrals, Phantoms and Naked Dogs.' more...
William Leavitt
William Leavitt's 'Theatre Objects' make deadpan and ironic comment on Los Angeles at the point at which the real meets more...
"The Talent Show"
“The Talent Show” brings together works by a variety of artists who place amateur performers, themselves, or subjects more...
Mark Leonard
The modernist grid takes on the appearance of textiles in Mark Leonard’s painstaking pattern painting. Deceptive surface and unexpected hues abound. more...
Margaret Kilgallen
The late Margaret Kilgallen was a key figure in brining serious graphic design and a folk sensibility to street art, as this more...
Jim Lambie
Jim Lambie is a Pop shamanist, a doctor of the golden era of cool when nostalgia still had a temporal footing. And check out his more...
Charging RiNo
It's a story that could be told about any big city that has an art scene. Artists need to find cheap studios close to the center of things, and when they do, ancillary businesses like galleries more...
Isamu Noguchi
This unusually selective exhibition provides fresh insight into the cultural roots of Isamu Noguchi. more...
"Modern Mexican Painting"
"Modern Mexican Painting" convincingly expands the 20th century story of Mexico's post-revolution renaissance well beyond the "big three." more...
Lawrence Gipe
When Lawrence Gipe first saw the industry ad that was to become the basis for his new painting, Rosemont Copper Girl, he knew more...
Gisela Colon
At once a foreigner in Los Angeles and a resident there for half her life, Gisela Colon is also a born painter. But, until recently, she more...
Judith Foosaner
When Judith Foosaner hit a dry spell in her work a few years back, the artist pared down her methods and materials. She wrote more...
Watts Towers
On the homepage of the Watts Towers Art Center website appears this Calvin Trillin quote from a 1965 issue of The New Yorker: 'If a man who has not labeled himself an artist happens to produce a more...
David DiMichele
The "Pseu-dodocumentation" photographs of David DiMichele imagine vast installations in fictitious museums spaces more...
Angela Fraleigh
Angela Fraleigh's striking paintings are passionate depictions of individuals partially obscured by abstract washes of paint. more...
"Toy Stories"
"Toy Stories'" six artists appropriate childhood icons to comment tellingly on the adult world, with an ample serving of social more...
Michael McMillen
The retrospective of Michael C. McMillen disperses his quirky sculptures and installations throughout the museum in an unusual curatorial strategy. more...
'Shape of the Problem'
This 30th anniversary exhibition shows this prominent Portland gallery to be impossible to pigeonhole. more...
S.J. Lee & Erik Sanner
S.J. Lee and Erik Sanner bring classical themes and tendencies to the latest video and digital technologies. more...
Gabriel von Max
Gabriel von Max is new to the US audience, but his slyly erotic women were all the rage in late 19th century Germany. more...
"Glicksman at Pomona"
During his brief tenure as Gallery Director at Pomona College, Hal Glicksman achieved a remarkably rich track record for contemporary art. more...
Han and Milhalyo
A massive installation by Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo eerily reassembles the movie house where now stands a museum. more...
"Face of Our Time"
Five contemporary photographers build on the classic project originally published by German photographer August Sander in 1929. more...
Richard Whiteley
Richard Whiteley challenges the viewer to discover what hides on either side of his elegant glass sculptures. more...
Mark Laita
Mark Laita and Rodney Smith, Laita with a scientist's patience and Smith with the sensibility of classic portraiture, revel in the act of seeing. more...
Tom Miller
In his monochromatic relief paintings Tom Miller operates between physicality and illusionism, plus he has been loosening up for a more personal feel. more...
The Wright View of Color Field
'Color Field Paintings and Related Abstractions Revisited' at Wright Exhibition Space (which runs to September 24) is an expansion of a 2004 survey curated by Virginia Wright and drawn almost more...
Lita Albuquerque
Lita Albuquerque once again expands the possibilities of process by digitally integrating two series, "Red Pigment Paintings" and "Beekeeper." more...
Julie Heffernan
Richly detailed as always, Julie Heffernan's grown-up fairy tale, autobiographical vision feeds on her son's departure for college. more...
Carrie Iverson
In an unsettling but absorbing exhibition, Carrie Iverson reflects on and purges feelings in response to her father's descent into dementia. more...
Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson makes a too infrequent appearance with the centerpiece work combining childhood cliches with sexual irreverence. more...
"Now and Then"
This exhibition is of a gallery, Cirrus, presenting its own history. It works because the presentation is innovative, smart, and well earned. more...
"Game Theory"
"Game Theory" centers around musician and artist John Cage and the extensive influence his approach to the random has had. more...
Jeffrey Gibson
Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson advances our thinking about Native art to better integrate it with the contemporary mainstream. more...
Karl Benjamin
Karl Benjamin was and remains the very embodiment of "Hard-edged" painting. The magisterial energy here shows that does not mean "emotionally neutral." more...
Munson Hunt
Munson Hunt’s monoliths of ten chain-sawed and charred cottonwoods, long dead before they were collected by the artist, prevail as testaments. more...
'Seismic Shift'
"Seismic Shift" is the story of a generational break in the approach to landscape photography from a transcendental ideal to one disrupted by development. more...
Mildred Howard
Mildred Howards blown glass punctuation marks have us question the relationship of language to content and imagination. more...
Jamie Bollenbach
The female nude may be the starting point in Jamie Bollenbach's paintings, but his process leads to amazingly unexpected results. more...
Laura McPhee
The majestic landscape of Sawtooth Valley in Idaho is displayed in absorbing, monumentally scaled photographs by Laura McPhee. more...
Alex Lukas
In cities that appear underwater and a cyclorama, Alex Lukas apocalyptic vision poses the accusation: we should have seen this coming. more...
Fred Eversley
A four-decade survey of Fred Eversley's luminous polyester resin sculptures display elegant optical illusions created by curve and reflections. more...
George Herms
"Chaos' Job: Restrain Order" sums up George Herms' life as an artist. Its potpourri of junk and meaningless squiggles adds up to ... art! more...
Creating 'The Great Picture'
To view The Great Picture in its current horseshoe-shaped configuration is to witness a photographic artwork that is awe-inspiring in size and impressive in technology more...
Nic Nicosia
In the context of a larger group show, Ni Nicosia's "I See Light" offers a compelling visual space freighted with psychological heft. more...
Now Dig This!
"Now Dig This!" examines the legacy of African American artists in L.A., providing a coherent context for multiple generations of artists. more...
Hans Burkhardt
Beneath the ferocity of Hans Burkhardt’s exacting brushwork and application of oil paint there is an undeniable remnant of hope. more...
Cyrus Tilton
For Cyrus Tilton the human race has become like a Biblical plague of locusts. “The Cycle” makes a disturbing, funny and, sadly, strong case for more...
Andy Wing
Evolving from abstract expressionist roots, Andy Wing's artistic purpose was to immerse his most personal self in the creative process, merging both with nature. more...
Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford deftly crafts a bridge between high and low culture, from art worthy of this museum survey to the goings-on of a women's hair salon. more...
Susan Mikula
Susan Mikula's hazy Polaroids of industrial and harbor sites evoke memories of faded glories. more...
Meyers / Molina
Their work is distinct, but Mike Meyers' and Yvette Molina's interest in the earth as a gigantic and holy machine enlivens the pairing. more...
How and Nosm
Twin brothers and collaborators How and Nosm seem at first a mass of confusion only to unfold impressive scenarios. more...
"Agitated Histories"
"Agitated Histories" takes aim at historical orthodoxies, raising the question: just how agitated is the viewer supposed to become? more...
Peter Alexander
Peter Alexander's velvet paintings with their diverse and sensual surfaces, are environments with a decided "wow" factor. more...
David Eckard
David Eckard extends a sense of invitation to performance art. This pair of exhibitions show objects and outfits to be far more than leftovers. more...
Carolee Schneemann
In this career survey, feminist pioneer Carolee Schneemann's aggressive use of sexuality, media, and movement remain powerfully visceral. more...
Modern Antiquities
"Modern Antiquities" demonstrates how four of the best early avant garde artists responded to and were acutely aware of the art of Greece and Rome. more...
Sarah Bostwick
Sarah Bostwick's landscapes and architecture in relief are detailed and intricate monochromes, which keeps them more delicate and nuanced. more...
Schwitters' Merzbau Re-Made In CA
This fall, the Berkeley Art Museum hosts the exhibition "Kurt Schwitters: Color And Collage" (through November 27, 2011). Schwitters was the grand master of collage. His last survey exhibition in the US was more...
John Marin
John Marin is shown to have been among early modernism's most gifted landscape painters in this selection of over 60 oils and watercolors. more...
Maddy LeMel
The found object sculptures of Maddy LeMel may be simply constructed but they are rich in visual reference and imaginative interpretation. more...
Rumi Koshino
In an installation of paper pyramids Rumi Koshino makes aesthetic use of the eccentric qualities of Form/Space Atelier's floor and stairs. more...
Michael Roque Collins
The land- and seascape paintings of Michael Roque Collins are visually rich to the point of being hallucinatory, often feeling familiar yet very strange. more...
ASCO
One of the best ideas to come out of Pacific Standard Time is a retrospective of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco, a group whose inventive irreverence helped enliven and enrich the cultural landscape of Los Angeles more...
Still Amazing
It was on a sunny morning back in August of 2004 when then Denver mayor--now Colorado governor--John Hickenlooper announced that Patricia Still had chosen Denver to be the recipient of a hoard of riches in the form of 2400 paintings and more...
Kirsten Everberg
Drive down almost any Los Angeles street, and you're sure to find an eclectic mix of architectural styles--Tudor, Mediterranean more...
Yvette Gellis
Originally from the Midwest, Gellis grew up in an idyllic community just outside Chicago. She describes the experience of more...
Andrei Molodkin
Oil is both subject and object in Andrei Molodkin's installation of abstract kineticism that electrifies the museum space. more...
Jim Waid
Jim Waid's sensual paintings imbue immersive landscape imagery with musical references. more...
Sue Williams
This min-retrospective includes memorable individual works, but leaves us wondering how Sue Williams got from here to there. more...
"Interior Margins"
Raw imagination and materials replace overt feminism or references to traditional women's work in "Interior Margins", a group of eleven women artists. more...
Francisco Letelier and Bobby Rojas
Francisco Letelier and Bobby Rojas seem like an odd pairing, but it is the context of Los Angeles that makes their differences the point. more...
"Phenomenal"
“Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface” is the PST show focused on those breakout '60s styles: Light & Space and Finish Fetish. more...
Bay Area Abstraction
Three to abstract painters of the San Francisco Bay Area proved that, at the time, New York School painting was being matched on the West Coast. more...
Vivian Maier
Remarkably, a self-motivated nanny, Vivian Maier, left an only recently discovered body of work that places her among the great street photographers. more...
Moshe Elimelech
Moshe Elimelech's current watercolors tickle the eye and offer visual clues that leave the door to viewer engagement wide open. more...
''Facture''
"Facture" adds a new wrinkle to the ongoing discussion about what it means to paint - here, on glass. more...
Surrealism
"Surrealism: New Worlds" is a sprawling survey of about 100 works that refreshes appreciation for the movement with numerous highlights. more...
Roger Kuntz
From 1959 to 1962 Roger Kuntz produced a series of Southern California landscape paintings of freeway signs, ramps and blimps. more...
Piper O'Neill
Dubbed "the blue-eyed devil" by feminist artist Kiki Smith, Piper O'Neill is a Seattle artist whose delicate work makes manifest female growing pains. In her new show more...
Ryan Travis Christian
Anyone who didn't grow up in the suburbs knows someone who did. There is a common cultural vision of suburban reality, which is so pervasive more...
DJ Hall
Venice-based painter DJ Hall has made a career of parlaying the ideal Southern California lifestyle into more...
Reno: Elegies to the Environment
The view from the roof of the Nevada Museum of Art is a sublime justification for this unique Reno-based institution's focus on the collection and presentation of art that examines the natural more...
Phillip King
Phillip King contributed to the revolution in British sculpture beginning in the 1960s, and this survey puts on display his blend of whimsy and rigor. more...
Robert Kingston
The large-scale lyrical abstraction of Robert Kingston unfolds sequentially to gradually resolve as balanced and integrate wholes. more...
Best Kept Secret
The years covered by "Best Kept Secret" were the first of a then new UC Irvine program that produced a startling group of top then new art talents. more...
Peter Halley
Peter Halley's abstraction smartly engages architectural references, the "Prison" image here an element he has returned to for 30 years. more...
Ellsworth Kelly
This survey of "Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings" shows why this work must be experienced directly, so their humanity and nuance becomes clear. more...
Joseph Havel
Joseph Havel's "Plus or Minus" moves us to reflect on how we interact with visual images - and the history we bring to bear on them. more...
Stephen De Staebler
The existential humanism of Stephen De Staebler has not been particularly fashionable for decades, but the work stands up and looks fresher than ever. more...
Suzanne Opton
American soldiers stare out from two series of large-scale color photographs by Suzanne Opton, not artificially elevated but revealing a truer self. more...
Flavio Garciandia
Flavio Garciandia’s paintings are equal parts de Kooning, Twombly, and Cuba, and it’s a tasty mix: deep and rich, without becoming obscure. more...
Fernandez and Reisch
In "Sublimation Simulacrum" Kit Reisch appropriates the city of Prague for the simulacrum, while Angel Fernandez constructions fulfill the sublimation. more...
"Dissecting Nature:"
Continuing through February 25, 2012
Andy Goldsworthy’s exquisite “Leaf Horn” (1996) represents one approach taken by the artists in “Dissecting Nature:” utilize the striking characteristics of natural materials, in this case, sweet chestnut leaves bound with more...
Katherine Westerhout
Katherine Westerhout documents decaying buildings just as she finds them, in all their ruin and beauty, still somehow vibrant and grand. more...
“Dream States”
Although 11 different artists participated in “Dream States,” each visually interpreting their own personal unconscious, there is a surprising commonality among many of the pieces. more...
"The Edge of Vision"
"The Edge of Vision" is a breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, curated by Lyle Rexer, that investigates light, form and abstraction. Showcasing the work of nineteen international photographers. more...
Rick Araluce and Steve Peters
Rick Araluce usually works in miniature, but his plumbing-pipe installation crisscrosses the entire gallery space, snaking along overhead support beams, and disappearing into gaps... more...
Liz Glynn
As an aficionado of antiquities and all their respective baggage, in particular the museum artifact, Liz Glynn is nothing if not rigorous in her excavations and subsequent recreations of objects. She researches them, exhumes them, and runs them through a virtual gauntlet of de- and reconstruction. P more...
"Sonic Architectonic"
Sound rivals smell as the most neglected of the senses in the fine arts. "Sonic Architectonic" throws down the gantlet for noise, music, and the plunkety-plunk of life writ large, deploying the materialization of sound in the work of fourteen artists. more...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
“The Courthouse Steps” is an example of a painting that, although it has the feeling of pure abstraction, is underpinned with glimpses of representation and is derived from a real-world scenario. more...
Ingrid Calame
Ingrid Calame makes tracings of debris on sidewalks or streets that produce intricate compositions of overlapping stray marks. more...
Editor's Note
Mike Kelley was the brilliant Romantic artist of the boomer generation, by turns angry and hilarious, irrational but intellectually acute. more...
Sarah Walker
Vertiginously immersive abstract paintings by Sarah Walker are gorgeously rich fusions of digital thinking with visionary psychedelia. more...
Performing for Camera
The aesthetics of danger and risk are very much on display in the group show "Performing for the Camera," and the results are exhilarating. more...
Peter Halasz
Large scale paintings by Peter Halasz of nighttime scenes are meticulous, elegant and evocative of collective memory. more...
Tim Ebner
Years ago Tim Ebner looked at a comic strip of goofy fish and exclaimed "That's perfect," and fifteen years later he is still making his fish. more...
Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine’s artistic practice is akin to identity theft, blatantly replicating familiar masterworks to address image consumption in the digital age. more...
Joe Thurston
Joe Thurston's "container" sculpture once more departs from recent carved relief works, just as those abandoned the grotesquely beautiful portraits. more...
Richard Diebenkorn
In 1966 Richard Diebenkorn relocated to Santa Monica's Ocean Park district and devoted himself to the now legendary "Ocean Park" paintings. more...
Barbara Smith
An understated body of work tackles the mightiest of concepts: Time. Barbara Smith achieves a tone of poetic contemplation. more...
Oli Sihvonen
Oli Sihvonen was devoted to endless permutations of Color Field painting by way of intricately structured paintings. more...
Lise Sarfati
Lise Sarfati deals with women's identity, presenting photographic portraits that are at once lovely and utterly abject. more...
David Michael Smith
"Elegy" marks the entry of a promising new talent, David Michael Smith in paintings of great complexity that blend beauty with tragedy. more...
''Death and Life of an Object''
This trio, Lynn Aldrich, Laurie Frick and Tim Hawkinson, animate ideas and materials by removing inherent meanings to lend them new life. more...
Kristen Morgin
It's hard to believe Kristen Morgan current work is all made of clay. She handles her media masterfully and with clever conceptual strategies. more...
Isaac Julien
The spectacular ''Ten Thousand Waves" began as Isaac Julien's response to 9/11. He sets a new standard for the use of video more...
John M. White
The "Artificial Hatch" gestural paintings of John M. White convey the joy fish might feel in the presence of a fresh insect. Yum! more...
''Time-Lapse''
"Time-Lapse" starts small by opening big, with Mary Temple's installation "Currency," and ends with the individualized mark of our transient lives. more...
Amy Casey
Houses, stacked precariously high or bundled together and swinging through the air, are the unifying feature in Amy Casey’s new work. more...
Kimiko Miyoshi
Deliberateness and deliberation are much in evidence in the work of Kimiko Miyoshi, who also injects her work with a delightful sense of play. more...
A Half Century of SECA Award Winners
The Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was formally organized in 1961 by a group of art-invested donors and museum more...
Paul Gauguin
Former stockbroker Paul Gauguin abandoned his family for art and Polynesia in search of an idealized exotic. We learn here what he actually found. more...
''Interlopers''
"Interlopers" emphasizes draughtsmanship, with an attitude that the skill has become so outside the mainstream of art that it has become rebellious. more...
Ann Phong
Ann Phong's paintings call upon the artist's memories of her native Vietnam, which she fled as a refugee. In recalling the past Phong celebrates the present. more...
Nigel Poor
The banned book is Nigel Poor's subject, literally cleaning copies to "water them down," crumpling them into sculpture, then presenting them as photographs. more...
''Breaking in Two''
"Breaking in Two: A Provocative Vision of Motherhood" takes a hard look at a theme too often reduced by sentimentality. more...
Fred Wilson
This elegant but poignant exhibition shows Fred Wilson to wholeheartedly embrace postmodernist social critique. more...
John M. White
The "Artificial Hatch" gestural paintings of John M. White convey the joy fish might feel in the presence of a fresh insect. Yum! more...
''Time-Lapse''
"Time-Lapse" starts small by opening big, with Mary Temple's installation "Currency," and ends with the individualized mark of our transient lives. more...
Richard Diebenkorn
In 1966 Richard Diebenkorn relocated to Santa Monica's Ocean Park district and devoted himself to the now legendary "Ocean Park" paintings. more...
''Interlopers''
"Interlopers" posits the lasting power of great draughtsmanship as an art form, while also being far-reaching in its scope. more...
Paul Gauguin
Former stockbroker Paul Gauguin abandoned his family for art and Polynesia in search of an idealized exotic. We learn here what he actually found. more...
Fritz Scholder
Fritz Scholder altered the course of Native American art by combining the image of Native Americans with the idioms of modernist art. more...
"Clay's Tectonic Shift"
Peter Voulkos first brought truth to materials and abstraction to clay, then John Mason and Kenneth Price expanded on his ideas. more...
Lorraine Peltz
Chicago-based artist Lorraine Peltz explores the ideas of memory, identity and the positioning of women in more...
Kim Keever
Romantic landscape painters once sought to express a sense of their humility in the face of a supreme power. Their majestic more...
Laurie Danial
Regularly lauded by critics, Danial's oil paintings are loose and exuberantly colored compositions wherein the organic more...
The Boneyard Project
The Boneyard is a special place of fantasy and intrigue in Tucson--a sought-after destination for tourists from around the world. "The Boneyard" is the unofficial name for the Aerospace more...
"Clay's Tectonic Shift"
Peter Voulkos first brought truth to materials and abstraction to clay, then John Mason and Kenneth Price expanded on his ideas. more...
Frank Lloyd Wright
This retrospective makes a mostly successful effort to link architectural giant Frank Lloyd Wright to present day developments. more...
Frederick Hammersley
Frederick Hammersley's large geometric abstractions are balanced with small organic compositions go far beyond mere formalism. more...
''The Art of Mono-ha''
"The Art of Mono-ha" or "school of things" expressed Japanese artists' response to 1960s era minimalism, process art and earth art. more...
Hammersley and Garabedian
Frederick Hammersley's lyrical geometric abstractions are balanced with early selections by Charles Garabedian. more...
Frank Lloyd Wright
This retrospective makes a mostly successful effort to link architectural giant Frank Lloyd Wright to present day developments. more...
''The Art of Mono-ha''
"The Art of Mono-ha" or "school of things" expressed Japanese artists' response to 1960s era minimalism, process art and earth art. more...
James Smolleck
James Smolleck's installation "Neophyte Doublestare into the Eight Dimension" is a deep and immersive draught of immersive fantasy. more...
Guirguis / Hagler
Sherin Guirguis and Joshua Hagler is a pairing of distinctive sensibilities who both deal with the connection between past and present. more...
Surrealism's Myths
LACMA's current "In Wonderland" exhibition provoked Betty Ann Brown to reflect on some prevailing misconceptions of Surrealism's history. more...
Robert Townsend
Jazzy rhythms and cheerful color shift from Robert Townsend's by now familiar pop-realist style to hard edge abstraction to good effect. more...
Lisa / Fernandez
Concurrent exhibitions by the late Argentine Esteban Lisa and the far younger Venezuelan Magdalena Fernandez are a fortuitous pairing. more...
Barer / Hsu
Cara Barer photographs old newspapers; Pang-Chieh Hsu paints paper currency. Both arrive at a kind of cultural vanitas. more...
Agnes Martin
Despite Agnes Martin's desire to eradicate her pre-grid artistic history, this exhibition revealingly gathers much of what survived the "purge." more...
Myths In and About Surrealism
LACMA's current "In Wonderland" exhibition provoked Betty Ann Brown to reflect on some prevailing misconceptions of Surrealism's history. more...
Sherin Guirguis / Joshua Hagler
Sherin Guirguis and Joshua Hagler is a pairing of distinctive sensibilities who both deal with the connection between past and present. more...
Kim MacConnel
Systems and intuition appear in roughly equal balance in Kim MacConnel's current abstract yet smartly referential paintings. more...
Mitchell Marti
Mitchell Marti's prints and animations resonate from geometric configurations that writhe and twist like that were, well, living things. more...
Theophilus Brown
This small survey of Theophilus Brown, who passed away earlier this year, is a convincing first shot at securing his historical place. more...
Theophilus Brown
This small survey of Theophilus Brown, who passed away earlier this year, is a convincing first shot at securing his historical place. more...
Kim MacConnel
Systems and intuition appear in roughly equal balance in Kim MacConnel's current abstract yet smartly referential paintings. more...
Cara Barer / Pang-Chieh Hsu
Cara Barer photographs old newspapers; Pang-Chieh Hsu paints paper currency. Both arrive at a kind of cultural vanitas. more...
Esteban Lisa / Magdalena Fernandez
Concurrent exhibitions by the late Argentine Esteban Lisa and the far younger Venezuelan Magdalena Fernandez are a fortuitous pairing. more...
Eirik Johnson
Eirik Johnson documents decay and the fringe of the contemporary west in two series of "Camps" and "Cabins". more...
Nina Katchadourian
This is an entire exhibition of art made on airplane flights using only what comes available of the plane. And Nina Katchadourian delivers. more...
Erick Swenson
Eirick Swenson imbues lifelike realism with a reluctent sense of mortality in these memento mori. more...
Jean Lowe
Jean Lowe combines the decorative overkill of let them eat cake interior decor with the discount consumerism of Wallmart. more...
Erick Swenson
Erick Swenson imbues lifelike realism with a reluctent sense of mortality in these memento mori. more...
Nina Katchadourian
This is an entire exhibition of art made on airplane flights using only what comes available of the plane. And Nina Katchadourian delivers. more...
Anthony Velasquez
Warm and inviting still life paintings by Anthony Valesquez bring together assemblage-type objects in sculpture-like arrangements. more...
Masako Miki
The deer as a symbol of graceful innocence is central to Masako Miki's new paintings and sculpture. more...
Irene Kung
The singular beauty and mystical power of a tree is aptly conveyed in Irene Kung's digitally manipulated photographs. more...
Claudia Bucher
The darkness apparent in Claudia Bucher's body of work is lightened by humor and escapism and the suspended chaos of her installation. more...
LA Raw
"LA RAW" assembles a diverse group of artists who present figurative art that for decades has engaged the abject, that quintessentially postmodern conceptual quagmire. more...
Zachary Buchner
Zachary Buchner's "Just Say Yes" turns out hyper-mannerist visual delicacies that are so pretty and gooey as to be funny. more...
Sean Duffy
Duffy transported nearly the entire contents, a treasure trove of the past and present, from his home garage into Susanne Vielmetter's Culver City gallery. more...
Peter Selz: Sketches of a Life in Art
In an new and engaging biography of one of the West Coast most prominent art historians and curators we learn that Peter Selz has been far more than the sum of his art activities. more...
Georg Baselitz and James Drake
Prints by Georg Baselitz and James Drake pair two of our most brooding and operatic artists in this small and unsettling show. more...
Ali Smith
Ali Smith's paintings evoke associations, ranging from the continuous dynamic of Gorky's lyricism to Kandisky's spiritual compositions to fantastical Seussian architectural constructions. more...
Adam McEwen
Adam McEwen's compressed graphite replicas and paintings with chewing gum reflects on where we once we and where we are now. more...
John Chiara
The handmade aspects of John Chiara's approach to photography push the limits of the medium and lends it a distinctive physicality. more...
Heaven, Hell and Dying Well
"Images of Death in the Middle Ages" were truly fearsome centuries ago. If we can see why, today they are more memorable for their beauty. more...
The Chicago Attitude
In the history of art, Chicago is a well-respected place to be born or educated, and the list of major American artists who have done so is pretty distinguished. more...
Michael Petry
The Director of MOCA London presents his bold and poetic multi-faceted art for the first time stateside. more...
John Chiara
The handmade aspects of John Chiara's approach to photography push the limits of the medium and lends it a distinctive physicality. more...
Adam McEwen
Adam McEwen's compressed graphite replicas and paintings with chewing gum reflects on where we once we and where we are now. more...
Four Bay Area Abstractionists
In the spring of 1975, Philip Linhares organized a stunning exhibition of then-recent abstract paintings by Elmer Bischoff at the San Francisco Art Institute. Since 1972, Bischoff had been working more...
Peter Shire
This survey of Peter Shire's cups, more sculptural than utilitarian, are a natural complement to his signature teapots. more...
Cy Twombly
The last paintings created by Cy Twombly prior to his recent passing retain remarkable vitality of scale, energy and those great clouds of pigment. more...
Clyfford Still Museum
The author shared his initial impressions of the newly launched Clyfford Still Museum that opened last November. It immediately because one of the worlds most important single-artist museums. more...
Robert Brady
Literally, the first object that Berkeley-based artist Robert Brady made with clay changed his life. It was in his more...
Patti Oleon
A haunting aura of mystery inhabits the paintings of nostalgic, lavish interiors made by San Francisco artist... more...
Infinite Possibilities of Origami
Origami art has moved into the post-Modern age by leaps and bounds, and this medium-sized but highly engaging show is a jaw-dropper. more...
''LIGHT''
This a thoughtful four-person show, "LIGHT," surveys the ways in which artists utilize the notion of light across diverse media. more...
The End of the Wild
Man versus nature is a conflict yet to be settled, as this small gathering of installation art, photographs and other media demonstrates. more...
Jeff Brouws
Jeff Brouws’s work is testimony to how new tendencies in art are frequently misunderstood even by the best informed. more...
Pard Morrison
Pard Morrison’s wall reliefs stand out about three inches from the wall, creating the illusion of another sculptural surface. more...
PLANEfurniture
"PLANEfurniture" is an erudite yet accessible show focusing on various porous boundaries we take for granted today. more...
From Moscow with Love
"From Moscow with Love" is remarkable cache of work that runs the gamut from the political to the purely graphic to the ponderous. more...
Lee Friedlander
With this new body of work Lee Friedlander again demonstrates why he is one of the most celebrated American photographers. more...
Ivory Yeunmi Lee
Wandering the imaginary landscapes of the paintings of Ivory Yeunmi Lee is like floating through an eerie, pastel-hued reverie. more...
Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang's work involves a laborious process in which volunteers help to stencil canvases with gun power which is then ignited. more...
Gay Block
In 1981 Gay Block photographed 7- to 15-year-old girls at a summer camp. Fast-forward to 2006, she tracked down and re-photographed the girls. more...
Gina Han
Gina Han uses cheery color and organic pours of bas relief paint to span geometrically fragmented grounds of negative space. more...
Joan Watts
“Poems and More” is a series of monochromatic works by Joan Watts that don’t necessarily appear to be monochromatic. more...
''City Zoo''
"City Zoo" is all about the uncertainty and emotional provocation of mammals on the furrier side of the fence. more...
Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson's abstract paintings are ever more built up, ever more colorful, with delightfully unexpected combinations. more...
Gay Block
In 1981 Gay Block photographed 7- to 15-year-old girls at a summer camp. Fast-forward to 2006, she tracked down and re-photographed the girls. more...
''Made in L.A. 2012''
"Made in L.A. 2012," occupying three venues, features sixty contemporary artists who may help write the history of the next generation. more...
Gary Hill
This survey clarifies why Gary Hill has been recognized as a pioneer of video art since his early experiments in the 1970’s. more...
John-Paul Philippe
This exhibition presents an honest pairing of Jean-Paul Philipppe's sculpture with paintings that feature looping shapes and subtle colors. more...
14,000 Years of Art
“It’s About Time” just as its title implies covers everything from early Pueblo pottery to the Transcendentalists to the contemporary. more...
Damien Hirst
This modestly scaled show of works on paper lets the scope, wit and humor of Damien Hirst come out. more...
Gary Hill
This survey clarifies why Gary Hill has been recognized as a pioneer of video art since his early experiments in the 1970’s. more...
''Made in L.A. 2012''
"Made in L.A. 2012," occupying three venues, features sixty contemporary artists who may help write the history of the next generation. more...
14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico
“It’s About Time” just as its title implies covers everything from early Pueblo pottery to the Transcendentalists to the contemporary. more...
Made In L.A. 2012
The first L.A. Biennial consciously sought difficult to digest work, and much of it is in line with expanding contemporary art's conventions and reach. more...
Made In L.A. 2012
The first L.A. Biennial consciously sought difficult to digest work, and much of it is in line with expanding contemporary art's conventions and reach. more...
John Valadez
For decades John Valadez has portrayed Chicanos of the post-civil rights era. Despite the modernity of his subjects, his approach is old-school. more...
John Valadez
For decades John Valadez has portrayed Chicanos of the post-civil rights era. Despite the modernity of his subjects, his approach is old-school. more...
Ann Lofquist
There's a glorious quality of light in Ann Lofquist's coastal paintings that feels incredibly fresh. more...
''Wilderness Mind''
“Wilderness Mind: Dissolving Duality” starts from the assumption that every place affected by mankind’s “civilizing” actions. more...
''Wilderness Mind''
“Wilderness Mind: Dissolving Duality” starts from the assumption that every place affected by mankind’s “civilizing” actions. more...
''Pop Noir''
Carla Gannis and Sandra Bermudez explore the intersection of popular culture with issues of desire, perversion and pornography more...
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall is a serious student of African American history, grafting it to the tradition of modernist painting in his own critical minded way. more...
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall is a serious student of African American history, grafting it to the tradition of modernist painting in his own critical minded way. more...
Dennis Oppenheim
A selection of works documenting Dennis Oppenheim’s Sixties-era land art projects demonstrate how he helped expand the field of artistic possibility. more...
Lucien Clergue
Sand dunes or zebras become nudes in Lucien Clergue's re-visioning of lines and forms into erotic illusion. more...
Lisa Gronseth
Lisa Gronseth looked out her hotel window in Dubai and found reflections and reflections of flections across its landscape of skyscrapers. more...
Misha Gordin
Selections from multiple series by Misha Gordin drive images of the absurd and surreal that represents this former dissident's view of Soviet life. more...
The Phoenix Fridas
The Phoenix Fridas are a women's collective who present their latest annual homage to icon Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. more...
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall is a serious student of African American history, grafting it to the tradition of modernist painting in his own critical minded way. more...
Rusty Scruby
Grids and repetition lie at the heart of Rusty Scruby's art, yet this core is informed by vastly disparate sources. more...
John Valadez
John Valadez portrays the Chicano community of the post-civil rights period. But despite the modernity of his subjects, his materials are old-school. more...
Charles Ross
Charles Ross explores sunlight via its destructive capacity. By artful means he incorporates, in very literal ways, the concept of time. more...
Mel George
Mel George missed her Austrialian home, but after returning from Portland found she missed her adopted city too. Her artwork expresses those feelings. more...
Matthew Sontheimer
Matthew Sontheimer’s fascination with language is obvious. What’s less fundamental is the insinuated pleasure he takes in the process of excavation. more...
Charles Ross
Charles Ross explores sunlight via its destructive capacity. By artful means he incorporates, in very literal ways, the concept of time. more...
Matthew Sontheimer
Matthew Sontheimer’s fascination with language is obvious. What’s less fundamental is the insinuated pleasure he takes in the process of excavation. more...
Mel George
Mel George missed her Austrialian home, but after returning from Portland found she missed her adopted city too. Her artwork expresses those feelings. more...
A New Art Museum For The Antelope Valley
The city of Lancaster completed a new, twenty thousand square foot museum facility. After a two-year hiatus MOAH may signal a revitalization. more...
Japan’s Textile Pioneers
Fourteen Japanese artists associated with the global fiber-art movement show the range of what artists can create with these materials, pushing craft beyond convention. more...
Misako Inaoka
There are two prominent species in Misako Inaoka's current sculpture: would-be cyborgs, and eldritch animals of simple otherness. more...
Land Art to 1974
"Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974" adds to a legacy of conceptually savvy and historically rich exhibitions by a museum recently shaken by public controversy. more...
Maxwell Hendler
Each of Maxwell Hendler's paints consists of layers of a resin tinted singular color, the kind you’ll struggle to find words to describe. more...
Christel Dillbohner
Christel Dillbohner fills this industrial-looking space with works that express environmental displacement and vertigo. more...
James Turrell
With its neon-like red, blue and green shapes that seem to hover mid-air, these holograms will be familiar to admirers of James Turrell. more...
Woody Gwyn
Woody Gwyn’s vision of the Pacific shore captures the moods of the sea and shimmering atmosphere from an elevated point of view. more...
Lou Beach
"Stories and Pictures" is a new kind of exhibition for Lou Beach, featuring new collages works along with readings from his recent book. more...
David Shrigley
David Shrigley manically bombards us with funny, odd, sometimes gross and dark takes on life or random observations more...
Lou Beach
"Stories and Pictures" is a new kind of exhibition for Lou Beach, featuring new collages works along with readings from his recent book. more...
Woody Gwyn
Woody Gwyn’s vision of the Pacific shore captures the moods of the sea and shimmering atmosphere from an elevated point of view. more...
James Turrell
With its neon-like red, blue and green shapes that seem to hover mid-air, these holograms will be familiar to admirers of James Turrell. more...
George Grosz
A Berlin Dadaist is invited to Dallas by a department store executive … Sounds like a set up for a joke, right? more...
Seymour Rosofsky
A selection of Seymour Rosofsky's works on paper possess an intimacy and narrative quality that subvert normally familiar situations. more...
Lee Mullican
Lee Mullican's "Taos Clay" sculptures are every bit as enigmatic and surreal as the paintings he is best known for. more...
Jack Goldstein
Throughout Jack Goldstein’s art runs an undercurrent of power and control on one hand, and a sensation of futility on the other. more...
Gregg Renfrow
The polymer-and-pigment sheets of cast acrylic by Gregg Renfrow appear to drip off their picture planes like gooey stalactites or petrified honey. more...
Charles Linder
Charles Linder presents twenty works in diverse materials and equally diverse meanings that explore the polarities of the sublime and the absurd. more...
Jed Berk and Oliver McIrwin
In a provocative and complex multimedia collaboration, Jed Berk and Oliver McIrwin blur the lines between the natural and the technologically imagined. more...
Peter Sarkisian
Peter Sarkasian's video installations engage viewers like few others. You'll want to touch a bucket or grab a steering wheel. more...
George Grosz
A Berlin Dadaist is invited to Dallas by a department store executive … Sounds like a set up for a joke, right? more...
Roberto Cortazar
Roberto Cortazar's ''Dynamic: Blue Note After Rivera'' are based on and departs from Diego Rivera's portrait of Dr. Clarence Moore. more...
Loretta Bennett
Quilter Loretta Bennett comes from a renowned family of Gee's Bend quilters, adding vibrant color and imagery inspired by her extensive travels. more...
Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud’s palette is reminiscent of shrubbery past its prime, wet tea bags and clotted cream decanted three days past. more...
Federico Solmi
"Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth," Federico Solmi's latest video and related paintings is a provocative satirical attack. more...
"Skyscraper"
The theme show "Skyscraper" is not only appealing but possesses an openness is paralleled by an experiential accessibility. more...
Anna Fidler
Anna Fidler reimagines Oregon history, imagining, with tongue in cheek, that important Northwest historical figures were in fact vampires. more...
Gustave Klimt
“Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line” starts by displaying the artist's academic chops and then tracing his journey to the avant garde. more...
Clarence Hinkle
The sun dappled landscapes and portraits of Clarence Hinkle were characteristic more of abstraction than of Impressionism. more...
Lezley Saar
Lezley Saar examines the tormented dames of 19th Century literature and illuminates the once fashionable tradition of gender suppression. more...
Barry McGee
Barry McGee's first retrospective delivers, from huge and highly detailed installations to the smallest bits of artistic ephemera. more...
Gary Stephan
A slew of loose geometric paintings puts Gary Stephan's balancing of spontaneous gesture and precise draftsmanship. more...
Tony Bevan
Tony Bevan’s figures and interiors simultaneously deploy both visceral and graphic sensibilities, his commanding line summoning an expressive structure. more...
Storm Tharp
The fetishization of fabric and flesh in Storm Tharp’s exhibition, "Holding a Peach" is a sly approach to the romantic and the grotesque. more...
Charles Gaines
Often referenced as a conceptual artist, the work of Charles Gaines is more akin to arts-based research than classic conceptualism. more...
Laura Paulini
The geometric paintings of Laura Paulini infuse the razzle-dazzle of Op Art with a shimmering digital update. more...
Anne Lindberg
Anne Lindberg's current work divides between a series of drawings' object quality and a string installation's intuitive color and space. more...
Jenny Holzer
This selection of Jenny Holzer's work of the 1980's mixed with recent work shows her socially engaged use of language remains vital. more...
Nic Nicosia
In "dreams and other stories" Nic Nicosia summons us into a cryptic world or eerie, nighttime pulse-quickening moments. more...
Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud’s palette is reminiscent of shrubbery past its prime, wet tea bags and clotted cream decanted three days past. more...
Federico Solmi
"Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth," Federico Solmi's latest video and related paintings is a provocative satirical attack. more...
"Skyscraper"
The theme show "Skyscraper" is not only appealing but possesses an openness is paralleled by an experiential accessibility. more...
Tony Bevan
Tony Bevan’s figures and interiors simultaneously deploy both visceral and graphic sensibilities, his commanding line summoning an expressive structure. more...
Lezley Saar
Lezley Saar examines the tormented dames of 19th Century literature and illuminates the once fashionable tradition of gender suppression. more...
Barry McGee
Barry McGee's first retrospective delivers, from huge and highly detailed installations to the smallest bits of artistic ephemera. more...
Storm Tharp
The fetishization of fabric and flesh in Storm Tharp’s exhibition, "Holding a Peach" is a sly approach to the romantic and the grotesque. more...
Sewell Sillman
A thoughtful selection of the mid-century abstraction of Sewell Sillman emphasizes vibrant color and a triumphant tone. more...
Raymond Saunders
Raymond Saunders new works emphasize vibrant improvisations and collaged syncopations that give way to invigorating painted passages. more...
Masami Teraoka
The priests get skewered in Masami Teraoka’s latest lavish panels. It is a shuddering paroxysm; the Church is having a guilty nightmare. more...
Elise Wagner
In her current show Elise Wagner employs round motifs, often concentrically ringed, to depict the black hole’s fierce, yawning mouth. more...
Look Both Ways
"Look Both Ways" samples highlights from an illustrious stable artists that introduces Hosfelt Gallery's grand new space. more...
Fire and Sand
“Fire and Sand” is titled for the two elements that forge glass, and shows glass art can surprise. more...
Charles Gaines
Often referenced as a conceptual artist, the work of Charles Gaines is more akin to arts-based research than classic conceptualism. more...
Jenny Holzer
This selection of Jenny Holzer's work of the 1980's mixed with recent work shows her socially engaged use of language remains vital. more...
Nic Nicosia
In "dreams and other stories" Nic Nicosia summons us into a cryptic world or eerie, nighttime pulse-quickening moments. more...
Antonio Muniz
Rooted in classic Surrealism, Antonio Muniz walks a tight path between allowing the eye delightful room to explore and bringing you to the point of visual exhaustion. more...
Cosgrove and Costache
Concurrent shows from Erin Cosgrove and Cris Costache provide simultaneous tests of Biblical and political knowledge. more...
Clare Rojas
From tapestry-inspired patterning and folk figures Clare Rojas shifts to paintings that are minimal, flat and quiet. The wit and strangeness are still there. more...
Frances Lerner
Frances Lerner's new paintings establish engimatic narratives recalling satirical tales about victims of social unrest. more...
Tony de los Reyes
Tony de los Reyes "Border Theory" is a series of abstract works, each depicting a clearly drawn border between the U.S. and Mexico. more...
Ant Farm
The Ant Farm Media Van in 1970 traveled the country shooting photos and video, installing inflatable shelters and offering the beginnings of performance art. more...
John Opera
John Opera’s cyanotypes of ordinary bottles, ropes, chains, fossils and hands possess the otherworldliness of a near alchemical process. more...
Catherine Opie
In a dramatic and and painterly series of photographs entitled "Twelve Miles to the Horizon" Catherine Opie lends substance to solitude. more...
Don Voisine
The gentle play of color and shape in Don Voisine's paintings are broadly symbolic plays of pure abstraction and font design. more...
Raymond Saunders
Raymond Saunders new works emphasize vibrant improvisations and collaged syncopations that give way to invigorating painted passages. more...
Clare Rojas
From tapestry-inspired patterning and folk figures Clare Rojas shifts to paintings that are minimal, flat and quiet. The wit and strangeness are still there. more...
Antonio Muniz
Rooted in classic Surrealism, Antonio Muniz walks a tight path between allowing the eye delightful room to explore and bringing you to the point of visual exhaustion. more...
Friedrich Kunath
There is an element of spectacle to Friedrich Kunath's march of loafers though a gallery full of paintings that is downright carnival-like. more...
Victor Maldonado
The act of mark making is directed towards negation of imagery in much of Victor Maldonado's recent work, and it's all defiant yet winning. more...
Lutz Bacher
Lutz Bacher brings together a disparate inventory of objects whose internal logic is as certain as the fact that they make no sense together. more...
Andrea Modica
Andrea Modica photographs pairs of ordinary Italian teenagers that address the nature of youthful intimacy that transcends the ordinary. more...
Ant Farm
The Ant Farm Media Van in 1970 traveled the country shooting photos and video, installing inflatable shelters and offering the beginnings of performance art. more...
Catherine Opie
In a dramatic and and painterly series of photographs entitled "Twelve Miles to the Horizon" Catherine Opie lends substance to solitude. more...
''When I'm Sixty-Four''
A group of eight artists explore the varied realms of the aged, from issues of loneliness and depression, to vibrancy and persistence. more...
Kenneth Noland
Color Field master Kenneth Noland's concentric circle paintings from the "Mysteries" series are precise, deliberate and captivating. more...
Philip Buller
A single color photograph of a crowded beach scene provides all the little secrets Philip Buller needed to probe the one and the many. more...
Jessica Drenk
Jessicca Drenk parses the boundaries between the natural and manmade to demonstrate that everything we know is fodder for transformation. more...
Lutz Bacher
Lutz Bacher brings together a disparate inventory of objects whose internal logic is as certain as the fact that they make no sense together. more...
Friedrich Kunath
There is an element of spectacle to Friedrich Kunath's march of loafers though a gallery full of paintings that is downright carnival-like. more...
Ken Price
Ken Price was a key figure in transforming ceramics into an art form of the highest sort. This retrospective makes the case. more...
William Eggleston
"Los Alamos" celebrates small town America and provided William Eggleston a vehicle to expose the contradictions of modernity. more...
Winston Roeth
Winston Roeth's latest paintings deploy color to attain maximum dramatic intensity, eschewing nuance to go for the gut. more...
Asay and Davis
Using gravel from the Salt River bed collaborators Roger Asay and Rebecca Davis mount an installation of Zen-like minimalist forms. more...
''6/one''
Six artists collaborate, crediting only the group and offering no titles of explanations. "6/one" ends up holding together when it could has easily fallen to pieces. more...
''When I'm Sixty-Four''
A group of eight artists explore the varied realms of the aged, from issues of loneliness and depression, to vibrancy and persistence. more...
Kenneth Noland
Color Field master Kenneth Noland's concentric circle paintings from the "Mysteries" series are precise, deliberate and captivating. more...
Steve McQueen
Known equally for his primarily video based art as well as feature films, Steve McQueen moves easily from visually lush set pieces to unabashedly political content. more...
Debra Barrera
The conceit of conflating car culture with freedom, Debra Barrera goes beyond to mine the promise of space exploration. more...
Deborah Butterfield
Deborah Butterfield's horse sculptures take on a life of their own in convincing arrangements of tree branches cast in bronze. more...
Mark Baugh-Sasaki
Mark Baugh-Sasaki is making compelling art that raises big questions by aesthetically tracing the path taken by water from source to pumping station. more...
''Departures''
This group of four artists each create abstract paintings that are personal but also immersed in nature. more...
Ken Price
Ken Price was a key figure in transforming ceramics into an art form of the highest sort. This retrospective makes the case. more...
William Eggleston
"Los Alamos" celebrates small town America and provided William Eggleston a vehicle to expose the contradictions of modernity. more...
Alison Saar
Alison Saar deploys unexpected combinations of objects and images to address issues of race, gender, and spirit. more...
Liam Everett
Sculpture suggestive of theater props, paintings suggestive of removal add up to impending activity in Liam Everett's current work. more...
Luis Gispert
Luis Gispert's stark photographs of symbolic combines are loaded with wide ranging cultural baggage, from youth to luxury. more...
Edith Baumann
Edith Baumann paints using a slow layering process of slightly adjusted glazes that speaks of a deep engagement in a state of calm. more...
David Kapp
From bicycle riders to taxi cabs to fast-moving pedestrians, David Kapp is clearly at home in the hustle and bustle of urban environments. more...
Steve McQueen
Known equally for his primarily video based art as well as feature films, Steve McQueen moves easily from visually lush set pieces to unabashedly political content. more...
Rania Matar
In "A Girl and Her Room," Rania Matar paddles into the precarious estuary where girlhood and womanhood intermingle. more...
Héctor Zamora
In two distinctive installations Hentor Zamora offers compelling commentary on barren desert life, an area with strong ties to the military and economic downturn. more...
Renee Lotenero
Lotenero photographs her handmade ceramic tiles, rescales and prints them en masse, using them to create some remarkable objects. more...
Blake and Morgan
Holly Blake and Jeremy Morgan express love of nature while demonstrating the continuing aesthetic relevance of the spiritualized landscape. more...
Mary-Austin Klein
Mary-Austin Klein's paintings are invitations to explore the Southern California desert environment. more...
Martha Alf
Drawing, as Martha Alf does it, is an exercise in deep contemplation in which the artist gazes upon and becomes one with the object under scrutiny. more...
Karl Benjamin
Karl Benjamin said he "kept working, trying to get the right line, the right color, hoping that something would gel." And so much did. more...
Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe's high octane textile works lie between sculpture, fashion and painting, but perhaps more significantly between the handmade and industrial. more...
Rogelio Manzo
For Rogelio Manzo, the practice of portraiture is more than a way to capture a likeness. These are darkly compelling images of the human figure. more...
Jacob Hashimoto
Jacob Hashimoto creates ethereal and disembodied installations using innumerable small paper kites. more...
Chester Arnold
The miner, the tools and residue of his life, and the world he inhabits are the focus of Chester Arnold’s newest body of paintings. more...
Christina Hale
In her sweet but nasty drawings Christina Hale puts out the vibe of a disillusioned flower child slowly coming to grips with harsh reality. more...
Stephen Strom
Stephen Strom’s background as a Harvard-trained astronomer is relevant to his alertness to pattern and detail in this survey of his photography. more...
Swallow and Vance
Contemporary artists Ricky Swallow and Lesley Vance, command an upstairs gallery that traditionally houses 18th century decorative arts. more...
Marion Lane
The small, square abstract paintings of Marion Lane with their tumbling form and colors amount to a profound rebuke of aesthetic austerity. more...
Hector Zamora
In two distinctive installations Hentor Zamora offers compelling commentary on barren desert life, an area with strong ties to the military and economic downturn. more...
''Rediscoveries''
“Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture” encompasses an array of artists who have been central to recent art history. more...
Jim Gaylord
Jim Gaylord turns still photographs from television programs and movie DVDs — often the least intelligible — as elements for his art. more...
Mike Kelley
In Mike Kelley's "Central Mass" clumps of stuffed animals make up sculptural "satellites" alternately mashing in close or getting spread out wide. more...
Justin Cooper
Justin Cooper's slapstick-style humor is here more playful and lighthearted, starting with a title that provides witty links among the work. more...
Cecilia Paredes
Cecilia Paredes combines the art of body painting with performance and photography, viewing performance as integral. more...
Marco Brambilla
Artist and filmmaker Marco Brambilla goes 3D with a vortex into which seemingly every commercial trope disappears into a multi-colored atmospheric spiral. more...
Letters from L.A.
The subject of "Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art" is typography or text brought to works of art. more...
"Facing West/Looking East"
"Facing West/Looking East" examines issues faced by California’s Asian American communities through the creative eyes of this group of artists. more...
''Rediscoveries''
“Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture” encompasses an array of artists who have been central to recent art history. more...
Marcus Jansen
Marcus Jansen explores urban landscapes in discomfiting ways whose raw technique echoes the Ash Can School - and more. more...
Nayland Blake
Nayland Blake revisits topics of sexual and racial identity in an exhibition divided into five areas or, as they are titled, "stations." more...
"DataViz: Information as Art"
"DataViz" is a mash-up of Conceptual and Environmental Art performed by older and upcoming generations of artists who address issues of climate change and social responsibility. more...
Ned Evans / Charles Christopher Hill
The pairing of Ned Evans and Charles Christopher Hill represents an aesthetic connection that bridges vastly distinct ideas and intentions. more...
Christina Hale
In her sweet but nasty drawings Christina Hale puts out the vibe of a disillusioned flower child slowly coming to grips with harsh reality. more...
Stephen Strom
Stephen Strom’s background as a Harvard-trained astronomer is relevant to his alertness to pattern and detail in this survey of his photography. more...
"End of the World"
A group of 15 artists stare into the maw of the apocalypse and manage to express both the humor and dangers of our fascination with it. more...
James Krone
James Krone maintains a clear relationship to minimalist painting, but more interestingly reference an algae-filled aquarium. more...
Ann Gale
The densely worked, emotionally charged paintings of Ann Gale are marvelous portraits that defy traditional conventions of portraiture. more...
Homeboy Industries
Pastor and author Gregory Joseph Boyle founded Homeboy Industries in 1992. Through it this trio of young artists have used art to overcome great challenges. more...
Josef Albers
Culled from two of Albers' print portfolios, we see that his signature rectilinear forms made up only one portion of his creative output. more...
Theresa Hackett and Jill Levine
Theresa Hackett’s paintings, drawings and collages and Jill Levine’s playful sculptures strike the right balance: Instead of just one “aha” moment, they offer several. more...
Alfredo De Stefano
Alfredo de Stefano walks a conceptual path, fabricating and then photographing primitivist tableaux that convey a strong ecological subtext. more...
Miriam Wosk
Perhaps best known for her magazine and fashion illustration, Miriam Wosk also produced art packed full of visual energy and event. more...
Alan Bur Johnson
Alan Bur Johnson crosses the divide between art and science with his wall pieces using laboratory-like slides of biological specimens. more...
June Harwood
June Harwood's version of hard edge abstraction resists reference to specific shapes found in the natural world, yet feel organic to the eye. more...
Chris Fraser
Chris Fraser turns an art gallery into a wonderland of color and line in his interactive installation of light, "In Passing." more...
On the Other Side of the Crevasse
The economy is still working on recovery, but perhaps it's time to imagine what the art world might look like on the other side. more...
Critiquing Ourselves
Some prominent critics have raised questions of art's integrity and relevance over the years. It's time to reflect on art criticism's changing role as well. more...
The Sandy Hook Aesthetic
Rather than Best of the Year lists, the lingering images of Sandy Hook cast the upcoming year in art in a whole new light. more...
The Triumph of Feminism: Seattle’s Art History
Women have contributed significantly to the visual arts culture of Seattle for over a century. There are good reasons for the development of such early gender equality. more...
Ann Gale
The densely worked, emotionally charged paintings of Ann Gale are marvelous portraits that defy traditional conventions of portraiture. more...
Homeboy Industries
Pastor and author Gregory Joseph Boyle founded Homeboy Industries in 1992. Through it this trio of young artists have used art to overcome great challenges. more...
"DataViz: Information as Art"
"DataViz" is a mash-up of Conceptual and Environmental Art by artists who address issues of climate change and social responsibility. more...
"End of the World"
A group of 15 artists stare into the maw of the apocalypse and manage to express both the humor and dangers of our fascination with it. more...
R.H. Quaytman
R.H. Quaytman’s project-based research and mining of this non-collecting museum’s archives turns into homage, with an emphasis on portraiture. more...
Ynez Johnston
Restlessness and wonder lie at the heart of Ynez Johnston's schematics of stacked and layered cities. more...
Inez Storer
Inez Storer’s paintings posit an ocean voyage to the French Riviera during Matisse’s heyday are all joyous color and lyrical grace. more...
Ronald Davis
Day-Glo colors captured in sculptural, geometric arrangements populate Ronald Davis’s latest body of digital work. more...
Art Between the Poles
"Art, in its mystery, blends diverse beauties together." - Puccini's ''Tosca'', Act I. more...
Alfredo De Stefano
Alfredo de Stefano walks a conceptual path, fabricating and then photographing primitivist tableaux that convey a strong ecological subtext. more...
Miriam Wosk
Perhaps best known for her magazine and fashion illustration, Miriam Wosk also produced art packed full of visual energy and event. more...
Jonathan Wateridge
Known previously for him movie set and disaster scenes, Jonathan Wateridge gets more subdued in images that give us more than meets the eye. more...
William Bailey
William Bailey crafts a highly detailed world, both eerie and muted, that has been dredged from his own psyche. more...
Miguel Palma
A spirit of adventure imbued Miguel Palma's tenure in Arizona, seen in his heat-laden road trip to a remote area of the state. more...
Catherine Wagner
Well worn classic books, one image of the closed volume paired with one open, share one striking trait in Catherine Wagner's series: they are in Braille. more...
Jeff Koons
Two works are enough for Jeff Koons to evoke contrasting ideals of childhood that are masked behind less flash than usual. more...
Art Bizarro Worlds
James Yood often writes about art that is championed by diverse micro-communities of professionals and aficionados. Here's why. more...
R.H. Quaytman
R.H. Quaytman’s project-based research and mining of this non-collecting museum’s archives turns into homage, with an emphasis on portraiture. more...
Ynez Johnston
Restlessness and wonder lie at the heart of Ynez Johnston's schematics of stacked and layered cities. more...
Goshka Macuga
Goshka Macuga repurposes art historical figures and events for installations that turn research into aesthetic backdrop for, in one case, organizations to meet in. more...
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl came to prominence with Neo-Expressionism’s resurgence of figurative art, his loosely rendered sexual psychodramas, provocatively violating cultural taboos. more...
Cathy Daley
The female figures central to Cathy Daley's black oil pastel drawings are secondary to the billowy gestural marks that represent kinetic lightweight fabrics. more...
Sid Avery
Sid Avery’s candid shots of celebrities half a century ago now seem like an anomaly: neither posed nor artificial, yet respectful. more...
John Albok
The Depression-era photographs of John Albok offer a shortcut into details of life on the streets when people had a shortage of hope. more...
Washed Up: Ocean in Peril
We habitually stand on shore and look out to sea. In "Washed Up: Ocean in Peril" twenty artists address that land-based perspective and its consequences. more...
Art Beyond Earth's Gravity
Describing what is beyond present knowledge is the stock in trade of visual art, particularly when it escapes Earth's gravity. more...
Jonathan Wateridge
Known previously for him movie set and disaster scenes, Jonathan Wateridge gets more subdued in images that give us more than meets the eye. more...
Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson has built a career throwing and pouring prodigious amounts of paint onto installations, many of them room-size. more...
Order, Chaos and the Space Between
"Order, Chaos and the Space Between" aptly sums up the many contradictions that run through Latin American culture and politics. more...
Pedro Farias-Nardi
Thematically confrontational, technically immaculate, Pedro Farias-Nardi’s portrait series, "El Otro," is a model of intense empathy. more...
Black Space
“Black Space,” a collection of works on paper united by their wanton darkness. Perfect for the bleakness of Santa Fe's late winter. more...
What's it All About?
That the art world has come to be shaped by market forces in recent decades makes the critical integrity of the art critic more crucial than ever. more...
John Albok
The Depression-era photographs of John Albok offer a shortcut into details of life on the streets when people had a shortage of hope. more...
Llyn Foulkes
How a master of ambivalence can emerge as such a passionate voice, how bitterness transforms into affection explain why the art world long underestimated Llyn Foulkes. more...
Driss Ouadahi
Driss Ouadahi's current work breaks into two themes: cityscapes of unfinished buildings and chain-link fences silhouetted against a twilight sky. more...
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl came to prominence with Neo-Expressionism’s resurgence of figurative art, his loosely rendered sexual psychodramas, provocatively violating cultural taboos. more...
The Bottom Line About the Bottom Line
Some argue that art has declined into a cash-driven, idea-poor spectacle, but perhaps there is more to the vast continent of art than its highest end market. more...
Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson has built a career throwing and pouring prodigious amounts of paint onto installations, many of them room-size. more...
Order, Chaos and the Space Between
"Order, Chaos and the Space Between" aptly sums up the many contradictions that run through Latin American culture and politics. more...
Bas Jan Ader
The thirty-three year old Bas Jan Ader disappeared in 1975 while attempting to complete a performance - crossing the Atlantic alone in a 13-foot sailboat. more...
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon delved into the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library to make art from compiled images of handshakes, swimming pools and rear views. more...
Where Art and Money are Well Met
Bill Lasarow shares the skepticism of many as to art market distortions. But the dealers' role remains that of a key intermediary. more...
Llyn Foulkes
How a master of ambivalence can emerge as such a passionate voice explains why the art world long underestimated Llyn Foulkes. more...
''Picasso and Chicago''
"Picasso in Chicago" is only in part about stating Chicago's importance in the shadow of New York's cultural dominance. It takes us beyond the aura of art to some of its science. more...
Beth Secor
A series of "Trees" in effect documents Beth Secor's visits to her elderly father at a nursing home, where she connected to both plants and parent. more...
Stanley Casselman
How we grasp new scientific paradigms of nature is a role embraced by Stanley Casselman in paintings that explore evolution and metaphysics. more...
Alex Steckly
Alex Steckly's meticulous bi-chromatic works are like Beach Boys songs written about Agnes Martin's car. more...
Second Take(Over)
The latest takeover bid of MOCA by LACMA is encountering softened resistance compared to 2008, but is it really the right thing to have happen? more...
Ron Rizk
Superbly painted tableaux of antique toys, chess pieces, fishing lures are familiar yet worn suggestions of a slowly fading time. more...
Geoff Hippenstiel
Geoff Hippenstiel’s paintings are a study in contrast — explosive yet controlled, abstract but still vaguely representational. more...
''Big Pictures''
Standouts in this fine show of large scale photography, "Big Pictures," include Abelardo Morell's “Camera Obscura Image of Times Square in Hotel Room” and Misty Keasler’s “Magic Mountain, Payatas Garbage Dump, Manila, The Philippines.” more...
Stephen Beal
Stephen Beal amplifies the minutest and seemingly inconsequential gesture in work dedicated to doing so mindfully. more...
Is Anybody There?
Who is the world’s most famous living visual artist? Pause. While you’re mulling that over, let’s look at the question more closely. more...
Stanley Casselman
How we grasp new scientific paradigms of nature is a role embraced by Stanley Casselman in paintings that explore evolution and metaphysics. more...
''Picasso and Chicago''
"Picasso in Chicago" is only in part about stating Chicago's importance in the shadow of New York's cultural dominance. It takes us beyond the aura of art to some of its science. more...
Ahmed Alsoudani
Iraqi expat artist Ahmed Alsoudani places himself squarely in the tradition of depicting war's toll on the innocent in works that ratchet up formal intensity with the grotesque. more...
Kehinde Wiley
In his trademark bright style, Kehinde Wiley presents stunning portraits featuring his preferred subject: young, beautiful black men. more...
Arturo Mallman
Vast landscapes by Arturo Mallman are built of loose washes of color the come together suggestively to host minuscule figures. more...
Inner Journeys, Outer Vision
“Inner Journeys, Outer Visions” compellingly explores the current range of both representational and non-objective response to spiritual themes. more...
Frieke Janssens
Young children apparently engaged in smoking in Frieke Janssens' photographs critiques the nostalgic glamorization of a bygone era. more...
Wesley Younie
Wesley Younie conjures fantasias of lotus flowers, waterfalls, pagodas, and distant mountains that strike notes of both reactionary fondness and droll satire. more...
Capitalism and its Discontents
Cheng reflects on the second question raised by Irving Sandler: What are the issue or polemics for art criticism? more...
Stephen Beal
Stephen Beal amplifies the minutest and seemingly inconsequential gesture in work dedicated to doing so mindfully. more...
Nancy Jackson
Intricate, multi-media sculptural pieces by Nancy Jackson are exquisitely fabricated and loaded with subtle innuendoes. more...
Deb Sokolow
"The Bodies in Mitchell's Cabin," set the tone of Deb Sokolow's current exhibition. The black cloths each cover what looks to be a small human figure. more...
Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams’ nocturnal paintings are lonely, moody, haunting, eerie, mysterious, desolate, and ominous. They could be anywhere in rural America. more...
Inner Journeys, Outer Vision
“Inner Journeys, Outer Visions” compellingly explores the current range of both representational and non-objective response to spiritual themes. more...
Kehinde Wiley
In his trademark bright style, Kehinde Wiley presents stunning portraits featuring his preferred subject: young, beautiful black men. more...
Francine Seders: Silhouette
The longest standing private gallery in Seattle, Francine Seders, arrived from France knowing only that she did not want to be ordinary. more...
Christopher Taggart
Cut up playing cards are arranged with care and precision by Christopher Taggart to form mesmerizing images. more...
Randy Twaddle
Electric transformer wires form the basis for Randy Twaddle's impressively varied range of drawings, tile works, textiles and assemblages. more...
Claire Baker
Claire Baker arrives at her paintings through a series of steps and a mixture of references that are collapsed with deceptive simplicity. more...
David Byrd
Octogenarian David Byrd never exhibited any of thousands of paintings produced during a long career as a hospital orderly. Subject and idiom attest to the wisdom of brining his work before the public. more...
John M. Miller / Eben Goff
John M. Miller continues to deliver potent perceptual variations within a set geometric formula. Eben Goff mixes visual cues in sculpture that is witty and rich in surprise. more...
Nancy Jackson
Intricate, multi-media sculptural pieces by Nancy Jackson are exquisitely fabricated and loaded with subtle innuendoes. more...
Deb Sokolow
"The Bodies in Mitchell's Cabin," set the tone of Deb Sokolow's current exhibition. The black cloths each cover what looks to be a small human figure. more...
Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith's deceptively casual and off-hand references to film and literature in collage hide a probing examination of a lost time. more...
Soo Sunny Park
Soo Sunny Park uses Plexiglas cells spread out the a gallery like netting to manipulate light the way painters manipulate paint. more...
Christopher Badger
Christopher Badger’s "Lunar Mirrors" translates the mathematics of astronomy diagrammatic paintings and sculpture of the moon. more...
Nancy Youdelman
Mixed media artist Nancy Youdelman uses mundane materials to create assemblages that are majestically feminine. more...
G. Ray Kerciu
First causing a splash in the deep south when he turned segregationist slogans on their aesthetic head, G. Ray Kerciu displays the qualities of a half-century career that followed. more...
Doing the Right Thing: A Morality Play
A month ago MOCA was on the verge of collapse or being acquired by a larger institution. That trustee suddenly found $75 million to add to bolster the museum makes us wonder. more...
Phyllis Bramson
Phyllis Bramson’s Imagist paintings are known for strange sex, gaudy ornament, vintage Americana; yet they possess a calm order. more...
Casebeer
Casebeer writes snippets of overheard conversations on her arm with a Sharpie, later translating these into a compelling "Sentence Camera." more...
Diane Arbus
Long associated with images of striking unconventionality, even freakishness, times have caught up with Diane Arbus to replace shock with empathy. more...
Shai Kremer
Photographs documenting the city and layering images to reveal it in cubistic manner are two distinct suites that Shai Kremer presents together to make a point. more...
Brutal Treatment of a Brutalist Building
Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital of 1975 is a masterpiece of brutalist architecture that right now looks out of its time. But it would be a mistake to demolish it. more...
Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith's deceptively casual and off-hand references to film and literature in collage hide a probing examination of a lost time. more...
Christopher Badger
Christopher Badger’s "Lunar Mirrors" translates the mathematics of astronomy diagrammatic paintings and sculpture of the moon. more...
Urs Fischer
The energy of this full on Urs Fischer exhibition is formidable. There is a populist appeal that some have termed ingratiating. It's definitely a thrill ride. more...
Takashi Murakami
In "Arhat," which refers to a fully enlightened Buddhist, Takashi Murakami makes it a challenge to invest oneself in the Death & Rebirth theme. more...
Marcelyn McNeil
The latter day "push and pull" abstraction of Marcelyn McNeil explores chromatic relationships while creating spatial tensions. more...
Wayne Higby
Wayne Higby emerged to prominence with the American Ceramic Studio movement in the 1960s, and this retrospective shows he has never ceased to explore the vast potential of clay. more...
Creativity & the Flow
There is a state of total absorption, the "flow," closely associated with intense creative activity. Brown explores the individual experience of this with a crosssection of artists. more...
Annie Lopez
These blue dresses are far more than they at first appear. Annie Lopez builds them out of cyanotypes - and words and images mined from her personal and family history. more...
Channa Horwitz
We sadly note the recent passing of Channa Horwitz, and this final exhibition of new work helps mark her legacy for rigorous by lyrical abstraction of exceptional steadfastness. more...
''Lifelike''
“What happens when we encounter something we think is real but realize it isn’t?” is the question and brand of realism posed by "Lifelike." more...
Aristotle Georgiades
Aristotle Georgiades uproots common residential materials and recasts them to produce visual surprise. more...
David Lloyd
David Lloyd brings together abstract imagery with an altered state of narration that is mystical and topical. more...
Diane Arbus
Long associated with images of striking unconventionality, even freakishness, times have caught up with Diane Arbus to replace shock with empathy. more...
Phyllis Bramson
Phyllis Bramson’s Imagist paintings are known for strange sex, gaudy ornament, vintage Americana; yet they possess a calm order. more...
Creative Expropriation
Two of creative expropriation's leading proponents have recently seen their art subjected to the soft shoe shuffling of "uncool jokers." more...
Urs Fischer
The energy of this full on Urs Fischer exhibition is formidable. The populist appeal here is a thrill ride. more...
Eirik Johnson
Diptych photographs by Eirik Johnson of the far northern town of Barrow, Alaska pair landscapes of winter and summer. more...
Manuel Mendive
The colorful and energetic art of Manuel Mendive has long been an expression of his religious devotion to Santeria. more...
Marco Petrus
Paintings of urban architecture are handled stylishly, with bold use of perspective, by Milan-based Marco Petrus. more...
Forrest Bess
The personal history of Forrest Bess is intimately tied to an art that is comparably poignant to that of his spiritual mentor, Van Gogh. more...
Gems of the Medici
"Gems of the Medici" is a rare amalgam of treasures of the fabulously wealthy family culled from museums in Florence, Italy. more...
Fernando de Szyszlo
In his dream chambers Fernando de Szyszlo injects richly composed suggestions of the human figure that also allude to animals and hybrids of both. more...
Two Weeks in L.A.
Seattle-based Matthew Kangas blew through numerous L.A. museums and galleries recently, leaving with mostly favorable impressions mixed with some disappointments. more...
James Turrell
James Turrell has shifted the way we engage light, and has done so in a monumental manner. A massive retrospective is consistent with both the scale of his work and achievement. more...
Clarissa Tossin
Maps and aerial photographs are the givens for Clarissa Tossin, who then alters them in multiple and fascinating ways. more...
Jasmine Justice
Author Philip K. Dick inspires the strange and dreamy paintings of Jasmine Justice. Perfect circles and precise lines are offset by washy grounds and loose gestures. more...
Nicholas Shake
Nicholas Shake constructs immense sculptures on site using trash found on the outskirts of his hometown of Palmdale. What we see are long exposure photos taken of the temporary works at dusk. more...
Alison Blickle
Her depiction of scantily clad hotties is questionable, but Alison Blickle's paintings are about her attraction to and skepticism of occultist tradition. more...
Virtual Reality Art
Notation and technology have enabled ordinary folk to experience a simulation of creative greatness, but not yet so in art. more...
Forrest Bess
The personal history of Forrest Bess is intimately tied to an art that is comparably poignant to that of his spiritual mentor, Van Gogh. more...
David Maisel
The ariel photography of David Maisel documents how human interaction with nature has taken a toll - and exerts a striking visual presence. more...
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi's brand of modernism was among its most elegant and thoughtful iterations, and this installation in a Japanese Garden plays to its strengths. more...
Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin pairs photographs of masterworks from the Louvre with her own images. But her homage to history allows for a fresh reading of her achievement. more...
Gems of the Medici
"Gems of the Medici" is a rare amalgam of treasures of the fabulously wealthy family culled from museums in Florence, Italy. more...
Polly Barton/Alison Keogh
The title of Polly Barton's and Alison Keogh's exhibition, "Stura," means: "A thread or line that holds things together." more...
Orit Hofshi
There is a melancholy sense of history at the heart of Orit Hofshi's extraordinarily complex, obsessive and polished large scale printworks. more...
James Turrell
James Turrell has shifted the way we engage light, and has done so in a monumental manner. A massive retrospective is consistent with both the scale of his work and achievement. more...
Michael Jang
Then student Michael Jang photographed family members forty years ago in this series that is of more than anthropological interest. more...
Jeffrey O'Connell
Photographs are altered by Jeffrey O'Connell with paint and digital manipulation display more whimsy than earlier, related series of paintings and collages. more...
Libby J. Masterson
'Mizugiwa' means water’s edge in Japanese and describes perfectly Libbie J. Masterson’s elegant photographs of the South of France and Maine. more...
Daniel Bauer
Daniel Bauer’s photos of Israel bear the markings of time and human activity, but are notably void of the figure. more...
Creativity & the Flow, Pt 2
Betty Brown continues her conversations with artists about the state of absorption in creative activity - the flow. more...
Andrea Heimer
Andrea Heimer demolishes scary suburbia in mostly small but precise paintings that brim with rage and hilarity. more...
''Six Rising Stars''
The divergent methods and materials that painters can summon in the name of abstract art are pleasingly sampled in “Six Rising Stars.” more...
Covington Jordan
The mysterious, goth-flavored paintings of Covington Jordan are as densely crafted as they are thematically elusive. more...
Antonia Wright
Antonia Wright combines ideo, performance, photography, and poetry in an art that revolves around the theme of injustice. more...
David Maisel
The ariel photography of David Maisel documents how human interaction with nature has taken a toll - and exerts a striking visual presence. more...
Biennale Fever
Off goes the author on another trip to the Venice Biennale, which remains absolutely the best way to be thrown into the deep end of contemporary art. more...
Katharina Grosse
Gallery spaces are blasted with color that Katharina Grosse sprays everywhere. The encounter makes you feel like a participant in the artist's process. more...
Anderson & Low
Granted access for two years inside the training facilities of China’s elite gymnasts, Anderson & Low document the daily pressures of gymnasts in a state that expects nothing less than perfection more...
John Tarahteeff
John Tarahteeff's paintings of seaside and marine motifs are replete with surrealistic elements and implausible circumstances. more...
Anointed and Adorned
A great ritual tradition is documented and conveyed in this installation titled "Anointed and Adorned: Indian Weddings in Houston." more...
Daniel Bennett
Young artist Daniel Bennett displays conceptual sophistication and a quality of child-like fascination in his new video work, "Definitions 1." more...
Hunt Slonem
In his rich paintings of birds, butterflies, flowers and human faces Hunt Slonem reveals a deeply intimate, sensitive familiarity and keen technical knowledge. more...
Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?
In his newest reaction to Irving Sandler's 14 questions for art critics, DeWitt Cheng describes the crisis state of art criticism. more...
Antonia Wright
Antonia Wright combines ideo, performance, photography, and poetry in an art that revolves around the theme of injustice. more...
California-Pacific Triennial
Switching from a Biennial of California to a Triennial of artists from the West Coast, Asian and Latin American countries boldly embraces art's globalization. more...
Donald Bradford
The day after the Supreme Court’s decisions on gay marriage Donald Bradford’s show, “Love and War,” looked prescient. more...
Barbara Sternberger
Barbara Sternberger uses her innovative technique to stretch paint application to balance densely clustered brushwork against broad expanses of negative space. more...
Bittman/Pionkowski
They complement each other, but Samantha Bittman builds up painted surfaces, while Gabriel Pionkowski unravels and rebreeds canvas strands. more...
''Morris Graves: Selected Letters''
In this review of "Morris Graves: Selected Letters," Matthew Kangas reflects on the charismatic artist's genius as well as his propensity for abuse. more...
Anderson & Low
Granted access for two years inside the training facilities of China’s elite gymnasts, Anderson & Low document the daily pressures of gymnasts in a state that expects nothing less than perfection more...
Daniel Bennett
Young artist Daniel Bennett displays conceptual sophistication and a quality of child-like fascination in his new video work, "Definitions 1." more...
''Rogue Wave''
"Rogue Wave" is essentially one gallery's biannual new talent show. This year's group edges more into mid-career than emerging territory. more...
David C. Kane
Imaginary portraits by David C. Kane draw on historical cubism and decline to specify identities, while moving towards a cautious optimism. more...
Transmissions
The ephemeral connects with the concise in selections by four artists who display convincing conceptual intelligence. more...
Gail Roberts
In a series titled "Spiral" Gail Roberts portrays nature's process of decomposition via images of birds' nests. more...
Mark Dell’Isola
The intense color and dizzyingly intricate detail of Mark Dell'Isola's paintings are unapologetically psychedelic and imaginatively suggestive. more...
Yvonne Venegas
Photographer Yvonne Venegas is frequently mistook for her twin sister, star pop singer Juliet, which has led to her to images that reveal the staging of fantasy. more...
Good Bad and Bad Bad
Reflecting on one exhibition of willfully badly executed art, Richard Speer muses on the inherent enigma of such a posture. more...
California-Pacific Triennial
Switching from a Biennial of California to a Triennial of artists from the West Coast, Asian and Latin American countries boldly embraces art's globalization. more...
''Journey Forth''
More considered than many summer group shows, "Journey Forth" reveals how the digital revolution has altered the way we perceive nature, acculturated as never before. more...
Hassel Smith
Hassell Smith was one of those painters whose work reflect a highly rational intellect and riotous spontaneity. more...
''Backstory''
For the three artists of “Backstory,” LaToya Rudy Frazier, Ron Jude and Guillaume Simoneau, personal vulnerability displayed in their narrative photography is paramount. more...
''Labour and Wait''
Its title derived from the poem "A Psalm of Life" by Longfellow, "Labour and Wait" erases the barriers between craft and fine art. more...
Sabino Osuna
Sabino Osuna’s dramatic images of the Mexican Revolution, and of the battle’s many heroes and villains are often startlingly cinematic. more...
A Mural Ordinance for Los Angeles
For over a decade Los Angeles has exercised a stifling ban on murals on private buildings. But now the likely passage of a new mural ordinance is about to change that. more...
''Rogue Wave''
"Rogue Wave" is essentially one gallery's biannual new talent show. This year's group edges more into mid-career than emerging territory. more...
June Yong Lee
The familiarity of the body becomes new and unfamiliar ciphers and archetypes in the digitally manipulated photographs of June Yong Lee. more...
Louisa McElwain
Louisa McElwain painted in the landscape that she lived in to leave a body of painterly work displaying great luminosity and reverence. more...
Bill Braun
They may look like torn paper collages, but Bill Braun uses trompe l'oeil painting charm to draw our attention to larger moral issues. more...
Shaw / Graves
Ceramicist Richard Shaw and collagist Ken Graves do their part to sustain art's power to represent reality and embody meaning. more...
James Verbicky
The humor in James Verbicky's abstract mixed media work is so sly that it may be hard to tell who or what exactly is being speared. more...
Deaccession in the Civic Context
James Yood argues for the validity of a major art institution to engage deaccession as contributing to civic good beyond normal AAM criteria. more...
Asian American Portraits of Encounter
These "Asian American Portraits" walks a fine line between promoting identity politics and exploring a varied but identifiable aesthetic. more...
Michael Ottersen
Michael Ottersen's current paintings re-internalize abstraction via the figure to express an intimate and mysterious power. more...
From Above
Aerial photography has the power to astound, with its access to remote places and bird’s-eye angles. Considered as art, "From Above" shows it can do even more. more...
Podoll / Bunga
In Joshua Podoll's new paintings a structural framework now supports his starbursts. Carlos Bunga offers elegant yet folksy monochromes. more...
Amusant.com
An old critical conversation about art as spectacle re-emerged in recent years in terms of "participatory experience." Is this merely shorthand for art as light entertainment? more...
''Journey Forth''
More considered than many summer group shows, "Journey Forth" reveals how the digital revolution has altered the way we perceive nature, acculturated as never before. more...
Isaac Layman
Isaac Layman transmutes quotidian household objects — ice cube trays, stovetops, heating vents — into the stuff of minimalist epiphany. more...
Beatriz da Costa
Beatriz da Costa’s video installation “Dying for the Other” is a product of the late artist's battle with cancer. She grabs our attention in order to get us to reflect on our power to determine self-worth. more...
Irene Olivieri
Narrative paintings on wood panels by Irene Hardwicke Olivieri are replete with animals, even when it is the artist herself purring out at us. more...
Stefan Sagmeister
"The Happy Show" actually makes happiness its subject rather than its objective. Still, Stefan Sagmeister's installation is a kick. more...
Olga de Amaral
The textiles of Olga de Amaral have the iridescence of moving water, the opulence of precious metal and the delicacy of bird feathers. more...
Feibleman / Emmert
Adam Feibleman's spray-enameled urban landscapes are accompanied by stencils. William Emmert's sculptures mimic ordinary studio objects. more...
Revisiting the Ultimate Issue
Death and dying is one of the most deeply historical of artistic themes. Such images can go well beyond asking the mournful "why?" in favor of the purposive "what does the process look like?" more...
Asian American Portraits of Encounter
These "Asian American Portraits" walks a fine line between promoting identity politics and exploring a varied but identifiable aesthetic. more...
Michael Ottersen
Michael Ottersen's current paintings re-internalize abstraction via the figure to express an intimate and mysterious power. more...
Joe Willie Smith
What elevates Joe Willie Smith’s junkyard sculptures from curiosities to objects of admiration is that they are participatory sound sculptures. more...
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon referred to his dark charcoal drawings as "noirs," and indeed they are loaded with melancholy magic. more...
Franklyn Liegel
With his passing last year, Franklyn Liegel not only left an energetic body of work but a legacy of creative influence and mentoring. more...
Eric Pedersen
Eric Pedersen makes people's faces the dramatic center of interest even - no, especially - when those faces are somnolent. more...
Katherine Lee
Meticulous brushwork and intelligently composed scenarios distinguish Katherine Lee's disquieting paintings of "Exteriors." more...
Buster Simpson: Surveyor
Buster Simpson's unwieldy and environmentally informed sculpture and performance is at its best outside the museum galleries, but consistently exhilarating. more...
Amanda Joseph
The "white trash" female figures of Amanda Elizabeth Joseph are blatant stereotypes that direct us to assess our own preconceptions. more...
Arnold Helbling
Arnold Helbling flirts with both abstraction and representation, at times enabling his to merge them together. more...
Stefan Kürten
Interior and exterior architectural spaces by Stefan Kürten are abandoned by their inhabitants in a series of moody but luminous paintings. more...
''Links: Australian Glass''
Glass art produced in Australia has been on the radar here since the founding of the Pilchuck Glass School. Color receives less emphasis in favor of plastic form, along with other differences made apparent in this exhibition. more...
''Nature Doesn't Knock''
In "Nature Doesn't Knock" eight artists draw on a reference from Emily Dickinson to explore the power of subconscious desires. more...
Franklyn Liegel
With his passing last year, Franklyn Liegel not only left an energetic body of work but a legacy of creative influence and mentoring. more...
Irene Olivieri
Narrative paintings on wood panels by Irene Hardwicke Olivieri are replete with animals, even when it is the artist herself purring out at us. more...
Isaac Layman
Isaac Layman transmutes quotidian household objects — ice cube trays, stovetops, heating vents — into the stuff of minimalist epiphany. more...
''Desecration''
It has long been common practice that artists tear down the precedents they are most closely wedded to. How refreshing to encounter some who seek to simply extend it. more...
Franklyn Liegel
With his passing last year, Franklyn Liegel not only left an energetic body of work but a legacy of creative influence and mentoring. more...
Eric Pedersen
Eric Pedersen makes people's faces the dramatic center of interest even - no, especially - when those faces are somnolent. more...
Michael Crowder
Michael Crowder transforms an art gallery from a white rectangular box into a cabinet of wonders featuring numerous textured glass butterflies under glass. more...
Kai & Sunny
Monotone screen prints by British art and design duo Kai and Sunny are complex, elegant echoes of M.C. Escher. more...
Stas Orlovski
Stas Orlovski's subtle, minimalist mixed-media works, combine a number of his trademark motifs to conjure up enigmatic enchantment. more...
Joseph Kohnke
In "Displacements" Joseph Kohnke brings life to inanimate objects. The works turn on when a viewer walks by sensors that trigger motions. more...
A Tale of 3 and 7
Nothing of importance ever happens in years ending in 3 or 7 says James Yood. So here we are in a '3' year, and sure enough its been one of relative indolence. more...
''Links: Australian Glass''
Glass art produced in Australia receives less emphasis on color in favor of plastic form, along with other differences made apparent in this exhibition. more...
David Kroll
Few artists have mastered the art of still life painting as thoroughly as David Kroll. New works underscore his strengths though they break little new ground. more...
John Divola
The ruins of an abandoned Malibu residence served as John Divola's canvas in a now classic series of 1977-78 that he took "As Far as I Could Get." more...
George Herms
Assemblage godfather George Herms' selection of recent and older work expertly and with humor finds beauty in the decrepit. more...
Dawoud Bey
The 16th Street Baptists Church bombing of 1963 is the inspiration of Dawoud Bey's series of dignified and powerful portrait diptychs. more...
Sean Deckert
Combining time-lapse photography and complex digital processing, Sean Deckert draws out fresh skyline views. more...
Is Zumthor's Austerity Right for LACMA?
George Melrod recognizes the vast ambition of Peter Zumthor's proposed architectural of LACMA's original buildings, but much remains problematic or unresolved. more...
Michael Crowder
Michael Crowder transforms an art gallery from a white rectangular box into a cabinet of wonders featuring numerous textured glass butterflies under glass. more...
Kai & Sunny
Monotone screen prints by British art and design duo Kai and Sunny are complex, elegant echoes of M.C. Escher. more...
Joseph Kohnke
In "Displacements" Joseph Kohnke brings life to inanimate objects. The works turn on when a viewer walks by sensors that trigger motions. more...
Nicholas Sistler
The minuscule, flat, pattern-like abstractions of Nicholas Sistler display a narrative bent in works and how they are installed. more...
if you cut it, they will come
Cutting is the act that brings these artists together, here it goes far beyond how most of us wield scissors. more...
Steven Hull
Steven Hull has fun making art. His works are playful installations with miniature steam engines and marionettes. more...
Book-Bound
The non-visual aspects of art have always been a key to enriching visual experience. But in recent decades has the role of theory drained art of some portion of its substance? more...
David Kroll
Few artists have mastered the art of still life painting as thoroughly as David Kroll. New works underscore his strengths though they break little new ground. more...
Sean Deckert
Combining time-lapse photography and complex digital processing, Sean Deckert draws out fresh skyline views. more...
John Divola
The ruins of an abandoned Malibu residence served as John Divola's canvas in1977/78 series that he took "As Far as I Could Get." more...
George Herms
Assemblage godfather George Herms' selection of recent and older work expertly and with humor finds beauty in the decrepit. more...
Dawoud Bey
The 16th Street Baptists Church bombing of 1963 is the inspiration of Dawoud Bey's series of dignified and powerful portrait diptychs. more...
Mark Hagen
Mark Hagen's Erector Set-like steel towers are clever, ever funny. "Gradient" paintings relate to the towers except from a viewing distance. more...
Laurel Roth; Tomoko Konoike
It is not the real figure or animal that counts in the work of Laurel Roth and Tomoki Konoike, but its transformation into a symbol. more...
Roxy Paine
Only a pair or works make up Roxy Paine's first Chicago show. But these full on dioramas of a restaurant counter and a control room are jaw-dropping. more...
Ben Butler
Ben Butler allows the accretion of hundreds of simple elements to for irregular and dynamic wholes. more...
Meow Wolf
Santa Fe based collective Meow Wolf's "Nucleotide" is a creative habitat loaded with colorful outer space and underwater denizens that proves more that just a romp. more...
Michael T. Hensley
The imagery compiles childhood motifs loaded up to evoke a sense of decadent, feverish elegance. more...
Lynn Aldrich
The "Uncommon Objects" of Lynn Aldrich "transforms the known into something curious and unexpected while offering a critical consumerist spin on the assemblage tradition.” more...
Kermit Oliver
Kermit Oliver applies polished representational technique to depictions of animals, portraits and narrative that are just idiosyncratic enough to resonate with mysterious significance. more...
Eric Nash
The great historian Lewis Mumford regarded ordinary city signs and commercial structures in terms of "social creativity." Painter Eric Nash's familiar urban icons embody those ideas. more...
Modernist Siblings
Matthew Kangas profiles the modernist sculptures commissioned over the last 40 years by the Seattle Arts Commission. more...
Ben Butler
Ben Butler allows the accretion of hundreds of simple elements to for irregular and dynamic wholes. more...
William Lane
The modestly sized rectilinear abstractions of William Lane make up in the alchemy of color what they lack in spectacle. more...
Reflection on a Glial Cell
Does language place an unwelcome load on art making? Marlena Donohue views this as the wrong question. more...
Ed Mieczkowski
A survey of Ed Mieczkowski's focus on the aesthetics of optical perception since the early 1960s reflects both compositional playfulness and mathematical precision. more...
Jordi Alcaraz
Jordi Alcaraz works in a minimalist vein--sort of. Unfettered imagination and rich associations derive from deliberately self-imposed limitations. more...
Jim Riswold
Clever titles do not guarantee and a good show, but Jim Riswold's "Art for Oncologists" is both well conceived and very personal. more...
Dannielle Tegeder
A group of large drawings and a hundred small ones accompanied by computed-generated music add up to Dannielle Tegeder's "Library of Abstract Sound." more...
“Slow Read”
in "Slow Read" five painters select books to accompany their bodies of work, providing unusually specific conceptual contexts for viewing abstract paintings. more...
Meow Wolf
Santa Fe based collective Meow Wolf's "Nucleotide" is a creative habitat loaded with colorful outer space and underwater denizens that proves more that just a romp. more...
Lynn Aldrich
The "Uncommon Objects" of Lynn Aldrich "transforms the known into something curious and unexpected while offering a critical consumerist spin on the assemblage tradition.” more...
Eric Nash
The great historian Lewis Mumford regarded ordinary city signs and commercial structures in terms of "social creativity." Painter Eric Nash's familiar urban icons embody those ideas. more...
Modernist Siblings
Matthew Kangas profiles the modernist sculptures commissioned over the last 40 years by the Seattle Arts Commission. more...
Leo Vroegindeweij
The Latin "Mutatis Mutandis" phrase translates: "only the necessary changes have been made." In assemblage and inkjet prints Leo Vroegindeweij are clever, funny - and, yes, they give a lot from an economy of means. more...
William Catling
Through his clay figures William Catling ponders on which side of the divide between earth and heaven most people belong. more...
Wary of the Spiritual
Are we strictly thinking and material beings? Betty Ann Brown revisits the impact of the Cartesian tradition on the spiritual impulse in art. more...
Gaylen Hansen
Folk and regional tropes notwithstanding, Gaylen Hansen's paintings of an atavistic nature are among the best contemporary narrative works. more...
Contemporary Northwest Art
The third biennial "Contemporary Northwest Art Awards" is a jaunty sampling that is the most dynamic in a decade. more...
Abelardo Morrell
Abelardo Morrell uses rooms as cameras, bringing the outside to the interior. Setting up tents to do the same allows him to record this approach anywhere to often spectacular effect. more...
Without Fear or Favor
For 30 years the "New Art Examiner" was the fiercest voice of iconoclastic art journalism outside of New York, notes former editor James Yood on its 40th anniversary. more...
Bicycling Fish
No, Gloria Steinem is not the one said “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Richard Speer shares how he writes. more...
Julianne Swartz
Wires and pipes and sticking your head in a funnel opens up the visual and auditory senses in Julianne Swartz' bracing babel of voices, chimes and chirps. more...
Alchemy of Ordinary
The range and volume of art in "The Alchemy of the Ordinary" proves an asset in demonstrating the extraordinary elasticity of the collage practice. more...
"Tapping the Third Realm"
A multi-generational selection of artists map the "Third Realm" in personal, often idiosyncratic ways that would have been incomprehensible to an earlier age. more...
Mitra Fabian
Mitra Fabian's pod-like forms made of poured white hydro-stone are lightly tethered to a jumble of long, unpainted wooden sticks. more...
"Tapping the Third Realm"
A multi-generational selection of artists map the "Third Realm" in personal, often idiosyncratic ways that would have been incomprehensible to an earlier age. more...
Leon Gaspard
Russian-born Leon Schulman matured as a painter at home, and resettled in Taos on doctor's orders due to wounds sustained in the Great War, as Leon Gaspard, where he remains beloved for his lush, romantic paintings. more...
Jordi Alcaraz
Jordi Alcaraz works in a minimalist vein--sort of. Unfettered imagination and rich associations derive from deliberately self-imposed limitations. more...
Abelardo Morrell
Abelardo Morrell uses rooms as cameras, bringing the outside to the interior. Setting up tents to do the same allows him to record this approach anywhere to often spectacular effect. more...
William Catling
Through his clay figures William Catling ponders on which side of the divide between earth and heaven most people belong. more...
Lucinda Parker
"All clouds choose the loftiest peak to pile themselves upon" entitles Lucinda Parker's series starring Oregon's iconic Mount Hood. more...
Danto's Divine Comedy
DeWitt Cheng notes, with the recent passing of philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto, the writer's graceful style that mostly eschewed didacticism and moralizing without sacrificing intellectual cachet. more...
Sam Francis
This in-depth survey of Sam Francis' career encompasses even his early landscapes and runs through his final works. more...
Margaret Lazzari
Margaret Lazzari departs, for the most part, from the figurative work we know her for in favor of more abstract work that expresses fresh joy and abandon. more...
Susan kae Grant
Science and art make happy bedfellows in Susan kae Grant's "Night Journeys," which record the whispers and fuzzy thinking of her recorded dreams. more...
Richard Morhous
His early training in graphic design and printmaking is quite visible, to uneven effect, in paintings that at their best combine structure and fluidity. more...
David Rudolph
For David Rudolph the process from abstraction to figuration is unforeseen “… without knowing what I was creating ... something would always emerge.” more...
Anne Hirondelle
Seriality and deconstruction of curved and circular forms are central to Anne Hirondelle’s ceramic forms and works on paper. more...
Brian Wills
Rayon thread in the role of formalist stripes play against dimensional wood panels from which Brian Wills draws ingenious effects. more...
Reflections on Collecting
Some people just cannot help but collect; Matthew Kangas calls it the "collector gene," and it can be wonderfully contagious - even to those who resist it. more...
Liliana Porter
Early works by Liliana Porter display a surpassing contrast to her best known work for their conceptualism and austerity. more...
Paul Sietsema
Paul Sietsema's trompe l'oeil works on paper, sculpture and on 16mm film democratize the histories of the various assembled subjects. more...
“Face to Face”
With just 35 paintings and illuminated manuscript illustrations, “Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting,” provides clarity to one of the most pivotal moments in the history of Western art. more...
Margaret Lazzari
Margaret Lazzari departs, for the most part, from the figurative work we know her for in favor of more abstract work that expresses fresh joy and abandon. more...
"Flesh and Metal"
“Flesh and Metal“ is a cross-section of modernist reconciliation between art and mechanization. more...
Norton Wisdom
This survey of mostly paintings by Norton Wisdom curated by fellow artist Llyn Foulkes builds endlessly on a basic illusion of three-dimensional space. more...
Fernando Pareja and Leidy Chavez
Fernando Pareja and Leidy Chavez employ outmoded animation techniques to address the contemporary politics of their home country of Colombia. more...
Anne Appleby
Anne Appleby's green rectangles conjure a verdant, eco-minimalist updating of Robert Ryman with a specific reference to the Montana landscape. more...
To Fee or Not to Fee
James Yood illuminates museum admission rates; even today not all charge. The revenue is well deserved - but it is the right thing? more...
Liliana Porter
Early works by Liliana Porter display a surpassing contrast to her best known work for their conceptualism and austerity. more...
“Face to Face”
With just 35 paintings and illuminated manuscript illustrations, “Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting,” provides clarity to one of the most pivotal moments in the history of Western art. more...
Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman
This collaboration between Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman began at Mammoth Mountain, launched by their mutual connoisseurship of all things outdoors. more...
Dale Chihuly
"Rotolo" means "coils," and they are as abstract as any work Dale Chihuly has done. Color is sparse, transparency rules. more...
Stephen Beal
The modestly-sized grid paintings of Stephen Beal, with their multiple. spatial layers, make a compelling case for the thing itself. more...
Beth Secor
After a show focused on her elderly father, Beth Secor now turns her attention to her mother, turning possessions into both art and tribute. more...
Carson Fisk-Vittori
In “Women Weed and Weather,” Carson Fisk-Vittori the femininity is false, the flora is artificial and nature is powerless. more...
Gisela Colon
Gisela Colon's smooth and luminous sculptures tell us that something is germinating inside their iridescent interiors. more...
Norton Wisdom
This survey of mostly paintings by Norton Wisdom curated by fellow artist Llyn Foulkes builds endlessly on a basic illusion of three-dimensional space. more...
Requiem by a Teacher's Pet
Already an art world anomaly, Gary Baseman attempts a reverse transmogrification of his whimsical cartoon style to a vehicle honoring resistance, survival and his late parents. more...
Norman Kelley
The Norman Kelley design collaborative takes on the venerable Windsor style chair. They retain details of authentic Windsor fabrication to produce "Wrong Chairs" that are by no means broken. more...
The Capital of Art
A lot of folks bellyache about Art Basel Miami Beach. Four days loaded with art and art people all over the place? C'mon, says Richard Speer, enjoy! more...
Ellen Tanner
Ellen Tanner brings together her own take on Aesop's Fables with the fine detail and glaze-over-grisaille ground favored by Renaissance-era Flemish masters. more...
Canterbury & St. Albans
Stained glass from the great south window of the Canterbury Cathedral are genuine masterpieces of Romanesque art. more...
Christa Assad
Based on the technical conventions of pottery, Christa Assad exhibits the implements of war to address the sad persistence of civil violence. more...
Colin Cochran
The outdoor subjects of Colin Cochran minimize the quantity of brushwork to extract the visceral potential of paint. more...
Karen Carson
Gestural master of large, swooping brushwork Karen Carson transforms depictions of farm tractors into a meditation on landscape and culture. more...
Christa Assad
Based on the technical conventions of pottery, Christa Assad exhibits the implements of war to address the sad persistence of civil violence. more...
Chihulyland
Dale Chihuly has not been a central figure in the glass art movement forever, but to many it may seem that way. The Chihuly Garden and Glass traces his career and offers his signature immersive visual experience. more...
Wayne Thiebaud
Despite his deserved association with the emergence of Pop Art, Wayne Thiebaud is seen here as an exponent of painterly structure and form both within and beyond representation. more...
"Renaissance to Goya"
This selection from the British Museum provides insight into the motivations and intents of some of Europe's most influential masters. more...
"Latin American Group Show"
Hardly a survey, the selection of Latin American artists here complement one another in ways that offer challenges to current art practice. more...
Bloomfield & Churchill
Oral histories and ambient sound are integral to the photography of both Debra Bloomfield and Christopher Churchill. more...
David Adey
Self-imposed limits given David Adey's studio practice, and the elaborate results prove both playful and offbeat. more...
Does Art Criticism Matter Any More?
DeWitt Cheng regards gradual withdrawal of contemporary art from the intellectual commons in favor of the marketing echo chamber as a trend in need of reversal. more...
James Martin
Merging comics and cartoon with surprising composition and painterly effect, James Martin, now 85, retains an impressive sense of improbability and freshness in his painting. more...
Kaori Takamura
The orderliness and conformity of patchwork quilts gets turned on its head in the paintings of Kaori Takamura. more...
D.J. Hall
We know D.J. Hall for her blissed out depictions of SoCal glamor girls. But these "Into Plein Air" paintings invite an aesthetic re-evaluation. more...
Kelly Moran
Kelly Moran evokes memories of a happy 50's era childhood with paper doll and media references that don't require your having been there. more...
Leon Kossoff
A gloom-ridden London is a subject that Leon Kossoff has returned to frequently and energetically over the past half-century. But the monochromatic effect is anything but dull. more...
Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman
This collaboration between Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman began at Mammoth Mountain, launched by their mutual connoisseurship of all things outdoors. more...
Dale Chihuly
"Rotolo" means "coils," and they are as abstract as any work Dale Chihuly has done. Color is sparse, transparency rules. more...
Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli enlists seemingly every media option imaginable to create a visual thrill. It's quite a ride. more...
Daniel Healey
Working with shredded bits of magazine catalogues that are laminated with ultra-transparent tape, Daniel Healey are chaotic yet purposeful. more...
Phil Stern
Phil Stern has recorded the faces of show biz since approximately forever, specializing in “his subjects’ hat-cocked complicity in the act of posing off-guard or suave or downright down-home.” more...
Andrea Bowers
"#sweetjane" revisits the scene of an Ohio rape committed by members of a popular local high school football team. Andrea Bowers' project is a sharp depiction of male privilege run amuck. more...
Opportunity or Corruption?
There is nothing wrong with self interest and the profit motive existing in the art world. But it's a shame to see talented artists being reduced to advertising hacks in taking advantage of L.A.'s new mural ordinance. more...
"Unveiled: Nudes"
"Unveiled: Nudes" offers a thoughtful mix of eight artists divided between those already canonized in modernist history and a selection of contemporary interpretations. more...
Freddy Chandra
Lovers of understated form as a carrier of complex emotional and intellectual freight should not miss the art of Freddy Chandra more...
Faith Wilding
Known for her groundbreaking oeuvre as a second-wave feminist artist, this retrospective of Faith Wilding's pseudo-scientific imagery is punctuated by found material and poetic, handwritten text. more...
Alice Aycock
Alice Aycock's extensive body of conceptual drawings is sampled in “Some Stories are Worth Repeating.” They form the compelling foundation for many of her most impressive works. more...
Wayne Thiebaud
Despite his deserved association with the emergence of Pop Art, Wayne Thiebaud is seen here as an exponent of painterly structure and form both within and beyond representation. more...
"Latin American Group Show"
Hardly a survey, the selection of Latin American artists here complement one another in ways that offer challenges to current art practice. more...
James Martin
Merging comics and cartoon with surprising composition and painterly effect, James Martin, now 85, retains an impressive sense of improbability and freshness in his painting. more...
Leon Kossoff
A gloom-ridden London is a subject that Leon Kossoff has returned to frequently and energetically over the past half-century. But the monochromatic effect is anything but dull. more...
Daniel Healey
Working with shredded bits of magazine catalogues that are laminated with ultra-transparent tape, Daniel Healey are chaotic yet purposeful. more...
Phil Stern
Phil Stern has recorded the faces of show biz since approximately forever, specializing in “his subjects’ hat-cocked complicity in the act of posing off-guard or suave or downright down-home.” more...
Andrea Bowers
"#sweetjane" revisits the scene of an Ohio rape committed by members of a popular local high school football team. Andrea Bowers' project is a sharp depiction of male privilege run amuck. more...
Cable Griffith
The style of video games may be painter Cable Griffith's taking off point, but there is so much more: traffic sign code, ancient petroglyphs, the scribbles of a busy secretary. . . more...
Heather Mekkelson
Playful in spirit, Heather Mekkelson's sleek installations are rich media stews preoccupied with outer space. more...
“Abstraction and the Once-Silenced Shout”
It is helpful to recall the politically charged history of modern abstract art. The very idea that the political right and left once regarded it as "dangerous" looks quaint now, but one can't help but miss the edge bestowed by suppression. more...
Andrew Hayes
Andrew Hayes repurposes the printed pages of books for sculpture that display both wit and craft. more...
Zimoun
The sound of one of Zimoun’s installations is the multitude of many identical noises such at raindrops or typewriters that is a musical sum of the everyday. more...
Faith Wilding
Known for her groundbreaking oeuvre as a second-wave feminist artist, this retrospective of Faith Wilding's pseudo-scientific imagery is punctuated by found material and poetic, handwritten text. more...
Alice Aycock
Alice Aycock's extensive body of conceptual drawings is sampled in “Some Stories are Worth Repeating.” They form the compelling foundation for many of her most impressive works. more...
"Unveiled: Nudes"
"Unveiled: Nudes" offers a thoughtful mix of eight artists divided between those already canonized in modernist history and a selection of contemporary interpretations. more...
Nick Albertson
Pattern-based and monochromatic, Nick Albertson’s images initially appears to be abstractions. But they are in fact carefully staged household objects. more...
Fernando Casas
Fernando Casas is both artist and philosopher, and has explored speculative questions in his images for over 40 years. more...
Zoe Dusanne
A new biography restores Seattle dealer Zoe Dusanne as a key player in the Pacific Northwest post-war art scene. She was the first to exhibit Seattle area, New York and international artists under one Seattle roof. more...
Frank E. Cummings III
This survey shows that some of the most detailed and delicate wood work in recent decades has come from the studio of Frank E. Cummings III. more...
Jane Lindsay
For "From the Outside In" Jane Lindsay taught inmates to draw, interviewed them, and then brought out her camera. This is the result. more...
Cable Griffith
The style of video games may be painter Cable Griffith's taking off point, but there is so much more: traffic sign code, ancient petroglyphs, the scribbles of a busy secretary. . . more...
Heather Mekkelson
Playful in spirit, Heather Mekkelson's sleek installations are rich media stews preoccupied with outer space. more...
Zimoun
The sound of one of Zimoun’s installations is the multitude of many identical noises such at raindrops or typewriters that is a musical sum of the everyday. more...
"Surface Tension"
The three artists in “Surface Tension” - Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak, Gwendolyn Blunkett and Jon Lee - all work in multiple layers, but with very different results. more...
"Self(ie) Portraits"
"Self(i.e.) Portraits" explores new meanings of self image wrought by social media and the rise of the selfie. more...
Inappropriate Behavior
DeWitt Cheng sees the coverage of the recent smashing of a Han Dynasty vase decorated by Ai Weiwei as signifying the disconnect that has arisen between dollar value and that of the genuinely moving and memorable in art. more...
Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré's new venture into ceramics outshine the drawn animation frames, but the completed animations mesmerize. more...
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Deservedly known for the video "The Way Things Go" this series of replicas of banal objects by Peter Fischli and the late David Weiss displayed in scattershot fashion elevate the mundane. more...
"Tea and Morphine: Women in Paris, 1880 to 1914"
A quote from Flaubert's “Madame Bovary” reads: “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” sets the tone for “Tea and Morphine: Women in Paris, 1880 to 1914.” more...
“Abstraction and the Once-Silenced Shout”
It is helpful to recall the politically charged history of modern abstract art. The very idea that the political right and left once regarded it as "dangerous" looks quaint now, but one can't help but miss the edge bestowed by suppression. more...
Opportunity or Corruption?
There is nothing wrong with self interest and the profit motive existing in the art world. But it's a shame to see talented artists being reduced to advertising hacks in taking advantage of L.A.'s new mural ordinance. more...
Does Art Criticism Matter Any More?
DeWitt Cheng regards gradual withdrawal of contemporary art from the intellectual commons in favor of the marketing echo chamber as a trend in need of reversal. more...
Rory Devine
Rory Devine sources numerous images from Google searches to produce paintings that covey a melancholic nostalgia laced with irony. more...
Michael Madzo
There is an air of nostalgic calm to Michael Madzo’s surrealist collage paintings that is familiar yet mysterious, comforting yet unsettling. more...
Why Paint?
OK, we live in a digital world. But I am continually drawn to images that aren't generated on the flickering screen but by a hand of a painter. It communicates in ways that the computer never will. more...
C. L. Utley
Playful and mysterious, C.L. Utley's paintings reveal worlds with completely persuasive yet wildly irrational images. more...
Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen specializes in photographing the physical, geographical and ideological sites and boundaries that divide us. more...
"Reimagining the Contemporary Landscape"
The nine artists in "Reimagining the Contemporary Landscape" challenge cliches of the West in multiple ways that make up with their coherence what they lack in cohesion. more...
"Self(ie) Portraits"
"Self(i.e.) Portraits" explores new meanings of self image wrought by social media and the rise of the selfie. more...
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Deservedly known for the video "The Way Things Go" this series of replicas of banal objects by Peter Fischli and the late David Weiss displayed in scattershot fashion elevate the mundane. more...
Inappropriate Behavior
DeWitt Cheng sees the coverage of the recent smashing of a Han Dynasty vase decorated by Ai Weiwei as signifying the disconnect that has arisen between dollar value and that of the genuinely moving and memorable in art. more...
Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré's new venture into ceramics outshine the drawn animation frames, but the completed animations mesmerize. more...
Zoe Dusanne
A new biography restores Seattle dealer Zoe Dusanne as a key player in the Pacific Northwest post-war art scene. She was the first to exhibit Seattle area, New York and international artists under one Seattle roof. more...
Jane Lindsay
For "From the Outside In" Jane Lindsay taught inmates to draw, interviewed them, and then brought out her camera. This is the result. more...
Frank E. Cummings III
This survey shows that some of the most detailed and delicate wood work in recent decades has come from the studio of Frank E. Cummings III. more...
Nick Albertson
Pattern-based and monochromatic, Nick Albertson’s images initially appears to be abstractions. But they are in fact carefully staged household objects. more...
A Lad's Disdain
That MCA Chicago is making a big deal of its upcoming "David Bowie Is" show is a misguided effort to broaden their constituency. more...
Julianne Swartz and Ken Landauer
Julianne Swartz' and Ken Landauer's "Miracle Report" is lit primarily by videos of hands, floating on black backgrounds, accompanied by cacophonous sounds of numerous people speaking softly. more...
Bruce Conner and Gay Outlaw
Witty sculpture by Gay Outlaw and inkblot drawings by the late Bruce Conner pair strong but distinct artistic personalities. more...
Kara Walker
Above and beyond its historical and sociocultural resonance, there are many reasons for the enduring appeal of Kara Walker. more...
Camille Patha
Camille Patha grew up in an era of sexist adversity to become one of the Northwest's leading painters of both abstract and representational subjects. more...
Why Paint?
OK, we live in a digital world. But I am continually drawn to images that aren't generated on the flickering screen but by a hand of a painter. It communicates in ways that the computer never will. more...
Michael Madzo
There is an air of nostalgic calm to Michael Madzo’s surrealist collage paintings that is familiar yet mysterious, comforting yet unsettling. more...
Ray Eames
Ray Eames is properly associated with her husband and collaborator Charles Eames, but she was more the artist. more...
Mitchell Albala and John McCormick
Widely admired academic realists, Mitchell Albala and John McCormick, show new work alongside one another. McCormick's is a bucolic landscape fantasy world; Albala is obsessed with the horrors of war. more...
What is an Art Critic?
How we regard the art critic has evolved in recent years such that the notion of an authoritative voice for art has come under fire. more...
Darrel Morris
"...waiting for nothin'" takes us from textile artist Darrel Morris' intensely personal early work to the more universal concerns that now occupies him. more...
Ryan Reggiani
Whatever Ryan Reggiani's sculptural objects may resemble, he will confound what you know and expect. more...
A Lad's Disdain
That MCA Chicago is making a big deal of its upcoming "David Bowie Is" show is a misguided effort to broaden their constituency. more...
Camille Patha
Camille Patha grew up in an era of sexist adversity to become one of the Northwest's leading painters of both abstract and representational subjects. more...
Kathryn Arnold
Kathryn Arnold’s colorful fields of markings hover between abstraction and a covert representation which includes recognizable objects and indecipherable texts discernible within the thickets of marks. more...
Susan Sironi
Using scissors, scalpels and books, Susan Sironi performs artistic alchemy that transforms books into astonishing 3-D curiosities. more...
Mother of Northwest Art
The wife of Seattle's then most celebrated artist, art critic and curator, Margaret Bundy Callahan was a top flight writer in her own right--and possibly more. more...
Ray Eames
Ray Eames is properly associated with her husband and collaborator Charles Eames, but she was more the artist. more...
Mitchell Albala and John McCormick
Widely admired academic realists, Mitchell Albala and John McCormick, show new work alongside one another. McCormick's is a bucolic landscape fantasy world; Albala is obsessed with the horrors of war. more...
What is an Art Critic?
How we regard the art critic has evolved in recent years such that the notion of an authoritative voice for art has come under fire. more...
William Ivey
The art of the late William Ivey, a classmate Diebenkorn and Lobdell, and student of Still and Rothko, is probably more discussed now than during his lifetime. Here's why. more...
Paul Nudd
If distorted figuration is a special Chicago tradition, the "gross out" calibre paintings of Paul Nudd are the purist Chicago. more...
The Smell of Paint
CalArts was originally Chouinard, and along with Otis College, observes Peter Clothier, these private art schools went through near simultaneous financial crises as the environment for cultural education went from free wheeling to something more corporate. more...
Daniela Edburg
They at first appear to be lovely and prosaic, but Daniela Edburg's "Killing Time" photographs quickly take on a heavier, even ominous tone. more...
Mike Kelley
There was almost nothing that the late Mike Kelley was afraid to try and subject himself or his viewer's to. This massive retrospective is consistently confrontational, suggestive, offensive as well as politically charged. Perhaps the leading artist of his generation. more...
Mother of Northwest Art
The wife of Seattle's then most celebrated artist, art critic and curator, Margaret Bundy Callahan was a top flight writer in her own right--and possibly more. more...
Keith Carter
Keith Carter’s new photographs from the series “Ghostland” are moody, mysterious and often as murky as the East Texas swamps where he grew up. more...
Shane McAdams
When Shane McAdams invokes "Scorched Earth" as an exhibition title he references more than just a strategy of war. more...
A Curatorial Triptych
Among curators, David S. Rubin is among those most regarded as devoted to artists. Here he sheds light on how the aesthetic thinking of artists comes to be reflected in his curatorial practice. more...
Martin Facey
Though versed in the varieties of current artistic expression, Martin Facey mostly sticks with the old-school religion of modernist abstraction. more...
Roberto Gil de Montes
Longtime L.A. resident Roberto Gil de Montes invokes memories of early childhood in Mexico--Orozco murals, the symbolism of the Pre-Columbian presence--through a deployed arsenal of visual symbols. more...
Mike Kelley
There was almost nothing that the late Mike Kelley was afraid to try and subject himself or his viewer's to. This massive retrospective is consistently confrontational, suggestive, offensive as well as politically charged. Perhaps the leading artist of his generation. more...
The Smell of Paint
CalArts was originally Chouinard, and along with Otis College, observes Peter Clothier, these private art schools went through near simultaneous financial crises as the environment for cultural education went from free wheeling to something more corporate. more...
William Ivey
The art of the late William Ivey, a classmate Diebenkorn and Lobdell, and student of Still and Rothko, is probably more discussed now than during his lifetime. Here's why. more...
Isabelle Cornaro and Matt Sheridan Smith
Isabelle Cornaro's fuzzy, seemingly abstract images are spray-painted directly on the wall based on her own film sources. Separately, Matt Sheridan Smith silver-coated bread loaves conflate oral with visual desire. more...
Sultan and Mandel
Dating from the late 1970s, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel's collaboration, once subversive, remains as endearingly perverse as ever. more...
Sam Francis, New York, and Outsiders Looking In
Revisiting the skepticism that West Coast-based Sam Francis provoked with his invigorating brand of Abstract Expressionism among New York critics decades ago serves to remind us why the art world is better off no longer revolving around Manhattan. more...
A Curatorial Triptych
Among curators, David S. Rubin is among those most regarded as devoted to artists. Here he sheds light on how the aesthetic thinking of artists comes to be reflected in his curatorial practice. more...
Roberto Gil de Montes
Longtime L.A. resident Roberto Gil de Montes invokes memories of early childhood in Mexico--Orozco murals, the symbolism of the Pre-Columbian presence--through a deployed arsenal of visual symbols. more...
Martin Facey
Though versed in the varieties of current artistic expression, Martin Facey mostly sticks with the old-school religion of modernist abstraction. more...
Pablo Helguera
Best known for his conceptual project “The School of Panamerican Unrest,” for which he organized a schoolhouse on wheels to drive the entire 20,000 miles of the Pan-American Highway, Pablo Heilguera's pair of installations reveal fresh aesthetic breadth. more...
Mary Lou Zelazny
Among the best at intertwining painting and collage, Mary Lou Zelazny's current work is explosive and self-reflexive. more...
“The Armory Show”
Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Art originated as a contemporary alternative to the more commercial offerings of local galleries. The original 1977 took its name from the 1913 New York original, and it continues today as an important showcase. more...
Chris Engman
Intellectual yet hypnotically beautiful, Chris Engman’s images carry photography into worlds that by turns disorient, please and frustrate. more...
Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin makes incursions into modes of historical narrative art to both revive and critique the interpretation of stories we only thought we knew. more...
Sam Francis, New York, and Outsiders Looking In
Revisiting the skepticism that West Coast-based Sam Francis provoked with his invigorating brand of Abstract Expressionism among New York critics decades ago serves to remind us why the art world is better off no longer revolving around Manhattan. more...
Manuel Neri
Now 84, Manuel Neri explores the "partial figure" with virtuoso technique, psychological insight, sensuality and power. more...
Shepard Fairey
Shephard Fairey owns a 45 rpm cut in 1978 by Little Roger and the Goosebumps that became the basis for contemporary DJ-ing--not to mention for Fairey’s approach to appropriated art. more...
Q and A
For James Yood it remains a nettlesome question whether an artist is less consequential because they do not work out of New York. more...
Ben Murray
If large scale and grand gesture are typically associated with the heroic and the tragic, Ben Murray manages to turn those traits into something more personal and pensive. more...
"Nur: Light"
The Arabic word for "light," Nur, lends itself to the title of a gathering of Islamic treasures that mainly reflect the mature skills of a major civilization. more...
“The Armory Show”
Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Art originated as a contemporary alternative to the more commercial offerings of local galleries. The original 1977 took its name from the 1913 New York original, and it continues today as an important showcase. more...
Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin makes incursions into modes of historical narrative art to both revive and critique the interpretation of stories we only thought we knew. more...
Chris Engman
Intellectual yet hypnotically beautiful, Chris Engman’s images carry photography into worlds that by turns disorient, please and frustrate. more...
Sarah Knobel
Sarah Knobel freezes feathers, wigs, toys in gelatin molds, allows them to thaw, and photographs them as they melt, exposing the contents to bizarre and fascinating effect. more...
John Singer Sargent
Initially private works, watercolors became an exceedingly vital part of John Singer Sargent's body of work, which the selections here demonstrate. more...
Spring Salons in Seattle
May is Seattle is known as the season of the double rainbows that span maybe ten miles within the city. New sources of artistic life are personified by a promising crop of student shows and some newer galleries that are bringing fresh energy to the region. more...
William H. Johnson
After two decades spent absorbing international and modernist styles, William Johnson returned to New York to mine his African-American roots. more...
Tim Ebner
Stuffed and embroidered, sumptuous and loopy, Tim Ebner's fish suspended or mounted atop metal rods call up lush Victorian-era curtains and funky low-brow pillows--with eyes that are slightly creepy and utterly hilarious. more...
Q and A
For James Yood it remains a nettlesome question whether an artist is less consequential because they do not work out of New York. more...
"Nur: Light"
"Nur," Arabic "light," lends itself to the title of a gathering of Islamic treasures that reflect the mature skills of a major civilization. more...
Shepard Fairey
Shephard Fairey owns a 45 rpm cut in 1978 by Little Roger and the Goosebumps that became the basis for contemporary DJ-ing--not to mention for Fairey’s approach to appropriated art. more...
Janet Lippincott
Active in Santa Fe as one of the New Mexico Modernists for half a century, the late Janet Lippincott receives her due and returns it in this show of paintings of the highest order. more...
The Sarkisians
Paul and Peter Sarkisian, father and son, make art that is visually distinct, but connected by a tromp l'oeil element in both bodies of work. more...
Defining the Critic
In his latest response to Irving Sandler's 14 questions to fellow critics, DeWitt Cheng notes that there is a constant process of adaptation to an art world that is continually changing. more...
Christina Mackie
Christina Mackie's color investigations are material rather than conceptual, experiential rather than formal. more...
Hayley Barker
In "Apparition Hill" Hayley Barker renders an explicitly mystical brand of solar phenomenon. more...
Koji Takei
Koji Takei's high-relief wall sculptures of musical instruments are directly inspired by the classic Cubism of Picasso and Braque as well as the music those instruments produce. more...
John Singer Sargent
Initially private works, watercolors became an exceedingly vital part of John Singer Sargent's body of work, which the selections here demonstrate. more...
Season of the Double Rainbows
May in Seattle is known as the season of the double rainbows that span maybe ten miles within the city. New sources of artistic life are personified by a promising crop of student shows and some newer galleries that are bringing fresh energy to the region. more...
Tim Ebner
Stuffed and embroidered, sumptuous and loopy, Tim Ebner's fish suspended or mounted atop metal rods call up lush Victorian-era curtains and funky low-brow pillows--with eyes that are slightly creepy and utterly hilarious. more...
Gugger Petter
Gugger Petter takes newspaper and paint into the territory of medieval mosaics, Julian Schnabel's broken crockery and more. more...
Melinda Stickney-Gibson
Melinda Stickney-Gibson heads to the mountains of upstate New York to paint, and the dramatic contrasts in her work stand in for that between urban and rural life. more...
The Second Triptych
David S. Rubin continues his tracing the process of museum curating with his "Cruciformed: Images of the Cross since 1980" show. more...
Michal Rovner
Rovner's video projections juxtapose a progression of silhouettes against a barren landscape. The repetition of simple forms leisurely cycle back and forth, trapped in an endless journey. more...
Douglas Cooper
He may not be a Seattle resident, but Douglas Cooper's conflated portraits of the city are among the best ever. more...
Yarn Bombing L.A.
Yarn Bombing of Los Angeles, since 2010 actively crafting installations, is full of bracing and rebellious optimism. more...
Defining the Critic
In his latest response to Irving Sandler's 14 questions to fellow critics, DeWitt Cheng notes that there is a constant process of adaptation to an art world that is continually changing. more...
The Sarkisians
Paul and Peter Sarkisian, father and son, make art that is visually distinct, but connected by a tromp l'oeil element in both bodies of work. more...
Emily Mason
Octogenarian Emily Mason juicy abstractions are wantonly unpredictable arrangements of Kool-Aid pinks and foamy blues. more...
Zack Wirsum
Zack Wirsum's notoriously complex paintings will use five lines where another artist would use one. These are labyrinths of twisting, layered contours of encrusted paint and narrative vignettes. more...
Jaime Scholnick
Jaime Scholnick translates awkward polystyrene packaging passed to her by family and friends to evoke architectural monuments. more...
Things People Don’t Talk About At Art Openings
Beyond the expected congratulations to the artist from well-wishers, here's a checklist of topics that tend to get avoided at art openings, courtesy of Richard Speer. more...
Rose Cabat
Pick up one of Rose Cabat's diminutive vases, what she calls "feelies." This still active centenerian's glazes have the feel of goatskin suede. more...
Sara Rockinger
An installation of translucent, ghostlike figures is not only pleasurable eye candy, but a powerful political statement on the subject of immigration by Colorado artist Sara Rockinger. more...
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs of figures from wax museums and taxidermy specimens convey exceptional enigma and mystery. more...
Yuko Someya
Beautiful and deliberate floral paintings by Yuko Someya are inspired by Japanese literature and, more importantly, their exotic fairy tale character keeps you glued to these images. more...
The Second Triptych
David S. Rubin continues his tracing the process of museum curating with his "Cruciformed: Images of the Cross since 1980" show. more...
Douglas Cooper
He may not be a Seattle resident, but Douglas Cooper's conflated portraits of the city are among the best ever. more...
Jay Giroux
Stare at Jay Giroux' paintings for awhile and all the abstract black and white layers will reveal plenty to see and engage. more...
Ed Moses and Larry Poons
Pairing Ed Moses and Larry Poons matters simply because it places side by side two of our best living painters who are linked by the language of paint. Both have spoken it eloquently for decades. more...
A Real Whodunit
For nearly a century "Young Woman at an Open Half-Door" was among the Art Institute of Chicago's most beloved masterworks. Suddenly that all changed. more...
“Deco Japan: 1925-1945”
Because it was so tainted politically, the exhibition "Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture 1925-1945" is only now possible. more...
Bill Owens
Bill Owens’ “Surburbia” is a series of black-and-white portraits of housing tract Northern California families taken between 1968 and 1972 that is a classic of documentary photography imbued with rich hints of the context of its time. more...
McArthur Binion
McArthur Binion is a native of rural Mississippi who became the Cranbrook Academy's first African American MFA recipient, and who now is enjoying a well earned career resurgence. more...
Things People Don’t Talk About At Art Openings
Beyond the expected congratulations to the artist from well-wishers, here's a checklist of topics that tend to get avoided at art openings, courtesy of Richard Speer. more...
Rose Cabat
Pick up one of Rose Cabat's diminutive vases, what she calls "feelies." This still active centenerian's glazes have the feel of goatskin suede. more...
Sara Rockinger
An installation of translucent, ghostlike figures is not only pleasurable eye candy, but a powerful political statement on the subject of immigration by Colorado artist Sara Rockinger. more...
Sean Healy
In "Extroverts" Sean Healy stares down contemporary masculinity through such motifs as a cigarette--not as a subject but as a drawing tool. more...
June Wayne
A new survey of June Wayne's varied career focuses on her achievements in lithography, but not to the exclusion of so much more. more...
Corinne Chaix
In "Submerged" surrealist Corinne Chaix draws your attention to a topsy-turvy world right around the corner. more...
Shan Goshorn
Native American artist Shan Goshorn weaves what at first appears to be traditional Cherokee baskets--but they are far from that. more...
“Vanishing Points"
Art photography, photo journalism and advocacy blend into a compelling photo show "Vanishing Points" that features work by Sant Khalsa, Stephen K. Lehmer and Douglas McCulloh. more...
Will Santa Monica Destroy Bergamot in Order to Save It?
The new Metro Rail stations on the West Side will impact the Bergamot Station gallery complex. If Santa Monica City's current plan to remake the center is realized, instead of preserving it we may end up with just another shopping mall. more...
Ed Moses and Larry Poons
Pairing Ed Moses and Larry Poons matters simply because it places side by side two of our best living painters who are linked by the language of paint. Both have spoken it eloquently for decades. more...
A Real Whodunit
For nearly a century "Young Woman at an Open Half-Door" was among the Art Institute of Chicago's most beloved masterworks. Suddenly that all changed. more...
"Surface to Air”
“Surface to Air: Los Angeles Artists of the Sixties and the Materials That They Used” may be the first show to contextualize how art was born out of the air and space industry. more...
Modernism in the Northwest
"Modernism in the Pacific Northwest" presents a canon of greatest hits with new accessions bound to become iconic pictures themselves. more...
Dan Attoe
Dan Attoe makes a drawing each day, and the examples showcased in this show counterbalance lowbrow-style pictorial imagery with enigmatic, brain-twisting text. more...
Guide for the Art-Perplexed
In his short, readable essays, John Seed shows that thoughtful opinions and common sense still have a vital role in art discourse. more...
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl's impulsively provocative approach to figurative art can be seen in these watercolors and sculptures. What surprises is that to a great degree this turns out to be inadvertent. more...
“Vanishing Points”
Art photography, photo journalism and advocacy blend into a compelling photo show "Vanishing Points" that features work by Sant Khalsa, Stephen K. Lehmer and Douglas McCulloh. more...
Will Santa Monica Destroy Bergamot in Order to Save It?
The new Metro Rail stations on the West Side will impact the Bergamot Station gallery complex. If Santa Monica City's current plan to remake the center is realized, instead of preserving it we may end up with just another shopping mall. more...
Sean Healy
In "Extroverts" Sean Healy stares down contemporary masculinity through such motifs as a cigarette--not as a subject but as a drawing tool. more...
June Wayne
A new survey of June Wayne's varied career focuses on her achievements in lithography, but not to the exclusion of so much more. more...
Sullied by Celebrity
Celebrities who engage in visual art do themselves a disservice when they dabble and galleries that should know better indulge their lust for that celebrity. Indeed, celebrity is today smothering art, flattening high and low into a mindless sameness. more...
Fred Martin and Friends in the Fifties
In a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Kimberly Chun, longtime Bay Area painter Fred Martin described his role as “basically, a builder. A builder of the community of artists.” more...
"Parallel Myths"
The figure is a point of reference for the four artists in the exhibition "Parallel Myths," but each has their own distinctive result. more...
Rex Brandt
Rex Brandt specialized in watercolors and California light. This retrospective revives our appreciation for his obsessive interest in sea and sun, refreshing what we tend to take for granted. more...
Terrell James
Terrell James' "Box Drawings" stand out among the jauntily rhythmic compositions that integrate foreground and background. more...
Marc Dombrosky
In a provocatively divided show Marc Dombrosky embroiders discarded handwritten notes; and crafts sculptures that are sly and hilarious. more...
Matthew Rolston
Originally a Warhol protégé who is regarded as a leading Hollywood glamour photographer, Matthew Rolston's "Talking Heads" are emotionally resonant portraits of ventriloquists' dummies. more...
Josef Hoflenhner
Maho Beach on the island of St. Martin in the Caribbean is positioned adjacent to an airport. Josef Hoflenher does the rest. more...
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl's impulsively provocative approach to figurative art can be seen in these watercolors and sculptures. What surprises is that to a great degree this turns out to be inadvertent. more...
Modernism in the Northwest
"Modernism in the Pacific Northwest" presents a canon of greatest hits with new accessions bound to become iconic pictures themselves. more...
Fred Martin and Friends in the Fifties
In a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Kimberly Chun, longtime Bay Area painter Fred Martin described his role as “basically, a builder. A builder of the community of artists.” more...
Rex Brandt
Rex Brandt specialized in watercolors and California light. This retrospective revives our appreciation for his obsessive interest in sea and sun, refreshing what we tend to take for granted. more...
Sullied by Celebrity
Celebrities who engage in visual art do themselves a disservice when they dabble and galleries that should know better indulge their lust for that celebrity. Indeed, celebrity is today smothering art, flattening high and low into a mindless sameness. more...
Political Art Month in San Antonio
David S. Rubin singles out a trio of young artists who personify the ideals and quality of San Antonio's Political Art Month. more...
Jerry Uelsmann
You would think that these surrealist photomontages by Jerry Uelsmann were adeptly Photoshopped. Boy, would you be wrong. more...
David Hockney
The iPad based Yorkshire landscapes of David Hockney distill a lifetime of experimentation that makes full use of the European art canon. more...
“Irish Glass: Tradition in Transition”
The once robust culture and manufacture of glass in Ireland broke down a decade ago. Now slowly recovering, "Irish Glass: Tradition in Transition" traces the early signs of fresh creative vitality. more...
Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka's photographs of Czech resistance to the 1968 Soviet invasion made him an exile--and secured his well deserved fame as an observer of unvarnished human experience. more...
Marc Dombrosky
In a provocatively divided show Marc Dombrosky embroiders discarded handwritten notes; and crafts sculptures that are sly and hilarious. more...
Nancy Popp
Nancy Popp scales walls or climbs poles, cascading her body up, down and across architectural spaces. Her movement is recorded through video and photographs that are tied to the structures tracing the paths of her journey. more...
John Gossage
The 'photographic distractions' of John Gossage feature interplay between the photographic image and cut-paper elements. more...
The Magic Circle of Profound Enchantment
Art collecting, writes Matthew Kangas, has inspired a wide variety of explanations about its nature. Here are some of the most interesting. more...
Miller & Shellabarger
Miller & Shellabarger is a husband-and-husband artist duo known for their collaborative works that address their lives as a couple. more...
George Grochocki and Shayne Murphy
George Grochocki and Shayne Murphy share an interest in geometric forms. Grochocki is a committed minimalist; Murphy mixes in elements of realism and figures that are poised for action. more...
Political Art Month in San Antonio
David S. Rubin singles out a trio of young artists who personify the ideals and quality of San Antonio's Political Art Month. more...
David Hockney
The iPad based Yorkshire landscapes of David Hockney distill a lifetime of experimentation that makes full use of the European art canon. more...
“Irish Glass: Tradition in Transition”
The once robust culture and manufacture of glass in Ireland broke down a decade ago. Now slowly recovering, "Irish Glass: Tradition in Transition" traces the early signs of fresh creative vitality. more...
John Altoon
This look at the too-short career of John Altoon stacks his classic spontaneous gestural abstract against his earlier figurative painting. more...
“Temporal Domain”
"Temporal Domain” is made up of a roster of blue-chip artists whose work has little in common formally but does share an underlying tone of spirituality. more...
"Measurable Inconsistencies"
In the hands of Richard Blackwell, Cole Pierce, and Zin Helena Song the practice of geometric abstraction is shown to retain a capacity for deviation and playfulness. more...
The New Interactivity
Influenced by rapidly evolving digital technologies, many artists have become attracted to new interactive possibilities. more...
Yoshitomo Saito
Yoshitomo Saito uses mimesis creatively and magically, a key to which is his full embrace of the Italian investment method of bronze casting--which he does himself. And each bronze is unique. more...
Ross Palmer Beecher
Ross Palmer Beecher's cut-and-woven recycled metal quilts are an utterly unique amalgam of folk art, Pop Art and social-political art. more...
Auguste Rodin
When Auguste Rodin drew on paper his powerful hands carved form in space as if manipulating pliant clay or obdurate stone. more...
Abigail McLaurin
Family scenes based on period snapshots from the immediate post-WW II era provide ample source material for Abigail McLaurin's energetic canvas that combine rawness and precise detail. more...
Christopher Benson
Paintings quiet interiors and desolate street scenes by Christopher Benson squeeze out narrative and expression in favor of crisp, clear formalism. more...
A Tale of Two Art Sites
Between the recently opened Ed Paschke Art Center and the much ballyhooed Lucas Museum of Narrative of Art to be opened in four years, which do you suppose tells us more about Chicago? more...
Nancy Popp
Nancy Popp scales walls or climbs poles, cascading her body up, down and across architectural spaces. Her movement is recorded through video and photographs that are tied to the structures tracing the paths of her journey. more...
The Magic Circle of Profound Enchantment
Art collecting, writes Matthew Kangas, has inspired a wide variety of explanations about its nature. Here are some of the most interesting. more...
The New Interactivity
Influenced by rapidly evolving digital technologies, many artists have become attracted to new interactive possibilities. more...
James Ensor
James Ensor had two brilliant careers, first as an avant-garde Realist and then as a forerunner of modern Expressionism. more...
Ilona Pachler
Two major events, both floods of historic proportions, anchor Ilona Pachler's look at memory's fleeting nature. more...
Bill Braun
What looks like cute little paper cut-out folk collages by Bill Braun are in fact meticulously rendered paintings that creates palpable tension between the physical and the conceptual. more...
Alan Sekula
"Ship of Fools," Alan Sekula's last series, are maritime images of docked ships and dockworkers that reflect themes of labor, transport and globalization. more...
For Whom I Write
In his continuing commentary of Irving Sandler's 14 questions, DeWitt Cheng suggests who writers write for is less important than what should fairly be expected of the reader. more...
Ross Palmer Beecher
Ross Palmer Beecher's cut-and-woven recycled metal quilts are an utterly unique amalgam of folk art, Pop Art and social-political art. more...
A Tale of Two Art Sites
Between the recently opened Ed Paschke Art Center and the much ballyhooed Lucas Museum of Narrative of Art to be opened in four years, which do you suppose tells us more about Chicago? more...
Auguste Rodin
When Auguste Rodin drew on paper his powerful hands carved form in space as if manipulating pliant clay or obdurate stone. more...
Klingbiel and Somers
Karl Klingbiel presents seemingly windblown abstract paintings; together with Marti Somers' collaged imagery immersed in encaustic. more...
"Made in L.A."
"Made in L.A." is the Hammer Museum's biennial nod to what is hot, new, trendy and not to be missed in Los Angeles. Strong threads of personal vulnerability inform the often obsessive work here. more...
Houghton Hall
Houghton Hall, located in Norfolk, England shares selections from Sir Robert Walpole's collection of Old Master paintings and decorative arts. more...
Heirlooms from the F. Scott Hess Family Foundation
What may have started as a simple task to check his ancestry, painter F. Scott Hess evolved into a gigantic, multifaceted departure presented to the public as "The Paternal Suit: Heirlooms from the F. Scott Hess Family Foundation." more...
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas’ new sculpture is for the proletariat: the collection of works make for an upbeat collection of industry meets art. more...
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Lucy and Jorge Orta's collaborative projects encompass design, architecture, couture and a research organization. more...
Remembering China (Part 1)
Mathew Kangas' visit to China 22 years ago let a lasting impression both for the centerpiece Kazuaki Kita exhibition and the surrounding diplomacy. more...
James Ensor
James Ensor had two brilliant careers, first as an avant-garde Realist and then as a forerunner of modern Expressionism. more...
For Whom I Write
In his continuing commentary of Irving Sandler's 14 questions, DeWitt Cheng suggests who writers write for is less important than what should fairly be expected of the reader. more...
Bill Braun
What looks like cute little paper cut-out folk collages by Bill Braun are in fact meticulously rendered paintings that creates palpable tension between the physical and the conceptual. more...
Ron Weil and William Schwob
Nice pairing here. Ron Weil makes virtuosic drawings in powdered charcoal, achieving complex textural effects. William Schwob’s attenuated figures in wood-fired clay are spooky yet beautiful. more...
May Sun
May Sun’s installations and public art projects are research driven and site inspired. In humanizing the built environment her works advocate social justice and question outdated assumptions and values. more...
David Geiser
In “Oceanic," David Geiser's signature ultramarines appear in judicious patches, permitting a porousness that evokes sea sponges. more...
Larry Kornegay and Bill Timmerman
Larry Kornegay and Bill Timmerman share an aesthetic of “do more with less” — Kornegay through found-object and cast concrete sculptures; Timmerman through modestly scaled, atmospheric black-and-white photographs. more...
Honor the Wanderjahre
James Yood's real New Year is the start of the school year, and he serves a reminder of the special calling and challenge of choosing art. more...
Hiroshi Yamano
Much of Hiroshi Yamano’s reputation is based on variations of blown-glass vases decorated with fish. His new work mostly dispenses with a supporting bowl or vase in favor of pedestal-size tableaux that favor birds over fish. more...
A Match Made in Council Chambers
The Santa Monica City Council's stunning decision to award exclusive negotiating rights to the developer not recommended by City bureaucrats will save Bergamot Station as a key location for art galleries. more...
Roberto Fabelo
New to Los Angeles, Cuban artist Robert Fabelo's strong figurative imagery memorably evokes the best magical realism. more...
Rob and Nick Carter
Rob and Nick Carter update, even revitalize Old Master imagery by re-framing references in a subtly moving video format. more...
Klingbiel and Somers
Karl Klingbiel presents seemingly windblown abstract paintings; together with Marti Somers' collaged imagery immersed in encaustic. more...
Houghton Hall
Houghton Hall, located in Norfolk, England shares selections from Sir Robert Walpole's collection of Old Master paintings and decorative arts. more...
Honor the Wanderjahre
James Yood's real New Year is the start of the school year, and he serves a reminder of the special calling and challenge of choosing art. more...
May Sun
May Sun’s installations and public art projects are research driven and site inspired. In humanizing the built environment her works advocate social justice and question outdated assumptions and values. more...
Florence Miller Pierce
Resin, Plexiglas and pigment coalesce into a luminous minimalism in Florence Miller Pierce's contributions to the Transcendental Painting Group of Taos. more...
Evan Blackwell
Evan Blackwell builds his abstract geometric objects element by element from a variety of construction materials and tools. more...
Bludgeoned by Beauty
On a recent trip through the far northwest of Canada and Alaska Richard Speer found himself comparing his direct encounter with nature with its visual interpretation by our best artists and photographers. more...
Minoru Ohira
Sculpture and wall pieces composed of salvaged construction materials by Minoru Ohira are both intuitive and whimsical. more...
Bruce Richards
Bruce Richards' paintings are polished, clear and simple. But they are informed by a complex menu of art history, politics and much more. more...
Pepe Mar
An astonishing 16th-century sculpture garden in northern Italy populated by monstrous, larger-than-life figures and surreal structures inspire a show that is a voyage of discovery led by artist Pepe Mar. more...
Roberto Fabelo
New to Los Angeles, Cuban artist Robert Fabelo's strong figurative imagery memorably evokes the best magical realism. more...
Hiroshi Yamano
Much of Hiroshi Yamano’s reputation is based on variations of blown-glass vases decorated with fish. His new work mostly dispenses with a supporting bowl or vase in favor of pedestal-size tableaux that favor birds over fish. more...
Margaret Wharton
Margaret Wharton's use of re-purposed objects, especially chairs, carved out a unique place in the Chicago Imagist movement dating to the 1970s. This survey shows that connection to be tentative but clear. more...
Dario Robleto
Dario Robleto’s interest in a wide range of topics is reflected in complex constructions and thought-provoking wall pieces. more...
Remembering China (Part 2)
The second part of Matthew Kangas account of his 1992 participation in a Beijing exhibition that helped establish friendly cultural relations between China and Japan. more...
John Santoro
Referring to himself as an Abstract Post-Impressionist, John Santoro deploys churning vortices of impasto that are spontaneous and playful. more...
Ruth Asawa
During a brief fellowship at the Tamarind Workshop in 1965 Ruth Asawa produced 54 editions, 23 of which are included in a show that draws a connection between her aesthetic process and her constant devotion to her family. more...
Bruce Richards
Bruce Richards' paintings are polished, clear and simple. But they are informed by a complex menu of art history, politics and much more. more...
Valley Vista: Art in the San Fernando Valley ca. 1970 – 1990
“Valley Vista: Art in the San Fernando Valley ca. 1970 – 1990” is a long overdue overview of the stereotyped San Fernando Valley’s under-recognized role in L A’s emergence as a center of contemporary art activity. more...
Melanie Willhide and Klea McKenna
Melanie Willhide infects images of women and flowers with digital irregularities. Klea McKenna records raindrops and palm fronds. more...
Roberto Chavez
This retrospective of pioneer Chicano artist Roberto Chavez shows him to be a vigorous painter and mentor. more...
Sherrie Wolf
Sherrie Wolf's opulent tableaux of flowers and vessels here provide the foreground to painted reproductions of iconic art historical images. more...
David Johns
David Johns' deploys Navajo visual--and linguistic--idioms to enliven abstract paintings that visually oscillate with spiritual energy. more...
Bludgeoned by Beauty
On a recent trip through the far northwest of Canada and Alaska Richard Speer found himself comparing his direct encounter with nature with its visual interpretation by our best artists and photographers. more...
It May Be Easy … But Choose Wisely
Has the internet been good or bad for art criticism? In his latest reflection on Irving Sandler's 14 questions, DeWitt Cheng sees that behind the silver lining does lie a cloud. more...
“Intimate Horizons”
Claire Ashley and Bahar Yurukoglu’s "Intimate Horizons" is a visually dynamic and architecturally responsive installation full of huge inflatables, video projections and colorful abstract forms that are beautifully scaled and positioned. more...
Giuseppe Penone
Trees fascinate Giuseppe Penone: their form, growth and decay. He projects our being into theirs through sculpture and other media. more...
How to Activate a Storefront Window
Storefront window art installations at Artpace in San Antonio have often ambitiously pushed beyond merely using the space as a storefront display case. David S. Rubin cites several examples that stand out. more...
Kirk Pedersen
An eye for the ordinary positions Kirk Pedersen as a curator of the commonplace, an observer of the unnoticed. more...
Paul Metivier
In an uneven mix of works, Paul Metivier does show a particular affinity for symbolic, socially rooted subject matter. more...
Jason Middlebrook
In "There is a map in every tree" Jason Middlebrook beautifully integrates intricate line work with the grain of wood planks. But he then abandons the wood for stained glass with as yet unconvincing results. more...
Ruth Asawa
During a brief fellowship at the Tamarind Workshop in 1965 Ruth Asawa produced 54 editions, 23 of which are included in a show that draws a connection between her aesthetic process and her constant devotion to her family. more...
Judith Kruger
Judith Kruger brings a different kind of Asian aesthetic influence into the layered surfaces of her distinctively colored paintings, the nihonga tradition of mineral pigments. more...
Wendy Given
Gaelic motifs meet the Columbia River Gorge. Decay and death permeate Wendy Given's deceptively gorgeous body of wok. more...
Dave Lefner
Dave Lefner depicts L.A.'s neon signs not at night, as you would expect, but as linear shapes that during the day cast shadows. more...
Rough and Ready
"Rough and Ready" is a four artist show geared to youthful Goth sensibilities, as well as their elder grognards of the Beat persuasion. more...
Richard Misrach and Kate Orff
In "Petrochemical America" Richard Misrach and Kate Orff reveal, through a series of large scale photographs and elegantly designed visual narratives, the insidious grip of the petrochemical industry. more...
Really: What IS an Art Fair?
It's not like James Yood thinks there has been a lack of discussion about art fairs. But here he gets one of the most obvious and oft misunderstood issues off of his chest: What isn't, and just what is, an art fair. more...
“Intimate Horizons”
Claire Ashley and Bahar Yurukoglu’s "Intimate Horizons" is a visually dynamic and architecturally responsive installation full of huge inflatables, video projections and colorful abstract forms that are beautifully scaled and positioned. more...
Paul Metivier
In an uneven mix of works, Paul Metivier does show a particular affinity for symbolic, socially rooted subject matter. more...
HJ Bott
HJ Bott translates "20 Basic Scribbles"--fundamental marks researched and identified back in 1970--into his own system of symbols, patterns and modular components. more...
Alison Saar
For Alison Saar the title of her show, "Hot House," evokes both form and content in works that evoke deep personal and political notes. more...
Bathos in Sex and Art
Richard Speer finds dispiriting similarities in the ways in which sexuality and visual art are thought of in contemporary culture. This is reflected in terminology and images that have proliferated and been absorbed into ordinary cultural literacy. more...
Randy Colosky
Randy Colosky's works assume forms dictated by the nature of the materials he chooses but still remains adventurous. more...
Sayre Gomez
First Sayre Gomez bombards us with an installation of music, nonsense slogans and consumerist themes; and then contrasts this with serene veils of color and mute imagery--immersion on one hand and solitude on the other. more...
Luis González Palma
20 years of work by Luis Gonzalez Palma center on his distinctive portraits and beyond, always retaining a flair for the dramatic. more...
Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton's "the common SENSE" is loaded with dead animal pelts, products, photographs (for the taking!) in a spectacle of slaughter that is a powerful, if somewhat uneven aesthetic statement. more...
Rough and Ready
"Rough and Ready" is a four artist show geared to youthful Goth sensibilities, as well as their elder grognards of the Beat persuasion. more...
Maria Frank Abrams: An Appreciation
It's been a year since Holocaust survivor and painter Maria Frank Abrams passed. That she found the practice of modernist abstraction a catalyst for recovery does not tell the full story of her aesthetic achievement. more...
Mickalene Thomas
The central figure of Mickalene Thomas' current show, "I was born to do great things," is her late mother Sandra Bush. Thomas walks a fine line between aesthetic originality and a documentary compilation of personal effects. more...
Roland Reiss
This retrospective casts Roland Reiss as one of Southern California's pivotal artistic figures of the last half century. more...
Hiroshi Sato
Hiroshi Sato's domestic interiors of introspective young women draw on deeply historical sources with a contemporary counterpoint. more...
Ryo Toyonaga
The mixture of media in Ryo Toyonaga's exhibition "Awakening" teem with viscera and appendages that glisten wriggle and go bump in the night. more...
Amber Jean Young
"There's Shape in These Hills I Know" describes Amber Jean Young's quilt-based works drawn from the Northern California landscape. more...
Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton's "the common SENSE" is loaded with dead animal pelts, products, photographs (for the taking!) in a spectacle of slaughter that is a powerful, if somewhat uneven aesthetic statement. more...
Alison Saar
For Alison Saar the title of her show, "Hot House," evokes both form and content in works that evoke deep personal and political notes. more...
Kahn and Selesnick
Artist duo Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn fill the gallery floor to ceiling with an epic cast of characters that resonate a sense of dread balanced with sheer visual allure. more...
“Ten-in-One”
The circus comes to MCA in the form of ten diverse artists who share a fascination with the fantastical. more...
Cassandra Straubing and Babette
Cassandra Straubing and fashion designer Babette collaborate on “poetic ghost," which somehow combines clothing and glass to express conflicted expectations placed upon women. more...
Gil Kofman
Gil Korman photographs surfers who project the expected kinesthetic vitality in high contrast shots that grab and place the athletes onto the shape-shifing membrane of the ocean's surface in selective configurations. more...
The Long View Middle Way
Should critics ignore the proliferation of new media in art? Of course not, but DeWitt Cheng distinguishes between faddish razzle-dazzle and culturally literal innovation. more...
Mickalene Thomas
The central figure of Mickalene Thomas' current show, "I was born to do great things," is her late mother Sandra Bush. Thomas walks a fine line between aesthetic originality and a documentary compilation of personal effects. more...
Roland Reiss
This retrospective casts Roland Reiss as one of Southern California's pivotal artistic figures of the last half century. more...
Rusty Scruby
Rusty Scruby transforms flat photographs, drawings, plastic, and even thin sheets of poplar into faceted, three-dimensional wall pieces composed of interlocking geometric shapes. more...
Francis DeFronzo
Francis DiFronzo’s ominous series, "The Earth’s Sharp Edge,” contains the stark realism of the Southern California hinterlands more...
Alfredo Arreguín
Intricate, lace-like patterns underlie and overlay figurative and landscape scenes combining a signature look and culturally relevant subjects in the newest body of work by Alfredo Arreguín. more...
Udo Nöger
Udo Nöger’s paintings appear at first glance to be gestural Abstract Expressionism, but they are really about subtleties of light. more...
Emerson Woelffer
This cross section of Emerson Woelffer's work reminds how he brought a myriad of influences and a distinctively personal sensibility to West Coast Abstract Expressionism. more...
On Artist-Run Spaces
What San Antonio lacks in mainstream commercial art galleries it more than makes up for in adventurous artist-run spaces. more...
Jonas Wood
Scenes of conventional contemporary domestic interiors, single and group portraits and still lives as interpreted by Jonas Wood are eye popping, rich in reference and a bit funky. more...
Gil Kofman
Gil Korman photographs surfers who project the expected kinesthetic vitality in high contrast shots that grab and place the athletes onto the shape-shifing membrane of the ocean's surface in selective configurations. more...
Deborah Roberts
What was once an interest in fashion mags Deborah Roberts shifts the model of glamor into collaged portraits that are anything but. more...
Trip Advisor Loves AIC
The Art Institute of Chicago is a wonderful art museum, one of the best. But if Chicago-based James Yood enjoyed TripAdvisor's recent poll rating the AIC #1 in the world, he shows that the claim is kinda wrong in the real world. more...
Michael Vahrenwald
Michael Vahrenwald compiles images of once proud neoclassical buildings that over time fell into decline and reuse. more...
Scott Short
Copy after copy on a copier produces an image divorced from the original at which point Scott Short picks up his brush. more...
Mike Osborne
Did you ever play that classic game, "Monopoly"? Mike Osborne's photographs the model for the game, Atlantic City, now gone kind of eerie with the decrepit properties of a failed economy. more...
Elizabeth Turk
Elizabeth Turk works with marble to give us lace and living forms. These objects are pristine, undulating and breathtaking. more...
Eric Orr; Sebastián
Eric Orr's mystical abstract paintings coming out of the Light and Space movement pair intriguingly with the rational geometrics of Sebastián's sculpture. more...
Alfredo Arreguín
Intricate, lace-like patterns underlie and overlay figurative and landscape scenes combining a signature look and culturally relevant subjects in the newest body of work by Alfredo Arreguín. more...
Emerson Woelffer
This cross section of Emerson Woelffer's work reminds how he brought a myriad of influences and a distinctively personal sensibility to West Coast Abstract Expressionism. more...
On Artist-Run Spaces
What San Antonio lacks in mainstream commercial art galleries it more than makes up for in adventurous artist-run spaces. more...
“Carved, Cast, Crumpled: Sculpture All Ways”
The Smart Museum of Art marks its 40th anniversary with a collection of sculpture exhibitions from the museum's collection of works representing its range from ancient artifacts to religious relics to contemporary installation and more. more...
James Drake
James Drake has been concentrating on drawing, and the key works here combine a number of individual drawings joined to make a single larger work. more...
Artists as Producers: DIY to Big Budget
That many artists avail themselves of the model and technologies available to Hollywood producers is an open secret. But in the end it's the aesthetics that should make or break these artists, not their production values. more...
Jeanne Silverthorne
Technology has blurred the boundary between naturally alive and life-like, and in her sculpture Jeanne Silverthorne joins in the fray. more...
Tom Birkner and Don Stinson
The American West is the subject for painters Tom Birkner and Don Stinson. Birkner's interest is in lost moments barely see at 70mph on the road. Stinson juxtaposes myth against reality. more...
Jeff Fontaine
Jeff Fontaine walks a narrow path between tough and autonomous artworks that risk becoming merely decorative. more...
Elizabeth Turk
Elizabeth Turk works with marble to give us lace and living forms. These objects are pristine, undulating and breathtaking. more...
Eric Orr; Sebastián
Eric Orr's mystical abstract paintings coming out of the Light and Space movement pair intriguingly with the rational geometrics of Sebastián's sculpture. more...
Deborah Roberts
What was once an interest in fashion mags Deborah Roberts shifts the model of glamor into collaged portraits that are anything but. more...
Pop Art’s Enduring Life (Part I)
Pop art, argues Matthew Kangas, is not only currently resurgent, it's influence on contemporary art is creating waves of fresh discourse. The Seattle Art Museum's current "Pop Departures" exhibition makes the case. more...
Faces of Impressionism
Impressionist portrait works from Paris' Musee d'Orsay trace the movement's pictorial evolution with a dazzling human face. more...
Odd Nerdrum
In "Pupils of Apelles" narrative realist Odd Nerdrum pays homage to the early Greek painter that he conceptually emulates, together with his own role as mentor to a group of artists that follow in his footsteps. more...
“Being Woman"
The five artists in "Being Woman" bring distinctive cultural commentary and political persuasion to their art without sacrificing craft and aesthetics to content. more...
Suzan Woodruff / Tom Martinelli
The ephemeral abstractions of Suzan Woodruff and Tom Marintelli's process-based stripe paintings are visual complements. more...
Claire A. Warden
Claire A. Warden messes with her photographic prints at the emulsion stage to come up with intriguing abstract studies. more...
Lou Beach / Patssi Valdez
Lou Beach, how moved from commercial illustration to art collage, is paired with painter Patssi Valdez, the former Asco stalwart. more...
Jeanne Silverthorne
Technology has blurred the boundary between naturally alive and life-like, and in her sculpture Jeanne Silverthorne joins in the fray. more...
Artists as Producers: DIY to Big Budget
That many artists avail themselves of the model and technologies available to Hollywood producers is an open secret. But in the end it's the aesthetics that should make or break these artists, not their production values. more...
Orr Menirom
Orr Menirom builds deftly mined universal spaces of ambiguity and emotion in her videos--that are sourced, for example, from a heated interview conducted on a TV news show. more...
David Lackey
Best known for his appearances on Antiques Roadshow, David Lackey's assemblages show him to also be an accomplished surrealist. more...
Ten Suggestions for a New Year
The heck with New Year resolutions and ten-best lists. DeWitt Cheng offers a set of ten guidelines for the art-perplexed to welcome in 2015. more...
Travis Pond
"Northwest Wildlife" aptly describes the current assemblages of Travis Pond, who cuts up metal detritus in order to repurpose it. more...
“The Heart is the Frame"
".. the heart is the amorous organ of repetition" wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze in "Difference and Repetition." In "The Heart is the Frame" artists explore how desire stimulates our experience of the everyday. more...
Pop Art’s Enduring Life (Part I)
Pop art, argues Matthew Kangas, is not only currently resurgent, it's influence on contemporary art is creating waves of fresh discourse. The Seattle Art Museum's current "Pop Departures" exhibition makes the case. more...
Lou Beach / Patssi Valdez
Lou Beach, how moved from commercial illustration to art collage, is paired with painter Patssi Valdez, the former Asco stalwart. more...
“Being Woman"
The five artists in "Being Woman" bring distinctive cultural commentary and political persuasion to their art without sacrificing craft and aesthetics to content. more...
Faces of Impressionism
Impressionist portrait works from Paris' Musee d'Orsay trace the movement's pictorial evolution with a dazzling human face. more...
Latino Studies
The pioneering Chicano artist Mel Casas recently passed away, marking an apropos moment for David S. Rubin to assess the progress San Antonio's Latino artists have made in contributing to that citiy's cultural vitality. more...
Hap Tivey
Hap Tivey's classic Light and Space work toys with viewers’ perception and how we process light emotionally and psychologically. more...
Chuck Close
Chuck Close has built a remarkable body of work around the face--not so much the portrait because these images are about a physical fact. more...
Dan Budnik
Dan Budnik chronicled the Abstract Expressionsts in the 1950s, then went on to record the heart of the Selma march in 1965. more...
David Michael Smith
Primarily figurative and narrative, David Michael Smith prominently features one youthful male or female figure against a backdrop of fauna or flora that is imbued with a subtle feeling of danger or doom. more...
Betty Gold
The deceptively simple geometric sculpture of Betty Gold is in fact rooted in complexity. Flat sheets of steel are folded and shaped to interact with space and each other and the space surrounding them. more...
Ten Suggestions for a New Year
The heck with New Year resolutions and ten-best lists. DeWitt Cheng offers a set of ten guidelines for the art-perplexed to welcome in 2015. more...
“The Heart is the Frame"
".. the heart is the amorous organ of repetition" wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze in "Difference and Repetition." In "The Heart is the Frame" artists explore how desire stimulates our experience of the everyday. more...
An Interview with Peter Selz
Now 95, Peter Selz has seen--and had an active hand in--the arrival and departure of many of the major art movements of the last half century. Here are some of his latest thoughts about the continuing impact of Pop Art and more. more...
Lisa Lindvay
Heart is what resonates in "Hold Together," Lisa Lindvay's 7-year long photography project revolving around the members of her own family, a family visibly impacted by the absence of their mother due to mental illness. more...
Mel Chin
Mel Chin makes visible on paper his thoughts on far-ranging subjects. His acuity over a long career is leavened by levity. more...
Robert Jessup
In moving from figuration to abstraction, Robert Jessup permitted himself great expressive freedom to compelling results. more...
Angie Bray
Angie Bray possesses an ability to rein in her materials and still evoke strong emotion with the reduced means. A quiet mind and still eye allow the art an opportunity to speak. more...
Hap Tivey
Hap Tivey's classic Light and Space work toys with viewers’ perception and how we process light emotionally and psychologically. more...
Latino Studies
The pioneering Chicano artist Mel Casas recently passed away, marking an apropos moment for David S. Rubin to assess the progress San Antonio's Latino artists have made in contributing to that citiy's cultural vitality. more...
Chuck Close
Chuck Close has built a remarkable body of work around the face--not so much the portrait because these images are about a physical fact. more...
Pard Morrison
Pixels are blown up to grand proportions in Pard Morrison's sculpture and paintings. The artist's refined formal sense is deployed to achieve a nuanced multi-layered effect. more...
Lisa Ludwig
These birds' nests by Lisa Ludwig are cast in bronze--but only after she first undertakes a laborious process of reconstruction. more...
Jim Morphesis and the Quest for Self
Betty Brown sees a key example of art for the sake of realization in Jim Morphesis’ body of work, which amounts to a carefully balanced response to the tradition of deeply historical Christian iconography and modernist expressionism. more...
William Binnie
William Binnie's bleached denim conflagrations may carry a novelty factor, but he has sure mastered these blue jeans. more...
Jessica Rath
Using sculpture, light, and sound to illustrate the methods used by bumblebees to find "A Better Nectar," Jessica Rath's multi-sensory installation is both aesthetically vigorous and highly informative. more...
An Interview with Peter Selz
Now 95, Peter Selz has seen--and had an active hand in--the arrival and departure of many of the major art movements of the last half century. Here are some of his latest thoughts about the continuing impact of Pop Art and more. more...
Lisa Lindvay
Heart is what resonates in "Hold Together," Lisa Lindvay's 7-year long photography project revolving around the members of her own family, a family visibly impacted by the absence of their mother due to mental illness. more...
Mel Chin
Mel Chin makes visible on paper his thoughts on far-ranging subjects. His acuity over a long career is leavened by levity. more...
Angie Bray
Angie Bray possesses an ability to rein in her materials and still evoke strong emotion with the reduced means. A quiet mind and still eye allow the art an opportunity to speak. more...
Andreas Nottebohm
Andreas Nottebohm has refined his rotary-sander on aluminum technique over years of practice to produce calligraphic works that possess dazzling depth and movement. more...
Hal Fischer
A single 1977 project, "Gay Semiotics," secures Hal Fischer's place in history for having welded structuralist photography to gay culture. more...
Artist Biographies: An Annotated Selection
Twenty years ago James Yood started a reading project that continues today: Artist biographies. Here's a primer to some of the best among the hundreds he has read in case you want to catch the bug too. more...
Michael Kaysen
Vases that you'd never want to try to fill make up Michael Kaysen's minimalist installation that is at once traditional and contemporary. more...
Katsumi Hayakawa
Centered mainly on paper and glue, and an endlessly repetitive cutting procedure, Katsumi Hayakawa produces a ghostly, floating and quite magical city along with other intricate grid-based works loaded with bits of visually enriching detail. more...
Jim Morphesis and the Quest for Self
Betty Brown sees a key example of art for the sake of realization in Jim Morphesis’ body of work, which amounts to a carefully balanced response to the tradition of deeply historical Christian iconography and modernist expressionism. more...
Lisa Ludwig
These birds' nests by Lisa Ludwig are cast in bronze--but only after she first undertakes a laborious process of reconstruction. more...
Jessica Rath
Using sculpture, light, and sound to illustrate the methods used by bumblebees to find "A Better Nectar," Jessica Rath's multi-sensory installation is both aesthetically vigorous and highly informative. more...
David Schafer
David Schafer is a conceptualist whose sculptural and sound works add up to more than meets the eye. Still, there is plenty to look at--and listen to in this immersive installation. more...
Lucinda Parker
Lucinda Parker’s recent paintings focus on geological forms, mountain landscapes filtered through jigsaw-like, interlocking forms. more...
Tony DeLap
Tony DeLap explains, “I don’t want to minimalize anything; what I want to do is complicate it.” And his work is indeed playfully complex, tricks the eye and redefine the space it inhabits. more...
Steven Williams
Steven Williams records lost and forgotten moments, objects and places of the American West in gorgeous black and white silver gelatins prints using a tradition 8 x 10 camera. more...
My Art-Crush on Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
Recently to be seen at the Frick in New York, and on it's way to San Francisco and Fort Worth, Sargent's "Lady Agnew" is one of Richard Speer's all time art crushes. more...
Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli records his personal and aesthetic response to daily reality of the twenty-first century as it arrives daily upon his Brooklyn doorstep with the delivery of his copy of The New York Times. more...
Artist Biographies: An Annotated Selection
Twenty years ago James Yood started a reading project that continues today: Artist biographies. Here's a primer to some of the best among the hundreds he has read in case you want to catch the bug too. more...
Larry Sultan
This survey of Larry Sultan's documentary-based photography carries a degree of intensity and density that sets it apart. Don't let the device of the banality and kitschiness of subjects and settings fool you. more...
Joe Rudko
Joe Rudko's meticulously constructed collages destroy and reconfigure photographs in ingenious, seemingly inexhaustible inventions. more...
Ben Jackel
Sculptural replicas of masculine accouterments of aggression and protection reflect Ben Jackel's equivocal and poignant referencing of male heroics. more...
Globalization and Art
In the tenth of his series of responses to a 2012 essay by Irving Sandler, DeWitt Cheng tackles the impact of globalization on art. more...
“Art of the American West”
Works from the recent major donation by the Haub Family Collection of "Art of the American West" significantly upgrade this museum's permanent collection and comprise a complex exhibition on a number of overlapping planes. more...
Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli records his personal and aesthetic response to daily reality of the twenty-first century as it arrives daily upon his Brooklyn doorstep with the delivery of his copy of The New York Times. more...
Lucinda Parker
Lucinda Parker’s recent paintings focus on geological forms, mountain landscapes filtered through jigsaw-like, interlocking forms. more...
My Art-Crush on Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
Recently to be seen at the Frick in New York, and on it's way to San Francisco and Fort Worth, Sargent's "Lady Agnew" is one of Richard Speer's all time art crushes. more...
Eric Wesley
Along with the more familiar use of a monumental I beam Eric Wesley has casted sleeping figures, fabricated stained glass windows full of globular shapes, an environmental installation and--gosh!--even includes splatter paintings. more...
Takahiko Hayashi
Circle, very many of them, lines and organic shapes make up the lyrical, richly associative works of Takahiko Hayashi. more...
Jake Longstreth
The bright colors and sharp lines of Jake Longstreth's prior work are muted and atmospheric in paintings that mark a new phase. more...
Axle Contemporary
Axle Contemporary has been a pop up gallery on wheels for five years. This survey brings them indoors, displaying the rich variety that over 150 artists have squeezed into the truck. more...
Robert Williams
Recent paintings and sculpture by Robert Williams feature the rich, convoluted psychedelia and outside the box thought process we are all familiar with. Highlights from Juxtapoz, the mag he co-founded twenty years ago, enrich the mix. more...
When Actions Speak Louder Than Art
Mel Chin has earned a much deserved reputation and a recent retrospective for his brilliant conceptualism. But, says David S. Rubin, Chin's projects extend beyond this to serve the greater good without missing an aesthetic beat. more...
Globalization and Art
In the tenth of his series of responses to a 2012 essay by Irving Sandler, DeWitt Cheng tackles the impact of globalization on art. more...
“Art of the American West”
Works from the recent major donation by the Haub Family Collection of "Art of the American West" significantly upgrade this museum's permanent collection and comprise a complex exhibition on a number of overlapping planes. more...
Ben Jackel
Sculptural replicas of masculine accouterments of aggression and protection reflect Ben Jackel's equivocal and poignant referencing of male heroics. more...
Lucinda Cobley and Michael Crowder
Both Lucinda Cobley and Michael Crowder use white extensively, along with glass and shadows. So how does this exhibition end up being titled "Gray Area"? more...
Dani Tull
This romp of an exhibition by Dani Tull connects up all kinds of unrelated metaphors for developing consciousness. more...
Walter Quirt
At one time Walter Quirt was a "painter to watch" alongside Jackson Pollock. A relocation to teach in Michigan removed him from the historical stage, but this exhibition shows him to be a fresh and complex voice, a well deserved re-discovery. more...
“Try Youth As Youth”
Four photographers address the human drama of incarcerated child using distinct approaches that enrich our understanding. more...
Yu Ji
Yu Ji's figurative works display a mastery of obsessive detail that isolate individuals within their own worlds. more...
Virginia Wright (Pt 1)
Virginia Wright, with her late husband Bagley, was among Seattle's top art patrons for decades. Matthew Kangas offers the first of a two-part profile. more...
“Feminism Today”
Connections to empowerment, equality and other themes of significance to women are subtle but quite discernible in this group of 13 Arizona-based artists gathered to asses "Feminism Today." more...
Robert Williams
Recent paintings and sculpture by Robert Williams feature the rich, convoluted psychedelia and outside the box thought process we are all familiar with. Highlights from Juxtapoz, the mag he co-founded twenty years ago, enrich the mix. more...
When Actions Speak Louder Than Art
Mel Chin has earned a much deserved reputation and a recent retrospective for his brilliant conceptualism. But, says David S. Rubin, Chin's projects extend beyond this to serve the greater good without missing an aesthetic beat. more...
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter
In their collaborative exhibition “Dark Fiber,” Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter take as their subject matter the fiber optic cables that transmit high-speed data across great distances. more...
Joseph Goldberg
Joseph Goldberg's deceptively simple oil-and-wax paintings possess unique topographies within their jagged edges. more...
Hey S-agers, Treasure Your Time
This message from James Yood is directed towards art pros now hitting their senior years, but the rest of you should listen up as well: stop griping, it doesn't help; better to focus on making your time memorable. more...
Christine Frerichs
The layers of scarred and molded paint Christine Frerichs are expressive, but rejects predecessors' anxiety. more...
David Kapp
The urgency of urban life is the real subject of David Kapp's paintings of architecture and crowds thickly painted and full of kinetic energy. more...
Rosemarie Beck
Rosemarie Beck recoiled from much of the posturing of her AbEx peers, exploring the figure in allegorical settings. This survey reveals her to have been a both frank and sensitive painter. more...
Dani Tull
This romp of an exhibition by Dani Tull connects up all kinds of unrelated metaphors for developing consciousness. more...
Virginia Wright (Pt 1)
Virginia Wright, with her late husband Bagley, was among Seattle's top art patrons for decades. Matthew Kangas offers the first of a two-part profile. more...
Pascal
Interlocking wood segments, simple and harmonic, are Pascal's signature. The push pull between static and kinetic energy keeps your eye working and the formal tension at a high level. more...
Rodrigo Valenzuela
Eye popping images of urban decay have recently hit an art world sweet spot. Rodrigo Valenzuela smartly reverses this trope. more...
Patrick Renner
Patrick Renner juxtaposes his sculptural constructions alongside examples of African art, the effect being for each to illuminate the impact of the other. more...
Zombie Abstraction (Pt 1)
David Rubin examines some of the early exemplars and what they did to empower and substantiate the abstract aesthetic. more...
Ruth Pastine
Color and system is the name of the game for Ruth Pastine. Her rhythmic layerings are full of harmony even as the volume of hues are turned up to a full blast. These paintings are both thoughtful and visceral. more...
Joseph Goldberg
Joseph Goldberg's deceptively simple oil-and-wax paintings possess unique topographies within their jagged edges. more...
Hey S-agers, Treasure Your Time
This message from James Yood is directed towards art pros now hitting their senior years, but the rest of you should listen up as well: stop griping, it doesn't help; better to focus on making your time memorable. more...
David Kapp
The urgency of urban life is the real subject of David Kapp's paintings of architecture and crowds thickly painted and full of kinetic energy. more...
Mernet Larsen
Mernet Larsen's blocky figures are typically engaged in banal moments of intense contemplation. The visual drama comes not from the narrative but from her use of reverse perspective. more...
Alexis Anne Mackenzie
Strips of one image are mounted over a second to varying degrees of recognizability that causes the eye to shift back and forth in Alexis Anne Mackenzie's newest collages. more...
“Testable Predictions”
Sculpture by Michelle Liccardo, prints by Perry Doane and Amy Bernstein's paintings make "Testable Predictions" crackle with energy. more...
Virginia Wright (Pt 2)
The second of Matthew Kangas' two part appreciation of one half of one of Seattle's most important art patrons, Virginia Wright. more...
Luis Sahagun
The humble materials recycled into Luis Sahagun's work speak clearly to an urban vernacular and express the masculine aspect the creative process. more...
Carol Es
Carol Es' "The Exodus Project" displays her penchant for bright color and rough form. Here is also documented the creative stimulation that came with her stay in Joshua Tree National Park. more...
David Bradley
The identity of Santa Barbara's art market is a key subject in David Bradley's paintings, which also delve into layered and ironic characters. more...
Rodrigo Valenzuela
Eye popping images of urban decay have recently hit an art world sweet spot. Rodrigo Valenzuela smartly reverses this trope. more...
Zombie Abstraction (Pt 1)
David Rubin examines some of the early exemplars and what they did to empower and substantiate the abstract aesthetic. more...
Ruth Pastine
Color and system is the name of the game for Ruth Pastine. Her rhythmic layerings are full of harmony even as the volume of hues are turned up to a full blast. These paintings are both thoughtful and visceral. more...
Virginia Wright (Pt 2)
The second of Matthew Kangas' two part appreciation of one half of one of Seattle's most important art patrons, Virginia Wright. more...
Mernet Larsen
Mernet Larsen's blocky figures are typically engaged in banal moments of intense contemplation. The visual drama comes not from the narrative but from her use of reverse perspective. more...
Carol Es
Carol Es' "The Exodus Project" displays her penchant for bright color and rough form. Here is also documented the creative stimulation that came with her stay in Joshua Tree National Park. more...
Robert Ginder
Robert Ginder's gold leaf embellished portraits of post-war Los Angeles suburban bungalows treat our own recent history as though it were centuries old. The point is to rethink the ordinary and the role of art itself. more...
Dirk Staschke
Dirk Staschke leaves the backs of his ceramic still-life sculptures exposed for a reason: to remind us it is all made by hand. more...
Alt-Weekly Arts Writing
VAS contributor Richard Speer is most familiar to Portland area readers for his 13-year run with Williamette Week. The response to the announcement of his departure prompts this reflection on where he's been, and where art writing may be going. more...
Lance Letscher
Lance Letscher's intricate collages push the eye relentlessly while keeping us engaged with accumulations of familiar objects. more...
Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga
Japanese post-war Gutai artists Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga produced differing emphasis in painting that is consistently explosive and tactile, emphasizing "action" and the "unknown" respectively. more...
Paul Booker
Two series of works by Paul Booker expand on earlier signature work and vibrant layered polyurethane images of complex formations that are both abstract and rich in associations. more...
“Rooted in Soil”
"Rooted in Soil" is firmly planted in the issue of conservation as seen through the creative lens of this group of 17 artists. more...
Growing Beyond Disinfotainment
The art world has changed enormously over the last half-century. It is, after all, a mirror of society; but still, these changes reflect a steady loss of faith in the power of aesthetic meaning. We must demand better. more...
Sharon Feder
Sharon Feder has the ability to transform the ordinary into something extra-ordinary, a telephone pole is more than just that. more...
“1900: Adornment”
"1900: Adornment for Home and Body" serves as a great excuse to put excellent by under-appreciated works before the public. more...
Elliot Norquist
Elegant geometric sculpture, mailing wall-hung, pushes your eye all around the gallery turning minimalist images into a vibrant flow of color and shape. more...
Kim MacConnel
Kim MacConnel's "Avenida Revolucion" paintings place you in the middle of a technicolor spectacle of a parade down the streets of a Mexican town, while a "Black and White" series manage to keep the energy level high. more...
Alt-Weekly Arts Writing
VAS contributor Richard Speer is most familiar to Portland area readers for his 13-year run with Williamette Week. The response to the announcement of his departure prompts this reflection on where he's been, and where art writing may be going. more...
Robert Ginder
Robert Ginder's gold leaf embellished portraits of post-war Los Angeles suburban bungalows treat our own recent history as though it were centuries old. The point is to rethink the ordinary and the role of art itself. more...
Dirk Staschke
Dirk Staschke leaves the backs of his ceramic still-life sculptures exposed for a reason: to remind us it is all made by hand. more...
Pedro Tyler
Working with systems of measurement, for Pedro Tyler, means using a lot of rulers and measuring tapes. Some of the works are kinetic, emitting sound that makes for the show's own beautiful music. more...
Trevor Paglen
For Trevor Paglen geography and photography equals diptychs that present a buried layer of surveillance just below picturesque surfaces. more...
Fraser Taylor
There is a colorful and celebratory side to Fraser Taylor's work and there are compositions of mourning. The two are two sides of the same coin--or banner. Non-objective imagery is alive and well in his hands. more...
A Commencement Show
The commencement ritual is a key annual ritual at thousands of schools throughout the country. James Yood's longtime base, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has raised buzz and controversy this year by announcing that Kanye West will receive an honorary doctorate next month. more...
JMW Turner
British Romantic painter JMW Turner is shown to be a great experimenter in this selection of paintings, many from the Tate Museum's holdings. more...
Kim MacConnel
Kim MacConnel's "Avenida Revolucion" paintings place you in the middle of a technicolor spectacle of a parade down the streets of a Mexican town, while a "Black and White" series manage to keep the energy level high. more...
Growing Beyond Disinfotainment
The art world has changed enormously over the last half-century. It is, after all, a mirror of society; but still, these changes reflect a steady loss of faith in the power of aesthetic meaning. We must demand better. more...
Jonathan Ryan Storm
Comprised of six brilliantly colored paintings, Jonathan Ryan Storm's "The Mortimer Trap" takes its title from a chess trick. more...
Anthony Caro
Anthony Caro’s abstract sculpture made use of recycled industrial building materials painted them in bright, playground-cheerful colors. The works in this show have been painted according to the Pantone colors designated by the late Caro’s studio. more...
Robert Brady
In a varied selection of sculpture that is free standing and attached to the walls, figurative and calligraphic, it's all tough and primitive. more...
Katherine Rohrbacher
Katherine Rohrbacher’s recent quirky but delicate self-portraits hold a metaphorical mirror to her personal, physical and emotional struggles. more...
Finding A Cure for Zombie Abstraction (Pt 2)
The recent resurgence of optical abstraction goes well beyond rehashing 1960s-era Op Art. Conceptual, cosmological and emotional vantage points have been incorporated to great effect by artists alert to both scientific and speculative developments. more...
Jacob Lawrence
"Jacob Lawrence as Printmaker" attests that his late move to the relative isolation of the Pacific Northwest resulted in some of his best work. more...
A Commencement Show
The commencement ritual is a key annual ritual at thousands of schools throughout the country. James Yood's longtime base, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has raised buzz and controversy this year by announcing that Kanye West will receive an honorary doctorate next month. more...
Trevor Paglen
For Trevor Paglen geography and photography equals diptychs that present a buried layer of surveillance just below picturesque surfaces. more...
Rachel Bess
If her subjects are decidedly of the present day in appearance and dress, Rachel Bess draws heavily on the Baroque and Romantic eras for stylistic and narrative inspiration to inform allegories on women's strength and authority. more...
Jock Sturges
Presented chronologically over a 15 year period, Jock Sturges has followed the development of Fanny from childhood to motherhood. more...
“Abstract Expression to Colored Planes”
Midcentury American art is a particularly strong area of the Seattle Art Museum's collection. Matthew Kangas tours us through the particulars, from Arshile Gorky's masterpiece to Christopher Wilmarth's tragically shortened path towards greatness. more...
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky addresses a dichotomy between abundance and loss in a selection of vivid aerial photography. more...
Helen Redman
Helen Redman’s art is expressed through the lens of herself in relationship to motherhood, facing gender issues boldly. more...
Richard Misrach
Visual pleasure and social commentary may seem contradictory aims, but Richard Misrach is an established master of this balancing act, as this mini-retrospective demonstrates. more...
Zombie Abstraction (Pt 2)
The recent resurgence of optical abstraction goes well beyond rehashing 1960s-era Op Art. Conceptual, cosmological and emotional vantage points have been incorporated to great effect by artists alert to both scientific and speculative developments. more...
Jacob Lawrence
"Jacob Lawrence as Printmaker" attests that his late move to the relative isolation of the Pacific Northwest resulted in some of his best work. more...
Al Souza
Al Souza has been working with rare and vintage books, the kind bound in leather with hand-decorated covers and intricate endpapers. more...
Mark Grotjahn
Markings seem to emanate from a central core in the aggressive new "face" paintings of Mark Grotjahn. more...
"When Rivers Flow Like a Stream of Glass"
Richard Speer's recent stay in New Zealand heightened his awareness of the relationship between color and place, of water deeply saturated yet also transparent. more...
Daniel Leivick
The found satellite imagery of the world that is readily available at Google Maps is the basis for a series of otherworldly landscapes. more...
“Straight from Cuba”
"Straight from Cuba" offers three artists who represent the aesthetic diversity and dynamism newly accessible to the American audience. more...
Shana Moulton
In "Picture Puzzle Pattern Door" Shana Moulton installs video, interactive and mixed media objects that address the uncomfortable mix of alternative health products with conventional commercialism. more...
“Abstract Expression to Colored Planes”
Midcentury American art is a particularly strong area of the Seattle Art Museum's collection. Matthew Kangas tours us through the particulars, from Arshile Gorky's masterpiece to Christopher Wilmarth's tragically shortened path towards greatness. more...
Rachel Bess
If her subjects are decidedly of the present day in appearance and dress, Rachel Bess draws heavily on the Baroque and Romantic eras for stylistic and narrative inspiration to inform allegories on women's strength and authority. more...
William Barnhart
William Barnhart's "Seattle Series" of paintings resemble stained-glass windows. Boat docks and tranquil waters are transformed into sacred places, human figures are ethereal. more...
Arvie Smith
Arvie Smith turns pernicious racial stereotype into parody in paintings that are as visually garish as they are acidic. more...
Díaz Lewis
Creative partners Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and Cara Megan Lewis draw on their very different backgrounds. They focus their attention on a partially completed Iowa residential development. more...
Sherry Karver
Sherry Karver enhanced photography-based images with both paint and text, using the latter to take us within figures in a crowd. more...
Writers and Art Mags
DeWitt Cheng continues his dialogue with Irving Sandler's 2012 questions to art writers: How do art magazine policies affect art criticism? more...
Todd Camplin
Lines of text, or streams of strings flow and repeat to form compelling patterns that Todd Camplin presents in free from shapes that are derived from design motifs Camplin produced very early in his career. more...
M.J. Anderson
The province of natural history and aesthetic form blur and meet in M.J. Anderson's series of stone sculptures, "Acqua Pietrificata," translated from the Italian, "petrified water." more...
Shaun O’Dell
The formal constructions of Shaun O'Dell's new works feel current, but their ironic lyricism also takes us back. more...
Time to Declare Victory
At the recent "Superscript" conference addressing "Arts Journalism in a Digital Age," James Yood listened to what has become a familiar litany of challenges and ills and comes to his own conclusion. more...
“Finland: Designed Environments”
Finnish product design, we are reminded in "Designed Environments," globalized the idea of 'form follows function.' more...
Noah Purifoy
A desire for change fueled the assemblage of Noah Purifoy, who first came to attention with a series in response to the Watt Riots of 1964, and much later retired to Joshua Tree to create the most ambitious works of his career. more...
"When Rivers Flow Like a Stream of Glass"
Richard Speer's recent stay in New Zealand heightened his awareness of the relationship between color and place, of water deeply saturated yet also transparent. more...
“Straight from Cuba”
"Straight from Cuba" offers three artists who represent the aesthetic diversity and dynamism newly accessible to the American audience. more...
Writers and Art Mags
DeWitt Cheng continues his dialogue with Irving Sandler's 2012 questions to art writers: How do art magazine policies affect art criticism? more...
Díaz Lewis
Creative partners Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and Cara Megan Lewis draw on their very different backgrounds. They focus their attention on a partially completed Iowa residential development. more...
Leopoldo Cuspinera Madrigal and Tim Rowan
Tim Rowan's ceramic sculptures look more rock than clay, while Leopoldo Cuspinera Madrigal's landscapes are rendered in soft shades of green and charcoal. more...
Nancy Monk
Nancy Monk spins a whimsical take on the wonders of nature using terse visual means and a deceptively complex working process. more...
Susan Giles
Bouncing from small paper sculptures to room filling installations, Susan Giles moves us from admiration for precise craftsmanship to a feeling of participating directly in the artist's experience. more...
Zombie Abstraction (Part 3)
Abstraction in the 21st century remains both a vital and relevant part of today's art world, particularly in the right hands. more...
Inka-Maaria Jurvanen
The political vein of Inka-Maaria Jurvanen's art is right there in titles like "Anarchy" and "Mutiny," though the images are rarely straightforward. The aftermath of abuse is a consistent part of her desolate scenes. more...
Time to Declare Victory
At the recent "Superscript" conference addressing "Arts Journalism in a Digital Age," James Yood listened to what has become a familiar litany of challenges and ills and comes to his own conclusion. more...
Noah Purifoy
A desire for change fueled the assemblage of Noah Purifoy, who first came to attention with a series in response to the Watt Riots of 1964, and much later retired to Joshua Tree to create the most ambitious works of his career. more...
“Finland: Designed Environments”
Finnish product design, we are reminded in "Designed Environments," globalized the idea of 'form follows function.' more...
Mel Katz
Sculptor Mel Katz is still gong strong at 83, and two major surveys show what a vital force he has been since the 1960s. more...
Albert Oehlen
Billboard signage, cows and an approach to composition akin to forming a jigsaw puzzle add to to "Rawhide," in which Albert Oehlen shows profundity is no match for a good visual joke. more...
Frye Salon
Historically under appreciated, the founding collection of the Frye Museum today can no longer be dismissed thanks to fresh knowledge. more...
El Anatsui
Hardly the first to employ cheap, non-art materials such as bottle caps, El Anatsui shimmering wall hangings are complex and just gorgeous. more...
“Glow: Beauty Reigns”
Rex Ryan, Jamie Brunson and Fausto Fernandez all drawn on nature to offer abstract images full of eye-popping visual effect. more...
Zombie Abstraction (Pt 3)
Abstraction in the 21st century remains both a vital and relevant part of today's art world, particularly in the right hands. more...
Nancy Monk
Nancy Monk spins a whimsical take on the wonders of nature using terse visual means and a deceptively complex working process. more...
Clarissa Tossin
Gallery baseboards are painted green to match the trim of houses in Clarissa Tossin's photographs. These pair modest cabins juxtaposed with photographs of those cabins. more...
Lisa Olson and Terry Pisel
Photographers Lia Olson and Terry Pisel view Phoenix through a quirky yet affectionate camera lens enriched with encaustic. more...
Eileen David
The streetscapes of San Francisco favor the timeless over ceaseless change in Eileen David's painterly vision. Beautifully composed images of familiar locations provide instant gratification for locals who love their home town. more...
Eli Reed
Eli Reed's career dates from the Civil Right Movement of the 1960s, and his photography has long combined stylishness with social activism. more...
“Getting” Abstraction. Or Not
Richard Speer continues to be dumbfounded by the remaining degree of public resistance to art that does not represent the familiar. Oddly, a dance performance recently provided him with the reason why. more...
Kelli Vance
Kelli Vance may be the star of her own suggestive narratives, but she keeps herself out of the story. Vance is just the model. more...
Phyllida Barlow
Phyllida Barlow blows up junk assemblage practice to a scale massive enough to walk into. And when you do, what at first appears weighty and solid turns out to be free of density but revealing of each works' latticework. more...
Frye Salon
Historically under appreciated, the founding collection of the Frye Museum today can no longer be dismissed thanks to fresh knowledge. more...
Mel Katz
Sculptor Mel Katz is still gong strong at 83, and two major surveys show what a vital force he has been since the 1960s. more...
Sarah HaBa
Sarah HaBa’s delicate and contemplative watercolors on paper depict that very material: bound paper, books, notebooks, and popup books. Delicate and ephemeral they may be, but they are also real and essential. more...
Scott Greene
Everything is in a state of falling apart in Scott Greene's desperate landscapes--but are still, just barely, hanging on. more...
An Aesthetic of Political Audacity
Are gender-based and political issues still viable in art criticism today? is the 13th question discussed by DeWitt Cheng in his series of responses to the venerable Irving Sandler. more...
House on Mango St.
In "The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community" Sandra Cisneros' novel is updated through the eyes of artists from around the country. more...
Petra Cortright
Petra Cortright makes paintings out of videos. Especially intriguing is that the playthings populating her girl-in-the-bedroom avatar becomes the viewers' own playthings. Consider it a classy tease. more...
“Getting” Abstraction. Or Not
Richard Speer continues to be dumbfounded by the remaining degree of public resistance to art that does not represent the familiar. Oddly, a dance performance recently provided him with the reason why. more...
Kelli Vance
Kelli Vance may be the star of her own suggestive narratives, but she keeps herself out of the story. Vance is just the model. more...
Phyllida Barlow
Phyllida Barlow blows up junk assemblage practice to a scale massive enough to walk into. And when you do, what at first appears weighty and solid turns out to be free of density but revealing of each works' latticework. more...
Eli Reed
Eli Reed's career dates from the Civil Right Movement of the 1960s, and his photography has long combined stylishness with social activism. more...
“Dwell”
"Dwell" consists of a thoughtful range of art addressing architectural subjects in which community interchange and personal freedom appear as recurrent themes. more...
Jeff Soto and Sashie Masakatsu
Jeff Soto and Sashie Masakatsu share in their distinctly different paintings a common penchant for the extraordinary. more...
Still Nothing Like Venice
It's got to be the most stressful to negotiate, chaotically presented art festival in the world, but between Venice itself and its impossibly sprawling Biennale there remains nothing of comparable excitement in the art world today. more...
Georgia O’Keeffe
The works of Georgia O'Keeffe in "Color, Line and Composition" focus on the formal development and influence of her work. more...
Nathaniel Thayer Moss
Nathaniel Thayer Moss' optical geometric abstractions face a pair of large panels across from a large grid of smaller works. more...
“Night Begins the Day”
The Romantic Sublime informs the work of this wide ranging group of artists, along with the Jewish tradition that the day begins not at sunrise but at sunset. more...
An Aesthetic of Political Audacity
Are gender-based and political issues still viable in art criticism today? is the 13th question discussed by DeWitt Cheng in his series of responses to the venerable Irving Sandler. more...
Petra Cortright
Petra Cortright makes paintings out of videos. Especially intriguing is that the playthings populating her girl-in-the-bedroom avatar becomes the viewers' own playthings. Consider it a classy tease. more...
House on Mango St.
In "The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community" Sandra Cisneros' novel is updated through the eyes of artists from around the country. more...
“Body Mass Index”
Four emerging Chicago artists, Abel Guzman, Mike Rubin, B. Quinn and Ross Normandin visualize the body mostly in the form of its traces that are by turns quite exquisite or downright repulsive. more...
Nosego
The zany visual mashups of Nosego might reflect the deep contemplation of a monk or the ravings of a cartoonish idiot. Probably both. more...
Jesús Moroles: Connecting Us to the Cosmos
Jesús Moroles died recently in a tragic car accident. He will be remembered as one of his generations major public artists and an absolute magician in the use of granite, which he used to create monuments connecting the earth to the cosmos. more...
“Eye 2 Eye”
Artists of the Eye Lounge collective offer both collaborative and individual works, with the solo ventures finally winning the race. more...
Matt Clark and Jackson Echols
Combining a unique photography process developed by Jackson Echols with expressive paint handling by Matt Clark, this collaborative duo produces wildly lyrical abstractions that seethe and grow and expand to fill a picture plane. more...
Still Nothing Like Venice
It's got to be the most stressful to negotiate, chaotically presented art festival in the world, but between Venice itself and its impossibly sprawling Biennale there remains nothing of comparable excitement in the art world today. more...
“Dwell”
"Dwell" consists of a thoughtful range of art addressing architectural subjects in which community interchange and personal freedom appear as recurrent themes. more...
Jeff Soto and Sashie Masakatsu
Jeff Soto and Sashie Masakatsu share in their distinctly different paintings a common penchant for the extraordinary. more...
Kim Stringfellow
Early homesteading in the desert environment of the Morongo Basin dates only from 1938. A minimal structure built on the otherwise free property was a requirement, and this is the basis for Kim Stringfellow's photo-centric narrative history. more...
Donald Lipski
Donald Lipski stretches, drapes and otherwise tortures the shape of glass bottles, fills them with Scotch and us with surprise. more...
Holocaust Memorials of Poland Cross Political Eras
Recently in Poland, Matthew Kangas encountered a series of Holocaust memorials that over a half century reflected changes in how and to what degree history and political reflection shapes aesthetic intent. more...
Jessica Hess
Paintings of urban ruins by Jessica Hess that embellish or further despoil them with graffiti are gorgeous to the eye but so dystopian. more...
Michael Arcega
Anthropologist Horace Mitchell Miner reflected on American culture from a detached viewpoint by turning our name around to become "Nacirema." Michael Arcega packs the gallery with objects from this bizarre culture to make us both laugh and squirm. more...
Rick Oginz
Sculptor and illustrator Rick Oginz mines his imagination, his observations of current events and his personal issues before he ever puts a pen to paper or a chisel to wood, which produces works that are multi-faceted for their emotions, humor and thoughtfulness. more...
Alice Shaw
California is known as the "golden state," which conceptualist Alice Shaw plays to the hilt in her witty send-up of wealth and celebrity. more...
The Artist as Charity
It makes us feel very nice to see artists contributing their work for glittery charity events that support good causes, no doubt. But might there be a dark ring around such an apparently clean transaction? more...
“Hapsburg Splendor”
This drop dead gathering of treasures from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum is an absolute visual feast and a history lesson. more...
Faheem Majeed
Ordinary particleboard serves as a central vehicle for Faheem Majeed to express personal and community histories and issues. Freely addressing topics of race and politics he conveys an uplifting feeling that resistance is anything but useless. more...
Jesús Moroles: Connecting Us to the Cosmos
Jesús Moroles died recently in a tragic car accident. He will be remembered as one of his generations major public artists and an absolute magician in the use of granite, which he used to create monuments connecting the earth to the cosmos. more...
Holocaust Memorials of Poland Cross Political Eras
Recently in Poland, Matthew Kangas encountered a series of Holocaust memorials that over a half century reflected changes in how and to what degree history and political reflection shapes aesthetic intent. more...
Michael Arcega
Anthropologist Horace Mitchell Miner reflected on American culture from a detached viewpoint by turning our name around to become "Nacirema." Michael Arcega packs the gallery with objects from this bizarre culture to make us both laugh and squirm. more...
Keith Carter and Kate Breakey
Monochrome prints fill every wall in a joint exhibition of veteran photographers Keith Carter and Kate Breakey. Carter captures his stomping grounds in the East Texas swamplands. Breakey's diverse imagery is united by a decadent backdrop that activates every line and shadow. more...
“27th Anniversary Group Exhibition”
More than celebrating this gallery's longevity, this anniversary survey summarizes its continuing commitment to painterly abstraction, as well as marking its recent relocation from the Pearl District to the east side of the river. Don't laugh--if you are a Portlander you know what we mean. more...
Hometown Expats
It's tempting to gripe about the well known pattern of artists moving into a crummy neighborhood to get cheap space; upgrading the area and making it cool; and then being priced out. DeWitt Cheng offers some upside reflections. more...
The Artist as Charity
It makes us feel very nice to see artists contributing their work for glittery charity events that support good causes, no doubt. But might there be a dark ring around such an apparently clean transaction? more...
Rick Oginz
Sculptor and illustrator Rick Oginz mines his imagination, his observations of current events and his personal issues before he ever puts a pen to paper or a chisel to wood, which produces works that are multi-faceted for their emotions, humor and thoughtfulness. more...
“Hapsburg Splendor”
This drop dead gathering of treasures from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum is an absolute visual feast and a history lesson. more...
Nicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman's narrative painting satisfies both viscerally and intellectually. Her visual one liners pack a wallop, usually delivered with deft melancholy: We can't even be happy when we're celebrating. more...
Kensuke Yamada
Kensuke Yamada's new sculpture expresses the stolid solemnity of the children in stages of identity and age transformation. more...
Rumi Vesselinova
A destructive local fire several years ago lead Rumi Vesselinova to record and interpret blackened trees on rolling hillsides, tempting the eye to see them as calligraphic brushstrokes that form dense patterns. more...
Constant Change
The format of the gallery exhibition has long served as the art world's model of presentation. Could that era be coming to an end? more...
David Hockney
David Hockney brings together "Painting and Photography," which he's really been doing anyway for years. How much of an object we can see at once is a problem dating back to Cubism; Hockney shows there is still much to mine here. more...
Hometown Expats
It's tempting to gripe about the well known pattern of artists moving into a crummy neighborhood to get cheap space; upgrading the area and making it cool; and then being priced out. DeWitt Cheng offers some upside reflections. more...
“GLEAN”
The five artists contributing works to "GLEAN" were all mandated to forage through Portland's Metro Central Transfer Station. The garbage dump. Works are by turns immaculate (!), imaginative and whimsical in a show that is a pleasant surprise. more...
John Chiara
The huge, hand built camera is nearly as interesting as the evocative and felt images of Mississippi produced by John Chiara. more...
Lisa di Stefano and George Marks
Both Lisa di Stefano and George Marks practice art in a small town in south Louisiana. Her abstracted landscape paintings convey her feeling for the environment. His mixed media images of cloudy skies are muted and ethereal. more...
Liz Robb
The sewn sculptures of Liz Robb are "weighted objects in space" that make apt use of wide ranging visual associations. more...
Darn, Trump Beat Me To It
A number of commentators have pegged the Presidential candidacy of Donald Trump as a kind of performance art, and not exactly to praise him. Bill Lasarow draws on some other aesthetic precedents to further illuminate where Trump's prospective leadership might take us. more...
“North Korean Perspectives”
The photography comprising “North Korean Perspectives” is centered on the search for truth amidst facades, suppression and absurdity. more...
Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios
Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios' massive gestural paintings are both expressive and immersive in their depiction of a blooming and fecund world that connects flora to questions of social naturalization. more...
Pablo D’Antoni
New paintings by Spainish-based artist Pablo D’Antoni pay homage to artists past and present, displaying a magical realist tendency in exquisite detail. Scale and shape play a key role here. more...
Wallace Berman and the Dawning of the Information Age
Wallace Berman was not only a key figure in the emergence of California assemblage, but his now classic Verifax collages were remarkably prophetic in both aesthetic and technological ways. more...
Russell Crotty
Well know for his drawings and globes of celestial detail, tendinitis forced changes in style and technique that have led to fresh and convincing new works. more...
Marilyn Lowey
Marilyn Lowey moves from producing light show spectacles for major events to the comparative simplicity of installations that use projected light. more...
“Interaction”
The group of artists included in "Interaction" differ widely in their aesthetics but are curated to emphasize a good deal of playful interaction, just as the title suggests. more...
Constant Change
The format of the gallery exhibition has long served as the art world's model of presentation. Could that era be coming to an end? more...
“GLEAN”
The five artists contributing works to "GLEAN" were all mandated to forage through Portland's Metro Central Transfer Station. The garbage dump. Works are by turns immaculate (!), imaginative and whimsical in a show that is a pleasant surprise. more...
Darn, Trump Beat Me To It
A number of commentators have pegged the Presidential candidacy of Donald Trump as a kind of performance art, and not exactly to praise him. Bill Lasarow draws on some other aesthetic precedents to further illuminate where Trump's prospective leadership might take us. more...
“North Korean Perspectives”
The photography comprising “North Korean Perspectives” is centered on the search for truth amidst facades, suppression and absurdity. more...
Poland’s Cultural Recovery
National museums in Warsaw and Krakow provide a yardstick by which Poland's recovery from historical and cultural abuses may be measured. more...
Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew spent his childhood playing in a dump near his family's home, so producing found object sculpture second nature. He turns this into visual weapons that cut to the heart of America's struggle with race relations. more...
Tom Orr
A well distributed installation of ten works by Tom Orr expresses the artist's search to reconfigure and expand materials and structures in a theme and variation manner. more...
Mark Steven Greenfield and Thinh Nguyen
Mark Steve Greenfield's time in Brazil resulted in "The Egungun Squad," inspired by local spiritual practice. Thinh Nguyen's triptych of chairs employ and challenge Vietnamese traditions. more...
Depth of Field
"Depth of Field" is an extensive gathering of photography connected to the non-profit Rfotofolio, normally an online-only archive. more...
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry's rise from iconoclastic local advocate of chain link fencing and rough plywood panels to the world's most recognizable architectural celebrity is traced in depth in a densely packed survey. more...
Wallace Berman and the Dawning of the Information Age
Wallace Berman was not only a key figure in the emergence of California assemblage, but his now classic Verifax collages were remarkably prophetic in both aesthetic and technological ways. more...
Marilyn Lowey
Marilyn Lowey moves from producing light show spectacles for major events to the comparative simplicity of installations that use projected light. more...
Jamie Hamilton
Jamie Hamilton is a sculptor and aerialist, and his work here scales down the razor this stage he constructs for his performances. It possesses the kind of dizzying, dark magic you might therefore expect. more...
Joseph Havel
The spherical bronze shells of Joseph Havel are transmogrified fabric forms reflecting an age dubious of empty ideologies. more...
The Broad, the Veil, the Scorching Sun
The concrete-and-fiberglass "veil" of the newly opened Broad museum serves as a hermetic fortress designed as much to keep the climate out as the art treasures safe. Form does not follow function but serves as a harbinger of ozone depletion. more...
Sarah Perry
New works by Sarah Perry bring bugs into your home via electric outlets, put bees in your walls and seduce you with creepiness. more...
Sarah Awad
Sarah Awad's paintings bring residential iron gates into the center of our cultural conversation. They are natural metaphors of borders and boundaries separating private from public spaces. more...
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry's rise from iconoclastic local advocate of chain link fencing and rough plywood panels to the world's most recognizable architectural celebrity is traced in depth in a densely packed survey. more...
Poland’s Cultural Recovery
National museums in Warsaw and Krakow provide a yardstick by which Poland's recovery from historical and cultural abuses may be measured. more...
Lynne Golob Gelfman
The ephemeral nature of texture and pattern are key to Lynne Golob Gelfman's "Dyeing the Grid" paintings, inspired by the artist’s collection of baskets and textile fragments from Africa and Latin America. more...
Cecilia Z. Miguez
"The Presence of Absence" presents Cecilia Miguez typically elegant and surreal figures contemplating the void. more...
My Only Advice
With the recent retirement of Kenneth Baker, we welcome Charles Desmarais to the key role of art critic at The SF Chronicle. DeWitt Cheng offers the longtime museum Director and art school President a few suggestions. more...
Preston Singletary
Tingit artist Preston Singletary is both an ethnic-specific traditionalist and an internationalist collaborator who blows great glass. more...
Jessica Stockholder
Common household objects translate into colorful, multi-dimensional installations in a number of artists' work nowadays, and a good part of the reason for that is Jessica Stockholder. more...
Howardena Pindell
Underexposed in SoCal in spite of an otherwise stellar track record this show tries to make up for it by showcasing multiple facets of her oeuvre. It's rooted in abstraction, enriched with conceptual and process components, and addresses identity and social politics. more...
Paul Horiuchi
Paul Horiuchi went from serving as an assistant to Mark Tobey to earning recognition for bridging Japanese and New York school aesthetics. more...
A Century-and-a-Half Minting Artists
James Yood has spent 25 years on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With SAIC marking its 150th anniversary, it is clear that Yood would be happy to continue working there through the 200th anniversary. more...
Jon Furlong
John Furlong has documented Shepard Fairey and his OBEY team for the last decade. These photographs place Furlong into a mixed role of observer and participant. more...
Richard Meier
This survey covers an impressive range of architect Richard Meier's public buildings, along with screen prints and collages. more...
Shannon Finley
Starting with a computer-generated image, Shanon Finley builds his paintings up layer after layer to achieve sometimes geometric, other times organic abstract forms that are musical and psychedelic. more...
Joseph Havel
The spherical bronze shells of Joseph Havel are transmogrified fabric forms reflecting an age dubious of empty ideologies. more...
The Broad, the Veil, the Scorching Sun
The concrete-and-fiberglass "veil" of the newly opened Broad museum serves as a hermetic fortress designed as much to keep the climate out as the art treasures safe. Form does not follow function but serves as a harbinger of ozone depletion. more...
Sarah Awad
Sarah Awad's paintings bring residential iron gates into the center of our cultural conversation. They are natural metaphors of borders and boundaries separating private from public spaces. more...
Jessica Stockholder
Common household objects translate into colorful, multi-dimensional installations in a number of artists' work nowadays, and a good part of the reason for that is Jessica Stockholder. more...
My Only Advice
With the recent retirement of Kenneth Baker, we welcome Charles Desmarais to the key role of art critic at The SF Chronicle. DeWitt Cheng offers the longtime museum Director and art school President a few suggestions. more...
Cecilia Z. Miguez
"The Presence of Absence" presents Cecilia Miguez typically elegant and surreal figures contemplating the void. more...
Preston Singletary
Tingit artist Preston Singletary is both an ethnic-specific traditionalist and an internationalist collaborator who blows great glass. more...
Larry Cwik
Photographic images of "The Far North" by Larry Cwik are lovely to look at but also serve to connect the environmental dots. more...
Karla Wozniak
The verdant paintings of Karla Wozniak were produced during time spent, and in response to the Knoxville and Smokey Mountain area. Back in the Bay Area we'll be interested to see her visual response to a drought landscape. more...
Raising Cosmic Consciousness
The topic of cosmic consciousness in art takes a front seat in current and recent shows in Houston of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. more...
Dan Bayles
Dan Bayles’ new paintings unsettle our acceptance of Constantino Brumidi's dome mural at the U.S. Capitol building as a symbol of democracy. more...
Alicja Bielawska
Works by Alicja Bielawska are light and spare, they are free standing, leaned against walls and hung from the ceiling. They add up to a cogent and economical reflect on perception. more...
Ishiuchi Miyako
Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako was born shortly after WWII, and important currents in her work reflect on war and its aftermath. more...
Paul Horiuchi
Paul Horiuchi went from serving as an assistant to Mark Tobey to earning recognition for bridging Japanese and New York school aesthetics. more...
A Century-and-a-Half Minting Artists
James Yood has spent 25 years on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With SAIC marking its 150th anniversary, it is clear that Yood would be happy to continue working there through the 200th anniversary. more...
Ron Rizk
Ron Rizk is an established master of shallow space tromp l'oeil painting, meeting it up with California assemblage. His latest work reflects a witty by acerbic critique of social norms and contemporary affairs. more...
“The Book of Scores”
Guest curator Chiara Giovando has the idea of a musical score in mind, the artists here making the connection but obliquely. more...
The Great (Gallery) Migration
This year has been dynamic for the growth of new art spaces. Bill Lasarow notes that his has been marked by new and established galleries heading for districts not previously known as gallery destinations. more...
Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
This collaboration between photographers Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb is inspired by the closing down of Eastman Kodak's headquarters in Rochester, New York. more...
Édouard Vuillard
While Edouard Vuillard contributed to the development of modernist pictorial space, he importantly remained a product of bourgeois culture. more...
Anila Quayyum Agha
Anila Quayyum Agha's installation, "Intersections," projects complex shadow patterns from a single light source placed within a suspended black box. The result is a magical, mystical sacred space. more...
Raising Cosmic Consciousness
The topic of cosmic consciousness in art takes a front seat in current and recent shows in Houston of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. more...
Ishiuchi Miyako
Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako was born shortly after WWII, and important currents in her work reflect on war and its aftermath. more...
Eugenio Merino
Eugenio Merino turns his scathing eye on the growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Works here such as "Under Pressure," "The Iron Cage" and "In God We Trust, Everyone Else Pays Cash" score aesthetic along with political points. more...
“Gyre: The Plastic Ocean”
"Gyre: The Plastic Ocean" is art as a warning. A "gyre" is a vortex, here an ecological disaster located deep in the Pacific Ocean. more...
POLIN and Treblinka
Polish and Jewish history are linked through achievement and tragedy. Matthew Kangas takes us to two museums in Poland that address both sides of this history, The Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN) and The Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom. more...
Cornelius Völker
Cornelius Völker explores the traditional genres of still life and portraiture, with a twist, luscious brushwork and lively color. more...
“Looking Forward Looking Back”
Shows like "Looking Forward Looking Back," an exhibition exclusively of women artists, risk replicating old barriers more than providing illuminating exposure. We get a scrappy effort here that hints at historical achievements but stays remote from the larger context. more...
Danielle Frankenthal
Danielle Frankenthal paints on both sides of multiple sheets of transparent acrylic resin panels and stacks them to display multiple layers of painting that register depth and cast shadows. more...
Lynn Aldrich
The latter day ready-mades of Lynn Aldrich come from hardware and office supply stores but are imbued with spiritual qualities. more...
Chintz, Kitsch and Letdown in the Infinity Room
The wait to spend a minute in Yayoi Kusama's immersive "Infinity Mirrored Room" at the new Broad turned out to be an underwhelming art experience, a theme-park-like build-up that lacks sincerity of intent. more...
Laszlo Layton
These photographs of wildlife specimens, with added hand painting and carefully controlled color, draw us to nature's fragile beauty. more...
Guy Diehl
Guy Diehl favors a deliberate rendering technique that evokes Old-Master realism. His still lifes do more than pay homage to Zubaran, they resolutely take the measure of what art can do. more...
“The Book of Scores”
Guest curator Chiara Giovando has the idea of a musical score in mind, the artists here making the connection but obliquely. more...
The Great (Gallery) Migration
This year has been dynamic for the growth of new art spaces. Bill Lasarow notes that his has been marked by new and established galleries heading for districts not previously known as gallery destinations. more...
Ron Rizk
Ron Rizk is an established master of shallow space tromp l'oeil painting, meeting it up with California assemblage. His latest work reflects a witty by acerbic critique of social norms and contemporary affairs. more...
Édouard Vuillard
While Edouard Vuillard contributed to the development of modernist pictorial space, he importantly remained a product of bourgeois culture. more...
POLIN and Treblinka
Polish and Jewish history are linked through achievement and tragedy. Matthew Kangas takes us to two museums in Poland that address both sides of this history, The Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN) and The Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom. more...
“Looking Forward Looking Back”
Shows like "Looking Forward Looking Back," an exhibition exclusively of women artists, risk replicating old barriers more than providing illuminating exposure. We get a scrappy effort here that hints at historical achievements but stays remote from the larger context. more...
Richard Renaldi
Given the high 'stunt' quotient, Richard Rinaldi's often uncomfortable pairing of strangers can get quite interesting--even deep. more...
Virginia Katz
Virginia Katz definitely makes landscape paintings, but piles on the paint until they become sculptural. But it is her feel for environmental issues that makes them resonant. more...
“MOMMY”
From the reassuring to the not-so warm and fuzzy, a range of recent works on motherhood is hardly unmined territory, but this group still provokes. more...
“Ten: Modern Abstract”
Spotlighting how ten Arizona artists get to their own place within the broad genre of abstraction allows for some sifting. Some of the work here doesn't rise above blandness and design, but enough does to convince us its continual power to take us where we have not been. more...
“The Many Faces of Modernism”
This is one among a series of shows on the subject of Modernism in New Mexico, and is the best outside of the larger museum shows. more...
David Beckley / Alexander Mouton
David Beckley and Alexander Mouton deal in their respective photography shows with the past, present and future prospects for an area referred to as “borderlands,” the north-south corridor of east central Europe running from Poland to Ukraine. more...
Chintz, Kitsch and Letdown in the Infinity Room
The wait to spend a minute in Yayoi Kusama's immersive "Infinity Mirrored Room" at the new Broad turned out to be an underwhelming art experience, a theme-park-like build-up that lacks sincerity of intent. more...
Lipogram Vanity
Do art critics love to play word games? James Yood reminds us that they are, after all, WRITERS; it's OK to have fun with the raw material. more...
Thomas Gardiner
How Americans and Canadiens are viewed in other parts of the world is a question and engages photographer Thomas Gardiner, a Canadian whose images convey the perspective of an outsider who is both dazzled and troubled by what he sees. more...
Kelley Devine
In her close-ups of faces--both her own and friends'--are combined with collaged texts that suggest the subjects' inner life. more...
“One Cannot Look: Graphic Wars”
Pairing the graphic depictions of war and violence by Spanish artists Francisco de Goya and Rafael Canogar offers contrasting ways of making us look closely from what we normally prefer to avert our gaze. more...
Barry McGee
The impression of chaos is by design. Barry McGee's manic energy sharpens into a joyful but socially engaged installation. more...
Todd Christensen
Books discarded by libraries and obtained at rummage sales are torn, written on and otherwise repurposed into Todd Christensen's neurotic reflections and a flowing installation of numerous volumes attached to the walls. more...
Virginia Katz
Virginia Katz definitely makes landscape paintings, but piles on the paint until they become sculptural. But it is her feel for environmental issues that makes them resonant. more...
David Beckley / Alexander Mouton
David Beckley and Alexander Mouton deal in their respective photography shows with the past, present and future prospects for an area referred to as “borderlands,” the north-south corridor of east central Europe running from Poland to Ukraine. more...
“Ten: Modern Abstract”
Spotlighting how ten Arizona artists get to their own place within the broad genre of abstraction allows for some sifting. Some of the work here doesn't rise above blandness and design, but enough does to convince us its continual power to take us where we have not been. more...
Peat Duggins
The sheer power of blind, amoral nature is expressed with power and elegance by Peat Duggins. Animals and animal parts are depicted with a realism that makes you wonder if these are, perhaps, hunting trophies. Don't be fooled. more...
Bill Dambrova
Bill Dambrova's take on human anatomy is at once anarchically psychedelic yet harmoniously composed. more...
New Art Meets Historic Monuments
Site-specific art is being brought to each of San Antonio's five historic missions in the rural terrain of Mission Reach district. The first two completed projects, by Stacy Levy and Arne Quinze successfully wed contemporary art to key historical structures. more...
Leslie Kenneth Price
The abstract works of Leslie Kenneth Price are the product of a strong lineage, attentive observation and a vigorous approach to painting. more...
Jay Kvapil
Tightly formed and beautifully pure, Jay Kvapil's current series of ceramic vessels are titled "Control and Chaos" for their glazed surfaces, which are exceptionally deep and luminous. more...
Not Vanishing / (Re)Presenting
These two museum exhibitions examine how Native Americans have been depicted and how they address contemporary issues. more...
Lawren Harris
Well recognized in Canada, Lawren Harris' early modern depictions of the northern landscape are something of a revelation for their clarity of abstract interpretation without straying from confident evocations of nature and the environment. more...
Fred Stonehouse
Fred Stonehouse's human-animal chimeras act out surreal and enigmatic folkloric narratives that consistently fascinate. more...
“The Mapmaker’s Dream”
A selection of five artists -- Maurizio Anzeri, Marius Bercea, Linda Conner, Chris McCaw and Pae White -- take diverse approaches to how we map our surroundings. more...
Anne Siems and Gina Wilson
Two artists address the figure in strikingly different ways: via magical realism, and with a minimalist, architectonic approach. more...
Did AIDS Change Art?
"Art AIDS America" is hardly the first or last exhibition about AIDS, but it is expansive, well curated and researched, and may be seen and thought about in a rich variety of ways. more...
Dirk De Bruycker
Flowingly liquid color fields by Dirk De Bruycker bloom out towards you and makes their impact deceptively quickly. more...
Victor Hugo Zayas
Changes have been coming, and will continue to come to the Los Angeles River for years. Victor Hugo Zayas artfully records that evolution, along with views of the urban environment in his "River" and "Grid" series. more...
“Frida Kahlo: Her Photos”
An extensive selection of archival photographs provide an irresistibly personal glimpse into the life of the iconic Frida Kahlo. more...
New Year's Resolve
Bill Lasarow has long regarded art's essential element as one's authenticity. But now our domestic politics have turned the content of that great term on its head. more...
“Between Two Worlds”
"Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience" presents the personal experience and perspective of more than 20 artists who have gone through this inherently grueling experience. more...
Sandow Birk
Islam's sacred text and how it reverberates in modern America is the subject of Sandow Birk's "American Qur'an", an earnest and sometimes poignant interpretation that was nine years in the making. more...
Jessica Halonen
Prussian blue and the idea of transition inform Jessica Halonen's paintings that respond to the brief times of sunrise and sunset. more...
Grisha Bruskin
Grisha Bruskin's invented mythological figures, painted and in cut steel, reference Art Nouveau, psychedelia, Milton Glaser and the Kabbalah. more...
Ben Huff
"The Last Road North" is photographer Ben Huff's paean to Alaska's Dalton Highway, an uncannily spartan, 414-mile stretch of arboreal forest and tundra between Fairbanks and Deadhorse, within the Arctic Circle. more...
Ron English
Ron English revels in masking up symbols and striking colors that attract and repel. The current "Neo-Nature" series of fanciful animals casts our own progress as not necessarily so great. more...
New Experiments in Art and Technology
The nine artists of "NEAT: New Experiments in Art and Techology" salutes and updates the original "Experiments in Art and Technology" program of the 1960s. Hardly devoid of emotion, this compilation is soulful and playful. more...
Chaco Terada
Traditional Japanese calligraphy and silkscreened nature photography meet in Chaco Terada's rippling compositions. more...
Superstructure
If we want a better country, a better world, and a better art world, how do we make art with human values in a culture glamorizing vapidity and excess? DeWitt Cheng reflects on how the role of art has evolved. more...
Marty Schnapf
Marty Schnapf offers a cascade of eye sockets and other body parts emanate from abstract patterns in this dirty maximalism. more...
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas
The title of Rodrigo Lara Zendejas' exhibition, "Deportable Aliens," references the term used to describe forcibly repatriated immigrants during the Hoover administration. Porcelain thumbs bearing facial features are stacked on a shelf as if stowed away. more...
Jefferson Pinder
Jefferson Pinder's performance-based works resonate in their reversal of the deeply racist black-face cabaret of a century ago. Here black performers lip-sync to the music of white rock bands who have made traditionally black musical idioms palatable to the white audience. more...
Jackson Pollock
"Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots" is the most significant and art historically important show at this museum in decades. more...
Julian Wasser: Duchamp in Pasadena Redux
The first American museum retrospective of Marcel Duchamp occurred not in New York but Pasadena in 2963. Photographer Juilian Wasser was there to document it, producing some of the most iconic images of the L.A. art scene of the period. more...
Moving Day
For the second time in seven year the Art Institute of Chicago has shuffled the presentation of its permanent collection, and it all works. more...
Tim Hawkinson and Patty Wickman
The married couple of Tim Hawkinson and Patty Wickman do not pair aesthetically. Wickman's paintings express a deeply felt spirituality. Hawkinson's mixed media works examine the corruptibility of the human body. Both impressively engage the eye and raise important questions to reflect on. more...
Barry McGee
The impression of chaos is by design. Barry McGee's manic energy sharpens into a joyful but socially engaged installation. more...
Lipogram Vanity
Do art critics love to play word games? James Yood reminds us that they are, after all, WRITERS; it's OK to have fun with the raw material. more...
“One Cannot Look: Graphic Wars”
Pairing the graphic depictions of war and violence by Spanish artists Francisco de Goya and Rafael Canogar offers contrasting ways of making us look closely from what we normally prefer to avert our gaze. more...
New Art Meets Historic Monuments
Site-specific art is being brought to each of San Antonio's five historic missions in the rural terrain of Mission Reach district. The first two completed projects, by Stacy Levy and Arne Quinze successfully wed contemporary art to key historical structures. more...
Not Vanishing / (Re)Presenting
These two museum exhibitions examine how Native Americans have been depicted and how they address contemporary issues. more...
Jay Kvapil
Tightly formed and beautifully pure, Jay Kvapil's current series of ceramic vessels are titled "Control and Chaos" for their glazed surfaces, which are exceptionally deep and luminous. more...
Fred Stonehouse
Fred Stonehouse's human-animal chimeras act out surreal and enigmatic folkloric narratives that consistently fascinate. more...
Did AIDS Change Art?
"Art AIDS America" is hardly the first or last exhibition about AIDS, but it is expansive, well curated and researched, and may be seen and thought about in a rich variety of ways. more...
Dirk De Bruycker
Flowingly liquid color fields by Dirk De Bruycker bloom out towards you and makes their impact deceptively quickly. more...
Victor Hugo Zayas
Changes have been coming, and will continue to come to the Los Angeles River for years. Victor Hugo Zayas artfully records that evolution, along with views of the urban environment in his "River" and "Grid" series. more...
“Between Two Worlds”
"Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience" presents the personal experience and perspective of more than 20 artists who have gone through this inherently grueling experience. more...
New Year's Resolve
Bill Lasarow has long regarded art's essential element as one's authenticity. But now our domestic politics have turned the content of that great term on its head. more...
Sandow Birk
Islam's sacred text and how it reverberates in modern America is the subject of Sandow Birk's "American Qur'an", an earnest and sometimes poignant interpretation that was nine years in the making. more...
New Experiments in Art and Technology
The nine artists of "NEAT: New Experiments in Art and Techology" salutes and updates the original "Experiments in Art and Technology" program of the 1960s. Hardly devoid of emotion, this compilation is soulful and playful. more...
Superstructure
If we want a better country, a better world, and a better art world, how do we make art with human values in a culture glamorizing vapidity and excess? DeWitt Cheng reflects on how the role of art has evolved. more...
Marty Schnapf
Marty Schnapf offers a cascade of eye sockets and other body parts emanate from abstract patterns in this dirty maximalism. more...
Raphaëlle Goethals
The richly atmospheric encaustic and pigment paintings that comprise Raphaëlle Goethals "Echoes" are free, lyrical and quite disciplined. more...
William LeGoullon
William LeGoullon's images of immaculately recorded bullets and bullet-riddled found objects lend poetic power to act after act of violence unleashed with a seemingly gratuitous sense of the joy of sheer destruction. The wantonness is repudiated by the beauty of the image. more...
Site Specific Sanctuaries
Art as a site of secularized religious experience gains new practitioners in noteworthy recent projects springing up around Texas. more...
Gordon Watkinson
Architectural photography Gordon Watkinson examines a dozen original Bauhaus buildings paired alongside recent structures that preserve and extend the Bauhaus aesthetic. more...
David Maisel
Taken in Spain, David Maisel's aerial photographs record irregular patterns of human activity with an emphasis on the sort of earth tones associated with "The Fall." Heavy equipment down there looks tiny and helps make the images more painterly and interesting. more...
Tim Hawkinson and Patty Wickman
The married couple of Tim Hawkinson and Patty Wickman do not pair aesthetically. Wickman's paintings express a deeply felt spirituality. Hawkinson's mixed media works examine the corruptibility of the human body. Both impressively engage the eye and raise important questions to reflect on. more...
Moving Day
For the second time in seven year the Art Institute of Chicago has shuffled the presentation of its permanent collection, and it all works. more...
Jackson Pollock
"Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots" is the most significant and art historically important show at this museum in decades. more...
Julian Wasser: Duchamp in Pasadena Redux
The first American museum retrospective of Marcel Duchamp occurred not in New York but Pasadena in 2963. Photographer Juilian Wasser was there to document it, producing some of the most iconic images of the L.A. art scene of the period. more...
Joseph Lorusso
Joseph Lorusso produces tightly focused set pieces in subdued reds, browns and golds. They evoke intimacy with a dash of mystery. These narrative paintings are both theatrical and alluring. more...
Ben Haggard
For five years Ben Haggard has painted numerous faces in Santa Fe, San Francisco and Berlin. About 200 of these adds up to--what? more...
The Studio Visit: Five Helpful Hints
Matthew Kangas loves to see artists do well, and hosting a successful studio visit is one of those tools that can tie an artist up in knots. We some careful planning a potentially nerve-wracking experience can be both enjoyable and productive. more...
“Earthworks”
Madeline Dietz, Perla Krauze and Mario Reis bring an earthworks aesthetic into the relative intimacy of a gallery environment. more...
Jean and Barbara Edelstein
This mother-daughter pairing brings together divergent aesthetic visions that both derive significantly from Asian traditions. Jean's accordion-fold scrolls reference Chinese "Scholar Books". Barbara's closely observed plants are both beautiful and meditative. more...
Site Specific Sanctuaries
Art as a site of secularized religious experience gains new practitioners in noteworthy recent projects springing up around Texas. more...
Chris Bradley
For Chris Bradley, ceilings are anything but monotonous or unnoticed. Replicas of unspecial ceilings are dropped from the heights of a hanger sized space, forcing an active engagement of eye and body while reflecting on idleness. more...
Kenneth Callahan
Perhaps the most multi-faceted talent to emerge and play a dominant role in the advanced art of the Northwest was Kenneth Callahan. more...
“Our Stars, Our Selfies"
Forging a personal relationship with artists and artworks we love, or love to hate, is part of what makes the creative life so rewarding. And this is why Richard Speer finds our current craze for selfies--in particular "art selfies"-- so unnerving. more...
Across the Pacific
A selection of five Taiwanese artists forces us to drop any pre-conceived notions of what Asian art should look like. more...
Ryan Foster
What appears in the foreground of one of Ryan Foster's paintings may be pushed back in another. Backgrounds tend to be out of focus or otherwise distorted. Homeless or disabled subjects appear poignantly oblivious to the street life around them. more...
“Earthworks”
Madeline Dietz, Perla Krauze and Mario Reis bring an earthworks aesthetic into the relative intimacy of a gallery environment. more...
The Studio Visit: Five Helpful Hints
Matthew Kangas loves to see artists do well, and hosting a successful studio visit is one of those tools that can tie an artist up in knots. We some careful planning a potentially nerve-wracking experience can be both enjoyable and productive. more...
Jean and Barbara Edelstein
This mother-daughter pairing brings together divergent aesthetic visions that both derive significantly from Asian traditions. Jean's accordion-fold scrolls reference Chinese "Scholar Books". Barbara's closely observed plants are both beautiful and meditative. more...
Kent Monkman
Kent Moneyman's "Failure of Modernity" is a series of large scale paintings that read like a row of windows looking out on an embattled ghetto neighborhood that leave archetypes of modernist art history crippled. more...
David Aylsworth
Working in the abstract with a build-up of multiple layers, David Aylsworth's paintings end up being bright, playful and suggestive. more...
Personal Politics
A century ago, early modernists fought against a complacently bourgeois, materialistic worldview. Some of these artists are rightly considered cultural heroes, others not so much. Creatives today, writes DeWitt Cheng, should in any case aspire to more than just good citizenship. more...
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan makes use of the most banal materials and simple methods to produce remarkable objects. This time it's the Slinky. more...
Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Thick paint and clunky objects are somehow made to work together in Daniel Rios Rodriguez' paintings/assemblages. Illusion and affixed objects blend the illusion of things with the things themselves. more...
Kenneth Callahan
Perhaps the most multi-faceted talent to emerge and play a dominant role in the advanced art of the Northwest was Kenneth Callahan. more...
“Our Stars, Our Selfies"
Forging a personal relationship with artists and artworks we love, or love to hate, is part of what makes the creative life so rewarding. And this is why Richard Speer finds our current craze for selfies--in particular "art selfies"-- so unnerving. more...
Crystallography
Artists Heny Rikenma, Peter Tonningsen, Jamie Banes and Liz Hickok reference the molecular structure of crystals in a variety of ways. more...
Oscar Berglund
Cycles of development and decay in an urban context inform the multimedia aesthetic of Oscar Berglund more...
Requiem or Realism?
Reflecting on his recent obituary for artist Marvin Lipofsky, James Yood ponders the appropriate honoring of the subject. more...
Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen has practiced a hard-edge brand of realism that is informed by surrealism for more than 40 years, and continues to join both a strong sense of order with a sense of other-worldliness. more...
Aaron Fowler
Up and comer Aaron Fowler produces collage paintings packed with consumer objects and personal ephemera, building up energetic sculptural surfaces that are densely layered and full of purposeful funkiness. more...
Betye Saar
Now approaching 90, Betye Saar long since gained prominence for assemblage work that draws on the nation's racist history. more...
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan makes use of the most banal materials and simple methods to produce remarkable objects. This time it's the Slinky. more...
Personal Politics
A century ago, early modernists fought against a complacently bourgeois, materialistic worldview. Some of these artists are rightly considered cultural heroes, others not so much. Creatives today, writes DeWitt Cheng, should in any case aspire to more than just good citizenship. more...
Josh Reames and Jose Lérma
Josh Reames' crafty airbrushed and tromp l'oeil-heavy paintings are given a healthy re-fresh through a collaboration with Jose Lérma. Together they create two mural-sized paintings, "He Hath Founded It Upon The Seas (I and II)." more...
Livia Stein
Livia Stein paints up a storm. Colors are adventurous, brushwork loaded with energy. The characters are gross, and you soon love 'em. more...
Beth Ames Swartz’ Spiritual Balancing Act
The subject of the recently released film "Reminders of Invisible Light," Beth Ames Swartz aesthetic of spirituality draws on a heady mix of California Light and Space, Jewish and Native America ritual, Hindu cosmology and her own rich imagination. more...
Tomoko Sawada
Self-portraiture for Tomoko Sawada is all about the connection between a woman's interior life and outer appearance. more...
Louis Kahn
Given the massive architectural output of mid-20th century giant Louis I. Kahn, he often devoted years, even decades to his key projects. more...
“Few Were Happy with Their Condition”
A group of Romanian artists born before that country's 1989 Revolution look at upheaval and transition through the lens of documenting everyday life. Overall the 17 artists favor poetic expression over didactic explanation. more...
Kasumi Chow and Desiree Espada
Twelve arresting color photographs by Kasumi Chow and Desiree Esada are stark images of intense psychodramas. more...
Paige Powell
The East Village (New York) art scene of the 1980s remains a topic of wide interest, and artist and in-the-day girlfriend of Jean-Michel Basquiat Paige Powell sifts through her archive of pictures and relics to animate "The Ride" she took, and which we can now relish at the arm's length of 30 years more...
The Collector Couple
One of the most potentially rewarding--or awkward--encounters for an artist is that of the visit of a collector couple. more...
Roy Thurston and Monique Prieto
The pairing of light and space veteran Roy Thurston's shimmering hybrids and Monique Prieto's abstract diptychs suggestive of human ears represents an interweaving of the senses of vision and hearing. more...
Patricia Sannit
Stacked cylinders by Patricia Sannit are rough-hewn sentinels, metaphorical witnesses to history's repeating cycles of rise and fall. more...
Crystallography
Artists Heny Rikenma, Peter Tonningsen, Jamie Banes and Liz Hickok reference the molecular structure of crystals in a variety of ways. more...
Requiem or Realism?
Reflecting on his recent obituary for artist Marvin Lipofsky, James Yood ponders the appropriate honoring of the subject. more...
Betye Saar
Now approaching 90, Betye Saar long since gained prominence for assemblage work that draws on the nation's racist history. more...
Beth Ames Swartz’ Spiritual Balancing Act
The subject of the recently released film "Reminders of Invisible Light," Beth Ames Swartz aesthetic of spirituality draws on a heady mix of California Light and Space, Jewish and Native America ritual, Hindu cosmology and her own rich imagination. more...
Eva Isaksen
Eva Isaksen builds images that complicate the picture plane by layering and overlapping collaged elements of her own paintings on paper, which she cuts up and reassembles on canvas. more...
Ryan McCann
Ryan McCann paints photo realistically with a blowtorch. But, rest assured, his aesthetic reach extends beyond this process. more...
Civics 101
What does the current, wild political season have to do with visual art? Historically art has usually served the wealthy and powerful; even in the present day environment of aesthetic independence, patronage is not limited only to the most elite. Artists are as free as they have ever been to use the more...
Jenene Nagy
In "Mass" Jenene Nagy uses the fluid relationship between two- and three- dimensions to expand our notion of landscape. Minimalist in appearance, each black surface has imagery to yield up; so spend the time. more...
Dianna Frid and Richard Rezac
This pairing pits Dianna Frid's expressive fabric works against Richard Rezac's cool, high-gloss sculptures. more...
Paige Powell
The East Village (New York) art scene of the 1980s remains a topic of wide interest, and artist and in-the-day girlfriend of Jean-Michel Basquiat Paige Powell sifts through her archive of pictures and relics to animate "The Ride" she took, and which we can now relish at the arm's length of 30 years more...
The Collector Couple
One of the most potentially rewarding--or awkward--encounters for an artist is that of the visit of a collector couple. more...
Roy Thurston and Monique Prieto
The pairing of light and space veteran Roy Thurston's shimmering hybrids and Monique Prieto's abstract diptychs suggestive of human ears represents an interweaving of the senses of vision and hearing. more...
MANUAL (Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom)
In "Raising Nature," the collaborative team MANUAL presents two series of dazzling images of trees, "Yellow Birch Cycle" and "Trees Flower." The first is a birch’s canopy shot from below, while the other is of flowering branches magically floating in mid-air. more...
Gordon Parks
Selections from Gordon Parks' photo essays on the 1963 march on Washington and the Black Power movement depict the turbulent sixties. more...
Thomas Kinkade, Huckster of Light
The late Thomas Kinkade was the Rodney Dangerfield of the art world. He got no respect — and with good reason. But two very different Kinkade-centric exhibitions have recently revisited the question of whether the self-branded “painter of light” deserved his déclassé more...
Helen Lundeberg
Combining avant garde surrealism and classical illustration launched Helen Lundeberg career long journey, mapped here, to a mature abstraction. more...
"Revolution in the Making ..."
"... Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016" makes the case for their key contributions to the best art of the contemporary era. more...
Leonard Suryajaya
Leonard Suryajaya’s “Don't Hold On to Your Bones” is a visually and aurally overwhelming installation. From ceiling to floor, the artist has wallpapered the back gallery with brightly patterned, abstracted paper squares. And that's just the beginning. more...
Eva Isaksen
Eva Isaksen builds images that complicate the picture plane by layering and overlapping collaged elements of her own paintings on paper, which she cuts up and reassembles on canvas. more...
Civics 101
What does the current, wild political season have to do with visual art? Historically art has usually served the wealthy and powerful; even in the present day environment of aesthetic independence, patronage is not limited only to the most elite. Artists are as free as they have ever been to use the more...
Ryan McCann
Ryan McCann paints photo realistically with a blowtorch. But, rest assured, his aesthetic reach extends beyond this process. more...
Emma Sulkowicz
The self-portrait of Emma Sulkowicz is actually three portraits in one: The artist herself on a platform; a life-size sculpture; and a miniature 3D-printed replica. It adds up to a distinctive form of interaction with an artist. more...
Ann Gale
Ann Gale's figures are objectively older, often heavy-set, not at all glamorous. But her brushwork's staccato energy makes it all work. more...
Artist Designed Sanctuaries III: Alex Grey
Alex Grey produced his "Chapel of Sacred Mirrors" over the decade of the 1980s, and moving next year to its permanent home in Wappinger, New York. It is one of the pinnacles of visionary art of the late 20th century. more...
Susan York
Susan York's dense graphite sculptures and drawings display a surprising visual affinity with Georgia O'Keeffe's work. more...
Nick Brandt
Nature photographer Nick Brandt drops his stunning images of threatened wildlife into sites of third world poverty and unregulated urban development. The results are both beautiful and shocking. more...
"Revolution in the Making ..."
"... Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016" makes the case for their key contributions to the best art of the contemporary era. more...
Thomas Kinkade, Huckster of Light
The late Thomas Kinkade was the Rodney Dangerfield of the art world. He got no respect — and with good reason. But two very different Kinkade-centric exhibitions have recently revisited the question of whether the self-branded “painter of light” deserved his déclassé more...
Leonard Suryajaya
Leonard Suryajaya’s “Don't Hold On to Your Bones” is a visually and aurally overwhelming installation. From ceiling to floor, the artist has wallpapered the back gallery with brightly patterned, abstracted paper squares. And that's just the beginning. more...
Miguel Soler-Roig
Miguel Soler-Roig returns to photograph his childhood home in Barcelona after 35 years. Its interiors are in disarray, as though suddenly abandoned. And the treatment of light and shadow is gorgeous. more...
Christiane Feser
Christiane Feser creates illusionistic dimensions by photographing real objects and going one better by cutting into the print's surface. more...
Middle Class of the Art World
If much of the public attention is drawn to the art world's elite, Bill Lasarow reminds us that there is a large and vital creative "middle class," many of whom congregate to operate artist run spaces and co-ops that play a key role in providing entry and creative sustenance. more...
Jennifer Greenburg
Jennifer Greenburg appropriates found photographs into which she inserts herself, and in so doing "Revises History". more...
20 Years/20 Shows
"20 Years/20 Shows" honors SITE's anniversary with exhibits featuring artists who have previously appeared in the contemporary art space. more...
Lauren Mantecón
One time Portland fixture Lauren Mantecón relocated to Santa Fe, where she continues to evoke in her paintings the misty, atmospheric sfumato of the Pacific Northwest. more...
Ana Teresa Fernandez
Ana Teresa Fernandez manages competing aesthetic and topical imperatives, making art about feminism and immigration without falling into the traps of art-celebrity worship or academic obscurantism. more...
Maximo Gonzalez and Xawery Wolski
Maximo Gonzalez' collages paired with the sculpture of Xawery Wolski make the connection of repetition and transformation. more...
What a Difference a Letter Can Make!
Change, posits James Yood, is always exciting. But what a difference a change of location can make for an artist. Consider the opportunity to take a university teaching post. The location of otherwise excellent schools can shape an entire creative path. more...
“A Visual Artifact”
A well curated selection of representational art debuts as a gallery manifesto that contributes immediately to the expanding Seattle scene. more...
Eric Hesse and Tim Vermeulen
Encaustics by Eric Hesse aptly depict the variously filtered light of urban Los Angeles. In "Alphabet" Tim Vermeulen's precise paintings look to the letters found in an 18th-century primer for inspiration and perspective. more...
20 Years/20 Shows
"20 Years/20 Shows" honors SITE's anniversary with exhibits featuring artists who have previously appeared in the contemporary art space. more...
Artist Designed Sanctuaries III: Alex Grey
Alex Grey produced his "Chapel of Sacred Mirrors" over the decade of the 1980s, and moving next year to its permanent home in Wappinger, New York. It is one of the pinnacles of visionary art of the late 20th century. more...
Nick Brandt
Nature photographer Nick Brandt drops his stunning images of threatened wildlife into sites of third world poverty and unregulated urban development. The results are both beautiful and shocking. more...
Middle Class of the Art World
If much of the public attention is drawn to the art world's elite, Bill Lasarow reminds us that there is a large and vital creative "middle class," many of whom congregate to operate artist run spaces and co-ops that play a key role in providing entry and creative sustenance. more...
Scott Greene
Scott Greene depicts waste that is not quite biodegradable and processes that are vast and irreversible. He drops a postmodern take on history into Thomas Cole's darkly romantic, epic template. more...
Liam Everet
The act of painting is central to Liam Everett's abstract images. Evidence of application and tools are everywhere. more...
David Michael Lee
Over his 15-year career David Michael Lee has used painting's formal building blocks to construct multiple series. The visual energy released by gathering these together proves expansive and energizing. more...
Interview: Kimerly Rorschach
Seattle Art Museum Director Kimerly Rorschach explains her strategy for attuning the program to the region's racial and ethnic diversity. more...
Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek
The photographic collaboration between Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek promotes awareness of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in Peru. more...
“By Hand”
The six artists in "By Hand", reference the figure as produced through the artists' gestural subjectivity. more...
Daniel Joseph Martinez
David's "The Death of Marat" is the direct inspiration for Daniel Joseph Martinez' installation, the central tableau featuring life-size figures of the artist--as the dying Marat, assassin Charlotte Corday and of himself. more...
Ana Teresa Fernandez
Ana Teresa Fernandez manages competing aesthetic and topical imperatives, making art about feminism and immigration without falling into the traps of art-celebrity worship or academic obscurantism. more...
What a Difference a Letter Can Make!
Change, posits James Yood, is always exciting. But what a difference a change of location can make for an artist. Consider the opportunity to take a university teaching post. The location of otherwise excellent schools can shape an entire creative path. more...
Eric Hesse and Tim Vermeulen
Encaustics by Eric Hesse aptly depict the variously filtered light of urban Los Angeles. In "Alphabet" Tim Vermeulen's precise paintings look to the letters found in an 18th-century primer for inspiration and perspective. more...
“A Visual Artifact”
A well curated selection of representational art debuts as a gallery manifesto that contributes immediately to the expanding Seattle scene. more...
Tamas Dezso
Hungarian photographer Tamas Dezso documents the changing social and physical landscape of post–Soviet era Hungary and Romania, particularly life at the edges of society. more...
“H2O”
The three artists comprising "H20" may be timely, but all steer clear of the obvious polemics in their smart, lovely work. more...
Julia Brown
Researching documents of the 1960s civil rights movement lead Julia Brown to visually record and respond to the creation of man-made as well as natural boundaries. "Skin Trade" pushes the theme into provocative subject matter involving animals, smuggling and more. more...
Rachel Hellmann
Rachel Hellmann assembles paintings into compelling sculptural objects whose abstract forms wrestle their way into the gallery space. more...
Marilyn Minter
If Marilyn Minter's work seems to connote photorealism, her innovative and charismatic body of work is far too visceral and political to be ghettoized into that or any convenient genre. more...
Ed Moses
"Ed Moses @90" pays tribute to this artist's insatiable search for the process of creation, "not to be in control, but to be in tune." more...
Robb Report Art
What constitutes artistic credibility? There is a breed of aesthetic entrepreneur who chases fame and fortune through means unbeholden to traditional pedigrees, but rather to tactics and standards borrowed from the business world. more...
Interview: Kimerly Rorschach
Seattle Art Museum Director Kimerly Rorschach explains her strategy for attuning the program to the region's racial and ethnic diversity. more...
David Michael Lee
Over his 15-year career David Michael Lee has used painting's formal building blocks to construct multiple series. The visual energy released by gathering these together proves expansive and energizing. more...
Christine Tarkowski
In Christine Tarkowski's series of sculptures titled “Chthonic Void,” material is content and the making process is paramount. more...
Bay Area Boom or Bust
Not long ago the Bay Area's economic demographics plunged much of the local art world into near despair. Suddenly with the re-opening of SFMOMA, the recent opening of a new gallery complex and more perhaps the pending dystopia is not yet upon us. more...
Carmen Argote
Three months spent by Carmen Argote in the grand, Masion Magnolia in Guadalajara, Mexico produced a stunning series of photographs. more...
Do Ho Suh
Do Ho Suh re-creates his New York City apartment in a museum, but using transparent polyester fabric, wire rods and frottage. You move from room to room while seeing the entire place all at once. more...
Meow Wolf
About 135 creatives, together they are Meow Wolf, have filled a cavernous permanent space with a two-story Victorian house that opens to a series of fantastical environments: "The House of Eternal Return." We build our own narratives. more...
Cris Bruch
"Dispatch" presents a 10-year swath of Cris Bruch's paintings and sculpture. This richly varied work affirms the mystery of form instilled in heavily materialized objects. more...
Jeff Slim
Jeff Slim explores his Diné (Navajo) heritage while presenting images of young, urban figures navigating the contemporary world. more...
Justine Frischmann
Justine Frischmann brushes and sprays oil paint atop subtly printed digital photographs infused on aluminum, a mash-up of painting and photography. This would have once raised aesthetic hackles, but now is a fruitful blurring of arbitrary boundaries. more...
Let’s Hear It for the Worker Bees
Staff and volunteers relying on their own creativity often provide the means to elevate the development of talented artists. more...
Agnes Martin
The patient, reductive work of Agnes Martin may appear as simple as the grid template from which it grew. But it was her freedom from any preconception of what the grid might express that led her to the aesthetics of slight difference. more...
“Hidden Narratives”
If you don't think that the medium of glass lends itself to the telling of stories, the four artists included in "Hidden Narratives" beg to differ. Erin Dickson, Michelle Murillo, Jeffrey Sarmiento and Kathryn Wightman, successfully integrate traditional and innovative use of glass towards that very more...
Saskia Jordá
Saskia Jorda works with yarn, felt and thread and, yes, they feel whimsical. But her themes of displacement also imply tragedy. more...
How to Visit an Art Museum
As a seasoned teacher and art critic, James Yood has visited museums all over the world. He shares his preparation and approach to visiting and gaining familiarity with a museum collection, and what a specific collection means to the culture of its host city. more...
Boyang Hou
The basketball hoop serves as the template for Boyang Hou's witty, circle-in-a-square abstract paintings. more...
Claire Falkenstein
A lively survey of Claire Falkenstein's sculpture, paintings and prints traces her development as a self-aware modernist. From her earliest work forward, her approach to abstraction was marked by restless gestural formalism combined with a willingness to try new materials. more...
Ed Moses
"Ed Moses @90" pays tribute to this artist's insatiable search for the process of creation, "not to be in control, but to be in tune." more...
Robb Report Art
What constitutes artistic credibility? There is a breed of aesthetic entrepreneur who chases fame and fortune through means unbeholden to traditional pedigrees, but rather to tactics and standards borrowed from the business world. more...
Julia Brown
Researching documents of the 1960s civil rights movement lead Julia Brown to visually record and respond to the creation of man-made as well as natural boundaries. "Skin Trade" pushes the theme into provocative subject matter involving animals, smuggling and more. more...
Marilyn Minter
If Marilyn Minter's work seems to connote photorealism, her innovative and charismatic body of work is far too visceral and political to be ghettoized into that or any convenient genre. more...
Meow Wolf
About 135 creatives, together they are Meow Wolf, have filled a cavernous permanent space with a two-story Victorian house that opens to a series of fantastical environments: "The House of Eternal Return." We build our own narratives. more...
Bay Area Boom or Bust
Not long ago the Bay Area's economic demographics plunged much of the local art world into near despair. Suddenly with the re-opening of SFMOMA, the recent opening of a new gallery complex and more perhaps the pending dystopia is not yet upon us. more...
Carmen Argote
Three months spent by Carmen Argote in the grand, Masion Magnolia in Guadalajara, Mexico produced a stunning series of photographs. more...
Ruth Gruber
Ruth Gruber's retrospective of her lengthy career in photojournalism is as much a testament to her courage and persistence as to the remarkable array of subjects she was able to gain access to and record. more...
Chuck Close Comes Home
If you thought Chuck Close, the master of the face who suffers from prosopagnosia, hails from New York, think again, he's from the Seattle area. more...
Linnea Glatt
Linnea Glatt's hypnotic works exude serenity that depends on a succession of shapes in alternating sizes that imply movement produced by rhythmic shapes, mainly solid circles. more...
Patrick Graham
Patrick Graham derives his paintings and mixed media works from personal turbulence and connects it to collective experience. more...
Tom Kiefer
Tom Kiefer translates mundane personal effects into politically laden emblems of our government’s handling of illegal immigration. more...
Carmen Vetter
Carmen Vetter brings together photographs and kiln-formed glass in effectively two distinct bodies of work. The glass stands out for the clever sourcing of imagery, the use of glass powders fired on plate glass, and the feeling we get of hives of activity made engaging with the use of a formalist gr more...
Splatters, Spurts, Sex
Erotic drawings by Sam Francis recently seen in Pasadena were an unfamiliar, uncharacteristic pleasure of frank exuberance. more...
“Puja and Piety” and Lewis deSoto
"Puja and Piety" is a sprawling selection covering 2,000 years of Indian history. Before the entrance of the show is a new work by Lewis deSoto anchored by an oversized inflatable reclining self-portrait based on the 12th-century Buddha at Gal Vihara in Sri Lanka. more...
Lee Godie
Both self-taught and homeless, Lee Godie managed to insinuate herself into Chicago's art history. Beyond a constant output of paintings her photo booth self-portraits are packed with intrigue and symbolism. more...
“Hidden Narratives”
If you don't think that the medium of glass lends itself to the telling of stories, the four artists included in "Hidden Narratives" beg to differ. Erin Dickson, Michelle Murillo, Jeffrey Sarmiento and Kathryn Wightman, successfully integrate traditional and innovative use of glass towards that very more...
How to Visit an Art Museum
As a seasoned teacher and art critic, James Yood has visited museums all over the world. He shares his preparation and approach to visiting and gaining familiarity with a museum collection, and what a specific collection means to the culture of its host city. more...
Cris Bruch
"Dispatch" presents a 10-year swath of Cris Bruch's paintings and sculpture. This richly varied work affirms the mystery of form instilled in heavily materialized objects. more...
Let’s Hear It for the Worker Bees
Staff and volunteers relying on their own creativity often provide the means to elevate the development of talented artists. more...
Agnes Martin
The patient, reductive work of Agnes Martin may appear as simple as the grid template from which it grew. But it was her freedom from any preconception of what the grid might express that led her to the aesthetics of slight difference. more...
Claire Falkenstein
A lively survey of Claire Falkenstein's sculpture, paintings and prints traces her development as a self-aware modernist. From her earliest work forward, her approach to abstraction was marked by restless gestural formalism combined with a willingness to try new materials. more...
“Radiant Space”
“Radiant Space" is an impressive selection of glowing, translucent, transparent and reflective works of art. Deriving primarily from Light and Space, Optical and Minimalist roots, art and industrial materials add up to entryways to the transcendent. more...
The Wisdom of Three Women Artists
The influence on professional curator such as David S. Rubin of the artists encountered is a profoundly important function of the job as well as impacting on a more deeply personal level. Rubin cites the take aways gained from encounters with three major creative women. more...
Kendall Glover
Line driven and delicate, Kendall Glover uses deceptively slight means to establish a rich array of aesthetic connections. more...
Ai Weiwei
One wall of Ai Weiwei’s “Overrated" features forty photos of the artist’s hand, prominently in the foreground and center, giving the middle finger to monuments around the world. Defiance of the abuse of power is intense and playful, the constant thread forming the spine of Ai's wor more...
Cindy Sherman
The numerous personas of Cindy Sherman have formed one of the most provocative and relevant bodies of work by a single artist over the last four decades. more...
Chuck Close Comes Home
If you thought Chuck Close, the master of the face who suffers from prosopagnosia, hails from New York, think again, he's from the Seattle area. more...
Carmen Vetter
Carmen Vetter brings together photographs and kiln-formed glass in effectively two distinct bodies of work. The glass stands out for the clever sourcing of imagery, the use of glass powders fired on plate glass, and the feeling we get of hives of activity made engaging with the use of a formalist gr more...
Patrick Graham
Patrick Graham derives his paintings and mixed media works from personal turbulence and connects it to collective experience. more...
Splatters, Spurts, Sex
Erotic drawings by Sam Francis recently seen in Pasadena were an unfamiliar, uncharacteristic pleasure of frank exuberance. more...
Christian Marclay
Remember his "The Clock"? The six recent videos here continue Christian Marclay's intense and methodical process of bringing together thousands of still images of the most prosaic objects into mesmerizing animations. more...
Leslie Vigeant
The artificial standards of female beauty sprout under sickly pink florescent lights in Leslie Vigeant's heartbreaking and hilarious work. more...
Andrea Bowers
Starting with a 19th century illustration of a May Day worker's march, Andrea Bowers brings 21st century compassion and craft. more...
“Burnt Generation”
What we call Generation X is the "Burnt Generation" in Iran, and this group of nine mid-career Iranian photographers provide telling insight into the solemn lives being led by many of their peers. It's a portrait that goes well beyond the usual tropes received from corporate media. more...
“Virtual Object”
3D printers are used by the artists here to create three dimensional objects: Sculpture. The technology is still novel, the effect of these objects is often visceral. more...
Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen
Theo Jansen: "Plastic tubes entered my life in 1990 on a fine September day. Since then, the beach animals have ruled my life. It became an addiction ... The beach animals are forcing me to make them. The animals and I live in symbiosis." more...
The Wisdom of Three Women Artists
The influence on professional curator such as David S. Rubin of the artists encountered is a profoundly important function of the job as well as impacting on a more deeply personal level. Rubin cites the take aways gained from encounters with three major creative women. more...
Michael Brophy
Michael Brophy's acclaim as a painter of the habitat of the Pacific Northwest receives a fresh boost in these pictorial vistas of manmade devastation. It is a dark vision presented with smoldering intensity, and it moves us. more...
Ballad of a Free Man
Krems, Austria is not your normal tourist destination. James Yood heads there this summer for an artist residency program, which is about more than just his own creative work but also the serendipity of interacting with generally like minded creative strangers. more...
Jim Melchert
Veteran conceptualist Jim Melcher has lately been into ceramics. In "Channels" he breaks up and reassembles store-bought porcelain. more...
Lena Moross
Working with watercolors Lena Moross has spent years paintings the transgender Carmine Messina. It is a study in empathy and a celebration of the joyous assertion of self identity against the odds. more...
El Mac
Well known for his murals, El Mac excels in the ultra-close-up depiction of ordinary people in a distinctive style of contoured lines. This show casts light on a number of influences, as acknowledged explicitly in the works' titles. more...
Amy Sherald
Know for her portraits of African-American subjects, Amy Sherald brings down the emotional temperature and emphasizes the larger context from which she sees each individual. more...
Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen
Theo Jansen: "Plastic tubes entered my life in 1990 on a fine September day. Since then, the beach animals have ruled my life. It became an addiction ... The beach animals are forcing me to make them. The animals and I live in symbiosis." more...
“Burnt Generation”
What we call Generation X is the "Burnt Generation" in Iran, and this group of nine mid-career Iranian photographers provide telling insight into the solemn lives being led by many of their peers. It's a portrait that goes well beyond the usual tropes received from corporate media. more...
“Subduction”
Harold Mendez, Sharon Koelblinger and Ronny Queued were select for "Subduction" to highlight the labor involved in material transformation. Think the countless unseen transformations associated with the movement of the earth's tectonic plates. more...
“Text”
“Text” is an off-the-grid group exhibition exploring the ways we use the written, printed, spoken, sung and texted word. more...
Nina Tichava
The dazzling motion achieved in the mixed media works of Nina Tichava is produced by working layers of pigment, paper and resin to build compositions full of intersecting stripes and polka dots. more...
Peter Combe
The patriotic title notwithstanding, Peter Combe’s "Stars and Stripes" is less about Independence Day than the mysteries of appearance and representation. more...
On Globalization
Globalization was not long ago considered both necessary and desirable, but it has come under attack this political season. The art world offers both a model and metaphor for the significance of globalization as more than merely a force for economic or political progress. more...
Ballad of a Free Man
Krems, Austria is not your normal tourist destination. James Yood heads there this summer for an artist residency program, which is about more than just his own creative work but also the serendipity of interacting with generally like minded creative strangers. more...
Michael Brophy
Michael Brophy's acclaim as a painter of the habitat of the Pacific Northwest receives a fresh boost in these pictorial vistas of manmade devastation. It is a dark vision presented with smoldering intensity, and it moves us. more...
Lena Moross
Working with watercolors Lena Moross has spent years paintings the transgender Carmine Messina. It is a study in empathy and a celebration of the joyous assertion of self identity against the odds. more...
Justine Kurland and Deanna Thompson
The younger artist Justine Kurland steals this show with her "Auto Parts" series. Cars and engines in mid-repair seemingly levitate, mechanics merge with their beasts, and Kurland produces these quasi-religious feelings for we the viewers. more...
Courtney M. Leonard
In “Breach: Log 16” Courtney M. Leonard makes salient connections among topics such as the degradation of coral reefs and the ethics of whaling through a ceramics practice that includes audio/visual installations. more...
Joel Shapiro
This is not the Joel Shapiro who fuses geometric abstraction and the human figure. These colorful works could almost serve as dwellings. more...
Cindy Sherman
The numerous personas of Cindy Sherman have formed one of the most provocative and relevant bodies of work by a single artist over the last four decades. more...
“Subduction”
Harold Mendez, Sharon Koelblinger and Ronny Queued were select for "Subduction" to highlight the labor involved in material transformation. Think the countless unseen transformations associated with the movement of the earth's tectonic plates. more...
“Text”
“Text” is an off-the-grid group exhibition exploring the ways we use the written, printed, spoken, sung and texted word. more...
Peter Combe
The patriotic title notwithstanding, Peter Combe’s "Stars and Stripes" is less about Independence Day than the mysteries of appearance and representation. more...
Neil Beloufa
Neil Beloufa's take on global tensions is expressed in a mixture of film, sculpture and installation. The disconnect between the feeling of private life and how it appears to the public eye manages to feel like fun while evoking darkness. more...
Gigi Mills
Gigi Mills' female figures lounge about, homeless men sleep in the street in modernist idioms that match bohemian roots against a bourgeois present. more...
Sisyphean Creativity
The distillation of human experience into cathartic forms that we may share in is a key task of creative artists. Richard Speer's experience of a new production of Jean Cocteau's "Parade" expresses the exasperating nature of the eternal struggle towards artistic meaning and integrity. more...
Barbara Rossi
Long associated with the Chicago Imagists, these early works by Barbara Rossi filter vernacular imagery through an intuitive creative process. more...
Wendy Red Star
The trophy heads you'd normally expect are removed while the bodies of these dear remain, gold Mylar ribbons spilling out like shimmering innards. Wendy Red Star gets us to reflect on how we've misplaced our sense of value. more...
Jae Ko
Kraft paper manipulated into large sculptural reliefs is the singular material that Jae Ko uses to transform cold walls and floors into churning waves, melting glaciers or massive mountains. more...
On Globalization
Globalization was not long ago considered both necessary and desirable, but it has come under attack this political season. The art world offers both a model and metaphor for the significance of globalization as more than merely a force for economic or political progress. more...
Johanna Billing
A pair of films based on an intentional traffic jam comprise Johanna Billing's "Learning How to Drive a Piano." Think about that. more...
Slouching Towards a More Perfect Democracy
In a rare departure from art commentary, DeWitt Cheng reflects on how the reality TV influenced Presidential election shapes up coming out of the two major party conventions. Whatever the outcome, he continues to feel the Bern. more...
“It’s Official”
The four designated "Texas State Artists" together show why they received the state's highest official recognition. more...
“Sub Rosa: Behind the Scenes at the Museum”
Selected works from the Sedgwick Collection are turned around, backsides facing the viewer. This is not to hide but rather to reveal, the various markings, stamps and tags telling a story almost never told about how museums display and care for important works of art. more...
MK Guth
Long plaits of fabric first formed during a residency by MK Guth during a New York residency find their way to Portland, where they are transformed into highly textured abstract vessels. more...
Ron Ulicny
The gallery serves as a repository for wood sculpture that Ron Ulicny manipulates in a number of surprising ways. more...
Still Sweating it at the Keyboard
James Yood has long practiced art criticism, so he naturally pays attention to its uneasy place at the table of contemporary art. Whether the practice is more about finding fault or providing analysis is the choice of the critic, Yood admits that he tends to root for the artists. more...
Shirley Tse
Shirley Tse draws on Oscar Wilde's children's story "The Happy Prince" in new works anchored by wire-mesh and colored glass heads. more...
Stephanie Syjuco
Stephanie Syjuco offers a cacophony of visual information, much of which consists of what appears to be consumer goods from big box chain stores but are in fact printed media designed to stand in for the real thing--with important twists. more...
Abigail Goldman
The miniature dioramas of Abigail Goldman reflect her background as a crime reporter. The forensic nastiness depicted in one scene after another calls to mind the cinematic models of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch with a welcome element of preposterousness. more...
Mabel Dodge Luhan
Taos was established as an arts magnet by Mabel Dodge Luhan more than any single person, as this biographical show documents. more...
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi was both highly regarded (more in Paris than at home) and vilified during his lifetime but obscured in the century following his death. His central theme of solitude rendered in a quietly restrained palette rejects the theatricality and bombast of many of hi more...
Jae Ko
Kraft paper manipulated into large sculptural reliefs is the singular material that Jae Ko uses to transform cold walls and floors into churning waves, melting glaciers or massive mountains. more...
Sisyphean Creativity
The distillation of human experience into cathartic forms that we may share in is a key task of creative artists. Richard Speer's experience of a new production of Jean Cocteau's "Parade" expresses the exasperating nature of the eternal struggle towards artistic meaning and integrity. more...
“Sub Rosa: Behind the Scenes at the Museum”
Selected works from the Sedgwick Collection are turned around, backsides facing the viewer. This is not to hide but rather to reveal, the various markings, stamps and tags telling a story almost never told about how museums display and care for important works of art. more...
Slouching Towards a More Perfect Democracy
In a rare departure from art commentary, DeWitt Cheng reflects on how the reality TV influenced Presidential election shapes up coming out of the two major party conventions. Whatever the outcome, he continues to feel the Bern. more...
Photographic Matrices
In three recent photography exhibitions, artists and curators have arranged individual portraits in grid formations that bring to mind the photographic matrices common to social networking sites. In each, the works create a unique portrait of a community. more...
“What Birds Can See”
James Collins, Rachel de Joode and Alwin Lay establish a palpable sense of remove between the viewer and the artists’ subject matters. more...
Alex Da Corte
Alex Da Corte turns rooms into stage sets that bombard the viewer with visual and sonic elements. "A Season in He’ll" is inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's poem "A Season in Hell" together with familiar pop cultural sources. more...
Alan Corkery Hahn
Paperback book pages are elevated by Alan Corkery Hahn with something as insubstantial as thread--and a lot of interesting ideas. more...
Decontextualization Run Amok
As has happened before, an entrenched aesthetic over time loses its capacity to surprise and becomes formulaic and unconvincing. Such has become the case with the now thoroughly academic practice of deconstruction and decontextualization. more...
“Piston Head II”
Custom made cars are not only a match for Los Angeles, "Piston Head II" shows they are fodder for art. Each here tells their own story ranging from Sterling Ruby's dark and ominous "Bus" to Kenny Sharf's flower and fish covered "Daisymobile." more...
Lawrence Calcagno and Louis Catusco
Lawrence Calcagno and Louis Catusco were both modernist abstract painters who spent time in Taos. While Calcagno was extremely outgoing and avid traveler, Catusco preferred to stay put and lived an ascetic lifestyle akin to Agnes Martin. more...
Peter Krasnow
This retrospective pegs Peter Krasnow a "Maverick Modernist," suggesting that he didn't necessarily stick with the program. more...
“Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia”
"Generation: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia” is a large multimedia group show that depicts the cultural clash between new and old in an Arab context. It also demonstrates that young Arab artists are well versed in the idioms of international contemporary art. more...
Katherine Joseph
Working for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Katherine Joseph captured the dignity of work during the golden age of unionized labor. more...
Ken Price
Ken Price is and will remain best known for his sculpture, but here we get him as a draftsman. These quirky and colorful drawings offer context for the more familiar sculpture, but turn out stand up on their own. more...
“Decorative Arts and Orientalism”
Don't overlook this small show of "Decorative Arts and Orientalism," a blend of wonderful craftsmanship and the pollination of style. more...
Ceramics at a Breakthrough Art Fair
The recent Seattle Art Fair was the best ever in this city in terms of both quality and attendance. Matthew Kangas sorts through the vein of ceramics, which represented a whole new generation of talent drawn to the medium. more...
“Transported"
The four artists comprising "Transported" each travel widely to produce work that takes us to both the exotic and the local. more...
Karla Klarin
San Fernando Valley native Karla Klarin has thrived artistically from the absence of a center and the banal aspects of L.A. The survey of paintings from the 1980s to the present shows her ability to focus on the grand ordinary as well overlooked corners of the city. more...
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall's reputation for impeccably skillful painting, strong narrative and searing content stand up in this outstanding survey. more...
David Hockney
David Hockney’s “Yosemite Suite” iPad drawings stress the invigorating and joyful experience of being in that most iconic of America’s natural environments. He translates his well known painterly skills successfully to digital media. more...
Rahul Mitra
Rahul Mitra is acutely aware of the economic disparity in today's world, and this exhibition provides insight into what this means. more...
Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich
Both Farraday Newsome and her husband Jeff Reich glean ideas from nature for their respective ceramics practice, and both like to translate certain ideas onto canvas. Their works diverge from there to establish a thoughtful visual tension. more...
George Tice
The urban landscape in decline may be an eyesore to most of us, but for George Tice the details of aging hometowns provide the source and inspiration for arresting black and white photographs. more...
Christine Nofchissey McHorse
Christine Nofchissey McHorse brings traditions of her Dine and Tewa ancestry forward with elegant yet radical vessel forms. more...
Still Sweating it at the Keyboard
James Yood has long practiced art criticism, so he naturally pays attention to its uneasy place at the table of contemporary art. Whether the practice is more about finding fault or providing analysis is the choice of the critic, Yood admits that he tends to root for the artists. more...
Shirley Tse
Shirley Tse draws on Oscar Wilde's children's story "The Happy Prince" in new works anchored by wire-mesh and colored glass heads. more...
Mabel Dodge Luhan
Taos was established as an arts magnet by Mabel Dodge Luhan more than any single person, as this biographical show documents. more...
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi was both highly regarded (more in Paris than at home) and vilified during his lifetime but obscured in the century following his death. His central theme of solitude rendered in a quietly restrained palette rejects the theatricality and bombast of many of hi more...
Photographic Matrices
In three recent photography exhibitions, artists and curators have arranged individual portraits in grid formations that bring to mind the photographic matrices common to social networking sites. In each, the works create a unique portrait of a community. more...
“What Birds Can See”
James Collins, Rachel de Joode and Alwin Lay establish a palpable sense of remove between the viewer and the artists' subject matters. more...
Victor Maldonado
Victor Maldonado addresses the racial stereotyping he has experienced by mining the symbol of the Mexican masked wrestler. more...
Alan Corkery Hahn
Paperback book pages are elevated by Alan Corkery Hahn with something as insubstantial as thread--and a lot of interesting ideas. more...
Run Amok
As has happened before, an entrenched aesthetic over time loses its capacity to surprise and becomes formulaic and unconvincing. more...
Ceramics at a Breakthrough Art Fair
The recent Seattle Art Fair was the best ever in this city in terms of both quality and attendance. Matthew Kangas sorts through the vein of ceramics, which represented a whole new generation of talent drawn to the medium. more...
“Transported"
The four artists comprising "Transported" each travel widely to produce work that takes us to both the exotic and the local. more...
Karla Klarin
San Fernando Valley native Karla Klarin has thrived artistically from the absence of a center and the banal aspects of L.A. The survey of paintings from the 1980s to the present shows her ability to focus on the grand ordinary as well overlooked corners of the city. more...
Megan Murphy
The bucolic landscape of Idaho is the main subject of Megan Murphy's unorthodox production method blending photography, drawing, painting and text. Images are lush, yet mostly in grayscale. more...
Amy Bennett
"Small Changes Every Day" is at once the title and the methodology of Amy Bennett's new paintings. She renders an invented landscape and the ensuing town that she has constructed on an eight-foot platform in her studio. more...
Jeff Perrone
Jeff Perrone sews buttons onto Malian mud cloth in gridded compositions that depict and convey charged, difficult to decipher words. more...
Home Land Security
"Home Land Security" at San Francisco's Presidio is the latest production of the FOR-SITE foundation. It's a compelling setting for an international selection of 18 artists who address the digital-age conflict between security and freedom. more...
Cannon Bernáldez
Documentation and context are key in Cannon Bernaldez' photography, which takes off from Mexico's violent drug cartel culture. more...
William Cannings
William Cannings' sculptural forms are never as simple as they look, often suggestive of formalist minimalism, but referencing a wide range of associations. It's topped off with dazzling color that demands your eyes' attention. more...
David Hockney
David Hockney’s “Yosemite Suite” iPad drawings stress the invigorating and joyful experience of being in that most iconic of America’s natural environments. He translates his well known painterly skills successfully to digital media. more...
Cemeteries and Churches
James Yood takes us through more of his favorite kinds of places that feed his aesthetic hunger. more...
George Tice
The urban landscape in decline may be an eyesore to most of us, but for George Tice the details of aging hometowns provide the source and inspiration for arresting black and white photographs. more...
Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer paints in-between places, clearly taking pleasure in the play of ambiguities. His technique is quite polished, is utterly logical in his approach, but pushes images to be constantly morphing into something more that they initially seem. more...
George Herms
A selection of pioneering assemblagist George Herms' new work reaffirms his past and current relevance. The Dude abides. more...
Lucinda Luvaas and Rufus Snoddy
The conceptual techniques of Lucinda Luvaas and Rufus Snoddy have overtones of social commentary along with their own individual ideologies and personal histories. more...
Mark Klett
"Desert Citizens" are saguaros cactii as photographed by Mark Klett, which gives you a good idea as to the spirit of these images. more...
“30 Americans”
This survey of works from Miami's Rubell Family Collection focuses on African American artists and offers how formerly excluded and marginalized black Americans simply dismantle discredited historical stereotypes and assumptions about supposed creative or intellectual limitations. more...
VAS Endorses Hillary Clinton
Only one candidate in the upcoming Presidential election begins to meet that principle of positive and capable national leadership. more...
Rebeca Puga
It can take years for Rebeca Puga to complete some of her paintings, but they often feel as though they are the product of a dream-like instant. more...
Dana Hart-Stone
Dana Hart-Stone’s renders cascades of snapshots, aligning them in vertical strips that form skillfully orchestrated patterns. more...
“100 Years of National Parks: The West”
For creative minds America’s national parks have served as a continuing source of inspiration. The more than 30 photographers focusing on our national parks in the Western U.S. reflect their beauty while making their own aesthetic statements. more...
A Lesson on Interconnectivity
David S. Rubin's encounters with Gordon Onslow Ford sparked and then deepened his understanding of interconnectivity. more...
SITElines.2016
If many surveys of American art tend to think Each Coast-West Coast, "SITElines" is oriented on a North-South axis. The artists here emphasize our spiritual relationship with land and water, informed by geography and ethnic identity. more...
Kirstine Reiner Hansen
Inspired by both old and modern masters, Kirstine Reiner Hansen recycles her own portraits and collages to make the imperfect real. more...
Michael T. Hensley
The rich but agitated surfaces of Michael T. Hansley's mixed media paintings are like walls or billboards that display multiple generations of posters. Hensley is a great example of Portland's regional "painterly painting" approach that both reveals and conceals latent imagery. more...
“Symbol Pleasures”
Squeak Carnwath, Walter Robinson and Orlando Leyba make up a three-part funk-art harmony that is delightfully free-spirited. more...
The Democratic Lens
Richard Speer is both delighted and exasperated by the now ubiquitous presence and use of the smartphone camera. If it has democratized the making and distribution of images, it also obscures and discourages any real sense of standards. more...
Jun Kaneko
Jun Kaneko's large painting installation work "Mirage" anchors an arresting, striking colorful exhibition of paintings and ceramics. more...
Pablo Picasso
A pair of exhibitions focus on Pablo Picasso's great draftsmanship as well as his creative process. Works represent many of his stylistic periods, and we are also reacquainted with the various women who served as both muse and partner. more...
Picasso Lithographs 1945–1960
The focus on this exceptional selection of Picasso's print output fully engages the master's creative process by presenting multiple states. more...
Home Land Security
"Home Land Security" at San Francisco's Presidio is the latest production of the FOR-SITE foundation. It's a compelling setting for an international selection of 18 artists who address the digital-age conflict between security and freedom. more...
Harold Mendez
Harold Mendez multimedia assemblages are loaded with association, symbolism and historical reference. more...
“Structures and Feelings”
"Structures and Feelings" is the first of four exhibitions organized by curator-in-residence Michele Fiedler. The artists here probe connections between popular culture and communications systems. more...
Thomas Kellner
Thomas Kellner's exploded photographic grids of iconic international sites evoke violent flux through orderly means. more...
Karon Davis
"Pain Management" addresses Karon Davis' experience of her late artist husband Noah Davis' losing battle with cancer in a two-gallery installation that grapples with the sombre difficulty of her roll as care-giver, the grief of loss, and the importance of being able to move on. more...
Remembering Edward Albee
The late playwright Edward Albee is remembered here for his very real struggle for critical acceptance and the good work of his foundation. more...
Mark Flood
Mark Flood mines the cultural, social, and political condition of our media saturated lives in a multi-room installation that evokes the sensibility of street life combined with the digitized traffic of text messaging. more...
Richard Baker
Scenes of 21st century California leisure are Richard Baker's recalibration of the Impressionists' vision of Paris in the 1870s. more...
“Tribute: Women Artists of the African Diaspora”
Ten women included in "Tribute: Ten Women Artists of the African Diaspora" embrace a spectrum of strategies and visual devices to communicate their themes, philosophies and values. more...
Marnie Weber
Marnie Weber presents a modern fairy tail of a film and an installation that expands on the ever after of the narrative. more...
Ross Bleckner
The sober beauty of Ross Bleckner's painting is apparent in floral-motif screenprints of the 1990s that depict blossoms, minus stems and leaves, that appear to be floating on water. more...
“Sacramental Vessels”
Glowing with light, Banjo's glasswork art merges counterculture and fine art with nods to Native American and Asian sources. more...
Roloff and Webber
In “Two Artists Collaborate,” Sam Roloff and Shawn Webber wrestle with their individual identities while also confronting one another. more...
“Alcoves 16/17”
Opening centers, empty spaces, and strong subtleties are the hallmarks of "Alcoves 16/17," the current in a series of seven shows that serve to introduce the public to established but under-the-radar artists of the Southwest. more...
Interconnectivity, Pt. 1
David S. Rubin's encounters with Gordon Onslow Ford sparked and then deepened his understanding of interconnectivity. more...
Looking Ahead 15 Years
In 2004, James Wood resigned as Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, succeeded by James Cuno, who was succeeded in turn in 2011 by Douglas Druick, who has now been succeeded by James Rondeau. James Yood thanks them all. more...
Robert Williams
While the public calls it Pop Surrealism, Robert Williams calls it Slang Aesthetics, an outcast visual vernacular that he has spent his career developing with exceptional mastery of the traditional techniques of naturalistic drawing and oil painting. more...
“Pick Your Poison”
"Pick Your Poison" offers a thumbnail review of the last five centuries of protest, dissidence, satire and propaganda in prints. more...
A Commitment to Social Justice
Many who knew Arnold Mesches are feeling loss over his recent passing at age 93. Always a painters' painter, his series that drew on his clash with McCarthism. Years later he used the contents of his FBI files to inspire "The FBI Files," which are now even more relevant than when he first created th more...
Marlana Stoddard Hayes
Marlana Stoddard Hayes literally incorporates mushrooms into her paintings, which counterintuitively, are abstract. more...
Rocky Schenk
Rocky Schenck documents a world that may seem a "Recurring Dream" to many, but feels familiar to the eye of an Angeleno. Lurking behind his surreal landscapes are tales of sadness and emptiness. more...
Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey is a portraitist with a talent for capturing people's intimate expressions--despite the fact that they are posed. more...
Aline Mare and Michael Giancristiano
Aline Mare and Michael Giancristiano each have an intensely spiritual take on the natural world. Mare layers photography and painting to produce an intense visual poetry. Giancristiano's plywood with plant reliefs describe the power of regeneration. more...
“He/She/They”
“He/She/They” is a group show proposing traditional male dominance is endangered, and that this is a good thing that was decades in coming. more...
Adonna Khare
Adonna Khare draws the heck out of animals that make the point we are indeed all political animals. While making rhetorical points gracefully and with restraint, her complex weave of fine lines takes the eye on a delightful ride. more...
Alison Keogh
In “Pixels” Alison Keogh engages the intersection of structure and chaos. Gestural drawings in sumi ink, idigo and graphite are effectively tossed into the sections of a neat grid. more...
Justin John Greene
In “Secret Slob,” L.A.-based artist Justin John Greene references J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.” Reflecting Holden Caulfield, Greene depicts unsavory cinematic scenarios that underlie everyday life. more...
“Friendly Fire”
“Friendly Fire" is a group selection of powerful and engaging sculpture about compassion, resilience, and above all, resourcefulness. more...
Margarita Cabrera
“Space in Between,” a collaboration between Phoenix fiber artist Margarita Cabrera and members of the local immigrant community, who tell their stories in the form of folkloric fiber art. more...
It’s All True
Bruce Conner's retrospective in timely fashion reminds us what an uncompromising, socially critical avant-garde career looks like. more...
“Energy Charge”
The artists included to show alongside the late artist in “Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta” convey an electric energy. more...
Manuel Neri
Manuel Nero, now 86, has for decades been a virtuoso of sculptural verisimilitude of the human figure, while having been a central player in the funky Bay Area figurative movement. Recent bronzes confirm, but do not extend the scope of his contributions. more...
Jeffrey Vallance
Drawings comprising Jeffrey Vallance's "Now More Than Ever" range from the folksy to the exacting and amount to a quirky visual treasure hunt. more...
“Creator, Composer, Conductor”
Visual art and music certainly differ by virtue of the latter being generative, even revolutionary, while the latter is more interpretive. Richard Speer observes that this was not always so, but more recently he sees a trend towards the artist not as composer but conductor. more...
Paul Sietsema
Paul Sietsema may be making the most interesting tromp l'oeil around with fields of paint punctured by crinklings, gouges, and scratches. more...
Rachel Schwind Gardner
Rachel Schwind Gardner has a special affinity with wild creatures such as deer, wolves and ravens. The title of the show is “Prey," and it addresses the cycles of life: birth, death and rebirth in terms of hard reality but with a clear spiritual dimension. more...
“Online/Offline”
The artists included in "Online / Offline" perch on the barrier between the real and virtual worlds as the separation continues to blur. more...
Cannon Bernáldez
Documentation and context are key in Cannon Bernaldez' photography, which takes off from Mexico's violent drug cartel culture. more...
“30 Americans”
This survey of works from Miami's Rubell Family Collection focuses on African American artists and offers how formerly excluded and marginalized black Americans simply dismantle discredited historical stereotypes and assumptions about supposed creative or intellectual limitations. more...
“100 Years of National Parks: The West”
For creative minds America’s national parks have served as a continuing source of inspiration. The more than 30 photographers focusing on our national parks in the Western U.S. reflect their beauty while making their own aesthetic statements. more...
A Lesson on Interconnectivity
David S. Rubin's encounters with Gordon Onslow Ford sparked and then deepened his understanding of interconnectivity. more...
SITElines.2016
If many surveys of American art tend to think Each Coast-West Coast, "SITElines" is oriented on a North-South axis. The artists here emphasize our spiritual relationship with land and water, informed by geography and ethnic identity. more...
Michael T. Hensley
The rich but agitated surfaces of Michael T. Hansley's mixed media paintings are like walls or billboards that display multiple generations of posters. Hensley is a great example of Portland's regional "painterly painting" approach that both reveals and conceals latent imagery. more...
The Democratic Lens
Richard Speer is both delighted and exasperated by the now ubiquitous presence and use of the smartphone camera. If it has democratized the making and distribution of images, it also obscures and discourages any real sense of standards. more...
Jun Kaneko
Jun Kaneko's large painting installation work "Mirage" anchors an arresting, striking colorful exhibition of paintings and ceramics. more...
Pablo Picasso
A pair of exhibitions focus on Pablo Picasso's great draftsmanship as well as his creative process. Works represent many of his stylistic periods, and we are also reacquainted with the various women who served as both muse and partner. more...
Remembering Edward Albee
The late playwright Edward Albee is remembered here for his very real struggle for critical acceptance and the good work of his foundation. more...
Richard Baker
Scenes of 21st century California leisure are Richard Baker's recalibration of the Impressionists' vision of Paris in the 1870s. more...
“Tribute: Women Artists of the African Diaspora”
Ten women included in "Tribute: Ten Women Artists of the African Diaspora" embrace a spectrum of strategies and visual devices to communicate their themes, philosophies and values. more...
Looking Ahead 15 Years
In 2004, James Wood resigned as Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, succeeded by James Cuno, who was succeeded in turn in 2011 by Douglas Druick, who has now been succeeded by James Rondeau. James Yood thanks them all. more...
“Alcoves 16/17”
Opening centers, empty spaces, and strong subtleties are the hallmarks of "Alcoves 16/17," the current in a series of seven shows that serve to introduce the public to established but under-the-radar artists of the Southwest. more...
“Pick Your Poison”
"Pick Your Poison" offers a thumbnail review of the last five centuries of protest, dissidence, satire and propaganda in prints. more...
A Commitment to Social Justice
Many who knew Arnold Mesches are feeling loss over his recent passing at age 93. Always a painters' painter, his series that drew on his clash with McCarthism. Years later he used the contents of his FBI files to inspire "The FBI Files," which are now even more relevant than when he first created th more...
Rocky Schenk
Rocky Schenck documents a world that may seem a "Recurring Dream" to many, but feels familiar to the eye of an Angeleno. Lurking behind his surreal landscapes are tales of sadness and emptiness. more...
Aline Mare and Michael Giancristiano
Aline Mare and Michael Giancristiano each have an intensely spiritual take on the natural world. Mare layers photography and painting to produce an intense visual poetry. Giancristiano's plywood with plant reliefs describe the power of regeneration. more...
Adonna Khare
Adonna Khare draws the heck out of animals that make the point we are indeed all political animals. While making rhetorical points gracefully and with restraint, her complex weave of fine lines takes the eye on a delightful ride. more...
It’s All True
Bruce Conner's retrospective in timely fashion reminds us what an uncompromising, socially critical avant-garde career looks like. more...
“Friendly Fire”
“Friendly Fire" is a group selection of powerful and engaging sculpture about compassion, resilience, and above all, resourcefulness. more...
Aaron Parazette
Bold geometric paintings on shaped canvases draw Aaron Parazette closer in look and spirit to Ellsworth Kelly--but no too close. more...
Sara Rafferty
Small works encircling the gallery reflect the cumulative range of subjects that Sara Greenberger Rafferty has engaged in her career. more...
“American Painting Today”
An abandoned thrift shop serves as home to "American Painting Today," a mixed but exhilarating self-selection of over 90 artists. Painting is the point, and as the title hints, the act of painting is today as relevant as it's ever been. more...
“Uncertainty”
"Uncertainty" bring art and science together both practically and aesthetically, with the science component narrowly outpacing the art side. more...
Garrick Imatani
Garrick Imatani’s “A Broken Tower” provides a bittersweet farewell to the consistently superb Hap Gallery, which closes its doors at the end of the month. The tower that gives the show its title appears to glow from within; photographic prints are united by lines drawn along galler more...
“Artists’ Choice”
Gallery affiliated artists selected one non-affiliate each, and "Artists' Choice" adds up to a surprisingly coherent group show. more...
Toba Khedoori
This survey brings Toba Khedoori's now familiar images of precise but spare post-minimalist objects centered on large, empty sheets. Arrangements of anonymous doors, chairs, fencing or windows repeat serially, but often with noticeable variations. more...
“Energy Charge”
The artists included to show alongside the late artist in “Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta” convey an electric energy. more...
Jeffrey Vallance
Drawings comprising Jeffrey Vallance's "Now More Than Ever" range from the folksy to the exacting and amount to a quirky visual treasure hunt. more...
“Creator, Composer, Conductor”
Visual art and music certainly differ by virtue of the latter being generative, even revolutionary, while the latter is more interpretive. Richard Speer observes that this was not always so, but more recently he sees a trend towards the artist not as composer but conductor. more...
“Identity / Insight”
"Identity/Insight" is an instructive delving into representational art dealing with personality, fantasy, psychological states and more. more...
Patricia Lay-Dorsey
Emotional affect in Patricia Lay-Dorsey's homage to her marriage maintains a steady and credible honesty that ultimately proves elevating. more...
Jennifer Ling Datchuk
Identity is addressed in ceramics by Jennifer Ling Datchuk, the daughter of a Chinese mother and Russian-Irish father who long felt "in-between, an imposter." Just as the works here are made from more than just ceramic, Datchuck the artist is more than just the sum of her parts. more...
Kemang Wa Lehulere
South African Kemang Wa Lehulere fashions muscular constructions that show how the personal connects to the historical. more...
Phillip K. Smith III
Deeply influenced by classic light and space art, Philip K. Smith III's sculptures bring together light, color, reflection, constant change and elements of chance that both contain a strong sense of mystery and are quite enticing. more...
Roy Lichtenstein
This extensive survey of Roy Lichtenstein's rich vein of prints draws connections between his pop art and appropriation. more...
It Has Happened Here
The incoming President and Congress will pose significant challenges to our creative communities freedom of expression. In their media art has on occasion been used to misrepresent serious aesthetic activity into misleading fearmongering among a public already hostile to its exercise. more...
Bernard Chadwick
Bernard Chadwick's spiritually powerful video is triggered in the gallery by sounds and sensors that create a constantly shifting flow of images and sensations. more...
Joyce Pensato
The basis for Joyce Pensato's intense paintings for over 40 years is classic cartoon characters, which she pushes to the verge of collapse. more...
“Poetic Minimalism”
If you think of minimalist art as hard and austere, "Poetic Minimalism" challenges the stereotype and will change your impression. more...
“The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley"
It is less the author and her classic story "Frankenstein" and more the topic of transmutation that the paradox of mutated existence that draws the artists featured in "The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley" together. more...
Critique Week!
James Yood takes us inside the single most intense experience that any would-be artist is likely to experience: the crit. Yood muses over the evolving emphasis on professionalism that has displaced the process of aesthetic vetting to a troubling degree. more...
Catherine Colangelo
“Talismanic," the title of Catherine Colangelo’s current show, borrows a term that describes objects with the power to protect from harm. Shields ward off evil, eyes afford vigilance against malevolence within intricate geometric patterns. more...
Genius on Paper
Prints by Pablo Picasso chronicling his visual innovation are paired with an emotionally moving selection by Edvard Munch. more...
A Lesson on Interconnectivity, Part 2
Al Held began as an abstract expressionist, but later turned to mural sized paintings of complex, boldly colored geometric spaces that define a cosmos that is a joy to explore. more...
Sarajo Frieden/Carol Sears
Carol Sears’ subtle line and Sarajo Frieden’s aggressive forms start in a similar manner, but results differ dramatically. more...
Milford Zornes
Part of the California Scene painting group during the 1930s, Milford Zornes specialized in watercolor depictions of a then unspoiled (by extensive development and traffic jams) Southern California which he would continue up until he died in 2008 at age 100. more...
“American Painting Today”
An abandoned thrift shop serves as home to "American Painting Today," a mixed but exhilarating self-selection of over 90 artists. Painting is the point, and as the title hints, the act of painting is today as relevant as it's ever been. more...
“Uncertainty”
"Uncertainty" bring art and science together both practically and aesthetically, with the science component narrowly outpacing the art side. more...
“Artists’ Choice”
Gallery affiliated artists selected one non-affiliate each, and "Artists' Choice" adds up to a surprisingly coherent group show. more...
“Identity / Insight”
"Identity/Insight" is an instructive delving into representational art dealing with personality, fantasy, psychological states and more. more...
It Has Happened Here
The incoming President and Congress will pose significant challenges to our creative communities freedom of expression. In their media art has on occasion been used to misrepresent serious aesthetic activity into misleading fearmongering among a public already hostile to its exercise. more...
Ryan Goolsby
Ryan Goolsby's "Totem" sculptures are both spare and compelling. Referential but not specifically so, carefully designed but of no utility, these objects exist on the border of the twilight world of dreams. more...
Madelin Coit
Madelin Coit returns to the gallery every Friday to make and add new works made from magazine paper and sheets of metal mesh. more...
Larry Bell
An original glass installation, "Pacific Red" is given context with a survey of Larry Bell's "physical vapor depositions." more...
“Rhona Hoffman 40 Years: Political”
The third part in a series of shows summarizing the history to date of one of Chicago's most venerable galleries is timely for its focus on political content. The varied works here reminds us that part of art's calling is to offer dissent from prevailing cultural winds. more...
View of a Royal Family
Asks DeWitt Cheng, how do we foster both an informed electorate and an art audience immune to hucksterism? The recent passing of culture critic John Berger reminds us the importance of uncloaking the hidden ideologies lurking within visual images. This is revealing of both truth and propaganda. more...
Juventino Aranda
In his gallery debut, Juventino Aranda treads a fine line between elegance, humor and flat out anger. Textiles replace paint but quote the likes of Mark Rothko. But the use of a Pendelton shirt also reads as a symbol of ethnicity and class. more...
Francesca Pastine
Francesca Pastine composes art objects from art magazines, thus making her a purveyor of conceptual irony with an element of surprise. more...
Greg Miller
Greg Miller combines densely layered pop imagery with gestural painting to effect a jigsaw view of our unfolding cultural landscape. more...
Donald Woodman
Nearly 40 years ago Donald Woodman accompanied Agnes Martin on a backcountry river trip in Canada's Northwest Territory. The photographs may include the artist, or just the landscape; but all engage the minimalist master's subdued sensibility as well as her struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. more...
The Real Inauguration Day
The January 21st Women’s Marches in the U.S. and abroad demonstrated our capacity for a mass democratic uprising. The many visual and other cultural components made clear the important role the creative community must play. more...
Lisa Cardenas
The lyrical abstractions of "Silence is Home" combine art with an awareness of technology expressed with what appear to be musical notations. more...
“En Face”
The portrait may be the topic of "En Face," but the artists reveal more about the nature of people and the spaces they inhabit. more...
Pedro E. Guerrero
As a young photographer Pedro E. Guerrero worked for Frank Lloyd Wright. Here he goes beyond the architectural photography to document the artists Louise Nevelson and Alexander Calder, a disarming selection of which is paired with a sampling of each artists' work. more...
Wes Hempel and Kal Mansur
Wes Hempel's politely homoerotic men are inserted into old master art historical settings. Kal Mansur's geometric constructions occupy the opposite end of the aesthetic spectrum. more...
Grand-daddy of Op
Francis Celentano began as a scholar of Abstract Expressionism, but evolved into one of our top hard edge true believers. more...
Magdalena Fernández
"Flexible Structures" includes works as far back as 1999, but the sculptures and installation are new and dominate the show. Black steel spheres connected by elastic cords are effectively large drawings in space that get us seeing how it gets divided and organized in three-dimensions. more...
Tom Lieber
In ten new paintings, Tom Lieber sustains his decades long commitment to the power of gestural abstraction. more...
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The survey of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy shows him to have been among the most inventive and eloquent inventors of early modernism. more...
Will Wilson
Will Wilson turns modern anxiety to fascination in the way he imagines a survivalist dwelling. The shakiness of the collages here enables us to feel the fragility of what a post-apocalyptic world might be like. more...
Taos Society
The Taos Society of Artists were European trained academics who shared in common having been drawn to the outlying town of Taos. more...
Aesthetics and Action
Richard Speer reflects on the broader impact of artistic discourse. Progressive as it is, does it have any measurable impact on the furtherance of Western democracy? As with so many, the Women's Marches of January 21st revived his faith in banding together to reassert shared values. more...
Greg Miller
Greg Miller combines densely layered pop imagery with gestural painting to effect a jigsaw view of our unfolding cultural landscape. more...
Juventino Aranda
Juventino Aranda quotes the likes of Mark Rothko. But the use of a Pendelton shirt rather than paint also reads as a symbol of ethnicity and class. more...
“Poetic Minimalism”
If you think of minimalist art as hard and austere, "Poetic Minimalism" challenges the stereotype and will change your impression. more...
Critique Week!
James Yood takes us inside the single most intense experience that any would-be artist is likely to experience: the crit. Yood muses over the evolving emphasis on professionalism that has displaced the process of aesthetic vetting to a troubling degree. more...
“The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley"
It is less the author and her classic story "Frankenstein" and more the topic of transmutation that the paradox of mutated existence that draws the artists featured in "The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley" together. more...
Genius on Paper
Prints by Pablo Picasso chronicling his visual innovation are paired with an emotionally moving selection by Edvard Munch. more...
A Lesson on Interconnectivity, Part 2
Al Held began as an abstract expressionist, but later turned to mural sized paintings of complex, boldly colored geometric spaces that define a cosmos that is a joy to explore. more...
Sarajo Frieden/Carol Sears
Carol Sears’ subtle line and Sarajo Frieden’s aggressive forms start in a similar manner, but results differ dramatically. more...
Milford Zornes
Part of the California Scene painting group during the 1930s, Milford Zornes specialized in watercolor depictions of a then unspoiled (by extensive development and traffic jams) Southern California which he would continue up until he died in 2008 at age 100. more...
Larry Bell
An original glass installation, "Pacific Red" is given context with a survey of Larry Bell's "physical vapor depositions." more...
View of a Royal Family
Asks DeWitt Cheng, how do we foster both an informed electorate and an art audience immune to hucksterism? The recent passing of culture critic John Berger reminds us the importance of uncloaking the hidden ideologies lurking within visual images. This is revealing of both truth and propaganda. more...
Ryan Goolsby
Ryan Goolsby's "Totem" sculptures are both spare and compelling. Referential but not specifically so, carefully designed but of no utility, these objects exist on the border of the twilight world of dreams. more...
The Real Inauguration Day
The January 21st Women’s Marches in the U.S. and abroad demonstrated our capacity for a mass democratic uprising. The many visual and other cultural components made clear the important role the creative community must play. more...
Magdalena Fernández
"Flexible Structures" includes works as far back as 1999, but the sculptures and installation are new and dominate the show. Black steel spheres connected by elastic cords are effectively large drawings in space that get us seeing how it gets divided and organized in three-dimensions. more...
Grand-daddy of Op
Francis Celentano began as a scholar of Abstract Expressionism, but evolved into one of our top hard edge true believers. more...
Pedro E. Guerrero
As a young photographer Pedro E. Guerrero worked for Frank Lloyd Wright. Here he goes beyond the architectural photography to document the artists Louise Nevelson and Alexander Calder, a disarming selection of which is paired with a sampling of each artists' work. more...
Johannes Girardoni
A suite of candy-colored minimalist sculptures titled “Resonance” by Johannes Girardoni are devastatingly gorgeous — and devastating in their indictment of tech-crazed consumerism. more...
Greta Young
Greta Young's deformed cartoons twist through the soiled white space, ready to swallow up a person, should they magically spring to life. more...
Jason Rhoades
Jason Rhoades earned a reputation as a "bad boy" artist who broke conventions in hard to navigate installations, seemingly chaotic agglomerations of objects, but he managed to produce meaning from too much stuff. more...
Love Trumps Hate
"Love Trumps Hate" has been advocated through art for decades, and now we need to get this kind of art out there again. more...
Dennis Mukai
The meticulous detail of Dennis Mukai's paintings is actually produced by sanding to remove layers of paint. Removing tiny areas of this or that layer to arrive at images that seem impossible to have arrived at. more...
Adrianne Rubenstein
A jolt of hyperchromatic pizzazz makes you take notice of Adrianne Rubenstein's highly expressive acid-toned paintings. more...
“Terra Mater”
In “Terra Mater,” or Mother Earth, three Arizona artists -- Michael Lundgren, Mayme Kratz and Christopher Colville -- bring a haunting quality to their interpretations of the natural world, often contrasting preservation with destruction. more...
Rachel Lachowicz
Red lipstick has been a signature material in Rachel Lachowicz's oeuvre. So it is in her current installation "Lay Back and Enjoy It", covering wood facsimiles of buildings that symbolize church and state. more...
Kahlo: Her Photos
Photographs of and by Frida Kahlo both reinforce the storied narrative of her life, but also allow us to enter into its intimacies. more...
Where Art Hordes Go
Like the planets aligning once every long while, three of Europe's most significant art festivals as concurrent this year. more...
Peter Power
For Peter Power, artwork is not just the product of the studio, it is about what happens in the studio. One leaning, wall-sized work and a book titled "Dogger, Fisher, German, Bight" discards the whole notion of a "finished" work. more...
Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith's soft touch of an installation flirts heavily with post-Duchampian mischievousness, but with an immense amount of freedom spread throughout this rabbit-warren of galleries. more...
“Holy Barbarians”
“Holy Barbarians: Beat Culture on the West Coast” brings together six key beat-era artists who helped change the art culture of the West Coast. more...
Protest and Authenticity
Genuine political outrage channeled through the sensibilities of strong, creative individuals can certainly generate great art. They are the natural opponents of authoritarianism after all. But we must keep in mind that high emotion is never sufficient to produce great art any more than it results i more...
Aesthetics and Action
Richard Speer reflects on the broader impact of artistic discourse. Progressive as it is, does it have any measurable impact on the furtherance of Western democracy? As with so many, the Women's Marches of January 21st revived his faith in banding together to reassert shared values. more...
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The survey of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy shows him to have been among the most inventive and eloquent inventors of early modernism. more...
Taos Society
The Taos Society of Artists were European trained academics who shared in common having been drawn to the outlying town of Taos. more...
Johannes Girardoni
A suite of candy-colored minimalist sculptures titled “Resonance” by Johannes Girardoni are devastatingly gorgeous — and devastating in their indictment of tech-crazed consumerism. more...
Jason Rhoades
Jason Rhoades earned a reputation as a "bad boy" artist who broke conventions in hard to navigate installations, seemingly chaotic agglomerations of objects, but he managed to produce meaning from too much stuff. more...
Love Trumps Hate
"Love Trumps Hate" has been advocated through art for decades, and now we need to get this kind of art out there again. more...
Dennis Mukai
The meticulous detail of Dennis Mukai's paintings is actually produced by sanding to remove layers of paint. Removing tiny areas of this or that layer to arrive at images that seem impossible to have arrived at. more...
Kahlo: Her Photos
Photographs of and by Frida Kahlo both reinforce the storied narrative of her life, but also allow us to enter into its intimacies. more...
Yvette Mayorga
The attraction of the sweet, buttery scent of frosting runs up against the cut-out, glitter-covered words “GO BACK” hung from a gilded rope upon a fuchsia-colored wall in Yvette Mayorga's installation, "The Politics of Desire." more...
Sandow Birk
Sandow Birk’s sprawling “American Qur’an” is unintentionally timely, given current efforts to impose travel bans and border walls, having been conceived in the wake of 9/11 and requiring more than 10 years to complete. more...
Patti Oleon
Patti Oleon recorded public places in Europe, but edits out the masses of people so as to transform the architecture into mysterious virtual worlds. more...
Christine Frerichs
The landscape paintings of Christine Frerichs dazzle us with their light, which is decidedly a light of place as well as time of day or night. more...
Archipenko on the West Coast
Ukranian native Alexander Archipenko rose to become one of cubist sculpture's most important talents early in what became a globe-trotting career. A survey exhibition at the Frye Art Museum reinvigorates his contributions to cubism, the modern ceramics movement, and, yes, to West Coast modernism. more...
Stacey Steers
Filmmaker Stacey Steers' "Edge of Alchemy" draws on silent film era footage and 19th century engravings and woodcuts collaged into a loose narrative of Scientist and Creature. more...
Ellen Berman
Ellen Berman’s paintings of food and domestic objects seem as though they could come alive and provide nourishment. more...
Bryan David Griffith
"Rethinking Fire" is Bryan David Griffith's artful way to question why we disrupt the cycle of naturally occurring wildfires. more...
Michael Kenna and Mark Thompson
Michael Kenna's photography is exceptionally painterly, while Mark Thompson's landscape paintings of chilly Scandinavia have the appearance of vintage photographs. Kenna's images of Ford's River Rouge auto plant strikes a far different tone of grand, if ominous formalism. more...
Deconstruction: The War for a Word
The philosophical importance of Jacques Derrida's deconstructivist theory has helped shape serious art for decades. That makes Steve Bannon's mis-use of it in a political context not only offensive but dangerous. more...
Mike Buchheit and Rachel Brace-Stille
Mike Buchheit's photographs of the Grand Canyon are more about his decades-long familiarity with its terrain and weather patterns than natural spectacle. Rachel Brace-Stille often accompanies Buchheit, but has a preference for close-ups of telling details that possess their own aesthetic intimacy. more...
Sophia Dixon Dillo
More than 20 miles of metallic copper thread ebb and flow like streams of golden light in Sophia Dixon Dillo’s “Illumination.” more...
Alicia McCarthy
Alicia McCarthy melds together 1960s style abstraction with the iconoclasm of the punk and graffiti scene during which she came of age. more...
“Man Made”
"Man Made" references the built environment, though through the creative lens of a group of women. While these artists source a range of architectural and landscape constructs, they often display sensitivity to what is to be found, the flotsam of what has been built. more...
Martha Alf Pointed Me to the Light
Martha Alf introduced a noteworthy approach to contemplative spirituality in art in here series of pears during the 1980s. Starting as carefully staged psychodramas, the edible object assumed the role of an actor, but over time they assumed a whole new dimension. more...
Laurent Millet
Laurent Millet cites his childhood memories building things from sticks and rocks. The early works retain more of the intuitive mystery of childhood, through they are cruder. more...
Linarejos Moreno
“Art Forms in Mechanism,” which refers to Linarejos Moreno’s ongoing inquiry into the relationship between the industrial and the natural . more...
“Images of Resilience”
“Images of Resilience: Chicana/o Art and its Mexican Roots” is acutely timed and attuned to current immigration controversies. more...
Dean Monogenis and Pepa Prieto
Dean Monogenis reduces paintings on wood panels into a mound of wood shreds, while others survive as sleek fusions of landscape and architectural renderings. Pepa Prieto conjures an abstract mystical kingdom of shapes and colors. more...
Disturbing Subjects
The heated controversy over Dana Schutz' "Open Casket" overlooks that the artist favors honest personal emotions over graphic realism. more...
Tom Bolles
"Reverence," the title of Tom Bolles' current show, emphasizes and achieves a careful balance of color, light and texture. more...
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin’s paintings were more about empty spaces than what is visible. Starting in the late 1940s he was among a tiny handful of artists investigating hard-edge painting in order "to achieve the totally abstract." more...
"Why Can't We Live Together”
The melancholy lyrics of a 1972 hit by Timmy Thomas, "Why Can't We Live Together,” provide the thematic framework for a multinational and multiracial mix of artists that's set against the cacophony of today's headlines. more...
Margaret Lazzari
For Margaret Lazzari her ability to represent the natural world facilitates the symbolism of "Wild Biology's" autobiographical source material. more...
David Simpson
Iridescent color radiates, shifts and glows so as to keep the eye moving in David Simpson's constantly moving color field paintings. more...
Rhonda Wheatley
Rhonda Wheatley presents herself as a modern day shaman, and her use of found objects and vintage appliances with organic material such as succulent plants and crystals in symbolic arrangements that suggest a deeply intuitive engagement. more...
The Pregnant Void
The immaculately spartan works of Kirshio Suga provoked Richard Speer to reflect on the dialogue between shape and space. more...
America’s First Contemporary Art Star
Currently on view the Art Institute of Chicago, James McNeil Whistler's portrait of his mother Anna is not the public event that it once was. But it does remain one of American art's most iconic images, and we do well to remember the artist's standing as perhaps America's first major international a more...
Christopher Russell
Christopher Russell provides a lesson in how to marry together smart use of digital tools with fastidious hand-craftsmanship. more...
Corey Stein
Corey Stein takes quaint little glass beads sewn onto felt to build sophisticated images that speak of environmental concerns and cultural respect embedded into both the media and what she does with it. more...
Cameron Martin
The aggressively optical abstract paintings of Cameron Martin are built on linear patterns that fool the eye in clever and unexpected ways. more...
Francisco Toledo
Not known for his textile media, this show of felt tapestries by Francisco Toledo bring together the deep tradition of Oaxaca wool with contemporary innovations. more...
Ann Johnson/Desira Garcia
Political content plays a key part on Ann Johnson's mixed media sculptures. Desira Garcia's paintings critique the questionable effects of social media. more...
Frederick Hammersley
In a career survey, Frederick Hammersley's wide-ranging technical skills are impressive, but the real story is the vibrancy of personality and wide range of intent. He showed that the art of abstraction need not be unremittingly serious. more...
Sarah Ball
Sarah Ball's paintings are drawn from photographs of new arrivals at Ellis Island, and of displaced migrants in their own country of Romania. more...
The Propeller Group
Working between their native Vietnam and Los Angeles, The Propeller Group's striking body of video, sculpture and installation works are driven by the production of propaganda, gun violence and the reality of globalized culture. It's an exotic visual journey that is also an insightful window into Ea more...
Frank Romero
Boyle Heights in East L.A. is closely associated with Chicano culture, and few artists are more associated with it as an emerging cultural force in the second half of the 20th century than Frank Romero. This retrospective tells us why in a body of work that by turns tough, charming, deadly serious, more...
Jenny Trinks and Norwood Viviano
"Suspended Time" presents Trinks' photographs of buildings changed by changing light; and glass sculptures by Viviano. more...
Lauren Greenfield
The relationship of self-image to privileged materialism has long driven Lauren Greenfield's photography and filmmaking. Her current book, "Generation Wealth," connects the attractive side of this with the mania for body control and the self-abuses that illuminate the dark side of trying to be more more...
teamLab
The immersive installation "Flowers and People, Cannot by Controlled but Live Together - A Whole Year per Hour" presents the Japanese collective teamLab senses our movements and translates them into an ever-changing cycle of digital flowers that sprout, blossom and wilt. more...
Marimekko, With Love
The rise and continued cultural influence of the Swedish fashion design house Marimekko is here traced and assessed. more...
“Politics of Place”
The message-laden "Politics of Place" is an aesthetic grappling with female empowerment, immigration, and, well, tweets. more...
Matt Kleberg and Woody DeOthello
This engagingly titled “Knocked-Kneed and Bow-Legged” examines the cultural moment’s instabilities with beauty and humor. more...
Deana Lawson
Deana Lawson's portraits of African Americans from around the country are packed with revealing, often surprising narrative details. more...
Al Loving
The late Al Loving is better known on the East Coast, so his evolution from a hard edge minimalist aesthetic to a much more energized, swirling aesthetic responsive to the social changes taking place during the 1960s and 70s. more...
Lynn Hanson
Daily nature walks inform Lynn Hanson's art. What she sees and records by camera translates into land- and seascapes infused with feeling. more...
An Artist’s Line Drawn in Quicksand
Daniela Repas' short documentary/animation "Mnemonics" embraces the ethnic heritage of this former Bosnian refugee as subject matter. There are larger lessons in how Repas tolerates values she cannot assimilate while celebrating those that she can. more...
Longacre-White and Homer French
Andrea Longacre-White stuffs one gallery full of sculptural hardware, and has wood spilling out of containers in the smaller space. Jesse Homer French's paintings start naive but gain the eye's interest thanks to strong compositions and dark but intriguing themes. more...
Ken Fandell
Examples from three series of layered photographs turn a blown out tire, some bricks, and palm tree trunks into rich visual journeys. more...
Rick Bartow
Known more for his animal/human hybrids, Rick Bartow's modest "Tot Blumen" botanicals reflect profoundly on mortality. more...
Marcus Zúñiga
Newcomer Marcus Züñiga contextualizes a cosmic perspective through a personal and ethno-centric lens. Materials are contemporary but the presentation and design are kept simple. But it adds up to a complex result. more...
Gisela Colon
Mysterious and magical, Gisela Colon's color and light sculptures defy any simple explanation of how they were produced. more...
Alex Weinstein
Stand under the sun and close your eyes to see the light on your closed lids. Dive under a wave, look up and see the sun droplets above your head. Imagine almost, but not quite dying. Do these things and you will understand the art of Alex Weinstein. more...
Protest and Authenticity
Genuine political outrage channeled through the sensibilities of strong, creative individuals can certainly generate great art. They are the natural opponents of authoritarianism after all. But we must keep in mind that high emotion is never sufficient to produce great art any more than it results i more...
Archipenko on the West Coast
Ukranian native Alexander Archipenko rose to become one of cubist sculpture's most important talents early in what became a globe-trotting career. A survey exhibition at the Frye Art Museum reinvigorates his contributions to cubism, the modern ceramics movement, and, yes, to West Coast modernism. more...
Christine Frerichs
The landscape paintings of Christine Frerichs dazzle us with their light, which is decidedly a light of place as well as time of day or night. more...
Deconstruction: The War for a Word
The philosophical importance of Jacques Derrida's deconstructivist theory has helped shape serious art for decades. That makes Steve Bannon's mis-use of it in a political context not only offensive but dangerous. more...
Michael Kenna and Mark Thompson
Michael Kenna's photography is exceptionally painterly, while Mark Thompson's landscape paintings of chilly Scandinavia have the appearance of vintage photographs. Kenna's images of Ford's River Rouge auto plant strikes a far different tone of grand, if ominous formalism. more...
Martha Alf Pointed Me to the Light
Martha Alf introduced a noteworthy approach to contemplative spirituality in art in here series of pears during the 1980s. Starting as carefully staged psychodramas, the edible object assumed the role of an actor, but over time they assumed a whole new dimension. more...
Alicia McCarthy
Alicia McCarthy melds together 1960s style abstraction with the iconoclasm of the punk and graffiti scene during which she came of age. more...
“Man Made”
"Man Made" references the built environment, though through the creative lens of a group of women. While these artists source a range of architectural and landscape constructs, they often display sensitivity to what is to be found, the flotsam of what has been built. more...
Disturbing Subjects
The heated controversy over Dana Schutz' "Open Casket" overlooks that the artist favors honest personal emotions over graphic realism. more...
“Images of Resilience”
“Images of Resilience: Chicana/o Art and its Mexican Roots” is acutely timed and attuned to current immigration controversies. more...
Margaret Lazzari
For Margaret Lazzari her ability to represent the natural world facilitates the symbolism of "Wild Biology's" autobiographical source material. more...
America’s First Contemporary Art Star
Currently on view the Art Institute of Chicago, James McNeil Whistler's portrait of his mother Anna is not the public event that it once was. But it does remain one of American art's most iconic images, and we do well to remember the artist's standing as perhaps America's first major international a more...
Corey Stein
Corey Stein takes quaint little glass beads sewn onto felt to build sophisticated images that speak of environmental concerns and cultural respect embedded into both the media and what she does with it. more...
Cameron Martin
The aggressively optical abstract paintings of Cameron Martin are built on linear patterns that fool the eye in clever and unexpected ways. more...
Ann Johnson/Desira Garcia
Political content plays a key part on Ann Johnson's mixed media sculptures. Desira Garcia's paintings critique the questionable effects of social media. more...
Frederick Hammersley
In a career survey, Frederick Hammersley's wide-ranging technical skills are impressive, but the real story is the vibrancy of personality and wide range of intent. He showed that the art of abstraction need not be unremittingly serious. more...
Marimekko, With Love
The rise and continued cultural influence of the Swedish fashion design house Marimekko is here traced and assessed. more...
Sarah Ball
Sarah Ball's paintings are drawn from photographs of new arrivals at Ellis Island, and of displaced migrants in their own country of Romania. more...
Lauren Greenfield
The relationship of self-image to privileged materialism has long driven Lauren Greenfield's photography and filmmaking. Her current book, "Generation Wealth," connects the attractive side of this with the mania for body control and the self-abuses that illuminate the dark side of trying to be more more...
teamLab
The immersive installation "Flowers and People, Cannot by Controlled but Live Together - A Whole Year per Hour" presents the Japanese collective teamLab senses our movements and translates them into an ever-changing cycle of digital flowers that sprout, blossom and wilt. more...
An Artist’s Line Drawn in Quicksand
Daniela Repas' short documentary/animation "Mnemonics" embraces the ethnic heritage of this former Bosnian refugee as subject matter. There are larger lessons in how Repas tolerates values she cannot assimilate while celebrating those that she can. more...
Al Loving
The late Al Loving is better known on the East Coast, so his evolution from a hard edge minimalist aesthetic to a much more energized, swirling aesthetic responsive to the social changes taking place during the 1960s and 70s. more...
Lynn Hanson
Daily nature walks inform Lynn Hanson's art. What she sees and records by camera translates into land- and seascapes infused with feeling. more...
Zadok Ben-David
Zadok Ben-David’s “People I Saw But Never Met” consists of 30,000 chemically etched aluminum figures that build on the concept of integration. more...
Emily Wood
Emily Wood has long chronicled the landscape of the western U.S. Hers are luminous and reliable scenes across the mountainous divide between eastern Washington and the Pacific coast. more...
Georgina Spengler
Georgina Spengler's woodland streams and lush greenery are immersive and abstract. They are also an homage to Greek Nobel winning poet Giorgos Seferis. more...
“A New Look”
“A New Look” is a fresh take on current figurative art in which the relationship of the figure to art history is only a sliver of the complex contents that these seven artists engage. more...
Mike Carney
Mike Carney favors the use of surprising media because they allow him to explore how images are constructed and the illusion involved in translating from one medium to another. more...
“Crossing Boundaries”
“Crossing Boundaries" presents the work of six women artists who delve into diverse media. But the real point is that each artist approaches their work from a uniquely feminine perspective, while each is uniquely distinct as an artist. more...
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
Not perhaps as much an event as the recent Monet or Matisse and Diebenkorn exhibitions, Stuart Davis dazzles at the de Young Museum. It clarifies his path from early Ashcan to the electrifying visual music he is best known for. It is work that still has important things to say about America. more...
Art Business as Unusual
Documenta and the Venice Biennale have opened; major retrospectives are gearing up. Beneath the surface, all is not well. more...
Alexandra Eldridge
Alexandra Eldridge is a longtime acolyte of William Blake, and the mystical journey this exhibition takes us on shows why. more...
Rex Ray
A selection of Rex Ray's paintings and collages, "We Are All Made of Light" are baroque-hallucinatory Rorschach tests. more...
Firelei Báez
A powerful feminine aesthetic of dense patterns, jewel-toned palettes and female figures dominates Firelei Báez’s “Vessels of Genealogies.” more...
Carroll Dunham
The nude male frolicks and wrestles his way through Carroll Dunham's current paintings. He strikes a knowing balance between in your face aggression and sly humor. more...
Christine Cassano
Ecology, biology and technology all feed into Christine Cassano's walk-in installation, "Black Box." more...
Ray Carofano
The Los Angeles River is both subject and stage for photographer Ray Carofano. He finds concrete beauty and uses his knowledge of light to present the built channel into a personal diary of urban fascination. more...
Ghosts of the Cultural Past May Fuel Visions of the Future
From MacArthur Park, near downtown L.A. the Berggruen Institute will peer into our public policy and cultural future from a revamped Spanish Revival building. That building and its current tenants reveal much about L.A.'s deeper cultural history. more...
Benny Fountain
Benny Fountain produces seemingly infinite permutations on a repeated theme of still-lifes and domestic scenes drawn from memory. more...
Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon's sculpture allows screws, magnets, fasteners and other finishing materials to both enrich the surfaces of his organic forms and lend them life as they reveal how they came to be. more...
John Baldessari
"Eight Colorful Inside Jobs" is a serial transcription of one of John Baldessari's best known early projects, "Six Colorful Inside Jobs." more...
Jefferson Hayman
The things Jefferson Hayman photographs range from oranges wrapped in tissue, to an ace of spades playing card, to a bird in flight. more...
Alexander Yulish
In "Out of Order," Alexander Yulish paints in a celebratory tone with vibrant hues, curvaceous forms and electrified movement. more...
Ken Fandell
Examples from three series of layered photographs turn a blown out tire, some bricks, and palm tree trunks into rich visual journeys. more...
Alex Weinstein
Stand under the sun and close your eyes to see the light on your closed lids. Dive under a wave, look up and see the sun droplets above your head. Imagine almost, but not quite dying. Do these things and you will understand the art of Alex Weinstein. more...
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
Not perhaps as much an event as the recent Monet or Matisse and Diebenkorn exhibitions, Stuart Davis dazzles at the de Young Museum. It clarifies his path from early Ashcan to the electrifying visual music he is best known for. It is work that still has important things to say about America. more...
Emily Wood
Emily Wood has long chronicled the landscape of the western U.S. Hers are luminous and reliable scenes across the mountainous divide between eastern Washington and the Pacific coast. more...
“A New Look”
“A New Look” is a fresh take on current figurative art in which the relationship of the figure to art history is only a sliver of the complex contents that these seven artists engage. more...
Art Business as Unusual
Documenta and the Venice Biennale have opened; major retrospectives are gearing up. Beneath the surface, all is not well. more...
“Crossing Boundaries”
“Crossing Boundaries" presents the work of six women artists who delve into diverse media. But the real point is that each artist approaches their work from a uniquely feminine perspective, while each is uniquely distinct as an artist. more...
Paul Komada
Paul Komada spent well over a year more than memorializing the Alaskan Way viaduct, scheduled to be demolished next year. more...
Hilario Gutierrez
Hilario Gutierrez came late to painting, but his work rapidly came to embody the collision of emotions felt before a western landscape. more...
Terry St. John
Second generation Bay Area Figuration painter Terry St. John receives an abbreviated survey of his painterly expressionism. more...
Silvie Deutsch and Justin Favela
Silvie Deutsch’s installation "62 Miles of Girl Talk" remaps the gallery space with that many miles of pale plastic line and the physical labor of construction, in this case creating a unique harp of pale plastic lines stretching from wall to ceiling. more...
Phil Dike
Watercolor specialist Phil Dike, born in 1906, spent his career observing and responding to the parade of early modernist movements from the reserve of Southern California. He produced an irrepressible, deeply emotive body of work. more...
Paul Allen’s Emerging Vision for Seattle
Paul Allen is only the latest major civic-minded donor to Seattle's cultural maturation, but he may be exerting the most impact. He has he backed the Seattle Art Fair and added his museum, Pivot: Art+Culture to the South Lake Union neighborhood; and it seems he is just getting started. more...
Benjamin Weissman
Both an active fiction author and artist, in "We Never Kissed" Benjamin Weisman obsesses over images of gorillas having sex. more...
Daniel Johnston
Potter Daniel Johnston's large and numerous vessels crowd the gallery into a labyrinth of narrow and curved corridors that lead us into a dark interior. more...
Anna Fidler
Female empowerment is celebrated in depictions of archetypal Amazons in action by Anna Fidler. more...
Roni Horn
A grouping of seven five-ton cast glass sculptures glow with color and luminous intensity, each delicate at the surface despite their huge mass. more...
Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon immerses himself in the settings he chooses to document. The three series from which this exhibition draws focus on historical events, marginalized societies, and slices of life. more...
“Basquiat and The Artist Next Door”
If billionaires can wheel and deal in cattle futures, crude oil, shipping, technology, and defense contracting, why not in art? more...
Urs Fischer and the Art of Juxtaposition
Daniel Dennett, a critic of postmodernism, argues that "Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity," disabled by distrust of the very idea of truth. more...
Ghosts of the Cultural Past May Fuel Visions of the Future
From MacArthur Park, near downtown L.A. the Berggruen Institute will peer into our public policy and cultural future from a revamped Spanish Revival building. That building and its current tenants reveal much about L.A.'s deeper cultural history. more...
Ray Carofano
The Los Angeles River is both subject and stage for photographer Ray Carofano. He finds concrete beauty and uses his knowledge of light to present the built channel into a personal diary of urban fascination. more...
Benny Fountain
Benny Fountain produces seemingly infinite permutations on a repeated theme of still-lifes and domestic scenes drawn from memory. more...
John Baldessari
"Eight Colorful Inside Jobs" is a serial transcription of one of John Baldessari's best known early projects, "Six Colorful Inside Jobs." more...
Paul Allen’s Emerging Vision for Seattle
Paul Allen is only the latest major civic-minded donor to Seattle's cultural maturation, but he may be exerting the most impact. He has he backed the Seattle Art Fair and added his museum, Pivot: Art+Culture to the South Lake Union neighborhood; and it seems he is just getting started. more...
Silvie Deutsch and Justin Favela
Silvie Deutsch’s installation "62 Miles of Girl Talk" remaps the gallery space with that many miles of pale plastic line and the physical labor of construction, in this case creating a unique harp of pale plastic lines stretching from wall to ceiling. more...
“Basquiat and The Artist Next Door”
If billionaires can wheel and deal in cattle futures, crude oil, shipping, technology, and defense contracting, why not in art? more...
Phil Dike
Watercolor specialist Phil Dike, born in 1906, spent his career observing and responding to the parade of early modernist movements from the reserve of Southern California. He produced an irrepressible, deeply emotive body of work. more...
Monroe Hodder
Monroe Hodder's painting revels in the circus, the carnival, the funhouse. It's a Ronald McDonald fantasia of a childhood idyll. more...
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist's “Pixel Forest” is composed of a “forest” of some 3,000 suspended glowing orbs arranged to allow us to meander through them in any direction or pattern. It's all synchronized to change colors that blink and pulsate. So go immerse yourself. more...
Erik Olson
The colorful paintings of Erik Olson ooze painterly brushwork that form into portraits that at first are barely recognizable as such. more...
Ricardo Mazal
Ricardo Mazal has a distinctive feel for the painted strata of geological formations that are endowed with spiritual meaning. more...
Takashi Murakami
“Superflat" anime-inspired imagery is what Takashi Murakami is most closely identified with. But this survey, "The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg," demonstrates his rich fusion of high and low culture and the new and the ancient. more...
The Swimming Pool as a Springboard
It being summer and his return to Los Angeles being recent, two artists that prominently feature SoCal's most notorious trope, the swimming pool, immediately drew David S. Rubin's attention. more...
Urs Fischer and the Art of Juxtaposition
Daniel Dennett, a critic of postmodernism, argues that "Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity," disabled by distrust of the very idea of truth. more...
Roni Horn
A grouping of seven five-ton cast glass sculptures glow with color and luminous intensity, each delicate at the surface despite their huge mass. more...
“Bold Disobedience”
"Bold Disobedience" pairs practicing artists with under voting age Chicago high-schoolers, and the combination is marked by bluntness and a sense of urgency that takes us well beyond superficial rhetoric. more...
Artists of Coenties Slip
For a decade during the 1950s, a tiny slice of lower Manhattan sheltered artists who separated from prevailing artistic orthodoxy. more...
Tom and James Franco
Assemblagist Tom Franco and his brother, actor James, present a series of sewer pipe pillars altered by prodigious carving and painting. more...
“Tomorrow is Another Day”
Mark Bradford's Venice Biennale installation covers multiple rooms in an impassioned aesthetic wail that laments a disgraced nation. more...
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken's immersive video installations, as seen here, consistently expand expressive possibilities of the media. The well-conceived installation serves to compound its immersive quality using multiple screens. more...
Rafael Soriano
A career survey traces Cuban expatriate Rafael Soriano's transition from bright but stark geometric abstraction to an organic and luminous style full of mystery and spiritual energy. more...
Candida Alvarez
Candida Alvarez' artistic trajectory has been anything but linear, her use of abstract and symbolic elements coming and going. more...
Sono Osato
In "Submergence" Sono Osato's flat layers of transparent space in which are suspended silhouettes--but of what? more...
Betye Saar
The core of Betye Saar's "Keepin' It Clean" is a series of washboard assemblages that delight the eye while conveying historical pain. more...
“2017 California-Pacific Triennial”
The 25 artists included in the "2017 California-Pacific Triennial" were selected in part for their response to the notion of a permanent built environment and their personal connections to architecture. more...
Jacqueline Ehlis
Tucked away from the main gallery, Jacqueline Ehlis little hybrids form the most incongruous whole, invigorating to the verge of the frenetic. more...
Steve Yazzie
Native American artist Steve Yazzie takes indigenous culture as his point of departure to arrive at a video installation that is both immersive and elusive. What he brings back from the remote areas he visits provides a connection we would never likely achieve for ourselves. more...
The Eclipse is Coming
The August 21st full solar eclipse crosses the U.S., offering a unique visual experience to millions in approximately two minute intervals. Bill Lasarow takes a look at how that visualization has impacted global culture over millennia. more...
Takashi Murakami
“Superflat" anime-inspired imagery is what Takashi Murakami is most closely identified with. But this survey, "The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg," demonstrates his rich fusion of high and low culture and the new and the ancient. more...
The Swimming Pool as a Springboard
It being summer and his return to Los Angeles being recent, two artists that prominently feature SoCal's most notorious trope, the swimming pool, immediately drew David S. Rubin's attention. more...
Erik Olson
The colorful paintings of Erik Olson ooze painterly brushwork that form into portraits that at first are barely recognizable as such. more...
Artists of Coenties Slip
For a decade during the 1950s, a tiny slice of lower Manhattan sheltered artists who separated from prevailing artistic orthodoxy. more...
“Tomorrow is Another Day”
Mark Bradford's Venice Biennale installation covers multiple rooms in an impassioned aesthetic wail that laments a disgraced nation. more...
Steve Schapiro
Steve Schapiro’s documentary skill and empathy are evident in "Freedom Now,” an exhibition of Civil Rights era photographs. more...
The Eclipse is Coming
The August 21st full solar eclipse crosses the U.S., offering a unique visual experience to millions in approximately two minute intervals. Bill Lasarow takes a look at how that visualization has impacted global culture over millennia. more...
Rafael Soriano
A career survey traces Cuban expatriate Rafael Soriano's transition from bright but stark geometric abstraction to an organic and luminous style full of mystery and spiritual energy. more...
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken's immersive video installations, as seen here, consistently expand expressive possibilities of the media. The well-conceived installation serves to compound its immersive quality using multiple screens. more...
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach may not be a prophetic doomsayer, but his photographic images convey decipherable signs of incipient collapse. And the recent environmental damage report is summarized in this series of ruined houses. more...
“Eclipse”
This mix of art and science revolves around the August 21st solar eclipse, both celebrating the phenomenon and using it as a point of departure. more...
Einar and Jamex de la Torre
Brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre's garish glass sculptures should be a kitschy mess. Yet they are over-the-top good. more...
Jeffrey Wolin
In two bodies of photographs, Jeffrey Wolin visits and then revisits residents of the Pigeon Hill housing projects in Bloomington, Indiana. They are a candid and compassionate portrait of working class America that is both optimistic and tragic. more...
Chad Hasegawa
Chad Hasegawa is a street artist whose current easel paintings are about their survival in the harsh conditions the murals must put up with. more...
Sebastiao Salgado
Globep-trotting photographer Sabastiao Salgado’s work sits in a space between art, documentary and photo-journalism. In his images we feel the basic elements of earth's beginnings. more...
Dont Fret
Dont Fret is a street artist who brings the same spontaneity and questioning of convictions to the work in this gallery exhibit. more...
Carlos Almaraz
Carlos Almaraz dies prematurely, but the vibrancy of this retrospective convinces the key role he played in elevating the ambitions of the L.A. Chicano movement of the 1970s and 80s. more...
Robert Grosvenor
Sculptures from multiple points of Robert Grosvenor's career juxtapose and aesthetically balance the use of offbeat materials. more...
A Talent for Talent
The late curator Walter Hopps, "elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules," was as responsible for the emergence of L.A's 1960s avant garde as any one individual. A new book on Hopps helps explain why. more...
An Ode to Old School Curators
Walter Hopps, in his day, altered curatorial practice to configure exhibitions according to the aesthetic demands of the art being exhibited. That, for better and for worse, must now be considered the old school of contemporary art curating. more...
The Kangas Six
The third Seattle Art Fair drew a large and diverse audience. Matthew Kangas discusses a half dozen artists who stood out for their ability to absorb and connect multiple genres to bring together memorable ideas with ambitious studio practice. more...
Jayna Zweiman
Zweiman is a co-originator of the Pussyhat Project, and she again blends craft and activism with the "Welcome Blanket." Contributors world-wide are making blankets for refugees, Zweiman amassing them to match the length of the supposed border wall: 1900 miles. more...
Kimberly Brooks
Kimberly Brooks takes her painting in a new direction that she describes as "Brazen", allowing her brush to wander where it will. more...
Jessica Hess
Realist vision and photorealist technique meet in Jessica Hess' slices of architectural life in urban America. more...
“Monet’s Etretat”
Claude Monet's pair of ethereal paintings of the cliffs at the north coastal town of Etretat are paired with those of William Henry Lippincott and George Inness. It is an opportunity to examine the influence of the master of French Impressionism on American contemporaries. more...
Doris Totten Chase
Seattle artist Doris Chase's early work in her home town enjoyed hard won acceptance in New York during her time there in the 1970s. Her dance videos incorporating dancers, sculpture and layers of color were and remain her leading innovation. more...
Trey Egan
Trey Egan’s energetic abstractions, "Future Glow," embrace lyrical abstraction enriched by his use of a variety of instruments for paint application and cultivating a state of immersion. more...
Hei Myun C. Hyun
Originally from Korean, Hei Myun C. Hyun expresses a balance of Eastern and West Coast aesthetic traditions in her evolving use of the grid. more...
Rodrigo Valenzuela
“General Song” is Rodrigo Valenzuela's studio constructed photographs on the theme of borders, barriers, and protest barricades. more...
Valeska Soares
Valeska Soares' survey "Any Moment Now" displays her skill at transforming found objects unmoored from their original use and meaning in order to unleash the imagination of the viewer. more...
Not “Good Muse”
San Francisco's Legion of Honor's latest effort to bring contemporary artwork into dialogue with its collection simply flops. more...
“2017 California-Pacific Triennial”
The 25 artists included in the "2017 California-Pacific Triennial" were selected in part for their response to the notion of a permanent built environment and their personal connections to architecture. more...
A Talent for Talent
The late curator Walter Hopps, "elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules," was as responsible for the emergence of L.A's 1960s avant garde as any one individual. A new book on Hopps helps explain why. more...
“Eclipse”
This mix of art and science revolves around the August 21st solar eclipse, both celebrating the phenomenon and using it as a point of departure. more...
Einar and Jamex de la Torre
Brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre's garish glass sculptures should be a kitschy mess. Yet they are over-the-top good. more...
An Ode to Old School Curators
Walter Hopps, in his day, altered curatorial practice to configure exhibitions according to the aesthetic demands of the art being exhibited. That, for better and for worse, must now be considered the old school of contemporary art curating. more...
Johnnie Winona Ross
Johnnie Winona Ross is influenced by the often imperceptible effects of nature on the New Mexico desert. What starts as a sensual abstraction gradually displays just how much it is the landscape that shapes the painting. more...
Eva Speer
In Eva Speer's “Outrageous Fortune,"she breaks up hyperrealistic images with color fields that expose the artifice of object-making. more...
Jack Pavlik and Louis Watts
Jack Pavlik’s "10 Waves" kinetic sculptures sit silently before they begin moving rhythmically, producing a chiming metallic music. Louis Watts' charcoal drawings, "On Today," cultivate joy within a highly repetitive routine of execution. more...
Alfredo Ramos Martinez
Alfred Ramos Martinez offered intimate insights into the pluralistic nature of Mexican culture with an eye trained in modernism. more...
Edvard Munch
Apart from SFMOMA's current show of Edvard Munch's paintings, this gallery show of his prints and works on paper display the freedom of Munch's technique and his ability to convey strong emotion when revisiting many of his key images. more...
Robbie Conal's Political Art
In the current zeitgeist, there is a need for political activist artists. Robbie Conal meets and then exceeds this need. more...
“Small Sculpture”
On two long, white tables, 55 small sculptures by as many artists form an array of artworks resembling specimens laid out for inspection, running the gamut of familiar to strange in their forms. more...
Gay Outlaw
Gay Outlaw's "Ozone" references climate change with a wide range of media, quality craftsmanship, and wide open wit. more...
Gilbert “Magu” Lujan
in 1974 Los Four strode through the Los Angeles County Museum, spray-painting the front of the building as they arrived. One of them, Gilbert "Magu" Lujan, went on to invent his own mythical "Magulandia," a Chicano paradise. more...
Gilliam and Hurley
Denzil Hurley and Sam Gilliam, in simultaneous exhibitions, exemplify very distinct approaches to abstract painting; both work. more...
Shawn Huckins
Pre-20th Century American portraiture is defaced with smart phone phrases and graphic icons in Shawn Huckins’ canceling of historical reverence. more...
Julije Knifer, Mangelos
Going back to the 1950s Yugoslavian artists Julije Knifer and Mangelos produced some of the earliest conceptual-based works. more...
Hans Burkhardt
No, Hans Burkhardt was not Latin American, but the native Swiss modernist did find a spiritual second home in Mexico, having traveled and lived there for extended periods starting in 1950. That country's color and spirit are embodied in this exhibition. more...
Whose Kickstart Was This Anyway?
A Kickstarter campaign in support of Michael Rakowitz’s “Enemy Kithen” project seemed honorable enough until James Yood noticed it wasn’t exactly the artist who was doing the solicitation. more...
Moonlighting Movie Stars
Hollywood celebs like Brad Pitt or Jim Carrey tend to infuriate many artists by gaining undeserved attention for art that is half baked. Still, reminds Richard Speer, everyone is entitled to their own free expression. more...
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Dedicated archivists, image of industrial facades and structures such as water towers, grain elevators and blast furnaces by the late Bernd and Hilla Becher are a master class in how documentary photography can be imbued with aesthetic heft. more...
“Past/Future/Present”
The vibrancy of Brazilian contemporary art is on full display in “Past/Future/Present,” the first large-scale U.S. appearance of works from the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (MAM-SP). more...
Laura Aguilar
Laura Aguilar focuses her camera on herself as well as others, often overweight, queer and working class, that many of us don’t tend to notice or think of as conventionally beautiful or inspiring. But they smartly reflect on the world and our place in it. more...
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock has been visualizing these stories since he was a kid. But the conflict between the Mounds and the Vegans is for grown-ups. more...
Elise Wagner
Runes, astrological symbols, and celestial imagery have figured prominently in Elise Wagner’s body of work, and now climate change and encaustic are deployed in her visualization of melting glaciers. more...
“Hope + Trauma in a Poisoned Land”
Symbol-laden works by Diné (Navajo) artists and others deal head-on with a sensitive issue and its deleterious effects: uranium mining. more...
Mary Corse
Mary Corse spare but muscular version of reductivist painting and installation over a half century is summarized in this extended visual mantra. more...
“Future Shock”
SITE Santa Fe itself is part of the story, reopening after more than a year of new construction with "Future Shock," whose ten artists present installations that offer mostly unsettling visions of why we should be anxious about the near future. more...
Dinh Q. Lé
In "The Scrolls: Distortion" Dinh Q. Lé, drapes rolls of original and appropriated images on paper cascading from ceiling to floor. more...
Sheldon Figoten
If Sheldon Figoten's subtle geometric abstractions that emphasize balancing dualities call to mind John McLaughlin, there's a good reason. more...
The Walking Cure
The heartlessness of much contemporary art, argues DeWitt Cheng, reflects the lack of an ethical center in American culture. more...
Carlos Almaraz
Carlos Almaraz dies prematurely, but the vibrancy of this retrospective convinces the key role he played in elevating the ambitions of the L.A. Chicano movement of the 1970s and 80s. more...
The Kangas Six
The third Seattle Art Fair drew a large and diverse audience. Matthew Kangas discusses a half dozen artists who stood out for their ability to absorb and connect multiple genres to bring together memorable ideas with ambitious studio practice. more...
“Monet’s Etretat”
Claude Monet's pair of ethereal paintings of the cliffs at the north coastal town of Etretat are paired with those of William Henry Lippincott and George Inness. It is an opportunity to examine the influence of the master of French Impressionism on American contemporaries. more...
Doris Totten Chase
Seattle artist Doris Chase's early work in her home town enjoyed hard won acceptance in New York during her time there in the 1970s. Her dance videos incorporating dancers, sculpture and layers of color were and remain her leading innovation. more...
Valeska Soares
Valeska Soares' survey "Any Moment Now" displays her skill at transforming found objects unmoored from their original use and meaning in order to unleash the imagination of the viewer. more...
Alfredo Ramos Martinez
Alfred Ramos Martinez offered intimate insights into the pluralistic nature of Mexican culture with an eye trained in modernism. more...
Jack Pavlik and Louis Watts
Jack Pavlik’s "10 Waves" kinetic sculptures sit silently before they begin moving rhythmically, producing a chiming metallic music. Louis Watts' charcoal drawings, "On Today," cultivate joy within a highly repetitive routine of execution. more...
Edvard Munch
Apart from SFMOMA's current show of Edvard Munch's paintings, this gallery show of his prints and works on paper display the freedom of Munch's technique and his ability to convey strong emotion when revisiting many of his key images. more...
Robbie Conal's Political Art
In the current zeitgeist, there is a need for political activist artists. Robbie Conal meets and then exceeds this need. more...
Peter Foucault
Peter Foucault uses small robots to draw, making the point that process may be deliberately deployed to take us beyond taste. more...
Nancy Graves
"After Image" presents a selection of Nancy Graves' black grounded paintings of the 1980s. Lines and patterns burst with colorful energy. more...
“Disruptive Perspectives”
"Disruptive Perspectives" explicates the multiplicity of experience when it comes to gender and sexual identity. Works here boldly make the private and intimate into an experience that is both candid and public. more...
Mona Hatoum
Dislocation and alienation are natural constants in Mona Hatoum's work, with an undercurrent of danger and a sense of precariousness. No wonder, she comes from a Palentinian family, was raised in Lebanon, and has resided in London since the 1975 Lebanese Civil War. more...
“Kinesthesia"
The retro-futuristic flavor of “Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art 1954-1969” is well suited to its Palm Springs host city. more...
Andrew Wyeth’s Darkness and Light
Painted primarily in opaque tempera or watercolor, Andrew Wyeth's landscapes, portraits, interiors, and still lifes are ethereally delicate, worthy of scrutiny. They make a strong case for the continuing relevance of unapologetic realism. more...
Larry Kornegay
Larry Kornegay assumes the role of a would-be archaeologist who finds his pleasure in the oddest artifacts and striking juxtapositions. He finds harmonies in unexpected places. more...
Sayre Gomez
Sayre Gomez' hyper-realistic paintings foreground a chain link fence, with backgrounds behind the fencing tantilizingly blurred. Additional wood panels render the wood surface marked with stickers that tell their own story. more...
Amanda Williams
With her background in architecture, Amanda Williams' art practice speaks to place and community. Vacant homes are painted in vivid hues and recorded before demolition, often revealing the interaction among privilege, people and space. more...
“Changing Landscapes”
Three artists wrestle with traditional Chinese landscape painting's blend of realism and calligraphy. We see modernization, urbanization and changing cultural norms reflected in their works with varying emphasis. more...
Wookjae Maeng
Wookjae Maeng's sculptures line the walls like taxidermied trophies from a world that is almost but not quite our own. more...
The Greatest Rediscovery?
The rediscovered da Vinci portrait of Jesus goes up for auction, and a new biography's film rights promise a big 21st century moment. more...
“Small Sculpture”
On two long, white tables, 55 small sculptures by as many artists form an array of artworks resembling specimens laid out for inspection, running the gamut of familiar to strange in their forms. more...
Gilbert “Magu” Lujan
in 1974 Los Four strode through the Los Angeles County Museum, spray-painting the front of the building as they arrived. One of them, Gilbert "Magu" Lujan, went on to invent his own mythical "Magulandia," a Chicano paradise. more...
Gilliam and Hurley
Denzil Hurley and Sam Gilliam, in simultaneous exhibitions, exemplify very distinct approaches to abstract painting; both work. more...
Whose Kickstart Was This Anyway?
A Kickstarter campaign in support of Michael Rakowitz’s “Enemy Kithen” project seemed honorable enough until James Yood noticed it wasn’t exactly the artist who was doing the solicitation. more...
Shawn Huckins
Pre-20th Century American portraiture is defaced with smart phone phrases and graphic icons in Shawn Huckins’ canceling of historical reverence. more...
Moonlighting Movie Stars
Hollywood celebs like Brad Pitt or Jim Carrey tend to infuriate many artists by gaining undeserved attention for art that is half baked. Still, reminds Richard Speer, everyone is entitled to their own free expression. more...
Hans Burkhardt
No, Hans Burkhardt was not Latin American, but the native Swiss modernist did find a spiritual second home in Mexico, having traveled and lived there for extended periods starting in 1950. That country's color and spirit are embodied in this exhibition. more...
“Past/Future/Present”
The vibrancy of Brazilian contemporary art is on full display in “Past/Future/Present,” the first large-scale U.S. appearance of works from the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (MAM-SP). more...
The Walking Cure
The heartlessness of much contemporary art, argues DeWitt Cheng, reflects the lack of an ethical center in American culture. more...
Laura Aguilar
Laura Aguilar focuses her camera on herself as well as others, often overweight, queer and working class, that many of us don’t tend to notice or think of as conventionally beautiful or inspiring. But they smartly reflect on the world and our place in it. more...
Kent Williams
Kent William’s current paintings materialize their subjects through a haze of expressive, yet meticulous brushwork. more...
Connie Goldman and Mikey Kelly
They make a compelling argument for formalist practice: quality execution that explores painting with creative flair. more...
Judith F. Baca
Judith Baca is a force of nature. The artist and activist is responsible for approximately 250 murals in Los Angeles that have captured the spirit of neighborhoods, while mentoring and influencing scores of young people who have served as collaborators. more...
Rubén Ortiz Torres
Rubén Ortiz Torres’ "White Washed America" gives Finish Fetish a decidedly 21st century makeover, albeit without the didacticism. more...
“Mutual Intelligibility”
“Mutual Intelligibility” questions the ability of speakers of related but non-identical languages to understand one another. Jeffrey Stenbom, Anna Mlasowsky and Helen Lee provide some oblique, if affirmative answers. more...
Ray Mack
Newcomer Ray Mack makes zany narrative tableaux that are hilariously warped quotations of images familiar from art history. more...
Reversing the Gender Mirror
The reverberations of aesthetically driven feminism are apparent in the current discussion surrounding sexual harassment. more...
Susan Budge
The fierce instinct of maternal protection manifests itself in Susan Budge's large totemic ceramic sculptures. These guardians or sentinels represent the spirits of people who have passed away. more...
Francisco Toldeo
A series of self-portraits that comprise the entirety of Francisco Toledo's current show take us to a profound and honest view of the man. more...
Ato Ribeiro
The quilts that Ato Ribeiro makes are not with cloth and stitches but with discarded wood imbued with layers of meaning. more...
“Video Art in Latin America”
The timeline of "Video Art in Latin America" dates from the 1970s, and an installation of hanging bunches of bananas draws the primary attention - both visually and aromatically. It's all arranged according to six themes. more...
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
This relatively small selection still manages to include much of what made Manuel Alvarez Bravo one of the 20th century's great photographers. more...
An Antidote for Our Woes
Yayoi Kusama's "Infinity Rooms" are among the finest, and certainly most popular examples of the genre of interactive or immersive installation. In them you experience what it feels like to be at the core of infinity while seeing a latticework of lines moving in all directions. more...
“Hope + Trauma in a Poisoned Land”
Symbol-laden works by Diné (Navajo) artists and others deal head-on with a sensitive issue and its deleterious effects: uranium mining. more...
“Future Shock”
SITE Santa Fe itself is part of the story, reopening after more than a year of new construction with "Future Shock," whose ten artists present installations that offer mostly unsettling visions of why we should be anxious about the near future. more...
Andrew Wyeth’s Darkness and Light
Painted primarily in opaque tempera or watercolor, Andrew Wyeth's landscapes, portraits, interiors, and still lifes are ethereally delicate, worthy of scrutiny. They make a strong case for the continuing relevance of unapologetic realism. more...
“Kinesthesia"
The retro-futuristic flavor of “Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art 1954-1969” is well suited to its Palm Springs host city. more...
The Greatest Rediscovery?
The rediscovered da Vinci portrait of Jesus goes up for auction, and a new biography's film rights promise a big 21st century moment. more...
Martin Ramirez
Mexican immigrant Martin Ramirez arrived in the U.S. only to be institutionalized with schizophrenia, where he began to draw. And draw. more...
Maurice Burns
Maurice Burns bright, kinetic painting style lends itself to the musical characters he depicts with flair and delight. You just might want to put on some jazz and turn the gallery into a dance hall. more...
Alejandro Diaz
Following an ambitious show, Alejandro Diaz fell into a depression that ground his work to a halt. This show is what he did to get going again. more...
Jinie Park
Color Field painting meets up with a fetishistic approach to the picture plane reminiscent of Arte Povera in Jinie Park's hand-stitched, paint-stained works. more...
Frank Romero
Frank Romero's fascination with L.A. car culture and master of bold color and dramatic lighting hallmark this small but well selected survey. The show also marks the conclusion of Tobey C. Moss Gallery's distinguished four decade run with the owner's retirement. more...
Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism
The boundary-pushing fiber to chainmaille installations of Sheila Pepe take over gallery spaces like vines take over a jungle. more...
What Museum-goers Really Want: Ice Cream
A new study of public cultural habits revealed that art has, for a majority of Americans, become just another form of entertainment. And nothing has recently personified this more horrifically than the trés popular Museum of Ice Cream. more...
Deborah Handler
Curved ceramic sculptures are stacked vertically and glazed gesturally. Deborah Handler imbues it all with instability and nuance. more...
Jason Siegel and Keith D'Angelo
Jason Siegel and Keith D’Angelo recognize the polarzing reality of America's gun culture, so they unflinchingly confront the imagery associated it. Their photographs and sculptures portray near exact replicas of guns and other tools of warfare. more...
Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, and these color photographs of empty architectural spaces certify that pedigree. The grand institutional spaces we see exult in their own grandiosity while questioning the limits of their cultural relevance. more...
Rachel Hellmann
Rachel Hellmann presents two distinct bodies of "Sculptural Paintings" and "Paintings on Paper", both emphasizing pattern and hard edge. more...
“Myth & Mirage”
Spanish Colonial Revival (SCR) architecture in its early 20th century heyday aspired to endow the future Golden State with a ready-made fabricated history that would hide from view the grubby details of Spanish and American frontier conquest. more...
“Visual Voyages”
"Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin" lends insight into how Europeans viewed the New World. more...
Polychromed
This time the Legion of Honor gets it right. "Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World" takes down a long misconstrued cultural myth. more...
Nancy O’Connor
Nancy O'Connor met Milam Thompson more than 30 years ago, and the ranch hand's story and spirit has infused her art ever since. more...
Sam Messenger
Sam Messenger's networks of veils float like fishing nets or polyhedral domes, forming white membranes against dark grounds Structure and set procedures collaborate with chance and irregularity. more...
Sarah Charlesworth
Seductive and intriguing, Sarah Charlesworth's photographic appropriation of existing imagery possess a magetism far exceeding their origin. more...
“UnDocumenta"
“UnDocumenta" includes the work of six Mexican, Latino and American artists who wrestle with issues of immigration and the border, biculturalism, migration, labor issues and human rights more...
“Art of Devotion”
A selection of historical devotional objects are explicitly religious, historical and political themes permeate throughout. more...
Seattle’s Best of 2017
Matthew Kangas revisits Seattle's top exhibitions of 2017, and discovers a scene currently in a state of exceptional flux. more...
“Annus Horribilis”
James Yood looks back as "a year of disaster or misfortune," the hopeful note for the art world being the current administration's indifference to it. A reproduction of Renoir's "Two Sisters" that Trump owns he refers to as an original serves as an apt metaphor. more...
Sarah Williams
Night and isolated dwellings are the subject of Sarah Williams' paintings, which are both comfortably familiar and eerie. more...
Richard Morhous
Early modernist models infuse Richard Morhous' 21st century approach to brilliantly colored and fragmented landscape painting. Morhouse make individual brush marks count, and his hovering abstractions of light and color are a revelation. more...
Ichiro Irie
One large scale black marker drawing of an auto junkyard makes Ichiro Irie's exhibition a must see. And knowing that the marker will gradually fade over time only adds deftness to the stunt that this will become his own erased drawing. more...
“The Wyeths: Three Generations”
Andrew Wyeth is the central figure of a family survey in which his father N.C. and son Jamie are effectively the bookends. more...
Wu Bin
Among the most prestigious of a Chinese scholar’s personal assets, Lingbi stones are naturally formed rocks prized by scholars and collectors alike. Wu Bin’s famous 178th century handscroll, titled "Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone" is the centerpiece of a visual dialogue between the ephemera more...
Refrigerated Art
Two installations, one by Mary Corse, another by Adrian Villar Rojas, employ refrigeration to interesting and divergent purpose. More than temperature, we get and enhanced sensory experience in Corse's "Cold Room"; and a vehicle for preservation of an epoch in Rojas' "Theater of disappearance. more...
Gennaro Garcia
Phoenix artist Gennaro Garcia's vibrant mixed media paintings are a celebration of Mexico through a street art sensibility. more...
“There is No Alas Where I Live”
The title of this show of nine contemporary Bay Area photographers, “There is No Alas Where I Live,” is taken from Theodore Roethke’s 1951 poem, “I Need, I Need”: “Whisper me over, / Why don’t you, begonia, / There’s no alas / Where I live.” more...
Gustave Baumann
Gustave Baumann settled in Taos after WWI. His woodblock prints were some of the best early depictions of the southwestern landscape. more...
Lezley Saar
Three series completed over the last five years put Lezley Saar's ability to convey human dignity and build visionary narratives on full display. more...
Patti Oleon
Patti Oleon paints architecture with care, and with the maximum degree of disorientation in which ceiling can double as floors. more...
Christopher Knowles
Christopher Knowles did not speak until age 12. Now 58, the former protege of Robert Wilson is one of the unique creative voices of his generation. more...
Eddie Owens Martin
The land of Pasaquan was created by Eddie Owens Martin over a 30-year period at his compound in Buena Vista, Georgia. His vivid kaleidoscope of folk art is reflected in an exhibition that takes us to his unique realm. more...
Humaira Abid
The detritus of the personal disaster of displacement is reproduced with detailed, loving craftsmanship by Humaira Abid. Humble materials and a straightforward process produce subjects and meaning of the highes order. more...
Senga Nengudi
The political and gender-oriented aesthetics of Segunda Nengudi during the 1970s has aged well--if her pantyhose not so much. more...
Art and Archetype at the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Jean Nouvel's design of the newly opened Louvre Abu Dhabi is simultaneously ancient in inspiration and space-age, low-slung and soaring, an inviting oasis of flowing water and rectilinear planes. more...
Keeping an Eye Open
DeWitt Cheng introduces us to English essayist Julian Barnes' fluent, conversation commentary on art. more...
“Changing Landscapes”
Three artists wrestle with traditional Chinese landscape painting's blend of realism and calligraphy. We see modernization, urbanization and changing cultural norms reflected in their works with varying emphasis. more...
Connie Goldman and Mikey Kelly
They make a compelling argument for formalist practice: quality execution that explores painting with creative flair. more...
Judith F. Baca
Judith Baca is a force of nature. The artist and activist is responsible for approximately 250 murals in Los Angeles that have captured the spirit of neighborhoods, while mentoring and influencing scores of young people who have served as collaborators. more...
Francisco Toldeo
A series of self-portraits that comprise the entirety of Francisco Toledo's current show take us to a profound and honest view of the man. more...
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
This relatively small selection still manages to include much of what made Manuel Alvarez Bravo one of the 20th century's great photographers. more...
Alejandro Diaz
Following an ambitious show, Alejandro Diaz fell into a depression that ground his work to a halt. This show is what he did to get going again. more...
“Myth & Mirage”
Spanish Colonial Revival (SCR) architecture in its early 20th century heyday aspired to endow the future Golden State with a ready-made fabricated history that would hide from view the grubby details of Spanish and American frontier conquest. more...
William Georgenes
William Georgenes assemblages of mainly toys alter what is naturally nostalgic into objects of pure, formal aesthetic. more...
Mickalene Thomas
What has set Mickalene Thomas' art apart has been her ability to expand common definitions of beauty. Recognized as a painter, "Muse" distinguishes her photography for its success in connecting people in her personal life to invented personas. more...
Chad Attie
Chad Attie constructs 2- and 3-dimensional islands that act as creative safe havens to the inhabitants placed in them. more...
Sandi Seltzer Bryant
Accumulating interesting papers in her travels led Sandi Seltzer Bryant to assemblages that hint at subjects without depicting them. more...
Hayley Barker
An implacable visage crowned by a floral headdress is the central image in Hayley Barker's mystical feminist totems. more...
Félix Candela
A dual citizen of Spain and Mexico, architect Felix Candela was an innovator of thin-shell concrete structures that he made remarkably light and airy. more...
Two Novels for Artists
A one time English Lit teacher, Matthew Kangas combines that ongoing interest with his primary immersion in art writing here, with a pair of recommended 20th-century novels by Virginia Woolf and Robert Plunkett that will resonate with artists and art fans. more...
Gary Goldberg
Photographer Gary Goldberg’s large tapestries are transfers of architectural details of the facades of Mexican colonial buildings. more...
Henk Pander
Henk Pander likes to reference the Dutch Old Masters, but maintains a looser if still facile style. This all-drawing show considers disasters caused by the over extension of human technology. These days these post-apocalyptic visions seem somehow less fanciful. more...
Edgar Heap of Birds
Protest of the commercial and cultural appropriation of sites sacred to Native Americans is the heart of Edgar Heap of Birds' painterly sentences. Read and see them, this is what conceptual art is all about. more...
Elisabeth Ajtay
The skeletons of discarded umbrellas, in the hands of Elisabeth Ajtay, become insectile robots climbing walls, daring to be swatted. more...
R. Luke DuBois
"A More Perfect Union" immediately references the Preamble of the Constitution and former President Barak Obama's famous March, 2008 speech on race. R. Luke DuBois' survey displays an artist capable of approaching political content with innovation and freshness. more...
Having a Good Time?
The recent art world documentary "Blurred Lines," James Yood tells us, talks a lot about the art world, but no much about the art itself. more...
Vanessa Woods
Vanessa Woods' small but fierce collages, shown along with selections by her mentor Ken Graves, are more than just an homage. more...
Nicole Anona Banowetz
You hear it before you see it. Nicole Anona Banowetz' soft sculptures are inflated by blowers, the large white forms rising up to become tubes spikes leaves, fingers, molecules--or maybe just zombie fungus. more...
Safwat Saleem
Safwat Saleem uses vintage magazine pics and handwritten text to fashion well designed reflections on the state of the world. more...
“Cuba Is”
"Cuba Is" represents the island nation today with an array of documentary photography and more, a stage set of a cafe meant to provide a sense of transport. more...
Casper Brindle
In Jack Kerouac’s 1958 Beat Generation novel, “The Dharma Bums,” the book’s narrator Ray Smith answers the big question asked by some kids: “Why is the sky blue?” to which Smith answers, “The sky is blue because you wanta know why is the sky blue.” Cas more...
Jodi Colella
Coming across 19th century daguerreotypes of women, Jodi Colella was struck by their anonymity. So she embellished them. more...
“There is No Alas Where I Live”
The title of this show of nine contemporary Bay Area photographers, “There is No Alas Where I Live,” is taken from Theodore Roethke’s 1951 poem, “I Need, I Need”: “Whisper me over, / Why don’t you, begonia, / There’s no alas / Where I live.” more...
Ed Moses
The recent passing of Ed Moses reminded curator and critic David S. Rubin how 40 years ago Moses altered his grasp of West Coast art. more...
Weldon Butler and Amanda Knowles
Weldon Butler's working life has been as varied as the rather populist use of materials from which he constructs rough but diagrammatic abstractions. Amanda Knowles produces ghostly images of urban construction projects that feel like fantasy. more...
Lindsay Rhyner
Lindsay Rhyner dyes, cuts and re-sews recycled media into masterfully finished, wall-bound quilts of ambiguous narratives more...
Adrián Villar Rojas
In "The Theater of Disappearance," Adrian Villar Rojas transforms a vast exhibition space into a quasi-undersea environment, a post-apocalyptic world filled with concrete columns and illuminated refrigerators populated with found and fabricated artifacts. more...
Julian Stanczak
Op Art pioneer Julian Stanczak's precise and vibrant kinetic fields, here covering a wide range of his output, are flamboyant yet subtle. more...
Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith is keenly aware of lost worlds: open landscapes covered with orange groves, old Hollywood, the era of film noir and Coconut Grove kitsch. She play with images and with words, and "over time the images beat out the words." more...
Holly Roberts
Starting with a photograph, Holly Roberts layers paint and other materials to create haunting, yet nostalgic figurative images. more...
Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine covers the walls and floors of a gallery with stuffed animals of all colors, shapes and sizes. It's an installation that plays with our emotions, and it feels both sentimental and repulsive to be immersed in their midst. more...
Claudio Dicochea
From sci fi to history, Claudio Dicochea packs his mixed-media images to resemble celebrity posters gone amok. more...
Jasper Johns
"Something Resembling Truth" is a mixed bag of Jasper Johns' long since iconic flags, targets and numbers. It also discloses how the artist's early verve over time retreated into a self-absorbed hermeticism. more...
Eduardo Chillida
Primarily regarded for his muscular sculpture, Eduardo Chillida's work on paper, which constitutes the bulk of this exhibition, argue that they he aimed for more than just preparatory studies. more...
Cleveland Dean
In “Recto/Verso – Duality of a Fragile Ego” Chicago artist Cleveland Dean uses material, abstraction and text to show us who we are, both literally and figuratively. The paintings and sculpture visually manifest damage, often including mirrors that reflect back on we viewers. more...
Art and Apocalypse
Images of annihilation have take on fresh urgency during the past year. Richard Speer calls our attention to a pair of exhibitions that suggest a silver lining that are not mere exercises in denial. more...
Harald Szeemann
Harald Szeemann was one of the world's key curators in the 1960s and 70s, effectively launching a new era of artistic diversity. "Museum of Obsessions" reviews that career; "Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us" recreates the apartment of Szeemann's grandfather, a hair stylist. more...
Karine Laval
Nature and culture commingle in Karine Laval’s “Heterotopia” color photographs, still shots excerpted from a video that the artist made in 2014 of the rain forests of Costa Rica. It's a poetic forest of the mind and memory rather than a botanical realism. more...
Ed Mieczkowski
"Vibrations of the Eye, Mind and Soul" marks the late Ed Mieczkowski as a leading pioneer of Op and Geometric art. more...
Lorser Feitelson
"Figure to Form" concisely traces Lorser Feitelson's long transition from New Classicism's response to European Surrealism to his "Magic Space Forms", a sensual version of hard edge abstraction. more...
Hail to the Chief
DeWitt Cheng shares the affection so many hold for former President Obama; but not quite so much for the recently unveiled official portraits. more...
Wu Bin
Among the most prestigious of a Chinese scholar’s personal assets, Lingbi stones are naturally formed rocks prized by scholars and collectors alike. Wu Bin’s famous 178th century handscroll, titled "Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone" is the centerpiece of a visual dialogue between the ephemera more...
“The Wyeths: Three Generations”
Andrew Wyeth is the central figure of a family survey in which his father N.C. and son Jamie are effectively the bookends. more...
Richard Morhous
Early modernist models infuse Richard Morhous' 21st century approach to brilliantly colored and fragmented landscape painting. Morhouse make individual brush marks count, and his hovering abstractions of light and color are a revelation. more...
Art and Archetype at the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Jean Nouvel's design of the newly opened Louvre Abu Dhabi is simultaneously ancient in inspiration and space-age, low-slung and soaring, an inviting oasis of flowing water and rectilinear planes. more...
Patti Oleon
Patti Oleon paints architecture with care, and with the maximum degree of disorientation in which ceiling can double as floors. more...
Christopher Knowles
Christopher Knowles did not speak until age 12. Now 58, the former protege of Robert Wilson is one of the unique creative voices of his generation. more...
Eddie Owens Martin
The land of Pasaquan was created by Eddie Owens Martin over a 30-year period at his compound in Buena Vista, Georgia. His vivid kaleidoscope of folk art is reflected in an exhibition that takes us to his unique realm. more...
Humaira Abid
The detritus of the personal disaster of displacement is reproduced with detailed, loving craftsmanship by Humaira Abid. Humble materials and a straightforward process produce subjects and meaning of the highes order. more...
Senga Nengudi
The political and gender-oriented aesthetics of Segunda Nengudi during the 1970s has aged well--if her pantyhose not so much. more...
Mickalene Thomas
What has set Mickalene Thomas' art apart has been her ability to expand common definitions of beauty. Recognized as a painter, "Muse" distinguishes her photography for its success in connecting people in her personal life to invented personas. more...
Two Novels for Artists
A one time English Lit teacher, Matthew Kangas combines that ongoing interest with his primary immersion in art writing here, with a pair of recommended 20th-century novels by Virginia Woolf and Robert Plunkett that will resonate with artists and art fans. more...
Gary Goldberg
Photographer Gary Goldberg’s large tapestries are transfers of architectural details of the facades of Mexican colonial buildings. more...
Having a Good Time?
The recent art world documentary "Blurred Lines," James Yood tells us, talks a lot about the art world, but no much about the art itself. more...
Edgar Heap of Birds
Protest of the commercial and cultural appropriation of sites sacred to Native Americans is the heart of Edgar Heap of Birds' painterly sentences. Read and see them, this is what conceptual art is all about. more...
Ed Moses
The recent passing of Ed Moses reminded curator and critic David S. Rubin how 40 years ago Moses altered his grasp of West Coast art. more...
Casper Brindle
In Jack Kerouac’s 1958 Beat Generation novel, “The Dharma Bums,” the book’s narrator Ray Smith answers the big question asked by some kids: “Why is the sky blue?” to which Smith answers, “The sky is blue because you wanta know why is the sky blue.” Cas more...
Jodi Colella
Coming across 19th century daguerreotypes of women, Jodi Colella was struck by their anonymity. So she embellished them. more...
“In Repose”
"In Repose" shows that artists' interpretation of the figure remains diverse and vital. The late Wade Reynolds provides the focal point. more...
Kathryn Maxwell
Ornate and absorbing, Kathryn Maxwell's image simultaneously looks through the microscope and the telescope. But the images are neither; it is left to us to work out the connections. more...
Tony DeLap
Timed with Tony DeLap's 90th year, this retrospective confirms his place as one of our most original minimalists. more...
Guy Diehl
Guy Diehl is recognized for his virtuoso still life paintings. Realism is superbly balanced against elegantly minimalist composition. References to a wide range of historical and contemporary art is both smart and grown-up enjoyable. more...
Kim Schoenstadt
Particularly now, the values that a government building's architecture embodies are up for grabs. Kim Schoenstadt offers a cool but sharp eye in her abstract mash-ups of civic houses of power; not just Amerian, either. more...
Kathy Jones
Kathy Jones paintings of standing, featureless figures posing in landscapes and interiors are all about color and implicit drama. more...
Liz Tran
With its high-keyed chromaticism and circus-tent iconography, Liz Tran’s “Elation Station” is a carnivalesque retinal pleasure with a minimum of referential distraction. more...
Natalie Arnoldi
The ominous interior spaces painted by Natalie Arnoldi are that way for a reason. They are relics of history’s most brutal episode. more...
Eduardo Carrillo/“The Feminine Sublime”/Ana Serrano
Three diverse exhibitions connected by their "Testament of the Spirit" are led by Eduardo Carrillo's exceptional "Chicano History" painting and a selection of intimate self-portraits. more...
“Extracorporeal (Beyond the Body)”
“Extracorporeal (Beyond the Body),” celebrates the life and work of the late Ana Mendieta. Over 30 years after her untimely death she still inspires artists who use their own bodies in ways deeply indebted to their precursor. more...
Kate Gilmore
It takes a while to grasp what we are looking at. As Kate Gilmore's "Morning Rage" becomes clear we share the catharsis. more...
Devorah Sperber
Familiar art historical icons are reconstructed by Devorah Sperber using spools of thread that are viewed through an ocular sphere. more...
Nicole Eisenman
Starting with the title painting, "Dark Light" sums up Nicole Eisenman's feeling of being trapped in a world marching towards disaster. more...
Alex Couwenberg
The "Chevron" motif invoked by Alex Couwenberg plays off of commercial, historical and modern art references to establish a layered complexity. more...
FotoFest 2018 Biennial
The current FotoFest Biennial focuses on India, and the 47 photographers mirror key issues such as race, gender and migration. more...
Kate Gilmore
It takes a while to grasp what we are looking at. As Kate Gilmore's "Morning Rage" becomes clear we share the catharsis. more...
The Power of Mark Making
Recent exhibitions by Robin Mitchell and Robert Walker demonstrated the continued viability of obsessive mark making. The accumulated effect of such accumulations transfers a heightened state of consciousness from artist to viewer. more...
Remembering Sandra Stone
Poet Sandra Stone was familiar to many artists and writers in and around Portland for more than her regular presence at art walks and host of studio salons. She wrote with insight, chutzpah and a first person voice that inhabited some of history's most interesting and idiosyncratic artists. more...
Art and Apocalypse
Images of annihilation have take on fresh urgency during the past year. Richard Speer calls our attention to a pair of exhibitions that suggest a silver lining that are not mere exercises in denial. more...
Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith is keenly aware of lost worlds: open landscapes covered with orange groves, old Hollywood, the era of film noir and Coconut Grove kitsch. She play with images and with words, and "over time the images beat out the words." more...
Weldon Butler and Amanda Knowles
Weldon Butler's working life has been as varied as the rather populist use of materials from which he constructs rough but diagrammatic abstractions. Amanda Knowles produces ghostly images of urban construction projects that feel like fantasy. more...
Jasper Johns
"Something Resembling Truth" is a mixed bag of Jasper Johns' long since iconic flags, targets and numbers. It also discloses how the artist's early verve over time retreated into a self-absorbed hermeticism. more...
Hail to the Chief
DeWitt Cheng shares the affection so many hold for former President Obama; but not quite so much for the recently unveiled official portraits. more...
Steve Fitch
“Much of what I have photographed is gone or in ruins. … It is as if I had a sixth sense that what I was making pictures of was going to disappear ...” says photographer Steve Fitch. more...
Alison Saar
Her feelings about the abuse of minorities inform "Topsy Turvy's" depiction of black women empowered with determination. more...
Anna Kunz
Anna Kunz’s “Color Cast” is a gallery-sized abstract painting full of transparent layering and vibrant hues. She immerses us as participants in rather than observers of formalism. more...
Joe Rudko
Joe Rudko integrates collage and geometric abstraction in an intricate mélange of the quotidian and inspired imagination. more...
Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin’s scrim installation demonstrates that how nothing about perception is an absolute. more...
Robert Colescott
Robert Colescott wit and empathy to expose racism while appropriating art historical sources to help sharpen the point. more...
Chester Arnold
In “Borderline,” Chester Arnold's epic-scale landscapes take aim at our ecological plight. Crumbling ruins of concrete and brick, defaced with graffiti and maintained by small, faceless, lumpen workers, are absurd and sad and strangely beautiful. more...
Brian Mashburn
Brian Mashburn’s landscape vistas that delight and awe despite their eerily disquieting subject matter. more...
Maggie Taylor
A decade ago Maggie Taylor published a set of 45 illustrations to "Alice in Wonderland." Now she presents her new series of "Through the Looking Glass" illustrations, which allude to the 19th century era in which Lewis Carroll originally wrote and published these classics. more...
Matthew Picton
With its gleaming gold leaf and trenchant subject matter, Matthew Picton’s “El Dorado” considers the millennia-old quest for the precious metal. The ambiguities of human greed are embodied into stylized maps that reflect the artist's knowledge and understanding of history. more...
Jay DeFeo
A selection of works on paper by Jay DeFeo draws from three series of the 1970s following her departure from traditional paint media. more...
Lorser Feitelson
"Figure to Form" concisely traces Lorser Feitelson's long transition from New Classicism's response to European Surrealism to his "Magic Space Forms", a sensual version of hard edge abstraction. more...
Harald Szeemann
Harald Szeemann was one of the world's key curators in the 1960s and 70s, effectively launching a new era of artistic diversity. "Museum of Obsessions" reviews that career; "Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us" recreates the apartment of Szeemann's grandfather, a hair stylist. more...
Kim Schoenstadt
Particularly now, the values that a government building's architecture embodies are up for grabs. Kim Schoenstadt offers a cool but sharp eye in her abstract mash-ups of civic houses of power; not just Amerian, either. more...
“In Repose”
"In Repose" shows that artists' interpretation of the figure remains diverse and vital. The late Wade Reynolds provides the focal point. more...
Tony DeLap
Timed with Tony DeLap's 90th year, this retrospective confirms his place as one of our most original minimalists. more...
“Extracorporeal (Beyond the Body)”
“Extracorporeal (Beyond the Body),” celebrates the life and work of the late Ana Mendieta. Over 30 years after her untimely death she still inspires artists who use their own bodies in ways deeply indebted to their precursor. more...
The Power of Mark Making
Recent exhibitions by Robin Mitchell and Robert Walker demonstrated the continued viability of obsessive mark making. The accumulated effect of such accumulations transfers a heightened state of consciousness from artist to viewer. more...
Kathy Jones
Kathy Jones paintings of standing, featureless figures posing in landscapes and interiors are all about color and implicit drama. more...
“Walk in My Shoes”
The group show “Walk in My Shoes” stirs empathy and compassion from the portrayals of the human condition, as the title implies. A tone of activism is struck by images that address themes of self-identity, immigration, indigenous rights and homelessness. more...
Peter Bogardus
In ‘’Going to Gansu,” Peter Bogardus presents photogravures taken during a two-day train ride the western edge of the Gobi Desert in 1992. more...
Paul Lee
Paul Lee's assemblages bring together tambourines with painted squares and rectangles that reference computer touch screens. more...
Louise Bourgeois
The monumental prints that Louise Bourgeois produced in her late nineties reveal an artist whose mastery never waned. The selection here reads like a personal diary writ on a cinematic scale. more...
Michael Spafford
This three-gallery survey of veteran Pacific Northwest painter Michael C. Spafford brings together dozens of paintings and prints, a hardbound catalogue, beautiful installations and lighting. But why wasn’t it all in an art museum? more...
“Plato in L.A.”
"Plato in L.A." brings together eleven artists who draw on everything from the familiar cave simile to the ambluatory method of discourse. more...
Emil Bisttram
Emil Bisttram carved out a prominent position in New Mexico's art history as a pioneering modernist, teacher and muralist. more...
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson's "The Rainbow Sign" floods the galleries with and array of densely layered works. From "Untitled Escape Collages" to "Untitled Ugly Pots" that are decisively raw, they exist in a storm that we may see beyond. more...
Francisco Moreno
"The Chapel" is the centerpiece work in Francisco Moreno's current show that immerses us in murals and history. more...
Adriane Colburn and Alice Shaw
Alice Shaw’s photography-based work explores identity in the age of simulacra. Adriane Colburn shows abstract sculptures in wood strips with metal fittings. more...
Hannah Piper Burns
In a three-channel video and audio installation “Venus Retrograde,” multi-media artist Hannah Piper Burns critiques the popular and pernicious genre of reality television. more...
No Time to Sit Around: An Unexpected Memoriam
James Yood recalls his youthful experience of the climactic year 1968 a half century ago. This turned out to be his final short essay, as Yood tragically died of a heart attack on April 20th at age 65. more...
Matthew Szosz
"Inflatables" and "Ropeworks" by Matthew Szosz are two series of glass sculptures that toy with our notions of what glass can do. more...
Mark Innerst
Mark Innerst's small cityscape "Tiffany" expresses a sheer rapture for the electrifying vitality of New York City at night. It's a radiant three-dimensional vision of floating geometric blocks flanked by bejeweled vertical strands of light. more...
Ned Evans/Kelly Berg
Kelly Berg's work transports us to a visually magical landscape. Ned Evans' colorful abstractions celebrate the earth's fierce shape-making genius. more...
Viola Frey
A selective survey of Viola Frey's New York years makes on want to know more about how her experiences there shaped her emerging aesthetic, which became both deeply informed by art and ceramic history while being highly personal and imaginative. more...
Karin Broker
The #MeToo movement may be recent, but Karin Broker has addressed related matters of the evolving role of women in her art for years. more...
Artists with Disabilities
When Bay Area artist Katherine Sherwood was 44, when an artist is usually considered to be at mid-career, she lost the use of her dominant hand after suffering a stroke. She addressed the negative stereotyping of people with disabilities by creating clever and compelling paintings. more...
Penny Truitt
Steel is a new medium for Penny Truitt, better know for her ceramic sculpture. In "Confluence" the works are made up of two elements that wrestle with form, balance and spacial composition. more...
Tim Cross
Tim Cross' see-through leaves against a dark background call to mind pottery decoration and wallpaper patterns; but that is where they start, not finish. more...
Kelly Catarino
Among a lush frame of greenery, the tumbling, cavorting pink bodies of Kelly Catarino’s “Garden” suggest a carefree, pre-apple Eden. But all is not as it at first appears. more...
Is Death an Unfair Advantage?
Why is it that some artists of more or less equal talent are neglected and others praised and celebrated? Matthew Kangas explores a list to factors that go into an artist's historical reputation. more...
FotoFest 2018 Biennial
The current FotoFest Biennial focuses on India, and the 47 photographers mirror key issues such as race, gender and migration. more...
Remembering Sandra Stone
Poet Sandra Stone was familiar to many artists and writers in and around Portland for more than her regular presence at art walks and host of studio salons. She wrote with insight, chutzpah and a first person voice that inhabited some of history's most interesting and idiosyncratic artists. more...
Nicole Eisenman
Starting with the title painting, "Dark Light" sums up Nicole Eisenman's feeling of being trapped in a world marching towards disaster. more...
Alison Saar
Her feelings about the abuse of minorities inform "Topsy Turvy's" depiction of black women empowered with determination. more...
Chester Arnold
In “Borderline,” Chester Arnold's epic-scale landscapes take aim at our ecological plight. Crumbling ruins of concrete and brick, defaced with graffiti and maintained by small, faceless, lumpen workers, are absurd and sad and strangely beautiful. more...
Artists with Disabilities
When Bay Area artist Katherine Sherwood was 44, when an artist is usually considered to be at mid-career, she lost the use of her dominant hand after suffering a stroke. She addressed the negative stereotyping of people with disabilities by creating clever and compelling paintings. more...
Favorite Artworks for Different Reasons
If you love art and have even a modest collection, chances are you’d have a hard time saying which piece is your favorite. For Richard Speer there is the story of his first. . . more...
Camille Rose Garcia
Camille Rose Garcia’s lush and surreal exhibition “The Wonderful World of Dr. Deekay” is immersive, vividly colorful and psychedelic. more...
Kira Dominguez Hultgren
In Argentina Kira Dominguez Hulgren studied the Mapuche culture’s warp-faced weaving tradition on a vertical post loom. She now brings feminism, oral history and weaving together in five large woven sculptures. more...
“Circle / Squared”
Like the circular dial of a precision timepiece, the artists in “Circle/Squared” carry us forward from the past to an unknowable future. more...
Kiyomi Baird and Robert Koch
The dual cultural background of Kiyomi Baird use paintings of spheres to express her spiritual feelings for the cosmos. These pair with Robert Koch's sculpted spheres both formally and for their sensibility. more...
Mr. Rodin meet Mr. Schnabel
The Legion of Honor's contemporary artist series the last couple years has sought to stir the pot of its own traditionalism. So who better to shake things up with historical privilege than the swaggering neo-expressionist Julian Schnabel? more...
Feminizing Male Stereotypes
Conventional notions of masculinity are questioned in the work of young artists Nathan Vincent and Jose Villalobos. more...
Lucinda Cobley
Her paintings may be serene, but Lucinda Cobley sure knows how to manage layers of light and color for optical effect. more...
Roland Reiss
Roland Reiss' "Miniatures" and "Florals" survey back over 40 years, but include new works that display both continuity and fresh interests. more...
Colin Chillag
Colin Chillage conjures memories of childhood from found photographs, which he embellishes with notation-like notes and painterly details. more...
Rodrigo Valenzuela
Rodrigo Valenzuela builds a barn-like structure in which he displays a number of art objects, but there is no entrance. We can only peek inside, catching no more than parts of each image. more...
Otobong Nkanga
The geological earth is treated by Otobong Nkanga not romantically but as victimized by the human hand. She contemplates the distance between raw material and what it might become. more...
“Trump Card”
The artists of "Trump Card" make it more than an exercise of free expression. Their mockery and indictments ask that we see what is before our eyes. more...
Lawrence Gipe
"Another Cold Winter" is Lawrence Gipe's latest reflection on the visual rhetoric of the past, here the immediate post-war decade. The conjoined twins of beauty and tragedy echo an ambiguous present. more...
Catherine J. Davis
Catherine J. Davis documents the realities between the water and land of the U.S. Gulf Coast between Florida and Texas. more...
Betsy Schneider
What are today's teens experiencing and thinking about themselves? Bet Schneider has photographed teens since 2012 in an effort to help us get inside their heads. more...
Considering the Viewer
Often artists either fail to consider their viewers, or pointedly disregard them. Richard Speer explains the value of concern for the viewer. more...
Chadwick and Spector
Funhouse mirror versions of art historical portraits are painted by Laura Spector on Chadwick Gray's body, and then photographed. more...
Minerva Cuevas
A single immersive on site mural turns the table on corporate branding strategies. Minerva Cuevas draws on cartoon and animation graphics to tell a narrative of migration, surveillance and ominous danger. more...
Joerael Elliot
Her floral imagery is appealing, but its natural beauty collides with the harsh mechanics of firearms in Joerael Elliot's show, "A Clip of Petals." more...
Julião Sarmento
Juliao Sarmento's recent crater prints evoke the Martian surface as revealed by the Curiosity Rover. more...
No Time to Sit Around: An Unexpected Memoriam
James Yood recalls his youthful experience of the climactic year 1968 a half century ago. This turned out to be his final short essay, as Yood tragically died of a heart attack on April 20th at age 65. more...
Michael Spafford
This three-gallery survey of veteran Pacific Northwest painter Michael C. Spafford brings together dozens of paintings and prints, a hardbound catalogue, beautiful installations and lighting. But why wasn’t it all in an art museum? more...
“Plato in L.A.”
"Plato in L.A." brings together eleven artists who draw on everything from the familiar cave simile to the ambluatory method of discourse. more...
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson's "The Rainbow Sign" floods the galleries with and array of densely layered works. From "Untitled Escape Collages" to "Untitled Ugly Pots" that are decisively raw, they exist in a storm that we may see beyond. more...
Francisco Moreno
"The Chapel" is the centerpiece work in Francisco Moreno's current show that immerses us in murals and history. more...
Is Death an Unfair Advantage?
Why is it that some artists of more or less equal talent are neglected and others praised and celebrated? Matthew Kangas explores a list to factors that go into an artist's historical reputation. more...
Lies to Deceive, Lies to Reveal
Art is all about lies that "enables us to realize the truth." But then there are lies of deceit, which our culture today is wallowing in. more...
“Earthscapes: Contemporary Views of and from the Land”
Prolifically explored a subject as landscape has been for as long as that has been so, "Earthscapes" sets out to establish that artists continue to enrich it with new knowledge that enlarges the context in which it is interpreted. more...
Ryan Burghard
Ryan Burghard focuses on traces of things we sense but cannot see. An impaled bumblebee, the charred imprint of an unseen flame, a chalk mark--all are in some way inspired by a Virginia Woolf short story. more...
James Lumsden
The abstract vision of James Lumsden display a mature formalism that is also full of feeling. Consisting of numerous layers of pigment and gloss medium, many works bisect the canvas to effect a dynamic visual interaction. more...
David Hockney
David Hockney has been painting a whole lot of portrait over the last few years, and they are gathered into a guilty pleasure of an exhibition. more...
“Divine Bodies”
"Divine Bodies: Sacred Imagery in Asian Art" informs us as to how Asian artists have for centuries blended spirituality, myth and formal beauty. more...
Patti Warashina
Patti Warashina takes on issues ranging from social media obsession to political corruption, but injects whimsy and humor to leaven and lighten things. She does it all in highly stylized ceramic figures, which are at times abstract generalizations, at other times very specific. more...
Larry Bell
Larry Bell's signature form for over half a century is the cube, and we get a whole bunch of them here. Their vacuum-coated surfaces set them apart from the beginning, reflecting color at the same time that they permit light to flood through. more...
Jeffrey Gibson
Jeffrey Gibson revitalized his paintings by razoring many of them, running them through the washer, then repurposing the fragments into collages. more...
Richard Diebenkorn
This survey of Richard Diebenkorn's early work takes us through the numerous approaches the artist took before arriving at the style for which he is best known. more...
The Museum as a Creative Laboratory
The Torrance Museum recently set up a group of open studios right in their public space, effectively urbanizing the artist in residence. more...
Contrarian
Feminist intellectual Germain Greer has long been known for her powerful critique of the submissive role of women. DeWitt Chen responds to her recently aired views concerning art education. Should we just be doing it at home? more...
Eric Beltz
Eric Beltz combines landscape, astronomy and graphic-novel fantasy in ultra-meticulous night skies full of intricate patterns. They verge on abstraction, the more so they permit our imagination to assert itself. more...
Nicholas Galanin
Whose land we are living on and what that means are questions that drive Nicholas Galanin's work. His mixed heritage, both Native American and settler, informs his visual critique of both. more...
Jeff Sonhouse
Jeff Sonhouse's portraits of African American men keep one foot in realism, but they sure make us wonder. more...
Kehinde Wiley
Two paintings of Ethopian Jews by Kehinde Wiley are in the tradition of the heroic portrait. Both are superb for their detail and execution. more...
Jaydan Moore
Jaydan Moore's "Dust" exhibition is shaped by his family's history of tombstone carving. He recasts tableware and other found objects into touchstones of memory and nostalgia. more...
For the “LOVE” of Indiana
Robert Indiana, thanks to a single work of "LOVE," remained popular with the public for decades, while often being dismissed by the mainstream art world. Lisa Wainwright takes a deeper dive to answer why. more...
Mary Hayslip
The art gallery as a fantasy garden of imaginary flowers and invented creatures forms the heart and soul of Mary Hayslip's current exhibition. more...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Brimming with both symbolism and narrative skill, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's survey proves fascinating and morally charged. more...
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl makes use of collage to discover the right composition of figures to occupy familiar settings in his usual formally complex paintings that are dripping with amibiguity. more...
Ai Kijima
In a survey of her quilt/collages, the evolution of Ai Kijima's technical expertise and eye for subject matter are unpacked. From the influence of the Superflat movement, to "chaotic collages," to sexualized anime figures, then to decorative geometric abstraction, Kijima has elevated the aesthetic p more...
Kate Ballis
In “Hypercolour Fantasy: Infra Realism” Kate Ballis attacks the eye with a vivid spectrum of purple and indigo flora, hot pink landscapes and houses, and scarlet red and pink skies are set in and a send-up of the Palm Springs area. more...
Thomas Glassford
Thomas Glassford brings together organic materials such as gourds with contemporary manufactured products in richly metaphorical works. more...
Phranc
Phranc, also known for her LGBTQ activism and "All-American Jewish Lesbian Folk" music, displays "Swagger" (the show's title) in both her formal mastery and personal identity. Depictions of ordinary objects, especially life jackets, in cheap materials draw from her personal back story without depend more...
Jay DeFeo
Dualities of flat and illusory space, thick and thin brushwork and vigorously handled against untouched surfaces are, in the hands of Jay DeFeo, rich with possibility and convincing for their authority. more...
Belltown Blues
Matthew Kangas recounts the early rise of a progressive scene in Seattle, to which he returned in the late 1970s. more...
The Quandary of Content
When you look at a painting, do you see a succession of pleasing forms or a probing inquiry into the human condition? more...
“Compression”
Elana Herzog and Luanne Martineau have a shared affinity for paper, textiles and heavily worked surfaces loaded with visual detail. more...
Ravi Zupa
Drawing on the Northern European Renaissance and Indian mythology, Ravi Zupa repurposes both to offer a modern cultural critique. more...
Avisheh Mohsenin
Avisheh Mohsenin has been recovering with Houston from Hurricane Harvey over the past year. From the many damaged photographs that she salvaged from the storm, she has evolved many into fresh images. As a group they are fresh and topical, yet personal and, surprise!, appealing. more...
Kris Hargis
Kris Hargis takes an unsparing look at his own visage in "A Michigan Winter," in which he appears as melancholic and haunted. more...
Agnes Martin
A suite of 10 small prints executed by Agnes Martin in 1990 balance the wavering precision that are all about her world devoid of objects. more...
Engaging with Immersive Art
Noting the recent growth in popularity of immersive art, David S. Rubin finds a focused individual experience to be a key measure of success. more...
Ned Evans/Kelly Berg
Kelly Berg's work transports us to a visually magical landscape. Ned Evans' colorful abstractions celebrate the earth's fierce shape-making genius. more...
Viola Frey
A selective survey of Viola Frey's New York years makes on want to know more about how her experiences there shaped her emerging aesthetic, which became both deeply informed by art and ceramic history while being highly personal and imaginative. more...
Favorite Artworks for Different Reasons
If you love art and have even a modest collection, chances are you’d have a hard time saying which piece is your favorite. For Richard Speer there is the story of his first. . . more...
Tim Cross
Tim Cross' see-through leaves against a dark background call to mind pottery decoration and wallpaper patterns; but that is where they start, not finish. more...
Mr. Rodin meet Mr. Schnabel
The Legion of Honor's contemporary artist series the last couple years has sought to stir the pot of its own traditionalism. So who better to shake things up with historical privilege than the swaggering neo-expressionist Julian Schnabel? more...
Feminizing Male Stereotypes
Conventional notions of masculinity are questioned in the work of young artists Nathan Vincent and Jose Villalobos. more...
Roland Reiss
Roland Reiss' "Miniatures" and "Florals" survey back over 40 years, but include new works that display both continuity and fresh interests. more...
Jun Kaneko
Known primarily as a second wave contemporary clay artist, Jan Kaneko's painting and mark making take center stage here. more...
“Trump Card”
The artists of "Trump Card" make it more than an exercise of free expression. Their mockery and indictments ask that we see what is before our eyes. more...
Lawrence Gipe
"Another Cold Winter" is Lawrence Gipe's latest reflection on the visual rhetoric of the past, here the immediate post-war decade. The conjoined twins of beauty and tragedy echo an ambiguous present. more...
Considering the Viewer
Often artists either fail to consider their viewers, or pointedly disregard them. Richard Speer explains the value of concern for the viewer. more...
James Turell
Four of James Turrell's "Glass" works are portals, not just light and color saturated shapes, that cloak us in veils of colored mist. more...
“Selected Affinities”
"Selected Affinities" is a small group shows built around the late Allan Sekula, particularly his "Fish Story" series that splits the difference between documentary and conceptual photography. more...
“A Conscious Surrender”
In "A Conscious Surrender" six artists push aside their normal working methods in favor producing out of character works. more...
Kari Wehrs
For her “Shot” series of tintype portraits, Kari Wehrs took to parts of the Arizona desert used by recreational shooters. more...
“Casa Tomada”
The title translates as "House Taken Over" for this group show centered on the subject of occupation. Setting that aside, this is about as diverse a use of media and geographical distribution as anything you care to imagine. more...
Can Photographs Tell the Truth Anymore?
We have grown accustomed to the ease with which pixels may be twisted: parts removed or replaced, only to be invisibly sutured back together into something diabolically different. Maria Porges notes that this new normal has artists pushing back to uncover a new veracity. more...
Kenneth Tam
In "Griffith Park Boys Camp" Kenneth Tam brings “working-age” adult males of varying backgrounds and races together for a weekend of summer camp — not adult-modulated summer camp, mind you, but boys’ summer camp. more...
Nery Gabriel Lemus
The journeys and plights of Latin American immigrants play to the spirit of Emma Lazarus' iconic poem, but with some deeper intents. more...
Raphaelle Goethals and Wanxin Zhang
Raphaël Goethals and Wanxin Zhang have seemingly little in common. Goethals is a Belgian painter who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s, and Zhang is a Chinese sculptor who relocated to the States in the 90s. But cultural experience and formal similarities abound. more...
“In Red Ink”
The ghost of Edward Curtis both informs and stimulates push back from this group of Native American contemporary artists. more...
“I Was Raised on the Internet”
A darkened gallery filled with screens, projections, and a cacophony of audio compels us from one room to the next. more...
Burning Down the House
On September 2nd Brazil's National Museum burnt nearly 2 million art, historical and scientific artifacts. Primarily a victim of inadequate funding and planning for such a catastrophe, don't think for a moment that this could not happen here. more...
Minerva Cuevas
A single immersive on site mural turns the table on corporate branding strategies. Minerva Cuevas draws on cartoon and animation graphics to tell a narrative of migration, surveillance and ominous danger. more...
Julião Sarmento
Juliao Sarmento's recent crater prints evoke the Martian surface as revealed by the Curiosity Rover. more...
Lies to Deceive, Lies to Reveal
Art is all about lies that "enables us to realize the truth." But then there are lies of deceit, which our culture today is wallowing in. more...
“Earthscapes: Contemporary Views of and from the Land”
Prolifically explored a subject as landscape has been for as long as that has been so, "Earthscapes" sets out to establish that artists continue to enrich it with new knowledge that enlarges the context in which it is interpreted. more...
David Hockney
David Hockney has been painting a whole lot of portrait over the last few years, and they are gathered into a guilty pleasure of an exhibition. more...
“Divine Bodies”
"Divine Bodies: Sacred Imagery in Asian Art" informs us as to how Asian artists have for centuries blended spirituality, myth and formal beauty. more...
The Museum as a Creative Laboratory
The Torrance Museum recently set up a group of open studios right in their public space, effectively urbanizing the artist in residence. more...
Larry Bell
Larry Bell's signature form for over half a century is the cube, and we get a whole bunch of them here. Their vacuum-coated surfaces set them apart from the beginning, reflecting color at the same time that they permit light to flood through. more...
Contrarian
Feminist intellectual Germain Greer has long been known for her powerful critique of the submissive role of women. DeWitt Chen responds to her recently aired views concerning art education. Should we just be doing it at home? more...
Richard Diebenkorn
This survey of Richard Diebenkorn's early work takes us through the numerous approaches the artist took before arriving at the style for which he is best known. more...
Tonika Lewis Johnson
Tonika Lewis Johnson interviews Chicago residents on opposite north and south ends of longitudinal running streets. Not surprisingly the neighborhoods they reflect are utterly different. The point, though, is that Johnson brings these "Map Twins" together. more...
Maxim Walkultschik
Thousands of wood dowels dotted with paint the size of toothpicks are Maxim Walkultschik's answer to optical art. more...
Paul Berger
Paul Berger seemly explored multiple directions of the future of photography relatively early in his career. Berger approaches his various subject matter with an eye to altering it and transforming the way we perceive the world. more...
Fred Stonehouse
Fred Stonehouse's dreamlike scenarios are populated with human/animal hybrids caught in some intense situations. more...
Robert Adams
One of the central players of the "New Topographics" deadpan aesthetic in photography, this selection of Robert Adams' black and white photos of roads, and street of the American West may be just-the-facts snapshots or metaphors of life's journey. more...
Belltown Blues (Part 2)
Concluding his account of the brief period of Belltown's key impact on Seattle's art culture, several of the most important talents are recalled. more...
Elizabeth Turk
Deservedly renowned for her intricate carvings, these "Extinct Bird Cages" constitute an inquiry into the memorial presence of something now gone. From stunning to thoughtful, Turk's shift is dramatic but convincing. more...
Catherine Wagner
Using photography to examine social forces and institutions that shape it is Catherine Wagner's forté. She conveys the inherent beauty of scientific and cultural artifacts while maintaining an objective distance. more...
Donald Roy Thompson
Donald Roy Thompson returned to an "Echo Series" of paintings after about a 40 year break, and it's worth the wait. more...
Sam Fresquez
Sam Fresquez uses a central tunnel-like sculpture, paired with text-based objects that include wooden cubes of laser-cut calligraphy and painted palm fronds to convey the ambiguities in human experiences of family and home. more...
William Volkersz
Dutch emigre Willem Volkersz engages mid-20th century America by way of road-trip souvenirs, ceramic figurines and travel postcards. But he is not aiming to take us on a nostalgia trip, but to reflect on where we come from to be where we are now. more...
Chicago Pop Redux
Pop art, Chicago style, appears back in vogue, back perhaps due to its seriously screwball renditions of the human condition. more...
John Wilcox
A gallery size retrospective of a little know artist rarely succeeds in making its case. John Wilcox, however, is the exception. more...
Mabry Campbell
Houston’s distinctive architecture serves as Mabry Campbell’s primary subject in sharply focused, dramatic photographs. Mostly black and white, included too is a color series of the James Turrell "Skyspace" at Rice University. more...
Wendy White
Atari-era pixelated hearts underscore the vernacular of Wendy White’s collaged denim and digital prints of ads for sports cars. more...
Pat O’Neill
Pat O'Neill's “The Decay of Fiction” is a five-channel installation projected onto three walls, immersing you in a muted spectacle that is ghostly, varies in speed, and manages to be endlessly compelling to watch. more...
“Living with Clay”
"Living with Clay" provides some answers to the question why some people amass large collections of ceramic art. more...
Never Give a Inch
Ken Kesey's Stamper family stubbornness makes Bill Lasarow wonder why a third of the country acts as though we never had it so bad. more...
Eric Beltz
Eric Beltz combines landscape, astronomy and graphic-novel fantasy in ultra-meticulous night skies full of intricate patterns. They verge on abstraction, the more so they permit our imagination to assert itself. more...
Nicholas Galanin
Whose land we are living on and what that means are questions that drive Nicholas Galanin's work. His mixed heritage, both Native American and settler, informs his visual critique of both. more...
For the “LOVE” of Indiana
Robert Indiana, thanks to a single work of "LOVE," remained popular with the public for decades, while often being dismissed by the mainstream art world. Lisa Wainwright takes a deeper dive to answer why. more...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Brimming with both symbolism and narrative skill, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's survey proves fascinating and morally charged. more...
Engaging with Immersive Art
Noting the recent growth in popularity of immersive art, David S. Rubin finds a focused individual experience to be a key measure of success. more...
Sharon Ellis
Sharon Ellis interprets nature by observing with care and internalizing its forces. It is her rich use of pattern set dramatically against fields of color that produces dreamlike visions that are mesmerizing to look at. more...
Pascal Pierme
Pascal Pierme explains the unusual title of his exhibition "Hylê Forever“ -- "What will happen if I mix this with that…?” more...
Jo Ann Callis
Jo Ann Callis' photography, sculptures and paintings are witty, sensual and unexpected, even after more than 40 years of practice. It is the photography she is best known for, images that offer suggestions but not clear answers. more...
Michael Viglietta
Text is prevalent in Michael Miglietta's imagery, but it serves to have us consider our own mental and emotional landscapes. more...
“Group Therapy”
Outlandish pseudoscience of the 19th century informs the artists included in "Group Therapy', who use it to make more serious points. more...
James Turell
Four of James Turrell's "Glass" works are portals, not just light and color saturated shapes, that cloak us in veils of colored mist. more...
“Selected Affinities”
"Selected Affinities" is a small group shows built around the late Allan Sekula, particularly his "Fish Story" series that splits the difference between documentary and conceptual photography. more...
Can Photographs Tell the Truth Anymore?
We have grown accustomed to the ease with which pixels may be twisted: parts removed or replaced, only to be invisibly sutured back together into something diabolically different. Maria Porges notes that this new normal has artists pushing back to uncover a new veracity. more...
“Casa Tomada”
The title translates as "House Taken Over" for this group show centered on the subject of occupation. Setting that aside, this is about as diverse a use of media and geographical distribution as anything you care to imagine. more...
“In Red Ink”
The ghost of Edward Curtis both informs and stimulates push back from this group of Native American contemporary artists. more...
Burning Down the House
On September 2nd Brazil's National Museum burnt nearly 2 million art, historical and scientific artifacts. Primarily a victim of inadequate funding and planning for such a catastrophe, don't think for a moment that this could not happen here. more...
When Artists Play with Fire
Certain of the exhibitions in San Francisco that Richard Speer recently visited refreshed memories of the recent wildfires the consumed so much acreage in Northern California. Coincidental these shows may have been, but that renders the symbolism that much more felt. more...
Tonika Lewis Johnson
Tonika Lewis Johnson interviews Chicago residents on opposite north and south ends of longitudinal running streets. Not surprisingly the neighborhoods they reflect are utterly different. The point, though, is that Johnson brings these "Map Twins" together. more...
Belltown Blues (Part 2)
Concluding his account of the brief period of Belltown's key impact on Seattle's art culture, several of the most important talents are recalled. more...
Frank Sampson
Now in his 90s, Frank Sampson remains a vital force. His recent allegorical paintings are emotionally and formally complex. more...
Jenny Heishman
Jenny Heishman does not exhibit a large number of works, but the "rugs" here are surprisingly composed from pulped paper, one corner curled up. They may strike us as unprepossessing at first, but reward staying with them. more...
Matthew Mullins
The patterns and textures of New Mexico's landscape serve as the taking off point for Matthew Mullins, who is constantly looking for connections. more...
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky's large scale aerial photographs are spectacular. Viewing the painterly pattens of landscape seen from afar is pure eye candy, but the effects of human development that often abuses that same landscape has a powerful effect on our moral conscience. more...
Frohawk Two Feathers
Frengland is a fictional colonial empire, and it serves as the aesthetic foundation for the art of Umar Rashid, aka Frohawk Two Features. more...
Liminal Art
"Liminal," meaning between two states, worked its way into art jargon some time ago, and its aesthetic presence has made itself known in a number of recent exhibitions. David S. Rubin looks at some of the best such recent examples. more...
Joe Mancuso
Joe Mancuso remains consistent in his sensibilities and methodical in his execution. For more than a decade, he has been re-examining and reworking the same concepts and themes, but each work of art is distinctive and fresh. more...
John Fraser
John Fraser works with mixed media and found objects to create abstract constructions, 27 of which comprise this exhibition. more...
“Natural Persuasion”
“Natural Persuasion” brings together two photographers with a penchant for documenting an unusual subject — the impact of renewable energy industries on the landscape. more...
Project Blue Boy
Project Blue Boy constitutes an unusual blend of rather unique if not standard performance art and public engagement. more...
Midterms -- Where Will You Be?
The midterm elections this year reflected a key moment in the current perilous zeitgeist. DeWitt Cheng reflects on art's place in it. more...
Adrian Piper
In addition to being part of the first wave of conceptual art, Adrian Piper evolved to encompass interactive performance, making charged socio-political work, and intermittently creating poetic images and objects throughout. more...
Whitney Bradshaw
Women are photographed in mid-scream and presented by Whitney Bradshaw in two vast grids that surrounds us with their voices. more...
Meleko Mokgosi
In “Objects of Desire: Reflections on the African Still Life” Meleko Mokgosi balances classical technique and conceptual rigor. How African bodies and culture have been depicted is critiqued through the lens of still life objects. more...
Duane Michals
Duane Michals is not your ordinary celebrity photographer even though cultural royalty stands central in his body of work. more...
Belkis Ayón
Belkis Ayon culls from the mythos of the Cuban Abakua secret society to draw universal connections with other religious symbolism. more...
Portland Evolves from Figure to Field
Visiting from Seattle, Matthew Kangas explores the unique virtues of Portland's current scene, starting with its one but singular major art museum, the popular Pearl District galleries, and the upstart Northeast district across the river. more...
Catherine Wagner
Using photography to examine social forces and institutions that shape it is Catherine Wagner's forté. She conveys the inherent beauty of scientific and cultural artifacts while maintaining an objective distance. more...
Chicago Pop Redux
Pop art, Chicago style, appears back in vogue, back perhaps due to its seriously screwball renditions of the human condition. more...
Never Give a Inch
Ken Kesey's Stamper family stubbornness makes Bill Lasarow wonder why a third of the country acts as though we never had it so bad. more...
“Living with Clay”
"Living with Clay" provides some answers to the question why some people amass large collections of ceramic art. more...
Sharon Ellis
Sharon Ellis interprets nature by observing with care and internalizing its forces. It is her rich use of pattern set dramatically against fields of color that produces dreamlike visions that are mesmerizing to look at. more...
“Group Therapy”
Outlandish pseudoscience of the 19th century informs the artists included in "Group Therapy', who use it to make more serious points. more...
Jo Ann Callis
Jo Ann Callis' photography, sculptures and paintings are witty, sensual and unexpected, even after more than 40 years of practice. It is the photography she is best known for, images that offer suggestions but not clear answers. more...
When Artists Play with Fire
Certain of the exhibitions in San Francisco that Richard Speer recently visited refreshed memories of the recent wildfires the consumed so much acreage in Northern California. Coincidental these shows may have been, but that renders the symbolism that much more felt. more...
Frohawk Two Feathers
Frengland is a fictional colonial empire, and it serves as the aesthetic foundation for the art of Umar Rashid, aka Frohawk Two Features. more...
Liminal Art
"Liminal," meaning between two states, worked its way into art jargon some time ago, and its aesthetic presence has made itself known in a number of recent exhibitions. David S. Rubin looks at some of the best such recent examples. more...
Etsuko Ichikawa and Peter Olson
Etsuko Ichikawa’s serene works and Peter Olson’s brash ones, divergent as they are, show both artists are alchemists of a sort. more...
Ward Sanders
Ward Sanders' "Nightboxes" take on grim subjects in homage to Theodore Gericault's landmark "Raft of the Medusa". His found objects inspire narratives of the struggle for survival, and such tales, as with the "Medusa," can feel vicious. more...
Jim Carrey
Actor Jim Carrey expresses his political outrage over the present administration in a flow of posted tweets and very expressive political cartoons. To date more than 100 of them, here posted in chronological sequence. To describe them as opinionated would be a vast understatement. more...
Margie Livingston
Margie Livingston's constantly shifting body of work does so because it is about the nature of painting itself and how a painting gets made. more...
Matthew Picton
The "Cultural Mapping" of Matthew Picton is visually quite rich, but how humanity evolves the built environment is the real subject. more...
“Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy”
Ragnar Kjartansson's recent durational performance "Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy" posted 30 women throughout San Francisco's Women's Building, each performing familiar songs with casually misogynistic lyrics. more...
Seamus Conley
Seamus Conley's protagonists are stand-ins for we the viewer, “daydreaming or ... wrapped up in one's internal universe while simultaneously existing in the moment of the external world.” more...
Sonya Clark
Working with cloth and hair, Sonya Clark calls on us to reflect on our personal histories through her own family narrative. more...
“California Fibers: A Matter of Time”
Artists affiliated with the "California Fibers" group remind us just how varied fiber art is in terms of media and technique. These are not your grandmother's textiles. and often display content and commentary beyond the innovative methods. more...
Matt Wedel
Working with porcelain and stoneware, Matt Wedel's hulking masses catch us up in their process of making. more...
How to Bump into a Sculpture
The ironic title refers to Barnett Newman's witty put-down back in the 1950s. The point is that these artists--well, sculptors--find ways to invigorate current sculptural practice. more...
Melting Pot Aesthetics
In direct contrast to the current political tribalism, key artists have been freely and effectively blending racial and cultural signifiers. more...
“Between Here and the Machine”
Three artists, Bean Gilsdorf, Anthony Discenza and Rhonda Holberton, probe the uneasy, even chilling relationship between the digital and physical worlds. more...
Georges Rouault
George's Rouault's suite "Misery and War" is a visual critique of a bleak era, and mixes modernist expressionism with powerful religiosity. more...
John Fudge
This small survey of paintings by the late John Fudge show him to be a meticulous craftsman but still irreverent and edgy. more...
Daniel Brice
Daniel Brice’s “Polaroid Paintings” are inspired by a single Polaroid of flowers in a vase which was hanging on the wall of his studio. The formal variations he comes up with are inventive, energetic and downright attractive. more...
Diego Pérez
Playing with myriad intersections between cultures, historical periods, and methods of communication, Diego Pérez' works thrust us into a tenuous threshold between the familiar and the strange more...
Project Blue Boy
Project Blue Boy constitutes an unusual blend of rather unique if not standard performance art and public engagement. more...
Midterms -- Where Will You Be?
The midterm elections this year reflected a key moment in the current perilous zeitgeist. DeWitt Cheng reflects on art's place in it. more...
Black and Blue
David S. Rubin finds new and unexpected insights to the art of Alexander Calder and Betye Saar in their recent exhibitions. more...
Adrian Piper
In addition to being part of the first wave of conceptual art, Adrian Piper evolved to encompass interactive performance, making charged socio-political work, and intermittently creating poetic images and objects throughout. more...
Duane Michals
Duane Michals is not your ordinary celebrity photographer even though cultural royalty stands central in his body of work. more...
Portland Evolves from Figure to Field
Visiting from Seattle, Matthew Kangas explores the unique virtues of Portland's current scene, starting with its one but singular major art museum, the popular Pearl District galleries, and the upstart Northeast district across the river. more...
Ebony G. Patterson
Ebony G. Patterson knows what to do with all manner of fabric, glitter, plastic jewels and faux flowers, the masses of colors and patterns functioning as to both lure us in and partially disguise the content to be found within them. more...
Theodora Varnay Jones
Drawing on Plato's ancient idealism, Theodora Varnay Jones deploys her layered work in the service of art and philosophy. more...
Ray Brown
Ray Brown here exhibits works from the 1960s that, in hindsight, were adventurous and experimental for their time for their deft interweaving of figurative and abstract elements within a single painting. more...
Loring Taoka
Loring Taoka pins his acrylic paintings on Plexiglas to a support that makes it feel like they are floating in space. more...
Art and Houseplants
Richard Speer visits some Portland businesses that take their art seriously, not just using it for ambience, but with real curatorial intent and with artists sporting solid art world resumés. more...
Rick Bartow
A startling and magical aura fills Rick Bartow's work, concocting a blend of mainstream American sensibility with a shamanistic spirituality. more...
Alfredo Arreguín
“Life Patterns” is partly a pun on Alfredo Arreguint’s signature undergirding of lines added beneath and over images. It also makes clear how Arrequín’s choices of what to paint have been connected to his personal life. more...
“Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art”
The contrast between soaring, expansive gesture and empty space in "Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art" sets up a dynamic between form and absence that is central to Japanese taste. more...
Mokha Laget
Mocha Laget’s paintings combine flat, geometric, colorful shapes with the illusion of depth, toggling from singular to multiple shapes and back. more...
Laura Davis and Dan Devening
Laura Davis and Dan Devening seem to come from very different aesthetic camps. Devening is a cool formalist, while Davis culls from the sentimentality of mementos and found objects. But looks can be deceiving. more...
Civics Lesson from a Mural
A group recently sought to have a mural located at a Los Angeles school painted out because it reminded them of the Japanese battle flag, more...
Etsuko Ichikawa and Peter Olson
Etsuko Ichikawa’s serene works and Peter Olson’s brash ones, divergent as they are, show both artists are alchemists of a sort. more...
“Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy”
Ragnar Kjartansson's recent durational performance "Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy" posted 30 women throughout San Francisco's Women's Building, each performing familiar songs with casually misogynistic lyrics. more...
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan's sprawling installations can seem to grow like weeds taking over large gallery spaces. But it is her use of materials that steals the show. Rich as they appear at a distance, get close to register the Styrene index cards, straws and other common consumer items attached together by the more...
Timothy Harding
Holding strong to a minimalist abstract aesthetic, Timothy Harding heads in a new direction imbued with waveforms, arcs and curved lines. more...
Judithe Hernández
Among the founding members of Los Four, Judith Hernandez has, until now, been the most under the public's radar. Her bold use of color and disciplined drafting skills imbued with political themes makes for a highly accessible viewing experience. more...
Viola Frey
The plates and massive figures included in this small selection of Viola Frey's ceramics capture her eye for human foibles. more...
Trenton Doyle Hancock
There are multiple ways to experience Trenton Doyle Hancock's “An Ingenue’s Hues.” There is the rich visual imagery. And there is the existential, pseudo-biblical drawings from Chapter 1 of “The Moundverse.” more...
Rebecca Reeve
Rebecca Reeve takes to the woods with powdered pigments to spray-paint ferns, logs, stones, and twigs in a spectrum of vivid colors. She then hangs Venetian blinds from supports hidden just outside her camera’s viewfinder. more...
Laura Ball
Ball’s flora- and fauna-themed watercolors brim with dreamlike scenes evoking our primal natures and good versus evil. more...
Sharon Kopriva
Three decades of Sharon Kopriva's career are highlighted by works from three series, “Meditations, Migrations and Muses.” Often working from the flat painted space, she delights in pushing images into bas relief connection with the viewer that can be downright visceral. more...
Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer's large screen prints on aluminum begin on an iPad, the idea being to simulate the surface and glow of the computer screen. more...
Deborah Boardman
"Painter &" reveals longtime Chicagoan Deborah Boardman to be an artist of spirituality, symbolism and vulnerability. more...
That Minimalist Wall
There is the idea being discussed of turning Trump’s Great Wall into a monument to folly, greed and stupidity. Screw the wall, save the prototypes. more...
Two Novels for Millennials
Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" (1930) follows a circle of post-WWI twenty somethings; while Dawn Powell's "The Golden Spur" (1962) follows another twenty something from rural Ohio to Greenwich Village after WWII in two books that Matthew Kangas finds well targeted for today's millennials. more...
“California Fibers: A Matter of Time”
Artists affiliated with the "California Fibers" group remind us just how varied fiber art is in terms of media and technique. These are not your grandmother's textiles. and often display content and commentary beyond the innovative methods. more...
Melting Pot Aesthetics
In direct contrast to the current political tribalism, key artists have been freely and effectively blending racial and cultural signifiers. more...
Georges Rouault
George's Rouault's suite "Misery and War" is a visual critique of a bleak era, and mixes modernist expressionism with powerful religiosity. more...
Art and Houseplants
Richard Speer visits some Portland businesses that take their art seriously, not just using it for ambience, but with real curatorial intent and with artists sporting solid art world resumés. more...
Irina Rozovsky and Manjari Sharma
Living on opposite coasts, Irina Rozovsky and Manjari Sharma engaged in a visual digital dialogue via iPhone during the course of their simultaneous pregnancies. The images gradually move from the documentary to the symbolic. more...
Liss LaFleur
Liss LaFleur's blown glass fruits alluding to body parts puts exaggeration, artifice and irony at the service of LGBT issues. more...
Martha Friedman
Tipping and tilting as they move around their pedestals, Martha Friedman uses muscular materials to suggest anatomical dismemberment and dislocation. Her sculptures move easily between austerity and elegance. more...
Mayme Kratz
In Mayme Kratz' current exhibition politics intersects with plants and animals encountered during time spent at Bears Ears National Monument. more...
Paige Pinnell
The late Paige Pinnell's photography is exhibited alongside an number of other photographers whose work he collected. more...
Painting for the Green New Deal
The final exhibition at the now defunct Pasadena Museum of California Art focused on a revision of the traditional landscape through the sensibilities of a selection of female artists. more...
Diana Al-Hadid
In "Temperamental Nature" Diana Al-Hadid shreds her paintings into lace-like incompletion that somehow feel complete. Landscape and figures are suggested, never depicted, the whole thing held together by balancing gesture and tone. more...
Paul Kremer
Paul Kremer goes for a bold, graphic look and gets dynamic results which depend on deliberately limited means. more...
“Dazzled: OMD, Memphis Design, and Beyond”
In part an homage to the Memphis design group, in part a riff on a World War I wartime camouflage technique, "Dazzled" is both a visual romp and an oddball documentary. more...
Yoshitomo Saito
Weaving in bronze doesn't sound right, but it is what Yoshitomo Saito does in straddling both media and culture to achieve dual affinities. more...
Pablo Picasso
This selection of prints by Picasso are presented to allow for a personal and casual encounter that reveals the artists conflicting personal qualities. more...
Sabina Ott and Dana Berman Duff
A 35-year friendship binds the late Chicago artist, Sabina Ott, and L.A. artist Dana Berman Duff. “What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes,” is the poetic and mysterious finale of their collaborations due to Ott’s passing last year. more...
James Martin
At 90 the tempestuous James Martin remains as acidic a social satirist as ever. These wildly implausible narrative paintings occupy their own universe, within which they become quite convincing. more...
Albert Contreras
Albert Contrera's abstract and heavily impastoed paintings are juicy even as they conform to geometric patterns and shapes. more...
Kenturah Davis
Kenturah Davis’s “Blur in the Interest of Precision” features contemplative portraiture with a complex visual vocabulary, and there's a lot to notice. The use of rubber stamps produce the blur in the service of a loose photorealism. more...
What I Didn’t Take Pictures of in Nepal
Leery of social media's trivializing effects he may be, but Richard Speer concedes that it has raised public awareness of the visual realm. On a recent stay in the Himalayas he found plenty of things to photograph and post, but also learned something about what not to photograph. more...
Art Films
With the recent release of attention grabbing films set in or about the art world, DeWitt Cheng offers a "best of" selection of such films styled as satire, drama and documentary.. more...
Ian Davenport
Materials and the art-making process are central to Ian Davenport's stripe paintings. Poured and often allowed to pool on the floor, they expand upon the paint practice of recent generations, but are by no means revolutionary. more...
Cheryl Ann Thomas
The ultra-thin porcelain abstractions of Cheryl Ann Thomas constantly appear to risk breaking to pieces to achieve their beautiful forms and surfaces. more...
Finnbogi Pétursson
Finnbogi Petursson's "Infra-Supra 2019" begins quietly with its huge screens empty. Sounds are generated by speakers set over a pool of water with black ink; the dark surface ignites as concentric circles produced by the sounds are reflected on the screens above. more...
Nikki S. Lee
Nikki S. Lee photographs herself playing a variety of characters joined by men who are cropped mostly out of frame. more...
Sasha Pierce
The paintings of "Passementarie" reference fringes. Sasha Pierce forms patterns out of strands of paint rather than thread. more...
A Beautiful Mess
Moving away from the crowded galleries of a blockbuster museum show can lead to unexpected rewards, as Maria Porges recently learned. more...
“Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art”
The contrast between soaring, expansive gesture and empty space in "Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art" sets up a dynamic between form and absence that is central to Japanese taste. more...
Civics Lesson from a Mural
A group recently sought to have a mural located at a Los Angeles school painted out because it reminded them of the Japanese battle flag, more...
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan's sprawling installations can seem to grow like weeds taking over large gallery spaces. But it is her use of materials that steals the show. Rich as they appear at a distance, get close to register the Styrene index cards, straws and other common consumer items attached together by the more...
That Minimalist Wall
There is the idea being discussed of turning Trump’s Great Wall into a monument to folly, greed and stupidity. Screw the wall, save the prototypes. more...
Kay Hofmann
Covering Kay Hofmann's lengthy career, "pour toujours" (for the long haul) not only displays great consistency, but a figurative sensibility of exceptional empathy. more...
Tomiko Jones
"Hatsubon" is Tomiko Jones' response to her deceased father in the form of this sober but effecting exhibition. more...
Brigitte Carnochan
In her mixed media photographs Brigitte Carmochan offers her own poetic take on one of our best photographers, Emily Dickinson. more...
“Self-Help Graphics, 1983-1991”
Latino art in East L.A. was given one of it's strongest pushes forward by Self-Help Graphics through most of the 1980s, the time period this show focuses on. And SHG continues to be a major force in L.A. art to the present day. more...
"Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now”
“Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now” is both a historical exploration and a recognition of the place Native American artists presently occupy in the contemporary art world. It helps us grasp the cultural revitalization that we are in the midst of. more...
Performance Art is Where Liberal Humanism Thrives
That stuff that's not really performance art is being called performance art, argues Lisa Wainwright, ignores the context of its emergence and direction over the last half century. It has from the start been an expression of the tradition of liberal humanism. more...
Jamey Hart
More goes into the small, simple-seeming forms that Jamey Hart constructs than at first meets the eye. The forms are clear and sensual, impossible to identify though it is tempting to try. They force a surprisingly visceral response. more...
Joseph Paul Gerges
Joseph Paul Gerges' prints of animals metaphorically express our personal life journeys, with the vulnerability and loss that it must entail. more...
John Buck
Bold foreground figures and objects surrounded by sardonic line drawings have been a central feature in John Buck's work for decades. more...
American Stories: David Hurn, David Graham and Bill Owens
“American Stories" as told through the lens of David Graham, David Hurn and Bill Owens sees America present looking up at America past, contemplating all that’s come before, but also looking ahead at what is yet to be. more...
Piero Manzoni
A forerunner of the late 1960s Italian “Arte Povera” movement, Piero Manzoni believed that painting had run its course as a viable medium, and so experimented with a range of materials as replacements for oil paint more...
In Praise of Art Criticism
Serious journalism in general and art criticism in particular has honestly never been very lucrative, but it may be more important than ever. more...
Two Novels for Millennials
Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" (1930) follows a circle of post-WWI twenty somethings; while Dawn Powell's "The Golden Spur" (1962) follows another twenty something from rural Ohio to Greenwich Village after WWII in two books that Matthew Kangas finds well targeted for today's millennials. more...
Deborah Boardman
"Painter &" reveals longtime Chicagoan Deborah Boardman to be an artist of spirituality, symbolism and vulnerability. more...
Mayme Kratz
In Mayme Kratz' current exhibition politics intersects with plants and animals encountered during time spent at Bears Ears National Monument. more...
Painting for the Green New Deal
The final exhibition at the now defunct Pasadena Museum of California Art focused on a revision of the traditional landscape through the sensibilities of a selection of female artists. more...
What I Didn’t Take Pictures of in Nepal
Leery of social media's trivializing effects he may be, but Richard Speer concedes that it has raised public awareness of the visual realm. On a recent stay in the Himalayas he found plenty of things to photograph and post, but also learned something about what not to photograph. more...
Fought and Pittman
David Fought's tabletop-scale sculptures of humble materials are paired with Steuart Pittman's simple abstractions that are not so simple. more...
Chelsea Ryoko Wong
Chelsea Ryoko Wong's mixed-media paintings tackle the multi-cultural panorama of street life in the neighborhoods of San Francisco. more...
Sterling Ruby
Sterling Ruby builds big things that feel like they sprang right out of the earth, move easily from pop culture references to art historical critique, not to mention from ceramic to urethane to wood. We want to move along with them from room to room. more...
David A. Clark and Yuri Fukouka
Clark's arrows are both symbol and directional pattern. Fukouka's porcelain sculptures cluster thin curls into flowers. more...
Carrie Ann Baade
Symbolism culled from art history abounds in the work of Carrie Ann Baade. These visual clues feel like a treasure map search that lead us to autobiographical and feminist messaging. more...
Charles White
Currently the subject of a LACMA retrospective, Charles White's aesthetic progeny are popping up elsewhere around L.A. to amplify his message. more...
Sherrie Wolf
Sherrie Wolf's "Found" exhibition is so titled because she’s painting from photographs of things exactly as she found them during her travels.She culled her new subject matter from flea markets and antique stores, and forgoes her usual sumptuous color in favor of black and white. more...
Floyd Newsum
Floyd Newsum's style and subject matter are deliberately childlike, but graphically complex. Their links to folk art are as clear as to modernist surrealism and expressionism. Personal and family history also run up against the larger canvas of the racial history of this country. more...
“Beyond the Framework”
The five artists in “Beyond the Framework” seek precision of geometric abstraction, but also to reflect on topical issues. more...
Takashi Murakami
There is plenty for Takashi Murakami fans to cozy up to here, but go upstairs to see where the artist is going now. He gets self-reflexive in works that can include textual narrative that has some edge, even if he still wants us to smile. more...
“Solidary and Solitary”
"Solidary and Solitary" offers a fresh look at the development of African-American art through the lens of a private collection. more...
The Pros and Cons of Juried Exhibitions
If juried exhibitions offer emerging artists for exposure oapotuntites, they also can place them at the mercy of unscrupulous operators. more...
Art Films
With the recent release of attention grabbing films set in or about the art world, DeWitt Cheng offers a "best of" selection of such films styled as satire, drama and documentary.. more...
Sabina Ott and Dana Berman Duff
A 35-year friendship binds the late Chicago artist, Sabina Ott, and L.A. artist Dana Berman Duff. “What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes,” is the poetic and mysterious finale of their collaborations due to Ott’s passing last year. more...
A Beautiful Mess
Moving away from the crowded galleries of a blockbuster museum show can lead to unexpected rewards, as Maria Porges recently learned. more...
Nikki S. Lee
Nikki S. Lee photographs herself playing a variety of characters joined by men who are cropped mostly out of frame. more...
Douglas Miles
In "Everyday Sacred" Douglas Miles prompts us to consider troubling issues of historical displacement and contemporary marginalization of indigenous people. Depiction of everyday realities is favored over romantic embellishment. more...
Lisa Solomon
A blend of personal identities is personal for Lisa Solomon, whose varied array of media investigates the effects of WW II internment camps. more...
Hadley Radt
Hadley Radt’s modestly-sized abstractions somehow conjure the mysteries of time and space from economic means — liquid ink and acrylic pen marker on rectangular clayboard or circular wooden panels — and obsessive technique. more...
Allen Ruppersberg
This retrospective of first generation conceptualist Allen Ruppersberg proves that conceptualism need be neither dull nor repetitive. more...
Jeff Krueger and Terri Rolland
Jeff Krueger and Terri Rolland both work with clay, but in very different ways. Krueger's ceramic sculptures recall familiar domestic objects, but are also biomorphic abstractions. Rolland's acrylic and clay abstract paintings build on soft, rounded lines and shapes. more...
Dancing Across Genres, Medium Serving Message
When artists have something intensely personal to express, sometimes they do so in a medium different from the one they're most associated with. Richard Speer cites painter Sherrie Wolf's dance choreography and Marne Lucas' shift from photography to film as exceptional examples of just such a leap. more...
Javier Valle Pérez
Javier Valle Pérez' visual narrative blends a childlike style with brilliant color and vigorously interacting forms. more...
“Art in the Age of the Pilchuck Glass School”
“Metaphor into Form: Art in the Age of the Pilchuck Glass School,” could be the first of numerous exhibitions drawn from the Rebecca and Jack Bearoya collection. The selection here provides an able introduction to the Pilchuck phenomenon. more...
Leigh Merrill
Leigh Merrill manufactures a sense of uncertainty from a photo-collage technique that results in completely fabricated realities drawn from monochromatic architectural studies and all-over foliage. more...
“Contemporary Artists Explore Opera”
“Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera” examines the stories, traditions and themes of this most highly refined musical form, as well as the aesthetics, social influence and cultural impact of performance. It’s an immersive experience of luxury and decadence. more...
Never Look Away
The recent film "Never Look Away," loosely based on the life of Gerhard Richter, traces an artist's complex journey from repression to freedom. more...
Derek Boshier
That British pop artist Derek Boshier pops up in a Houston gallery reminds us that he resided and taught here during the 1980s and 90s. more...
“The Body is Work”
“The Body is Work,” featuring Hale Ekinci, Shir Ende and Mayumi Lake, is a take on Donald Judd’s idea of a “specific object,” works that exist between conventional genres. This exhibition highlights processes that identify their practitioners as complex makers. more...
Ward Schumaker
Moving from large canvases to book-size paintings on cardboard, Wade Schumaker's felt epiphanies open us up to our own. more...
“Docufiction”
“Docufiction” highlights three artists -- Drew Leshko, Julie Blackmon and Travis Walker -- who distort what our eyes tell us is true in slyly humorous and even enigmatic ways. It feels like it reflects some core truths about the confusion of our time. more...
Matthew Porter
Matthew Porter’s “Skyline Vista” combines hilltop cityscapes, dripping with golden-hour sunlight, and flying muscle cars. more...
Natalie Christensen
Natalie Christensen's swimming pool images, "Last night I dreamt I knew how to swim," treat them as a gateway to a world not quite our own. more...
Alejandro Diaz
Alejandro Diaz popularized the satirical variant of the '60s cliché "Make Tacos Not War." Common materials and witty phraseology make for running visual commentary on South Texas and Mexican culture, the art market and other social and personal issues. more...
Carmen Menza
Carmen Menza's latter day take on light and space bathe the gallery and the eye in bold color and sound. more...
“A Patterned Language”
Fist-size found objects, by artist Matt Magee, sit atop a white oblong panel supported by four sawhorses. Albert Chamillard's cross-hatched ink drawings allude to the earliest written language. Placed along wood carvings from Papua New Guinea they connect language, narrative and history in new ways. more...
Mildred Howard
“TAP: Investigation of Memory” is an expansive installation carpeted with over a thousand gleaming silver shoe taps imported from Mildred Howard’s dream. Beyond a dreamscape about tap dancing, its military formation feels like a somber journey. more...
My Own Private Artspeak
Everybody claims to hate artspeak, and most of us art critics will offer full-throated denials that we sink to using it. Anyone who writes about art professionally is bound to use certain words and phrases that strike lay ears as esoteric. more...
Remembering Selma Waldman, Activist Artist
The late Selma Waldman spent most of her career in obscurity but produced some of the most expressive and skillful political art of her generation. more...
Jane Rosen
Jane Rosen's current show concentrates on animal forms - birds, horses, etc. - that are evoked in often minimalist forms. more...
Ellen George
Ellen George deploy a unifying vertical line for their jumping off point. A sun-bleached quality permeates this body of work, as if the whole lot had been left out to cure for months or years under the glare of high-desert light. more...
Agnes Pelton
Spirituality, desert landscape and early modern ideas about abstraction form the aesthetic core of this Agnes Pelton survey. more...
Mark di Suvero
Know primarily for his monumental public sculpture, a series of phosphorescent paintings more than just complement the maquette on view here. They clarify how gestural mark making lies at the root of the three dimensional work. more...
Inez Storer
Inez Storer’s current mixed-media paintings allude to our crisis-riddled times while functioning as satisfying aesthetic objects that portray dream-like, non-narrative states of consciousness. Titled "Trip-Wire," they are really about overcoming deliberately placed (aesthetic) obstacles withou more...
This Must Be the Place
Lorraine Peltz' survey of chandeliers and bouquets are now deeply connected to her late husband, art critic and educator James Yood. more...
“Self-Help Graphics, 1983-1991”
Latino art in East L.A. was given one of it's strongest pushes forward by Self-Help Graphics through most of the 1980s, the time period this show focuses on. And SHG continues to be a major force in L.A. art to the present day. more...
"Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now”
“Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now” is both a historical exploration and a recognition of the place Native American artists presently occupy in the contemporary art world. It helps us grasp the cultural revitalization that we are in the midst of. more...
Performance Art is Where Liberal Humanism Thrives
That stuff that's not really performance art is being called performance art, argues Lisa Wainwright, ignores the context of its emergence and direction over the last half century. It has from the start been an expression of the tradition of liberal humanism. more...
In Praise of Art Criticism
Serious journalism in general and art criticism in particular has honestly never been very lucrative, but it may be more important than ever. more...
Sterling Ruby
Sterling Ruby builds big things that feel like they sprang right out of the earth, move easily from pop culture references to art historical critique, not to mention from ceramic to urethane to wood. We want to move along with them from room to room. more...
Charles White
Currently the subject of a LACMA retrospective, Charles White's aesthetic progeny are popping up elsewhere around L.A. to amplify his message. more...
Virginia Folkestad
Virginia Folkestad employs a mix of art and found media to evoke the inherent conflict between the natural and manmade worlds. more...
Suzanne Lacy
What at first often looks and feels like a Hollywood production are real situations performed by regular folks. The invisible hand of Suzanne Lacy is behind all of it, this theater and drama of the ordinary taken to extraordinary lengths. more...
Karl Wirsum
One of the original Hairy Who in the early 1970s, Karl Wirsum's current graphic imagery is as smart and screwy as ever. more...
Esao Andrews
Two small paintings hung side-by-side reveal important threads running throughout Esao Andrews’ current exhibition. “The Range” depicts a cart loaded down with baggage. In “Bouquet,” a trio of stems are tipped with three small bunches of long black hair. It's all both s more...
Hiromi Takizawa
Hiromi Takizawa’s sculptural works of hand-blown glass, volcano ash, lights and live plants both respond to and appropriate from nature. Clear glass branches sway with air currents. An installation captures and magically transmits ambient light. Then there are the powdered glass fungi. . . more...
Reconsidering the Art Museum Post #MeToo
Manet at the Art Institute of Chicago sounds awfully good. But the show's curators could not have made it any more irrelevant to the present moment. more...
Takashi Murakami
There is plenty for Takashi Murakami fans to cozy up to here, but go upstairs to see where the artist is going now. He gets self-reflexive in works that can include textual narrative that has some edge, even if he still wants us to smile. more...
The Pros and Cons of Juried Exhibitions
If juried exhibitions offer emerging artists for exposure oapotuntites, they also can place them at the mercy of unscrupulous operators. more...
Allen Ruppersberg
This retrospective of first generation conceptualist Allen Ruppersberg proves that conceptualism need be neither dull nor repetitive. more...
Dancing Across Genres, Medium Serving Message
When artists have something intensely personal to express, sometimes they do so in a medium different from the one they're most associated with. Richard Speer cites painter Sherrie Wolf's dance choreography and Marne Lucas' shift from photography to film as exceptional examples of just such a leap. more...
“Contemporary Artists Explore Opera”
“Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera” examines the stories, traditions and themes of this most highly refined musical form, as well as the aesthetics, social influence and cultural impact of performance. It’s an immersive experience of luxury and decadence. more...
“Art in the Age of the Pilchuck Glass School”
“Metaphor into Form: Art in the Age of the Pilchuck Glass School,” could be the first of numerous exhibitions drawn from the Rebecca and Jack Bearoya collection. The selection here provides an able introduction to the Pilchuck phenomenon. more...
Never Look Away
The recent film "Never Look Away," loosely based on the life of Gerhard Richter, traces an artist's complex journey from repression to freedom. more...
Derek Boshier
That British pop artist Derek Boshier pops up in a Houston gallery reminds us that he resided and taught here during the 1980s and 90s. more...
“The Body is Work”
“The Body is Work,” featuring Hale Ekinci, Shir Ende and Mayumi Lake, is a take on Donald Judd’s idea of a “specific object,” works that exist between conventional genres. This exhibition highlights processes that identify their practitioners as complex makers. more...
My Own Private Artspeak
Everybody claims to hate artspeak, and most of us art critics will offer full-throated denials that we sink to using it. Anyone who writes about art professionally is bound to use certain words and phrases that strike lay ears as esoteric. more...
Susan Burnstine
Susan Burnstine's completely unmanipulated photographs evoke dreamlike memories of travel both real and imagined. more...
Anthony Lepore
"Performance Anxiety" is Anthony Lepore's way of bringing amusement and self-deprecation together. His success in doing so a direct result of the way photography and sculpture are effectively integrated. more...
“Dilexi Gallery: Early Years”
Techno-nostalgia is a real thing these days, and this show revisiting the 50s-era Dilexi Gallery, one of several to come, implies that a fresh look at those then rebellious avant gardists is the art world's very timely equivalent. more...
Sean Healy
Sean Healy did not title his show "Beautiful Downer" lightly, informing it with his own alcoholism and the richness of the Northwest landscape. more...
Peter Gronquist
He states that light is central to his current work, but the shiny gestures here add up to both more and less than that. more...
Configuring Language
David S. Rubin explains how two recent exhibitions, one featuring Allen. Ruppersberg, the other featuring Mel Bochner show how text-based art can be engaging and lively rather than a tedium to get through. more...
James Drake
Twenty years ago James Drake spent time filming and photographing transgender sex workers living and working in Ciudad Juarez on the border across from El Paso. He now re-interprets these in the very different context of 2019 and using a rich mixture of media. more...
Lynn Aldrich
Lynn Aldrich transforms common consumer materials into metaphoric artworks that reflect the “excess, spectacle and artificiality” of Los Angeles culture. She moves easily from acerbic topical statements to art world send-ups to contemplative retreats without losing her creative focus. more...
“Seattle Style: Form/Function”
Fashion means something in Seattle, mainly for sportswear, and bringing function and couture into a heady mix of high and low aesthetics. more...
Still a White People’s Place?
On a recent visit to the headline exhibition at San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora, Maria Porges noticed how the predominantly African American audience stood in stark contrast with the overwhelmingly white audience you see at most museums. But there may be signs that diversity is taking more...
Remembering Selma Waldman, Activist Artist
The late Selma Waldman spent most of her career in obscurity but produced some of the most expressive and skillful political art of her generation. more...
Barbara Takenaga
Immersing us, Barbara Takenaga delves into her otherworldly feeling for space, beneath the sea and into the animal kingdom. more...
Shawn Demarest
Cars become the stuff of visual ecstasy in Shaw Demarest's glistening paintings. Flaring headlights and psychedelic color produce a fresh vision of what we take for granted every day driving through town. more...
Inka Essenhigh
Inka Essenhigh’s blend of the familiar and the surreal in fables and narratives feel as grounded in reality as they are utterly fantastical. more...
Alexandra Grant
Antigone in Sophocles' Ancient Greek tragedy exclaimed "I was born to love not to hate," and so Alexandra Grant takes for here current large collage works that she too was "Born to Love." She weave order and chaos together like two sides of a single coin. more...
“Show Me as I Want to Be Seen”
What curator Natasha Matteson deems “productive confusion” sums up the magic of the art of “Show Me as I Want to Be Seen.” Anchored by Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) and collaborator Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe) denied their gender--and any certain narrative of who they truly more...
Lagomorphs
The recent auction sale of Jeff Koons' "Bunny" is just the latest reminder how much the big money art market just pisses DeWitt Cheng off. more...
Ellen George
Ellen George deploy a unifying vertical line for their jumping off point. A sun-bleached quality permeates this body of work, as if the whole lot had been left out to cure for months or years under the glare of high-desert light. more...
Mark di Suvero
Know primarily for his monumental public sculpture, a series of phosphorescent paintings more than just complement the maquette on view here. They clarify how gestural mark making lies at the root of the three dimensional work. more...
This Must Be the Place
Lorraine Peltz' survey of chandeliers and bouquets are now deeply connected to her late husband, art critic and educator James Yood. more...
Suzanne Lacy
What at first often looks and feels like a Hollywood production are real situations performed by regular folks. The invisible hand of Suzanne Lacy is behind all of it, this theater and drama of the ordinary taken to extraordinary lengths. more...
Reconsidering the Art Museum Post #MeToo
Manet at the Art Institute of Chicago sounds awfully good. But the show's curators could not have made it any more irrelevant to the present moment. more...
John Buck
John Buck’s kinetic sculptures produce the pleasure of seeing clashing symbols all moving in concert, wryly playful yet joyless. more...
Daniel Heimbinder
Three of Daniel Heimbinder’s monumental ink and watercolor drawings comprise the entire show, and it’s enough. Detailed figurative and imaginary landscapes represent the culmination of a narrative continuum with countless sub-plots. more...
Marian Carow and Deirdre Fox
In “Spatial Rendering” Carow and Fox present works that turn a flat line into voluminous space, cast-off objects into fine ones. more...
Francesca Longhini
Two large-scale quasi-representational paintings are in evocative conversation with a suite of quite different smaller abstractions in Francesca Longhini's exhibition, “Golden Anesthesia.” more...
Change Agent: June Wayne and the Tamarind Workshop
The difficult path towards social progress serves as the context for "Change Agent," which places June Wayne, in particular her series of works for which subjects were her mother and modern science, at the creative center. more...
Suzette Mouchaty: Nudies in the Cube
Strange and colorful sea creatures inhabit a gallery rather than the ocean, thanks to Suzette Mouchaty’s fascination with nudibranchs. more...
David Beck
This survey of David Beck's mostly small, always intricately detailed and imaginatively rich works is riveting. If the model of the Enlightenment era wunderkabinett has earned fresh fascination over the last couple of decades, Beck may be one of its finest exemplars. more...
Natasha Bowdoin
“Seedling” is the latest iteration of an expansive installation of shaped panels that depict nature run amok with floral elements. more...
Guillermo Kuitca
Guillermo Kuitca's nuanced paintings feature a muted color palette that softens the transition from dark to light. Large, open rooms with domestic objects such as beds, are often clustered towards the center. more...
Jordan Casteel
The portraits and street scenes of Jordan Casteel are at once understated and extravagant; she breaks down barriers in multiple ways. more...
Eleanor Coen’s Pioneering Fresco
Lisa Wainwright's accidental discovery of Chicago artist Eleanor Coen's fresco in Mexico cast fresh light on her early career. more...
To Swoon, Perchance to Dream
Richard Speer takes a close-up look at the zone separating carnal from spiritual ecstasy in some exceptional artworks. more...
“Dilexi Gallery: Early Years”
Techno-nostalgia is a real thing these days, and this show revisiting the 50s-era Dilexi Gallery, one of several to come, implies that a fresh look at those then rebellious avant gardists is the art world's very timely equivalent. more...
Configuring Language
David S. Rubin explains how two recent exhibitions, one featuring Allen. Ruppersberg, the other featuring Mel Bochner show how text-based art can be engaging and lively rather than a tedium to get through. more...
“Seattle Style: Form/Function”
Fashion means something in Seattle, mainly for sportswear, and bringing function and couture into a heady mix of high and low aesthetics. more...
Still a White People’s Place?
On a recent visit to the headline exhibition at San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora, Maria Porges noticed how the predominantly African American audience stood in stark contrast with the overwhelmingly white audience you see at most museums. But there may be signs that diversity is taking more...
“Show Me as I Want to Be Seen”
What curator Natasha Matteson deems “productive confusion” sums up the magic of the art of “Show Me as I Want to Be Seen.” Anchored by Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) and collaborator Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe) denied their gender--and any certain narrative of who they truly more...
Lagomorphs
The recent auction sale of Jeff Koons' "Bunny" is just the latest reminder how much the big money art market just pisses DeWitt Cheng off. more...
John Buck
John Buck’s kinetic sculptures produce the pleasure of seeing clashing symbols all moving in concert, wryly playful yet joyless. more...
Change Agent: June Wayne and the Tamarind Workshop
The difficult path towards social progress serves as the context for "Change Agent," which places June Wayne, in particular her series of works for which subjects were her mother and modern science, at the creative center. more...
Eleanor Coen’s Pioneering Fresco
Lisa Wainwright's accidental discovery of Chicago artist Eleanor Coen's fresco in Mexico cast fresh light on her early career. more...
Barbara Peacock
Barbara Peacock says her “American Bedroom” show is a “cultural and anthropological study.” Indeed, these photographs prove you can divine a lot about people’s social station, body image, sexual orientation and other attributes just from seeing where they lay their head more...
Michael Wright
A New York expat, Michael Wright found “the light and clarity of New Mexico inspired new directions in my art.” more...
Christopher Jagmin
The word packed paintings of Christopher Jagmin blend dissection of contemporary culture with autobiography to powerful effect. Personal and public perceptions are questioned in playful yet profound ways. more...
Joe Clower
Jagged lines, geometric forms and subtle architectural references populate Joe Clower’s paintings. He specializes in ambiguity that is suggestive of urban landscapes, and futuristic ones at that. more...
Javier Peláez
Javier Peláez' offers potent reminders that happiness follows despair with his effective balance of painted shards, trees and high pitched color. more...
From Gay Art to Queer Art in the Pacific Northwest (Part I)
The Pacific Northwest was the only region in the country in the 20th century where an entire art movement was founded exclusively by homosexuals. The so-called Northwest School's four major figures were Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Guy Irving Anderson and Kenneth Callahan. more...
Kevin Tolman
Kevin Tolman’s abstract paintings are influenced by the Southwestern landscape, but paintings from a recent trip to Portugal leave a strong impression. more...
Marianne Kolb
The advantage of Marianne Kolb’s female figures, their ambiguity, becomes a disadvantage as the art world comes to favor more social meaning. more...
Gina M. Contreras
In “Sola Chola,” Gina Contreras uses a simplified color palette that powerfully stirs emotions of sex, desire, and longing. more...
Daniel Ramos
In his archival print, “Coyote,” a polaroid of an open highway is taped atop a creased, weathered paper on which is typed the tale of artist Daniel Ramos’ father’s illegal passage from Mexico into the United States in 1971. more...
Anthony Hernandez
Los Angeles has been Anthony Hernandez subject for decades, and "Screened Pictures" is no exception in this. He shoots through bus shelter mesh, so the images seen through the mesh are blurred and evocative. more...
Rag Bone Grace Truth
Margaret Hawkins drove to meet with her summer class thinking a break from art might be nice. And realized that art is always there to be found. more...
"Sin Fronteras"
The artists featured in "Sin Fronteras" - Patrick McGrath Muniz, Nicholas Herrera and Tomas Vigil, bring historic Catholic imagery into the present. more...
Claude Monet
Why another Claude Monet exhibition? "Monet: The Late Years" solidifies the case that Monet introduced bold innovations during his final decade following a break from painting due to the deaths of his wife and son. more...
Benny Fountain
There is an unlikely chemistry between geometric abstraction and nostalgia in Benny Fountain's new "window room" paintings. more...
Bradford Salamon
Bradford Salamon paints in fine detail and with vibrant color to make the most banal objects take on unique identities in "Retro Mania." The attention to formal detail pays off with a visually harmonic flow. more...
Shizu Saldamando
Shizu Saldamando's world is a place where human experience is rich and varied, and people aren’t defined by what surrounds them. more...
David Beck
This survey of David Beck's mostly small, always intricately detailed and imaginatively rich works is riveting. If the model of the Enlightenment era wunderkabinett has earned fresh fascination over the last couple of decades, Beck may be one of its finest exemplars. more...
To Swoon, Perchance to Dream
Richard Speer takes a close-up look at the zone separating carnal from spiritual ecstasy in some exceptional artworks. more...
From Gay Art to Queer Art in the Pacific Northwest (Part I)
The Pacific Northwest was the only region in the country in the 20th century where an entire art movement was founded exclusively by homosexuals. The so-called Northwest School's four major figures were Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Guy Irving Anderson and Kenneth Callahan. more...
John Armleder
When John Armleder explores an idea he takes a deep dive, as he does hear. The subject is a splash, as in water, and Armleder quotes a variety of styles towards a very different aesthetic purpose. more...
“Victorian Radicals”
The Pre-Raphaelites lead the impulse to create socially and politically relevant art--in mid-19th century Great Britain. more...
Kristen Cliburn
The carefully modulated abstraction paintings of Kristen Cliburn encourage contemplative viewing and individual interpretation. They evoke infinite space and visual distillations of experiences with nature, reacting to shifting light and points of view. more...
Assaf Evron
A single motif binds the works of Assaf Evron: the nature-inspired “meander,” a decorative aesthetic that is a trans-cultural reference. more...
Clark Richert
Geometric abstractionist Clark Richert is a veritable Renaissance man, versed in architecture, math and physics, in addition to his art pedigree. Pattern paintings steeped in astrophysics are here the order of the day. more...
Art and Incarceration
It is virtuous if unsurprising that artists are today producing projects geared towards prison inmate rehabilitation. Indeed, prisoners themselves, some unjustly held or mistreated, are practicing art as an expressive vehicle that calls attention to their plight. more...
Anthony Hernandez
Los Angeles has been Anthony Hernandez subject for decades, and "Screened Pictures" is no exception in this. He shoots through bus shelter mesh, so the images seen through the mesh are blurred and evocative. more...
Rag Bone Grace Truth
Margaret Hawkins drove to meet with her summer class thinking a break from art might be nice. And realized that art is always there to be found. more...
Daniel Ramos
In his archival print, “Coyote,” a polaroid of an open highway is taped atop a creased, weathered paper on which is typed the tale of artist Daniel Ramos’ father’s illegal passage from Mexico into the United States in 1971. more...
Play It Down
The recent controversy over Victor Arnautoff's Depression-era murals at George Washington High School has attracted national attention. more...
M. Louise Stanley and Diana Krevsky
M. Louise Stanley and Diana Krevsky perform a pro bono publico service with their humorous, trenchant looks at the American scene, Anno domini 2019. Stanley’s paintings on paper examine contemporary follies and foibles; Krevsky casts her own gimlet eye on art and politics. more...
Cable Griffith
Already among our best abstract painters, Cable Griffith's forests and cityscapes express nature in peril with force and clarity. more...
“Groping in the Dark”
Curator Alex Young has gathered eclectic meditations on the relationships between body, mind and earthly matter. What unfolds is the horrifying extent to which human bodies have been colonized by chemical culture. more...
Mary Iverson
Mary Iverson juxtapose the stunning natural beauty of Washington and its three national parks with the industrial ephemera of Seattle’s seaports. Romantic awe is joined to anxiety over the planets increasingly fragile equilibrium. more...
“Coming Together”
Meg Griffiths, Christos J. Palios and JP Terlizzi present luscious photographs that reveal the narrative power of the simple ritual of mealtime. Actually, food is just one aspect of stories that tell a lot without requiring the diners themselves being present. more...
Julian Stanczak
Pioneer Op artist Julian Stanczak developed a remarkable system using contrasting colors and linear grids to stimulate and trick the eye. more...
Nari Ward
Throughout a career spanning more than 25 years, Nari Ward has created powerful and poignant sculptures addressing politically charged subjects ranging from poverty, political disenfranchisement and racism, to slavery, displacement and immigration. more...
Jason Middlebrook
Local wood provides Jason Middlebrook with a natural ground for abstract and stylized paintings that convey their own secret inner lives. more...
Cate White Exposes Her Truth
Cate White's art reflects a lived reality, picturing the Oakland I've known for over 35 years, but from a unique perspective. more...
Claude Monet
Why another Claude Monet exhibition? "Monet: The Late Years" solidifies the case that Monet introduced bold innovations during his final decade following a break from painting due to the deaths of his wife and son. more...
Art and Incarceration
It is virtuous if unsurprising that artists are today producing projects geared towards prison inmate rehabilitation. Indeed, prisoners themselves, some unjustly held or mistreated, are practicing art as an expressive vehicle that calls attention to their plight. more...
Play It Down
The recent controversy over Victor Arnautoff's Depression-era murals at George Washington High School has attracted national attention. more...
Clark Richert
Geometric abstractionist Clark Richert is a veritable Renaissance man, versed in architecture, math and physics, in addition to his art pedigree. Pattern paintings steeped in astrophysics are here the order of the day. more...
Luis Gonzalez Palma
Complex interior and exterior worlds collide with Luis González Palma. Steering between portraiture and abstractions created using various photographic methods, he masterfully combines the romantic and the mysterious. more...
Fritz Scholder
Fritz Scholder rose to prominence as a disruptor of visual clichés of Native Americans. Here we get a feel for the transition to his interests in mythology and the occult, which he was able to do while consolidating earlier themes. more...
Gladys Nilsson
The female figure, in the hands of Gladys Nilsson, undulates with distorted scale and physicality that overwhelms a cast of Lilliputian men. more...
Enrique Martinez Celaya
His exhibition title, "The Tears of Things," Enrigue Martinez Celaya tells us, is a line extracted from Virgil's "The Aeneid." The bronze sculpture that opens the show features water pumped fountain-like from the figure's eyes. more...
Darren Jones
Darren Jones takes pencil to paper to record crumbling castles that remind us of 19th century Romanticism, but here they are critiques of vanity. more...
Writing About Art
Jerrett Earnest's new book, "What it Means to Write About Art" is a page-turner for this genre. The subjects really have interesting things to say. more...
Mary Ann Peters
Images that express feelings of erasure and diaspora have informed Mary Ann Peters' work for years. In "traveler" paintings could be faded old photographs. It all feels unsteady, wavering, and empathic of what an immigrant seeking asylum experiences. more...
Sam Perry
Sam Perry turns wood into looping tangles, knots and ribbons that allude to themes of adventure and return. more...
Judy Chicago
In her early work from 1965-73 Judy Chicago was already operating at the cutting edge of both second wave feminism and mainstream Minimalism and Finish Fetish. This survey of works from that period shows off her aggressive contributions to mainstream ideas even as she prepared to go her own way. more...
Cody Trepte
Cody Trepte's installation, "By Any Possibility," evades categorization, drawing as it does from the conceptual and the visceral. more...
Reuben Wu
The basis of Reuben Wu’s archival pigment prints is traditional and expertly executed landscape photography. The pure awesomeness of geography is favored over notions of place, with the key addition of light carrying drones that add geometric shapes in and around the landscape subjects. more...
“Groping in the Dark”
Curator Alex Young has gathered eclectic meditations on the horrifying extent to which human bodies have been colonized by chemical culture. more...
Igor Melnikov
Ogpr Melnikov's paintings of emotionally ambiguous young children with large, searching eyes and lightly flushed cheeks are a probing psychological exploration of the soul. more...
Emily Matyas
Emily Matyas photographic reflections on the intimate relationship between Mexico and the U.S. are both lucid and moving. more...
“Solidarity, Struggle, Victory”
"Solidarity, Struggle, Victory" draws on the history of organized labor and protest and how that history is inspiring many contemporary artists. What we see is that hope continues to emerge out of uncertainty. more...
Rodrigo Valenzuela
In photographs of studio constructions Rodrigo Valenzuela draws on both early modernist references a immigration narratives. more...
David Aylsworth
Small, gestural and seemingly simple, David Alysworth's paintings are loving and painstaking studies in the process of abstraction. more...
Turning Guns into Art
David S. Rubin shows how a number of artists are making creative and effective statements on the issue of gun control in a variety of ways. It is a theme that has been raised for decades, never more than at the present moment, one in which gun reform may be more within reach than ever. more...
Scott Johnson
"Fissure" is both a geological and social term. Scott Johnson shakes up our understanding of materials and perception of space with seemingly simple installations that make the earth move under our feet. more...
“Altered States”
The four artists featured in "Altered States" reflect upon the morbid beauty of our civilization's effort to fulfill doomsday prophecies. more...
Alicja Kwade
Alicja Kwade chemically treats sheets of glass to becoming color-shifting mirrors. Orbs are place so as to appear at times whole, other times bisected, their color changing as you walk around the installation. more...
Tomas Ochoa
The environment, race and the southern border are among the themes expressed in monochromatic paintings and rooted in personal experience. more...
Gina Adams
Gina Adams’ visceral, multilayered mixed media works reflect an artist coming to terms with the harm done to her Native American ancestors. more...
The Beauty/Truth Problem
James Tissot forsook the family business, resulting in his father cutting him off, in favor of pursuing a career as an artist. That career took off, to the chagrin of his father but to the benefit of a legion of collectors and fans. more...
“Solidarity, Struggle, Victory”
"Solidarity, Struggle, Victory" draws on the history of organized labor and protest and how that history is inspiring today's artists. more...
Turning Guns into Art
David S. Rubin shows how a number of artists are making creative and effective statements on the issue of gun control in a variety of ways. more...
Dorothy Hood
The large scale of Dorothy Hood's paintings is noteworthy given that she was doing it nearly a half century ago. That her color field abstraction was inspired by such a variety of sources made for paintings that are as conceptual rich as they are visually imposing. more...
Angela Faris Belt and Collin Parson
What began as a hard drive crash that distorted thousands of her images, Angela Faros Belt reconstructs into brilliantly flawed mashups. Collin Pason has his own approach to distortion in selective black wall sculptures. more...
Philip Guston
As it turns out, Philip Guston, a quintessential artist’s artist is just as much of a cartoonist’s cartoonist. more...
Polly Apfelbaum
Polly Apfelbaum works with a remarkably complex structure of woodblock prints that are constantly rearranged in an electric aesthetic. more...
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo's Mixografia prints translate his iconic modernist images so as to retain the surface richness of his painting. more...
The Beauty/Truth Problem
James Tissot forsook the family business, resulting in his father cutting him off, in favor of pursuing a career as an artist. And that career took off. more...
“Altered States”
The four artists featured in "Altered States" reflect upon the morbid beauty of our civilization's effort to fulfill doomsday prophecies. more...
Tomas Ochoa
The environment, race and the southern border are among the themes expressed in monochromatic paintings and rooted in personal experience. more...
Gina Adams
Gina Adams’ visceral, multilayered mixed media works reflect an artist coming to terms with the harm done to her Native American ancestors. more...
Alicja Kwade
Alicja Kwade places orbs around glass sheets so as to appear at times whole, other times bisected, their color changing as you walk around the installation. more...
Scott Johnson
In "Fissure" Scott Johnson shakes up our understanding of materials and perception of space with deceptively simple installations. more...
Our Bodies, Our Art
That women's bodies are the subject of museum attention is hardly news. But Margaret Hawkins finds two recent shows, of Eleanor Antin's "Carving" and "Time Arrow" photographs and Rebecca Belmore's "Vigil" performances, that draw from and expand on key themes of modern feminism. more...
Our Bodies, Our Art
Margaret Hawkins reflects on two recent shows, of Eleanor Antin and Rebecca Belmore, that draw from and expand on key themes of modern feminism. more...
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo's Mixografia prints translate his iconic modernist images so as to retain the surface richness of his painting. more...
John Belingheri
John Belingheri's unplanned approach to painting reminds us that no program is necessary to attract and hold our gaze. Impulse and imagination rule here. more...
Dornith Doherty
In "Atlas of the Invisible" Dornith Doherty arranged and photographs arrangements of bird feathers that initially read as beautifully rendered drawings. more...
Stephen Wilkes
In “Day to Night,” Stephen Wilkes offers a series of breathtaking panoramic photographs that fool us into thinking the crowded locales capture a single improbable moment in time. Nothing could be further from the truth. more...
Tom Orr
Tom Orr is a careful observer of spacial relationships who delights in manipulating our perception, in this case of lines and waterfalls. more...
Trey Egan
Musical melodies and tonal mood permeate Trey Egan's vibrant paintings. Abstract and dreamlike, this is a visually charged exhibition that constantly moves and titillates the eye. more...
Danaë, Siberia, and the Shower of Gold
On a recent trip through Russia Richard Speer made his way from the refined cultural treasures and auric downpour encountered at the Hermitage to the golden autumn of the Siberian east. The place is all about the contrast of vast spaces and crumbling drabness punctuated by moments of the utmost opul more...
Ann Johnson
The topic of Ann Johnson's assemblages is the continuing reverberations of slavery, primarily through portraits of anonymous African Americans. more...
John Boskovich
The late John Boskovich's home and studio is as much the subject of "Psycho Salon" as the art that inhabits it because the gallery recreates a part of that work space. more...
Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz
The inspiration for “The Merry-Go-World or Begat by Chance and the Wonder Horse Trigger” came after Nancy Reddin Kienholz encountered a poor woman asking her for money in 1983 in Juarez, Mexico. It triggered feelings of shame that, a decade later, manifested as this carnival carousel tha more...
Takahiko Hayashi
The wabi-sabi aesthetic is central to Takahiko Hayashi's exhibition of seemingly weathered works on paper, "Vibes in the Lines." more...
Florine Démosthène
The collaged and painted figures conjured by Florine Demosthene are presented against empty grounds that makes their dramatic gestures even more so. more...
Danaë, Siberia, and the Shower of Gold
On a recent trip through Russia Richard Speer made his way from the refined cultural treasures and auric downpour encountered at the Hermitage to the golden autumn of the Siberian east. The place is all about the contrast of vast spaces and crumbling drabness punctuated by moments of the utmost opul more...
King County Earthworks: 40 Years On
Matthew Kangas revisits the emergence of earthworks, particularly Robert Morris' contributions to Seattle's 1979 King County land reclamation-as-art project, "Earthworks," that anticipated our more environmentally informed era. more...
Christopher Mir
Christopher Mir derives his distinctive archetypal vocabulary of schooners and disembodied arms from magazines, online images and other sources, elaborating them into collages. They consistently arrive at a tone that is evocative, enigmatic and haunting. more...
Seiko Tachibana
What starts out as minimalist in Seiko Tachibana's modestly scaled paintings gains lyrical and poetic momentum as you stay with them. more...
Norman Lundin
Norman Lundin is a master of "remembered detail," and it shows in these varied examples of still lives, nudes and landscapes often recalled from memory. What appears to be crisp realism has an autobiographical and expressive side that produces the show's resonance. more...
Jinie Park
Jinie Park's mixed media wall sculptures assert gentle chromatic persuasions with a deconstructivist twist and an Arte Povera sensibility. more...
Wanda Koop
In her "Dreamline" series of paintings Wanda Koop meditates on the intersection of found nature and the built environment. more...
Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz
The inspiration for “The Merry-Go-World or Begat by Chance” came after Nancy Kienholz encountered a poor woman asking her for money. more...
Art for the Homeless
David Rubin's personal encounters with homelessness and the homeless are similar to that of most Angelenos. He reflects on how artists ranging such as David Hammons and Andres Serrano, and organizations such at More Art and Hospitality House have brought art to bear in helping address this major soc more...
Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson’s turned-and-carved-wood sculptures are materialized from recycled found logs, branches and driftwood that carry symbolic meanings of animal and bird habitat, and the aftermaths of clear-cutting, and more. more...
“thread.”
Using everyday materials, the artists of “thread.” evoke a full range of human emotions, from love and familial harmony, to anger and sorrow. more...
"Layers of Existence"
"Layers of Existence" offers a thoughtful mix of six artists who examine the burdens we carry, the identities we struggle with, and the imperative for self-reflection. more...
Laura Fritz
The gothic-romantic sensibility of Laura Fritz produces a supremely elegant integration of great craft, minimalist panache and a splash of terror. more...
David Kessler and Jim Waid
Jim Waid's paintings are layered with color, texture, and his own whimsical mark making. They exude a joy for the natural world free of polemics. David Kessler paints on aluminum panels with the feel of a noir film. more...
Democracy's Trial
Artists typically require a modicum of calm and long stretches of time to focus and create, but these are not those times. Many artists have engaged the present reality, but DeWitt Cheng finds reflection on the death of the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates offers lessons for today's artists. more...
Virgil Grotfeldt
Darkly luminous paintings by the late Virgil Grotfeld are distinctive biomorphic abstractions that traverse vast and microscopic space. more...
Isadora Stowe
Hundreds of everyday objects float in a colored haze that Isadora Stowe works like overlapping memories from various times and recollections. more...
Maria Hupfield
Indigenous artist Maria Hupfield sees herself as a disruptor of stereotypes between craft and art, gender, and tropes of her own Native American culture. She frequently interacts with her sculpture in performance, as documented in images that add clarifying narrative to the show. more...
Peter Ferguson
Peter Ferguson offers glimpses into a not-so-friendly parallel earth in an earthy palette that evokes early sepia photography. more...
Julie Mehretu
Her large scale abstractions at first read as exercises in gestural painting, but Julie Mehretu builds layers of media and imagery drawn from widespread sources. She composes them to allow the eye multiple points of entry in a survey that is rich in both ambiguity and urgency. more...
Deadness, Beauty, the Deep Past
The upcoming generation of art fans are skeptical of the art historical canon that is both exasperating and refreshing. more...
Art for the Homeless
David Rubin's reflects on how a wide range of artists and art organizations have brought art to bear in helping address the major social ill of homelessness. more...
E.J. Hill
E.J. Hill has drawn attention to himself as a statue (of himself), but here a series of paintings take center stage. The best of these are terse but efficient evocations of the demands that burden minorities and women. more...
A Taste for Spain
Spanish old masters are represented in highlights of the UK's Bowes Museum collection, featuring the most familiar masters and beyond. more...
Judith Ann Miller
A dress made from vintage advertisements and clothing catalogue pages summon now archaic gender norms in order to draw our attention to their artificiality--but also to the ease by which those imposed norms may be cast aside. more...
Adam Katseff
Adam Katseff's "Waterfalls" discard color in favor of shadow, motion and light. Their presence is striking in spite of their lack of specificity. more...
Shirin Neshat
The language of the Farsi poets of Shirin Neshat's native Iran is inscribed onto the people she photographs--and it is their lives that these images are about. more...
Origin Story
Richard Speer was first drawn to images of art and architecture in his grandparents' encyclopedias. The guilded age art displayed at a Baltimore restaurant wowed him. Living in Europe he developed an adolescent obsession with the European Baroque. Then in college he discovered the necromancy of Mond more...
Maria Hupfield
Indigenous artist Maria Hupfield sees herself as a disruptor of stereotypes between craft and art, gender, and tropes of her own culture. more...
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu's large scale abstractions at first read as gestural paintings, but are in face built-up layers of imagery drawn from widespread sources. more...
Deadness, Beauty, the Deep Past
The upcoming generation of art fans show skepticism for the art historical canon that is both exasperating and refreshing. more...
A Taste for Spain
Spanish old masters are represented in highlights of the UK's Bowes Museum collection, featuring the most familiar masters and more. more...
Democracy's Trial
DeWitt Cheng finds reflection on the death of the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates offers important lessons for today's artists. more...
Origin Story
Richard Speer developed an adolescent obsession with the European Baroque. Then in college he discovered the necromancy of Mondrian. more...
Joel Swanson and Cody Hudson
Joel Swanson riffs on school-day memories that are stirred by such objects as black-and-white composition notebooks, index cards, yellow highlighters and Pink Pearl erasers. Cody Hudson plays abstract landscapes and small sculptures that mimic shapes in his paintings. more...
Tom Lamb, Soheila Siadate
Mixed media paintings by Soheila Siadate and aerial photography by Tom Lamb engage in a dialogue of visual origin and working process. more...
Laurits Andersen Ring
A retrospective of Danish painter Laurits Andersen Ring situates the artist between Romanticism and Modernism. Ring’s technique and subjects are very much of the 19th century, but we see how he adjusted to modern technology and aesthetic thinking. more...
Damiàn Ortega
Damiàn Ortega uses materials associated with construction in the making of collages and sculpture to evoke protective gear and therianthropic architecture. more...
Anne Le Troter
Anne Le Troter turns a gallery into a cryobank waiting room outfitting with moving audio speakers that utter phrases used by the specialists who work there. You take a seat and enter into this Brave New World. more...
Rauschenberg Effect
Robert Rauschenberg's legion of young acolytes have been popping up steadily for years--decades really--and show no signs of abating. more...
Donna Ruff
Donna Ruff's ironically titled "Utopia" reflects anything but. Book pages are burnt methodically to obliterate words and letters, is some cases enriched to suffuse mosaic. more...
Árpád Forgó
Árpád Forgó's luminous shaped canvases shift color and shape as you move around them. Meticulous and modular, they mesmerize. more...
Tania Candiani
Inside a narrow passageway, ephemera from a collective sound action undertaken by Tania Candiani lines a single wall. The work, "Pulso," was originally staged in Mexico City subway passages as an aesthetic take on the significance of water. more...
“Abstraction in Photography”
“Beyond the World We Know: Abstraction in Photography” presents artists who expanded photography beyond its documentary origins. more...
”Woven: Connections and Meanings”
“Woven: Connections and Meanings” explores a lineage of craftsmanship that is historically feminine. Tanya Aguiñiga, Florencia Guillén, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Marta Palau and Georgina Valverde contribute works with textiles and weaving at their cores. more...
Currency as Art
Artists have been crying out about money and corruption for many years. David Rubin takes a look at some incisive examples. more...
The Rauschenberg Effect
Robert Rauschenberg's legion of young acolytes have been popping up steadily for years--decades really--and show no signs of abating. more...
Laurits Andersen Ring
A retrospective of Danish painter Laurits Andersen Ring situates the artist between 19th century Romanticism and 20th century Modernism. more...
Tess Mosko Scherer
Tess Mosko Scherer beckons us to consider the rich complexities of silence. She crumples paper, creating terrains of light and shadow. It is torn, soaked, peeled, and manipulated to signal the interplay of nature and nurture. more...
Joe Sola
Joe Sola’s “I Drove to San Francisco and Back” is a digitized romp through tropes and tricks, but the star attraction is a VR experience. more...
Whitney Bedford
Whitney Bedford appropriates and reinterprets landscapes by artists such as Friedrich, Constable and Singer Sargent, presenting them as backgrounds. Monochromatic and close-up depictions of plant-life push the sources into the background. more...
Marjorie Norman Schwarz
Marjorie Norman Schwarz's superb all over abstractions draw on images and colors extracted from deep within her mind’s eye. more...
Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman was born to art world royalty and attending an elite school when she took her life at age 22. This show validates her emerging originality and talent, while forcing reflection on her tragedy. more...
On Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag, established as one of the literary geniuses of her generation, had a vital but uneven relationship with the visual arts. more...
Currency as Art
Artists have been crying out about money and corruption for many years. David Rubin takes a look at some incisive examples. more...
Woven
“Woven: Connections and Meanings” explores a lineage of historically feminine craftsmanship, with textiles and weaving at their cores. more...
Sámi Intervention / Dáidda Gážada
For an exhibition that covers so much ground, “Sámi Intervention / Dáidda Gážada” is deceptively and wonderfully modest. The video and installation address the meaning of home and interrogates place, identity and the imposition of colonialization. more...
David Eckard
There is a palpable feeling of nostalgia imbued in David Eckard''s vaguely human body parts in the process of deterioration. more...
Julia Fish
In her quiet, minimalist works Julia Fish ensures that the way we experience space is changed. The light, palette and architecture of her own home provide the basis for her unique perceptions of the abstract within the representational. more...
Nicole Fein
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein's drawings are as meticulous and elegant as her pushing of water droplets operate at the edge of control. more...
Nicola Roos
Nicola Roos' full sized figures examine Yasuke's mythical and historical status. Yasuke was the first African to serve in Japan as a samurai. more...
Get the Most Out of a Trip to the Museum
A recent New York Times column by Harry Guinness offered a new formula for getting the most out of a visit to the museum. Margaret Hawkins gave it a try, and the experience led to her own new rules. She walks us through. more...
On Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag, established as one of the literary geniuses of her generation, had a vital, uneven relationship with art. more...
Sophie Calle
Photographer and conceptualist Sophie Calle veils images of people, places and things behind curtains stamped with poetic musings. more...
Naama Tsabar
In "Inversions" Naama Tsabar's geometric wall works are fashioned from thick colored felt that cascades off the wall. Completed with piano strings and floor and wall mounted speakers, these are artworks meant to be played. more...
Darryl J. Curran
Darryl J. Curran has integrated and extended photography’s conceptual strategies into his work as it evolved and morphed through the art world zeitgeist for decades. This tightly organized survey rightly places Curran in the top tier of his generations photographers. more...
Net Art’s Archival Poetics
Net art relies on the computer, but evocative elements often happen through encounters between user and machine. more...
Gregg Laananen
Gregg Laananen’s latest shimmering, pointillistic landscapes expose a possible transition between realism and formalism. more...
Mural Madness
One of Portland's newest architectural landmarks started so promisingly, until its mural facade of psychedelic protozoa was added at the end, turning the whole thing into an eyesore. more...
Nicole Fein
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein's drawings are as meticulous as her pushing of water droplets operate at the edge of control. more...
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Hundertwasser despised straight lines and took pains to avoid them. This is very much in evidence in the prints, which are a paean to nature-worship. more...
Graphic Subversion
Mark Steven Greenfield and Mark Dean Veca approach mark making as a vehicle for reinterpreting historical and media imagery. more...
Patrick Renner
Patrick Renner builds installations of found wood, has for years. All manner of objects and refuse find their way from the streets of Houston into bewildering, sprawling and miraculous works like "Scum Angel," "Green Thumb" and others. more...
“The Lavender Palette”
"The Lavender Palette: Gay Culture and the Art of Washington State" takes a fascinating dive into an overlooked chapter of the region's art history. more...
John Upton
At age 87, photographer John Upton receives his first solo exhibition. It's a condensed retrospective covering six decades in four series of images. His is a practiced eye for composition informed by a restless curiosity about the world around him. more...
When Too Much is Not Enough
Sometimes exhibitions trip on their way to blockbuster status because they bulk up so much they dilute what might have been. more...
When Too Much is Not Enough
Sometimes exhibitions trip on their way to blockbuster status because they bulk up so much they dilute what might have been. more...
Hannah Epstein
Hannah Epstein wallpapers white bricks onto the wall and carpets the floor of a gallery with a fiery pattern of bubbling lava. To this ground she mounts a melange of animal and human forms to humorous and crude effect. more...
Robert Buelteman
Robert Buelteman's carefully arranged plant photographs are subjected to a panoply of techniques that produce auras and other delightful effects. more...
John Baldessari
John Baldessari, whose recent passing has been an emotional trauma for much of the local and international art world, is seen here as, yes, the seminal conceptualist and beloved teacher. But there was more to him that that. more...
“Women in Neon”
“She Bends: Women in Neon” spotlights the She Bends network of female-identifying artists who work primarily with neon. more...
Subhankar Banerjee
Environmental activist and photographer Subhankar Banerjee organizes different low-precipitation landscapes into a singular statement. more...
Apps for Art
Augmented reality is a technological art form that recently has been gaining favor. Instead of viewing through goggles, we use an iPhone or tablet to merge real world objects with digital imaging. David S. Rubin takes a look at some of the issues this new medium raises. more...
When Too Much is Not Enough
Exhibitions can trip on their way to blockbuster status; they bulk up so much they dilute what might have been. more...
Margot Voorhies Thompson
The gouache and watercolor paintings that comprise Margot Voorhies Thompson’s “Desert Light” take inspiration from the arid planes of south-central Oregon. more...
Hillerbrand + Magsamen
Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen work together and with their kids and dog, and it's just great, smart fun. more...
“Signs of the Times”
"Signs of the Times" reaches back over the last century through photography to posit that the same social, political, and cultural issues have remained continually relevant from the 1920’s to the present day. more...
Barbara Kasten
Barbara Kasten's aims her camera lens at sculpture and architecture with props to produce carefully staged abstract images. more...
Amir H. Fallah
Iranian born Amir H. Fallah's paintings regard American culture and political rhetoric as existing in a warped reality. Ten portraits of veiled subjects placed among objects that imbue their everyday lives with meaning--American, that is, not what we associate with Persian antecedents. more...
Carrie Ann Plank
Carrie Ann Plank’s mixed-media abstract prints integrate a wealth of scientific influences — mapping, numerical sequences, fractals, wave patterns, sound sources, magnetic field variations — into an Op Art mandalas of a sort: objects of meditation, but without any metaphysical mumb more...
Jessica Rath
In “fruiting bodies,” Jessica Rath explores the wide-ranging effects of human activity on plants and bees in her superbly crafted works. more...
Anna Bogatin Ott
Anna Bogatin Ott’s luscious abstract paintings build a surface through repetitive markings in strong colors that culminate in an image that engages with light, and is bound within a tantric rhythm. more...
Knowledge Bennett
Knowledge Bennett directly quotes iconic images of postwar American art to convey various atrocities and outrages perpetrated against African Americans. more...
Catherine Opie
By entitling her recent pictures under the title “Rhetorical Landscapes,” Opie consciously references our dystopian political climate. more...
Seeing Through a Stethoscope
Among the exhibitions cut short by the pandemic, Sarah Fransler Lavin and Stephanie Wood brought together music and sculpture in the object of hand-made musical instruments. Matthew Kangas reflects on other such fusions in the recent history of Northwest art. more...
“Women in Neon”
“She Bends: Women in Neon” spotlights the She Bends network of female-identifying artists who work with neon. more...
Apps for Art
Augmented reality is a technological art form that recently has been gaining favor. Instead of viewing through goggles, we use an iPhone or tablet to merge real world objects with digital imaging. David S. Rubin takes a look at some of the issues this new medium raises. more...
Leave Nothing Out
Phoenix' Musical Instrument Museum turned out to be anything but the musty place Margaret Hawkins imagined it would be. more...
Francesca Lohmann and Rob Rhee
Lohmann and Rhee were seen by curator Amanda Donnan to have complementary sculpture visions. She gets it right. more...
“In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration”
“In Flux” underscores the importance of immigrant artists to Chicago’s art community, and indeed immigrants past and present to the city at large. Many of the most potent works engage the environment of 'home" as integral to their content. more...
Jacquelyn Royal
Jacquelyn Royal’s landscape needlepoints center on graffiti in order to explore the authenticity of mark making and the record it leaves. While graffiti pursues the largest public scale it can quickly, needlepoint's intimate size and domesticity only emerges slowly, undoing the gestures that i more...
With Pleasure: Pattern And Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985
The exuberant tumult at the heart, and mind, of American Pattern and Decoration, or P&D, pervades “With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985,” a rich, if limited, survey of the sprawling movement. more...
“Uncanny Valley”
“Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI” refers to the deep curve of a graphed line measuring human emotional response and likability for humanoid objects. Can genuine creativity emanate from something generated by a machine? more...
The New Cultural Paradigm
Conditions have changed in the pandemic-era world. So will the Weekly Newsletter--short term, and perhaps well beyond. more...
The New Cultural Paradigm
Conditions have altered the global system. Our Weekly Newsletter will be changing with it--short term certainly, perhaps well beyond. more...
Jessica Rath
In “fruiting bodies,” Jessica Rath explores the wide-ranging effects of human activity on plants and bees in superbly crafted works. more...
Amir H. Fallah
Amir H. Fallah's ten portrait paintings regard American culture and political rhetoric as existing in a warped reality. more...
“Signs of the Times”
"Signs of the Times" posits that the same social, political and cultural issues have remained continually relevant since the 1920’s. more...
Seeing Through a Stethoscope
Sarah Fransler Lavin and Stephanie Wood bring together music and sculpture. Matthew Kangas reflects on other such fusions. more...
Leave Nothing Out
Phoenix' Musical Instrument Museum turned out to be anything but the musty place Margaret Hawkins imagined it would be. more...
"Chicago Artists and Immigration”
“In Flux” underscores the importance of immigrant artists to Chicago’s art community, and indeed immigrants to the city at large. more...
“Being Human in the Age of AI”
“Uncanny Valley” refers to the deep curve of a graphed line measuring human emotional response to humanoid objects. more...
Our Antinomian Time
Antinomian: Any view which rejects the rule of law and argues against moral, religious or social norms. more...
A Surprise Awaits
The author's mother recently died. Not particularly close for years, they had grown together more recently. It's complicated--but isn't it always? And when the expected call finally did come, it's amazing how unexpected that it feels. more...
Here We Stand
How is it possible that words so obvious, so ordinary in their moral clarity become the very instrument of our self-immolation? “Equality.” “Justice.” “Peace.” more...
Randi Matushevitz
Randi Matushevitz deploys Expressionism to respond to resurgent sexism, racism, homophobia and white supremacism. more...
Moby Dick in the Pandemic
Margaret Hawkins took on Moby Dick over the pandemic summer and got hooked. She saw the meaning of being dashed upon the lee. more...
Galleries in the Streets
Stumbling on public art hooked Lynn Trimble on the stuff long before she started frequenting galleries and writing about the shows. She still sees public art as true markers of urban geography. more...
Three Brilliant Artists You Have Never Heard Of
Ann Leda Shapiro, Carol Adelman and Patrice Tullai all maintain their art practices, but rarely show in galleries, and work in physical and geographical isolation. Yet they are among the most accomplished artists working today. more...
Making a Difference
Created in 1992, Robbie Conal's "Freedom of Choice" skewered thee pre-RBG Supreme Court in support of Planned Parenthood. more...
The Real Voter Fraud: A Fable
Bill Lasarow is alarmed but motivated. The game is not over. Plutocrat and, for now, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's fraud will fail. more...
Rachmaninoff’s Last Stand
Fears of obsolescence haunt everyone — even, or especially, those in the cultural pantheon. Eeven if you’re Sergei Rachmaninoff. more...
Artist's Charts
For those who like visual poetry or puzzles, I recommend some artist’s charts to peruse while riding out the pandemic. more...
Wait Til Next Year
On July 24 Chicago woke up to the news that two statues memorializing Christopher Columbus had been removed. more...
Chris Revelle
Race and its dark history in America permeate Chris Ravelle's varied body of work, which effectively drives a pickaxe through it's myths. more...
Decomposed Art
Disposal, decay and rejuvenation has long played a role in shaping art's response to cyclical structures and the effects of time. more...
Laura Parker's Finch
Laura Parker’s photograph of an ordinary finch sits framed by a circular splash of white light and a terrifyingly deep universe. more...
Paul Metivier: Silent Defiance
Paul Metivier's ceramic sculpture of silent defiance has anticipated the rising awareness of systemic racism for at least a decade. more...
Through a Gallery Darkly
Richard Speer reports on his first pandemic-era venture to Portland-area galleries as they tentatively reopen. more...
A News Addict's Reflection
Liz Goldner's struggle to adapt to a life without art but full of news that she felt compelled to follow. more...
Ghost City: Neighborhood Walks
"Street Talk / Neighborhood Walks" are Jody Zellen small urban adventures of discovery that she started with the onset of Covid-19. more...
Serfdom and Surfing
Removal from the “carnival attached to a stock market” has produced no withdrawal side-effects for this art addict. more...
Ian Schrager and the Boutique Hotel
Over the course of a nearly half-century career, Ian Schrager has become famous for creating serenely elegant bastions of urban cool. more...
The Squirrel Metaphor
Squirrels invaded Bill Lasarow's garden, foraging friut meant for the Gardner, who found himself having to contemplate their eradication. more...
The Ironic Despair of Shawn Huckins
Shawn Huckins satirically captures our social media-crazed society while asking critical questions about the rules of discourse. more...
“I always wondered who your are”
In the carefree age before lockdown, Margaret Hawkins waited for her car's oil to be changed, and she began to feel a weird sensation. more...
Redressing Public Civility
Richard Speer has seen the debased character of the current President coming after years of declining public discourse. more...
Artist of Conviction
Jorg Dubin is an anomaly in his home base town who has long since abandoned market friendly for conviction art. more...
Flag Art Pinpoints Differences
The flag has long been a serious aesthetic device in art, no less today. These artists use it to highlight the gulf between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. more...
Final Thoughts on Donald Trump
Richard Speer hopes this will be his final time to consider the bottomless vat of infantile narcissism who has disgraced this nation on the global stage for the past four years. more...
Final Thoughts on Donald Trump
Now that President Elect Biden has been certified, nothing would satisfy many of us more than to see the current president fade permanently away, It won't be that simple. more...
Natalie Niblack
With her series of pointedly satirical ceramic portraits Natalie Niblack has established herself as an elite comic interpreters of the Age of Trump. more...
Yasuyo Maruyama: Mind's Eye
Yasuyo Maruyama's Beverly cropped face in extreme close-up combine exceptional formal discipline with evocative expression. more...
The Oakland Art Scene: In Place
In an overview of the late-pandemic condition of the East Bay gallery scene, DeWitt Cheng finds that many are faring better than expected. Closer to their neighborhood and more DIY than there San Francisco cousins turns out to have its advantages. more...
Cultural Tensions in the High Desert
Never an easy place to get comfortable in, the Joshua Tree area has nonetheless drawn artists and other creatives for years. Through the Trump era their uneasy truce with extremists has not become explosive. more...
Dakota Noot
While the Covid-19 pandemic has caused many to feel depressed or exasperated from isolation and boredom, Dakota Noot has found lockdown to be liberating. more...
What Are You Going Through?
Quoting the French philosopher and Christian mystic Simone Weil, "What are you going through?" is the product of compassion. more...
An American Resurrection
The contrast between normal and deranged has never been less private. By the end of the long, televised Inauguration Day,, most of us were splayed out on our family room couches with a shit-faced smile of relief. more...
Ann Morton
Ann Morton pleases the eye and teases our mind in mainly textile and found object works that are, finally, effectively searing. more...
Heroes: Superman and Jackie O.
David Alcantar ran, marathon style, through the state of Georgia dressed as Superman and carrying a flag urging locals to "VOTE!" It was not the first time an artist donned a hero persona, through perhaps the first to help win a Senate majority. more...
Lawn Art
The monotony of pandemic mornings is both comforting and boring. But boredom is the soil in which creative thoughts grow. more...
Italo Scanga
Twenty years after his death, Italo Scanga's influence remains, but his achievement is not fully appreciated. more...
Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin has worked extensively with fluorescent light fixtures recently, but this may be the first time anyone has not bothered to plug the lights in. The Old Master of Light and Space makes it all work. more...
Tod Bailey
Tod Bailey's brand of figuration possesses a sense of urgency that exudes exceptional emotional and sexual energy. more...
Splatters Against the Pandemic
Splatter painting is a great quarantine option, at least if you have the luxury of that extra room or a large backyard. The mess left around the edges tends to evolve into better art than you are likely to see in the play area. more...
Christian Marclay
In a selection of five collages and nine digital prints Christian Marclay constructs extremes of emotion built bit by bit. more...
Bradford Salamon
For Bradford Salamon the pandemic lockdown led to intense self-reflection. His interest has gravitated towards women's faces. more...
Grant Wood's Secret
Like the myth of Main Street U.S.A., the closeted Grant Wood hid behind his own myth as an exemplar of traditional agrarian values. more...
Pandemic Solutions
JD Beltran surveys a cross section of how the arts have adopted to pandemic conditions. Both institutions and artists have produced a wide range of solution that are reflected here. more...
Nasher Mixtape
The idea for "Nasher Mixtape" comes from a widespread practice that began in the ’80’s, of recording a list of songs on a cassette tape. more...
My Battle against the ‘P-word’
Most of us have at least one word or phrase that we hate — a word that rankles, that grates in such a way that we cringe. For me, that word is what I often refer to as ‘the P-word.’ more...
Kelsey Brookes’ Science-based Art
Form microbiologist Kelsey Brookes uses science-based systems as the conceptual base for his wildly charged abstractions. more...
Bisa Butler: A Jubilation of Candy-Colored Quilts
Bisa Butler calls them Kool-Aid colors. She’s speaking of her bright palette, not a tray of paint but a wonderland of cloth. From these materials, she renders larger-than-life portraits of Black Americans. more...
Laura Hapka
Laura Hapka engages modernist geometric reductivism through beeswax and humor that bathes her paintings in emotional warmth. more...
The MCA Blows It
Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art drew fire for claiming the mantle of diversity and staff support, while laying workers off and failing to practice much of the diversity it was preaching. more...
Art in the Plague Year
Artist and curator Douglas McCulloh speculates on how the pandemic is reshaping the future of art. more...
The Museum of Art & History Reopens
The Lancaster Museum is among a growing number reopening to the public in gradual steps. Jody Zellen reviews the group of five exhibitions that the museum features. more...
Neal Ambrose-Smith
Narrative works bye Neal Ambrose-Smith rearrange iconic symbols and tell a story without a clear beginning or end. more...
Martha Alf
David S. Rubin revisits the contributions of Martha Alf through a small but carefully curated cross section of works. more...
Maggie Crowley and Joanne Aono
In their respective exhibitions Maggie Crowley and Joanne Aono address the dignity of work and the relative invisibility of so many laborers. more...
Tom Uttech, “Origin”
The recently renamed and reopened Figge Museum features a single, fortuitous painting by spiritual landscapist Tom Uttech. more...
Jason Karolak, “Fictionless”
Jason Karolak uses oil on linen to create luminous compositions of neon-like color that jumps off from black backgrounds. The point of view shifts constantly in these imperfect geometries. more...
Jacques Garnier
Jacques Garnier has a passion for architecture, art history and poetry that shapes a series of striking black and white photographs. more...
Brian Sanchez and Neon Saltwater, “Energy Drink”
Brian Sanchez and Neon Saltwater collaborate on the immersive installation "Energy Drink," an extravaganza of light and color that is a domestic and hallucinatory fun house. more...
Wade Guyton
Wade Guyton makes his paintings on the computer, culling newspaper images, textures, his own images ... and glitches. more...
Cannupa Hanska Luger
In Cannupa Hanska Luger's "Something to Hold Onto," strands of unfired clay beads hang suspended in a circular form, each one symbolizing a person who died in the southwest borderlands. more...
Diane Arbus
The photography of Diane Arbus served to expand our understanding of the human species. As curated by Carrie Mae Weems they meld the aesthetic with the political. more...
David Wilson
In an art world advanced by technology and virtual reality, in “Sittings” David Wilson taps into the real world and immerses us in it. more...
"For All the World to See"
Decades before “Black Lives Matter,” civil rights leaders employed images and media to drive their cause, as shown by the selection here. more...
Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe
Alison Saar’s two-part exhibition, “Of Aether and Earthe” explores the energies of fire and air, the chthonic powers embedded in earth and water. Saar displays deep understanding of gender, race, and social and political oppression. more...
Alden Mason, "Unstoppable Joy"
Northwest abstractionist Alden Mason absorbed and expanded upon avant grade developments of both East and West Coasts. more...
Karen Reimer
A repurposed fabric construction from an 2016 installation now becomes "Sea Change," essentially cool quilts end up anything but. more...
Lee Bontecou and Michelle Stuart
A dual show of small drawings by Lee Bontecou and rugged walls sculptures by Michelle Stuart only share having been made in the 1980s. Bontecou spins eyeballs and fantastic birds onto sheets of graph paper. Stuart combines pure painting with a direct response to place. more...
Mel Prest
Mel Prest’s “Color Unfolding” paintings of overlaid stripes initially look like precionist Op Art, but it's all hand done. It makes all the difference. more...
Roberta Harris
Roberta Harris applies blood-red paint to canvas with expressionistic brushstrokes that evoke emotional and physical pain. more...
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu juxtaposes her sculptures with, even as she offers a visual critique of Western representation's history. more...
Fair Use: What's Mine is Yours
The legal phrase “fair use” allows conditions for the creative re-use of copyrighted materials without permission. This show addresses that. more...
Origins: Northwest Abstract Art
"Origins" offers an insightful multi-tier recitation of 20th Century abstraction thanks to curator David Martin. more...
Andrea Bowers
Andrea Bowers integrates thoughtful interpretations of current and historic events with beautifully crafted art. more...
Jeffrey Cortland Jones
In his paintings Jeffrey Cortland Jones explores urban spaces and rural landscapes via abstraction. He exploits the way color seeps and refracts, its interaction with light, from within to the exterior of each work. more...
Generational Reflection
Three senior artists provide Bill Lasarow with some lessons learned along the way to Social Security age. more...
Max Cole, “The Bounding Circle”
Covering around 50 years, Max Cole's rigorous abstract paintings and prints must eventually focus the eye on her minuscule and repetitive linework. more...
Jack Pierson
The title of Jack Pierson's "Less and more" is a misnomer because it hardly implies the breadth of his body of work. more...
Gabriella Sanchez, “Partial Pictures”
“Partial Pictures” explores family issues of class, race, addiction and serial imprisonment, while the sweep of the exhibition demonstrates Gabriella Sanchez’s profound aesthetic sensibilities. more...
Anna Mavromatis
Anna Mavromatis' suspended three-dimensional dresses constructed from folded and printed paper bear social and political messaging. more...
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist combines performance and video, is frequently the protagonist, and throws a visceral assault at the lens that is immersive and bracing. more...
Immersive Van Gogh
"Immersive Van Gogh" is an entertainment spectacle, so go for the oversize, animated projections on walls and floors. more...
Oscar Muñoz
Oscar Muñoz repeatedly draws the ephemeral that dries up and disappears or is dissolved, subject to forces beyond the artist. more...
Tristan Eaton, “All At Once”
Tristan Eaton may be best known to the public for toy designs, but also for his many murals with a message. The very volume of work here makes it clear that he is not to be pigeonholed. more...
Carrie Mae Weems, “Witness”
Carrie Mae Weems produces project after project that reveals not only a high aesthetic awareness but a new historical consciousness from her self-consciously Black perspective. more...
Michael Childress
Visually charged with chromatic progressions that cross the entire color spectrum, Childress’ paintings emit an aesthetic heat. more...
Jiyoung Chung
As stark and formal as Jiyoung Chung's mixed media works appear, each is subject to breezes, flutters of air, with open space between each layer. more...
"Frisson"
With the late Richard and Jane Lang's donation of NY School art, SAM attains a leadership position for AbEx holdings. more...
Joel-Peter Witkin, “Journeys of the Soul”
Joel-Peter Witkin’s meticulously crafted tableaux combine the human form, still life objects, and nature to reveal his own fondness for traversing unfamiliar paths. Subjects' physical manifestations prompt complex reactions typically reduced to expressions of fear or loathing. more...
Tony Fitzpatrick
Tony Fitzpatrick's art and personality go hand-in-hand. So when he says "Jesus of Western Avenue" is his final museum show, believe him. more...
Garry Knox Bennett
In "Illumination: Time, Containment and Bling," Garry Knox Bennett presents a representative selection of his carefully crafted objects that serve as vehicles for his Dadaist/Funk humor and wit. more...
HJ Bott
The "Displacement-of-Volume System" was dreamed up by JHJ Bott 50 years ago and its shapes have informed his work ever since. more...
Kim Dingle, “Pudgey Pomona”
Among Kim Dingle’s aliases’ is Pudgey Pomona, a faux curator that frees up the artist to mix and match impulses. The group show approach she strives to achieve, however, is eclipsed by the consistency of her sensibility. more...
Don Suggs
Donald Suggs varied his imagery from one project to the next, with geometric shapes used to alter or expand a work’s interpretation. more...
Peter Halley
Peter Halley's "Cell Grids" are made up of single hue square or rectangular panels joined together to form a larger work. more...
Robin Kandel
Robin Kandel's pencil drawings both pare down to parallel stripe structures and allow her to work spontaneously against those stripes to produce a host of varied results. The titles she comes up with favor the poetic impulse over analytic control. more...
Jinie Park
The immaculate, color blocked compositions of Jinie Park may be rough hewn, but they posses a spirit of regal aloofness. more...
Jack Chevalier, “Memorial Exhibition”
After first drawing critical attention for abstractions calling to mind Native America artifacts., Jack Chevalier shifted to a figuration merging it with abstract symbol. more...
Sanford Biggers
Sanford Biggers paints on quilts others have made to extract contemporary inspiration from their histories, referencing "Codex" with good purpose. more...
Jennifer Ling Datchuk, “Later, Longer, Fewer”
The title of Jennifer Ling Datchuk's exhibition, “Later, Longer, Fewer,” refers to China’s controversial one-child policy. The works reflect how well attuned she is to inequities that impede women and reflect diverse subject matter that lends the show emotional resonance. more...
Marietta Patricia Leis
Marietta Patricia Leis injects a distillation of evanescent impressions, feelings, and details of memories into ostensibly simple objects. more...
Francesco Clemente
The venue of the Santa Monica Old Post Office and the effectiveness of Fracesco Clemente's installation highlight the Neo-expressionist electricity of his painting. more...
“were-: Nenetech Forms”
Colonizer narratives crumble amid the weight of collective mythologies, where collaborative labor has given rise to “were-: Nenetech Forms,” an exhibition exploring migration, transformation, and survival in the Sonoran Desert. more...
Molly Vaughan
Molly Vaughan's "Project 42" takes as its subject 42 murdered transgender women of color--and dresses. more...
The Visual Adventures of Robert Williams
Robert Williams' darkly narrative paintings are steeped in the car and counter cultures of the 1960s and came to play a central role in the now well established lowbrow culture. Conventional life collides with apocalyptic, surreal scenes. more...
Joan Mitchell
The protean Joan Mitchell as seen in this retrospective mates voluptuary hedonism to feverish agitation in some of the best abstract brushwork of her generation. more...
A Binary Season
Even as many artists grapple with public issues as crises of political and physical health continue, they also choose to withdraw into the interior space of art for the sake of art. more...
Dion Johnson
The contemporary take on hard-edge painting by Dion Johnson is vibrant and oscillating, as the show's title promises. more...
No Body: Mike Rea and Casey Whittier
In “No Body,” Kansas City artist Casey Whittier and Chicagoan Mike Rea realize an unlikely pairing of absurdity and serious craft. Whittier's cast glass represents things worn on or close to the body. Rea's mosaic-like images look abstract at first before resolving into gear like bodice more...
Hung Liu
Both Hung Liu and her mother died as a result of pancreatic cancer, which is evoked both emotionally and symbolically in this moving exhibition. more...
Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall puts our powers of observation to the test in this group of large-scale digital prints. They initially are believable, but the performers' actions are both open ended and illogical so as to thwart interpretation. more...
Anne Siems, “Inner Wild”
Inscriptions of tattoos on the necks, bodies, and shaved heads of teenage girls lend them the feel of punk centerfolds, and marks a departure for Anne Siems. more...
Stephanie Robison
Stephanie Robison pairs polished, fluid marble with patches of colored felt to achieve inventive, suggestive and humorous results. more...
“Networked Nature"
“Networked Nature” presents a group of digital works interpreting “nature" bound up and integrated with artificial intelligence. more...
2020: Three Artists
Carrie Zeller, Jorge Dubin and Tom Lamb display their distinct creative and healing responses to the travails of life during the Covid pandemic. more...
I Was Here
Th small-town sprawl of the Los Angeles that Bill Lasarow grew up in was very different from the diverse urban metropolis familiar today. Children always take their home neighborhood to be emblematic of the world. It is only later that they are able to note, more of less, its actual place in the lar more...
Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson is said to be the father of mail art. Over 100 collages and archival material are absorbing yet frustrating because the element of surprise is missing. A work would unexpectedly appear in the recipient's mailbox, an integral part of Johnson's aesthetic process. more...
Lothar Schmitz and Ephraim Puusemp
Lothar Schmitz's new installation, "Artificia," treats the gallery as a discovery museum, connecting nature and technology through the use of video monitors and projections in a variety of formats and scales. Complementing this, Ephraim Puusemp presents images of galaxies and nebulae that are not ex more...
Beverly McIver
A survey of Beverly McIver's lively figurative painting displays her ability to move from the intensely personal to the profoundly universal. more...
Digital Combines, Group Exhibition
Robert Rauschenberg's invention of the combine 70 years ago informs and is updated by these "Digital Combines." Each work is paired with a digital counterpoint and QR code mounted alongside the image, allow us to access text, video, audio, or commentary expanding on the art that appears in the galle more...
Henk Pander, “Artist as Eyewitness”
Henk Pander’s paintings never shy from the enduring theme of man’s inhumanity to man. This small grouping of four paintings tell the story of Portland’s 2020 street confrontation between far right Proud Boys and Antifa activists. more...
Ling Chun
Ling Chun attacks the fine art identity of ceramics through her treatment of scale and media add-ons. more...
Carrie Ann Plank, “Superposition”
Empirical and intuitive methods inform Carrie Ann Plank’s exhibition “Superposition.” Her images are summations of previous iterations, state succeeding state; but also references indeterminate living systems that include all possible states simultaneously. more...
From Dawn to Dusk
"From Dawn to Dusk" is a superb cross section of late 19- early 20th-century Nordic landscape and portrait painting. more...
Robert Colescott: Humor is the Bait
“If you decide to laugh, don’t forget the humor is the bait, and once you’ve bitten, you may have to do some serious chewing. The tears may come later.”
— Robert Colescott more...
Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander combines Hindu, Muslim, and Western imagery, injecting her fusion with humor, ambiguity, and eroticism. more...
Barbara Kruger, “Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.”
The power of her use of language, and more specifically text, has given Berbara Kruger’s work a nearly unsurpassable omnipresence in the art world and beyond. Thus current survey drives the point, and demand a lot of processing on our part. more...
Christina Quarles, Christopher Paul Jordan and Arnaldo James
To decipher Christina Quarles figurative images one must change focal points and piece things together. Christopher Paul Jordan paints delicately on old window and door screens salvaged from historically black neighborhoods in Tacoma, Washington. Arnaldo James’ vivid color photography is prese more...
From Radicalism to Nostalgia
Art that initially was a shocking departure from aesthetic norms has a way of becoming increasingly comforting successor aesthetics. more...
Marcelyn McNeil
Marcelyn McNeil is a latter day color field painter who layers her pours in veils punctuated by solid bands of color. more...
“Wear Your Love Like Heaven”
Yes, the title derives from Donovan's 1967 single. A dozen artists channel its theme of love and hope, with expansive views of human experience and spiritual longing. more...
Jovencio de la Paz
Fiber artist Jovencio de la Paz gets between the hand and the machine to explore Nils Aall Baricelli's math and Symbiogenesis. more...
Alice Neel
Alice Neel's retrospective casts fresh light on the way that her personal relationships and philosophy shaped her approach to portraiture. more...
Paul Wonner, “Landscape of Objects, 1966-2001”
Works here by Paul Wonner from the 1970s onward depict sunny, artifact-strewn gardens redolent of the good life. The drama of his compositions lies in the light that casts sharp shadows; and the tabletops seen at abnormally steep angles more...
Sonya Clark
Sonia Clark presents works based on a flag in the archives of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. more...
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
“Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea” is a visually compelling contradiction to myths and outdated notions that have privileged European-American culture over indigenous expressions, or ignored racist indignities suffered by Asian immigrants. more...
Samella Lewis’ Outsized Footprint
Dr. Samella S. Lewis left a legacy that bridged artistic creativity, art historical scholarship, institutional leadership and curatorial savvy. more...
Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle's artworks from the 60s conjoin aesthetic expertise with primitive energy, all infused with vitality and sensuality. more...
J.J. Martin
In "Role Models" J.J. Martin depicts Nobel Peace Prize recipients as jubilant stars, athletically fit, dressed in high fashion celebrities. more...
Liss LaFleur, “The Queer Birth Project”
Interdisciplinary artist Liss LaFleur serves as curator with renowned sociologist Katherine Sobering for the inaugural exhibition of “The Queer Birth Project,” which seeks to include queer women and the idea of gender nonconforming bodies in the conversation about motherhood. more...
Bibiana Suarez
In “De: Lata (What Gives Us Away),” Bibiana Suarez addresses the depictions of women on food packaging to prompt a purchase. more...
Monica Aissa Martinez
Monica Aissa Martinez draws human figures and biological forms that challenge us to consider new realities and relationships. more...
Rick Silva, “PEAKING”
“PEAKING” is a site-specific installation by sound and video artist Rick Silva that questions how human beings impact nature, done with a lyricism and sense of enigma that merges high romanticism with futurism. more...
Pancho Jiménez
The ceramic sculptures of Pancho Jiménez continue the Bay Area tradition of ceramic satire, but in a subtler vein. These pseudo-artifacts feature cute mass-market imagery jumbled together as if engulfed in fire, flood, earthquake, or lava flow. more...
Found Object Facsimile
Daniel McClain, Claudia Tarantino and Bill Abright employ illusionism to powerful effects all adept at tricking the brain. more...
Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
Many continue to identify Meret Oppenheim through one, singular youthful work, "Object," a fur-lined teacup. The retrospective corrects the record. She was a prolific experimenter with wide-ranging interests, as a half-century of her work here demonstrates. more...
Touring the Timken
The refurbished Timken Museum is a jewel box of art dating from the 14th - 20th century. Liz Goldner leads us through. more...
John Geary, “Negative Sheep”
John Geary's "Negative Sheep" series of sculptures and paintings play with and pushes past cliches associated with the species. more...
Alternate Realities
Four of the West Coasts key abstractionists' connections and individual distinctions are succinctly revealed in "Alternate Realities." more...
William Hernandez: I Wish I Could
The double aesthetic identity between William Hernandez's easel and mural painting is central to "I Wish I Could." Figures look away from one another, emphasizing isolation even in the presence of others. more...
Shingo Francis
Immaculate geometry and illusionistic effects all meet in Shingo Francis’s “Transparent Reflection” suite of paintings. more...
McKay Otto, “Vanishing Vibrations”
McKay Otto's signature ethereal gridded paintings are paired with wall mounted light box assemblages centered on single words that reflect Otto's essential question: "Do we ever reach the unreachable ever ... ?" more...
XO Seattle
The pop-up exhibition "Forest for the Trees," at the Seattle Rail Spur building, offered a portent of what is possible here. more...
Carlos Villa
“Worlds in Collision” examines Carlos Villa’s emergent work of the 1970s and early 1980s focused on magic and mystery. more...
“Drawing Down the Moon”
“Drawing Down the Moon” is an encyclopedic exhibition that examines the universal affection for the moon as represented in both art and scientific writings and diagrams from multiple cultures and time periods. more...
Humaira Abid, “Fight Like a Girl”
Hunaira Abid’s work is quiet, calm, but determined, each sculpture or installation contrasting with its exploration of the oppression of women in the developing world. more...
Urs Fischer
The broken toys, gadgets, clothes, tools--hundreds of them--seem ordinary. But the digital renderings projected into the next room are not. more...
Mary Josephson and Gregory Grenon
To outward appearances the artist couple Gregory Grenon and Mary Josephson shared similar styles of eccentric figuration. But while Grenon portrayed a version of the feminine mystique, Josephson pays homage to classical models. more...
Marc D'Estout
Small scale sculptures by Marc D'Estout are full of both absurdist humor and elegant form that feel both melancholy and soulful. more...
Julia Maiuri, "Mindscreen"
"Mindscreen" refers to a film practice that depicts what a character in thinking about. In her small paintings, which draw on or reflect film stills, Julia Maiuri mirrors this to deliberate about dreams and the unconscious. more...
Yuna Kim
Yuna Kim's hand-drawn animations link the everyday experience of Covid-19 and the meaning of universal struggle. more...
Liz Ward, "Silver River"
The Mississippi River is the dominant and consistent theme of Liz Ward' current work. The river traverses these mixed media works as a meandering ribbon of color. more...
Kelly Berg
Kelly Berg's luminescent landscapes are donated by pyramids and other triangular structures integrated into natural settings. more...
An Te Liu, “Low Fidelity”
An Te Liu fashions his sculptures into images that draw from his childhood and reference ancient artifacts and modernist sculpture. more...
Retracing the 60-Year History of OCMA
A brief history reminds us that the opening of the new OCMA building is only the latest stip taken by the 60-year old institution. more...
Fluid in Nature
Preston Singletary, Raven Skyriver, and Dan Friday demonstrate how Italian glassblowing techniques have infiltrated American glass. more...
"Off-Kilter"
"Off-Kilter's" group of artists present a gratifying response to conceptual art history. It embraces that history with extra doses of whimsy, funk, and elegance. There are highlight moments that may prove exceptionally memorable. more...
Alia Ali
Growing up in Yemen, Alia Ali brings memory of local textile markets now wraps models in fabric and photographs them. more...
Michiko Itatani, “Celestial Stage”
"Celestial Stage" traces Mickijo Itatani's path from cool monochromatic geometric imagery to a colorful inner space that draws on cosmology, sci-fi, and storybook illustration. more...
Stas Orlovski
Stas Orlovski has deployed a vocabulary of motifs — waves, vortices, plants, and more — to create poetic depictions of conscious dreaming. more...
Michael Harnish
For Michael Harnish, utopia is a collage of juxtaposed painterly responses to printed representations of a lush nature. more...
Jordanna and the Masters of Photography
Jordanna Kalman makes use of 20th century male photography masters to zero in on women's historical disenfranchisement -- with the ambition to redress that history. more...
Earlie Hudnall
The daily lives of people residing in Houston's African American neighborhoods forms the core of Earlie Hudnall's street photography. more...
Cindy Sherman, 1977-1982
The early photography of Cindy Sherman remains both a personal and art historical high water mark. Andy Brumer asked how such familiar, and mined, work might be seen through fresh eyes. This review is his answer. more...
Annie Lapin, "Contours of the Vast"
Annie Lapin’s new paintings nevertheless present a novel vision of the way our thoughts, memories, and observations inhabit and interact within the hard drives of our minds. more...
Matthew Cerletty
The paintings of Matthew Cerletty's "True Believer" are precise, even sculptural objects devoid of emotional baggage. more...
Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective
The de la Torre brothers uniquely complex painted glass are boldly conceived to immerse us in both personal stories and social commentary often dressed up in religious iconography and a baroque sensibility. more...
Agnieszka Pilat, “ROBOTa”
The exhibition is, on the face of it, a selection of mixed media paintings. But the real subject and medium are robots. Agniezka Pilat makes them into both studio assistants, passively following her instructions, and surrogates for the artist's own hand. more...
Henry Taylor
Prolific figurative painter Henry Taylor is a sophisticated naïf and a brilliant visual raconteur who chronicles public and private lives. more...
Alex Chitty
“Figs break open of themselves,” is a product of Alex Chitty's foray into genealogy and the creativity of women in her family. more...
Poppy Jones, “Body & Soul”
Poppy Jones small and intimate paintings are close-cropped depictions of everyday things — jackets, folded shirts, flowers, lamps, etc., that at first appear to be photographs that have been selectively hand colored. more...
Another World
The Transcendental Painting Group shared faith in painting’s potential to evoke heightened spiritual consciousness. more...
Steve Murphy, “A Matter of Balance”
Working with a vocabulary of organic shapes, Steve Murphy produces a varied body of work, with surfaces always flawlessly finished. Surfaces are sensual and played against a witty, often humorous temperament. more...
Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero's stylized figures, done in large, exaggerated forms, are among the most recognizable artworks in the world. more...
Edward Burtynsky, “African Studies”
Edward Burtynsky documents, with stunning composition, color, pattern and detail, the effects on the natural landscape of human agricultural and industrial culture. more...
Ori Gersht
Metaphorically, Ori Geshi's decompositions suggest the detritus left over from the material tendency to obsolescence. more...
Petra Cortright, “sapphine cinnamon viper fairy”
Petra Cortright emerged as a net artist in 2007, segued into showing videos and installations, and has now transitioned to creating printed images filled with fragments of appropriated imagery, and her own digital/drawn gestures. more...
Alfred Conteh
Alfred Conteh paints larger-than-life portraits of people he gets to know, seeking to represent their lives without telling explicit narratives. more...
Leslie Martinez, "The Secrecy of Water"
Masses of manipulated paint emerge from the surface of Leslie Martinez' canvas as though thrust up by the force of nature. Formal use of color and texture are directed into emotions that are intensely visceral. more...
Bruton Sisters
The popularity of the three Bruton sisters ran from the 1920s through the War. After that they gradually faded into obscurity, until now. more...
Michael Davis, Richard Turner, and Paul Harris
Collaborating on “Uplifting Tales and Eroded Histories," Harris, Turner and David address the shifting geology of the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southwest Los Angeles. They each bring a lengthy interest in natural elements that deepens our own understanding of the Peninsula's geohistory. more...
Jud Bergeron
Jud Bergeron's cast bronze and resin wall reliefs called “Cyclopean Runways” fuses the archaic with the modern. more...
Jud Bergeron
Jud Bergeron's cast bronze and resin wall reliefs called “Cyclopean Runways” fuses the archaic with the modern. more...
Daniel Nez
Daniel Nez uses geometric forms in his “Fractal Lineage” exhibition to embody elements of Navajo cosmology. more...
Daniel Nez, “Fractal Lineage”
Daniel Nez uses geometric forms in his “Fractal Lineage” exhibition to embody elements of Navajo cosmology centered around the Four Worlds. Oral traditions passed down from Navajo elders are transformed into expressive visual narratives. more...
Henry Jackson-Spieker
Henry Jackson-Spieker's “Interstitial Volume” comprises three distinct installations designed to be experienced together. more...
Henry Jackson-Spieker
Henry Jackson-Spieker's “Interstitial Volume” comprises three distinct installations. Each stands alone, while designed to be experienced together. more...
“From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers”
“From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers” chronicles the legacy of architecture built by slave labor through the rise of a professional class that has a growing track record of distinguished achievement. more...
“From the Ground Up”
“From the Ground Up” chronicles the rise of a class of Black architects that has a growing track record of achievement. more...
Breyer P-Orridge & Eric Heist
Three Polaroid snapshots are used by Eric Heist and Breyer P-Orridge for sugar coated silkscreen near-abstract interpretations. more...
Breyer P-Orridge & Eric Heist
Three Polaroid snapshots are used by Eric Heist and Breyer P-Orridge for sugar coated silkscreen near-abstract interpretations. more...
Anish Kapoor
Paintings by Anish Kapoor transport us into mythic spaces brimming with chthonic, creation-story texture and energy. more...
Anish Kapoor
New paintings by Anish Kapoor transport us into archetypal mythic spaces brimming with chthonic, creation-story texture and energy. more...
Rui Sasaki, “Subtle Intimacy: Here and There”
The mutable boundaries between meteorology, phenomenology, and art-making form the gee-whiz objects and installations that have put Rui Sasaki on the art-world radar. “Subtle Intimacy: Here and There” is an open cube of 235 glass panels of vaporized flora transmuted into art. more...
Virgil Grotfeldt
This selection of carbon powder drawings and acrylic paintings of amorphous biomorphic figures are suggestive and poignant. more...
Virgil Grotfeldt
This selection of carbon powder drawings and acrylic paintings of amorphous biomorphic figures are suggestive and poignant. more...
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archeology of Memory
Amalia Mesa-Bains has championed Mexican identity and culture since the 1970s through her profusely decorated multimedia installations that draw on the home altar tradition. more...
Refik Anadol, “Living Paintings”
Refik Anadol's paint and palette is AI and datasets. The imagery is large-scale, ever morphing spectacle. In this, his first gallery exhibition, he includes plenty of explanatory content about concept and methods. more...
Refik Anadol, “Living Paintings”
Refik Anadol works with AI and datasets. The imagery is large-scale, ever morphing spectacle. He includes plenty of explanatory content about concept and methods. more...
Marcus Lelle and Matthew Behrend
Marcus Lelle's heads and portraits share qualities of fluctuation. Matthew Behrens's cosmological images stretch the painterliness of photography. more...
Marcus Lelle and Matthew Behrend
Marcus Lelle's heads and portraits share qualities of fluctuation. Matthew Behrens's cosmological images stretch the painterliness of photography. more...
Barbara T. Smith
Barbara T. Smith entered the art world as a frustrated suburban housewife during the 1950s. She became a pioneer of performance art. more...
Barbara T. Smith, “The Way to Be”
Barbara T. Smith entered the art world after experiencing life as a frustrated suburban housewife during the 1950s. She became a pioneer of performance art, using it as a therapeutic vehicle for a personal spiritual journey that began with and in relation to the sexual revolution. more...
David Frazer
David Frazer creates visual metaphors for complicated contemporary phenomena that are individualistic and instantly recognizable. more...
David Frazer
David Frazer creates visual metaphors for complicated contemporary phenomena that are individualistic and instantly recognizable. more...
Jónsi, “FLÓÐ (Flood)”
FLÓÐ (Flood), an immersive installation by Sigur Rós' Jónsi addresses climate change with neither soporific optimism nor cynicism. more...
Jónsi, “FLÓÐ (Flood)”
FLÓÐ (Flood) is an immersive installation by Sigur Ros' Jónsi that manages three things. First, it addresses climate change without resorting total cynicism. Second, it speaks directly to the region in which it is placed. And third, it succeeds as a crossover. more...
Not Such Good Work If You Can Get It
Revelations about Tom Sachs' mistreatment of staff cast light on how artists' assistants experience extreme stress and disillusionment. more...
Not Such Good Work If You Can Get It
Revelations about Tom Sachs' treatment of his studio staff, his declarations of their treatment being his "greatest art work" to the contrary, cast light on how many assistants to elite artists deal with high levels of stress, disillusionment, and bitterness. more...
Ted Kincaid
Conceptual artist and photographer Ted Kincaid presents an investigation of the natural beauty of the elements: earth, sea, and sky. more...
Ted Kincaid
Conceptual artist and photographer Ted Kincaid presents an investigation of the natural beauty of the elements: earth, sea, and sky. more...
Preston Wadley, “Abstract Truth”
Preston Wadley presents three bodies of deeply moving work that conveys a history of African Americans. The 'Abstract Truth" series invents a genealogy of forgotten people There are also double-sided images mounted on pedestals and black-and-white portraits of homeless youth. more...
Evoking Wokeness
Two exhibitions, "Together in Time," and "'afro-Atlantic Histories" tackle a range of public issues while exerting real aesthetic power. more...
Evoking Wokeness
Two exhibitions, "Together in Time," and "'afro-Atlantic Histories" tackle a range of public issues while exerting real aesthetic power. more...
Delfin Finley, “Coalescence”
Delfin Finley joins other artists who celebrate people of color by making sympathetic, often idealized portraits of them that debunk prejudicial stereotypes. Finley's subjects bear the weight of the past but ever cognizant of the threats of the present. more...
Walter Hopps
Walter Hopps was the founding director of Houston’s Menil Collection, but his first love and talent was curating. more...
Walter Hopps
Walter Hopps was the founding director of Houston’s Menil Collection, but his first love and talent was curating. more...
Paula Jean Rice, “Transformation & Transcendence”
Three-dimensional and wall-mounted relief sculptures blend autobiography with cosmic, geographic, and historical references in Paula Jean Rice's retrospective. They prove impactful on our thinking about our own and others' pain. more...
Paula Jean Rice
Three-dimensional and wall-mounted relief sculptures blend autobiography with cosmic, geographic, and historical references in Paula Jean Rice's retrospective. They prove impactful on our thinking about our own and others' pain. more...
Melina Ausikaitis
Melina Ausikaitis' works are soft, indistinct scenes punctuated weight and form. Tangible details are immersed in an ethereal ground. more...
Gaylen Hansen
At age 102, Gaylen Hansen still produces vigorous paintings full of anger and courage that match his long held view on the endangered environment and the relationships between animals and humans. more...
Sarah Charlesworth
The brightly colored "Neverland" series of 2002 moved beyond appropriation to photograph ordinary household objects. more...
Sarah Charlesworth
The brightly colored "Neverland" series of 2002 moved beyond appropriation to photograph ordinary household objects. more...
Gaylen Hansen
At age 102, Gaylen Hansen still produces vigorous paintings full of anger and courage. more...
Melina Ausikaitis
Melina Ausikaitis' works are soft, indistinct scenes punctuated weight and form. Tangible details are immersed in an ethereal ground. more...
Sophia Anthony, “Interior Motives II”
Armed with a formidable knowledge of physics and a masterful technical skill, Sophia Anthony's paintings in "Interior Motives II" reflect an ability to draw upon diverse sources such as literature and European cinema. more...
John Roloff
John Roloff has made environmentalism one of the cornerstones of his diverse art practice since the mid-1970s. more...
John Roloff
John Roloff has made environmentalism one of the cornerstones of his diverse art practice since the mid-1970s. more...
Dishing It Out and Taking It: A Critic’s Comeuppance
In Richard Spears 21 years as an art critic, he has attended a lot of exhibition press previews. April 5th was different, this time he attended as co-curator -- on the other side of the press line. more...
Dishing It Out and Taking It: A Critic’s Comeuppance
In Richard Spears 21 years as an art critic, he has attended a lot of exhibition press previews. April 5th was different, this time he attended as co-curator -- on the other side of the press line. more...
Celia Alvarez Munoz
Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s artistic vision goes beyond traditional Chicano iconography to the symbols and storytelling of Chicano art. more...
Elaine Reichek
Elaine Reichek puts her mastery of hand stitched and digitally controlled embroidery to concept. and feminist aesthetic purpose. more...
Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin
Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin are “social cartographers” mapping lost and obscured LGBTQ+ narratives through an aesthetic gaze. more...
Celia Alvarez Munoz
Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s artistic vision goes beyond traditional Chicano iconography to the symbols and storytelling of Chicano art. more...
Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin
Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin are “social cartographers” mapping lost and obscured LGBTQ+ narratives through an aesthetic gaze. more...
Elaine Reichek
Elaine Reichek puts her mastery of hand stitched and digitally controlled embroidery to concept. and feminist aesthetic purpose. more...
Cara Barer / Alex Couwenberg
For "Atmospheric" Cara Barer's photographs of repurposed books and Alex Couwenberg's abstract paintings are crisp yet ambiguous. more...
Cara Barer / Alex Couwenberg
For "Atmospheric" Cara Barer's photographs of repurposed books and Alex Couwenberg's abstract paintings are crisp yet ambiguous. more...
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
In “Coming Back to See Through, Again” Njideka Akunyili Crosby juxtaposes photographic transfers and painted depictions of interiors and exteriors. These suggest a range of periods of time and different worlds, all glimpsed through windows and doorways. more...
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
In “Coming Back to See Through, Again” Njideka Akunyili Crosby juxtaposes photographic transfers and painted depictions of interiors and exteriors. more...
Brenda Mallory, “The North Star Changes"
Brenda Mallory creates her artworks primarily with unconventional materials. She proves exceptionally inventive in the repurposing the cast-offs into memorable assemblages. more...
Brenda Mallory, “The North Star Changes"
Brenda Mallory creates her artworks primarily with unconventional materials. She proves exceptionally inventive in the repurposing the cast-offs into memorable assemblages. more...
Paho Mann, “Latent Constructions”
Paho Mann reveals the unseen in the eight photographic images comprising “Latent Constructions.” With the use of 3D scanning software Mann constructs a composite photo of the hundreds of angles the software collects in order to make a complete image. more...
Ben Ashton
Historic portraits in the Grand Manner inspire Ben Ashton's melted and stretched period portraits with attention-grabbing results. more...
Chris Trueman, “Dividing the Light”
Chris Trueman's abstractions genuinely reference painting free of references. Slathered, sprayed, brushed and scraped paint in various conglomerations, sizes, and shape-clusters cohere into convincing compositions that are pure visual pleasures. more...
“Blacklist” and “Oppenheimer”
The exhibition "Blacklist" and the blockbuster movie "Oppenheimer" bookend the dire effects of McCarthyism 70 years ago. more...
Hank Willis Thomas, “I’ve Known Rivers”
Hank Willis Thomas make dramatic use of retrospective vinyl in "I've Known Rivers." The title and images are inspired by a Langston Hughes poem that connects identity to the depths of history. more...
Joseph Kleitsch
Unlike many of his fellow California Impressionists, Joseph Kleitsch townscapes and street scenes of early Laguna Beach. more...
JooYoung Choi, “Discovering Truth will Make Me Free”
JooYoung Choi's paintings with cut paper (and one soft sculpture) show an affinity for comic books, toys, fairytales, and galactic superheroes. Dense imagery and explosive color make for an exceptionally loaded show with a huge array of characters. more...
JooYoung Choi
JooYoung Choi's paintings with cut paper (and one soft sculpture) show an affinity for comic books, toys, and galactic superheroes. more...
JooYoung Choi
JooYoung Choi's paintings with cut paper (and one soft sculpture) show an affinity for comic books, toys, fairytales, and galactic superheroes. Dense imagery and explosive color make for an exceptionally loaded show with a huge array of characters. more...
Joseph Kleitsch
Unlike most of the other California Impressionists, Joseph Kleitsch was interested in townscapes and street scenes. more...
Joseph Kleitsch
Unlike most of the other California Impressionists, Joseph Kleitsch was interested in townscapes and street scenes. more...
Junko Yamamoto
In her new "Cosmic Web" paintings Junko Yamamoto combines geometric elements with curvy blobs of brighter color. more...
Junko Yamamoto
In her new "Cosmic Web" paintings Junko 'Yamamoto combines geometric elements with curvy blobs of brighter color. more...
Kiyomizu Rokubey VIII, “Ceramic Sight”
Acclaimed Japanese sculptor Kiyomizu Masahiro followed a longstanding family tradition when, in 2000 when he assumed oversight of the famil's functional ceramic business, he changed his name to Kiyomizu Rokubey VIII. more...
“Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds”
"Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds" ranges across ten centuries and almost as many cultural traditions. Given this breadth the show challenges and expands upon everything that we thought we knew about Asian art and the cosmological paradigms that it draws on. more...
Asian Underworlds
"Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds" ranges across ten centuries of Asian art and cosmology, and almost as many cultural traditions. more...
Annetta Kapon
Proxy Gallery is a 12-inch cube used by Annetta Kapon since 2013. This is exhibition #85. surveying the many collaborating artists. more...
Annetta Kapon
Proxy Gallery is a 12-inch cube used by Annetta Kapon since 2013. This is exhibition #85. surveying the many collaborating artists. more...
Jeffrey Frisch, "Extreme Moderation"
Jeffrey Frisch turns art styles, genres, movements, and even painting techniques inside out and upside down. Titled “Extreme Moderation,” these up cycled constructions engage in intellectual and aesthetic play. more...
Jeffrey Frisch, "Extreme Moderation"
Jeffrey Frisch turns art styles, genres, movements, and even painting techniques inside out and upside down. Titled “Extreme Moderation,” these up cycled constructions engage in intellectual and aesthetic play. more...
Darren Orange
Darren Orange has maintained a long inquiry into the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, currently via pure abstract painting. more...
Darren Orange
Darren Orange has maintained a long inquiry into the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, currently via pure abstract painting. more...
Chris Johanson, "Untitled Tryiptych"
Chris Johanson's untitled triptych, a key work by one of the key artists of San Francisco's "Mission School," its fusion of street art, Funk assemblage and Japanese underground comic illustration still registers the spirit of that time and place. more...
Chris Johanson, "Untitled Tryiptych"
Chris Johanson's untitled triptych, a key work of San Francisco's "Mission School," today still registers the spirit of that time and place. more...
Ruhee Maknojia
The elaborately patterned paintings of Ruhee Maknojia are based on fables that engender civil discourse and discussion. more...
Ruhee Maknojia
The elaborately patterned paintings of Ruhee Maknojia are based on fables that engender civil discourse and discussion. more...
American Art: The Stories We Carry
The re-installation of the American art collection at Seattle Art Museum reflects significant shifts in art history, curatorial perspectives, and what is and is not a “masterpiece.” more...
American Art: The Stories We Carry
The re-installation of the American art collection at Seattle Art Museum reflects shifts in art history and curatorial perspectives. more...
Richard T. Walker
Richard T. Walker interrogates nature and the solitary observer through multimedia works. The playfully ironic title, “Never Here /Always There,” conveys the flavor of Walker’s inquiries and investigations. more...
Richard T. Walker, “Never Here / Always There”
Richard T. Walker interrogates nature and the solitary observer through multimedia works. The playfully ironic title, “Never Here /Always There,” conveys the flavor of Walker’s inquiries and investigations. more...
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer examines the unsettling language associated with Trumpism, QAnon, and artificial intelligence. more...
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer examines the unsettling language associated with Trumpism, QAnon, and artificial intelligence. more...
A Generational Change in Los Angeles
A generational transition has occurred among Los Angeles galleries with an influx of start-ups and outposts recently opened by established galleries in New York and elsewhere. more...
Tony Feher
Tony Feher’s creative inspiration began when he was momentarily mesmerized by light interacting with marbles seen through a window. more...
David Schell, "Casual Plans"
David Schell's shapes are biomorphic but not figurative, geometric but not hard-edged, kinda squishy, like a grilled cheese sandwich left too long in a hot car. more...
David Schell, "Casual Plans"
David Schell's shapes are biomorphic but not figurative, geometric but not hard-edged, kinda squishy, like a grilled cheese sandwich left too long in a hot car. more...
Tony Feher
Tony Feher’s creative inspiration began when he was momentarily mesmerized by light interacting with marbles seen through a window. more...
Trees, Fox & Friends
”Trees, Fox & Friends” assembles an impressive survey featuring the centrality of trees in a time of severe climate change. more...
Trees, Fox & Friends
”Trees, Fox & Friends” assembles an impressive survey featuring the centrality of trees in a time of severe climate change. more...
Cammie Staros, "Monster in the Maze"
In "Monster in the Maze," Cammie Staros sets up a maze-like display of bare metal studs that escorts us to each individual artwork, while providing sight lines to still see them all. more...
Cammie Staros, "Monster in the Maze"
In "Monster in the Maze," Cammie Staros sets up a maze-like display of bare metal studs that escorts us to each individual artwork, while providing sight lines to still see them all. more...
Josephine Taylor
How do images come into existence? Josephine Taylor provides some answers in three series of new paintings. more...
Josephine Taylor
How do images come into existence? Josephine Taylor provides some answers in three series of new paintings. more...
Ed Moses, "Emptiness is Form"
Ed Moses applied painterly gesture and manipulation in endlessly surprising ways. The tools he used to apply the paint — including squeegees, mops, squeeze bottles, house painters’ implements and hoses -- were simple but effective vehicles by which he achieved his effects. more...
Ed Moses, "Emptiness is Form"
Ed Moses applied painterly gesture and manipulation in endlessly surprising ways. The tools he used to apply the paint — including squeegees, mops, squeeze bottles, house painters’ implements and hoses -- were simple but effective vehicles by which he achieved his effects. more...
Fighting: Ukrainian War Photographers
“Fighting: Ukrainian War Photographers” confronts the breadth of conflict through the lens of 16 Ukrainian artists and photojournalists. The eyes of the subjects tell the story, revealing fear, resolve, pain, and confusion. more...
Jeffrey Chong Wang
Visual set pieces by Jeffery Chong Wang present an awkward sense of space and situations informed by historical Western painting. more...
Jeffrey Chong Wang
Visual set pieces by Jeffery Chong Wang present an awkward sense of space and situations informed by historical Western painting. more...
Albert Contreras, “Albert”
Albert Contreras failed to break through in New York during the 1970s and 80s, so he worked as a garbage truck driver until returning as a successful artist 25 years later. Psychotherapy freed him to paint, and his optically tricky work continued for another 30 years. more...
Albert Contreras, “Albert”
Albert Contreras failed to break through in New York during the 1970s and 80s, so he worked as a garbage truck driver until returning as a successful artist. more...
Christopher Badger
Christopher Badger presents artworks that stem from assignments he has given to his students. On view are his own responses to prompts such as "Chemical Painting," "Computational Choreography," or "Psychological Color Theory." more...
Christopher Badger
Christopher Badger presents artworks that stem from assignments he has given to his students. On view are his own responses to prompts such as "Chemical Painting," "Computational Choreography," or "Psychological Color Theory." more...
Ambreen Butt
Ambreen Butt's “Lay Bare My Arms,” was three years in the making, and the expenditure of creative labor teems with visual incident. more...
Ambreen Butt
Ambreen Butt's “Lay Bare My Arms,” was three years in the making, and the expenditure of creative labor teems with visual incident. more...
Tim Roda, “Vantage Points”
Tim Roda's constructed-set black-and-white photographs featuring family members use jerry-rigged lumber, unfired ceramic props, kitsch elements such as plastic flamingos and snow shovels, and father, sons, and wife to activate awkward situations. more...
Tim Roda, “Vantage Points”
Tim Roda's constructed-set black-and-white photographs feature family members and various props to activate awkward situations. more...
Hung Viet Nguyen
Hung Viet Nguyễn envisions imaginary “sacred landscapes,” in which the spiritual energies of nature are made visible. more...
Hung Viet Nguyen
Hung Viet Nguyễn envisions imaginary “sacred landscapes,” in which the spiritual energies of nature are made visible. more...
Luis Rivera Jimenez, “Race and Cultural Cosplay”
In a group of installations Luis Rivera Jimenez visually poses tough questions about racism while guiding us through multiple aesthetic perspectives that create a space for community dialogue. more...
Luis Rivera Jimenez
In a group of installations Luis Rivera Jimenez visually poses tough questions about racism while guiding us through multiple aesthetic perspectives that create a space for community dialogue. more...
Ricardo Duffy
A selection of forty works by Ricardo Duffy pair well crafted painting with deep knowledge of his Mexican heritage and of world affairs. more...
Ricardo Duffy
A selection of forty works by Ricardo Duffy pair well crafted painting with deep knowledge of his Mexican heritage and of world affairs. more...
Jess T. Dugan
St. Louis-based Jess T. Dugan, who identifies as queer/nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, has assembled a suite of portraits and still lifes that showcase a curated slice of their life, loves, friends, and favored locales. more...
Todd Gray
Todd Gray's “Rome Work” features iconic architecture and churches in Rome with images from Gray's previous bodies of work. more...
Hugh Hayden, "Hughman"
Hugh Harden's "Hughman” rims the perimeter of the gallery with a wall of more than 20 gray toilet stalls, each featuring a mini-exhibit. more...
Hugh Hayden, “Hughman”
Hugh Harden's "Hughman” rims the perimeter of the gallery with a wall of more than 20 gray toilet stalls, each with a door bolt indicating the green dial of accessibility — except for one that’s red. Each stall features a mini-exhibit. more...
Todd Gray
Todd Gray's “Rome Work” features iconic architecture and churches in Rome with images from Gray's previous bodies of work. more...
“Six Scenes from Our Future”
“Six Scenes from Our Future” is a disparate response to a historic show on the occasion of the institution’s 75th anniversary. more...
“Six Scenes from Our Future”
When a museum invites six very different artists to respond to a historic show on the occasion of the institution’s 75th anniversary, the results are bound to be disparate. Such is the case with “Six Scenes from Our Future.” more...
Jónsi, “Vox”
Jónsi's sound-works are not meant to overpower the gallery or the viewer, but are inviting and contemplative. Though electronically created, they reference the subtleties of the natural as well as the built world. more...
Jónsi, “Vox”
Jónsi's sound-works are not meant to overpower the gallery or the viewer, but are inviting and contemplative. Though electronically created, they reference the subtleties of the natural as well as the built world. more...
John Miller, “New Horizon”
John Miller began his career during the era of the “pictures generation." This survey conveys his outright distain for the limits of abstraction's refusal to acknowledge social and political conditions that are inescapable. more...
Traditions, Honoring Heritage, Ritual, and Family
With “Traditions, Honoring Heritage, Ritual, and Family” the Muzeo Museum presents two dozen plus artists of color who have roots in or connections with Southern California arts, culture, and lifestyle. more...
Ardent Mystics
Of "Ardent Mystics'" three artists, Morris Graves was the historic trendsetter and very much a mystic; Letha Wilson and Mariah Robertson not so much, and both use photography as the starting point of their. more...
John Miller, “New Horizon”
John Miller began his career during the era of the “pictures generation." This survey conveys his outright distain for the limits of abstraction's refusal to acknowledge social and political conditions that are inescapable. more...
Ardent Mystics
"Ardent Mystics'" includes three artists: Morris Graves is the historic, trendsetting mystic; Letha Wilson and Mariah Robertson. more...
Nancy Youdelman
Involvement with costuming and storytelling in the early 1970s led Nancy Youdelman to create a significant body of photographic work. more...
Nancy Youdelman, "Dreamwork"
Involvement with costuming and storytelling in the early 1970s led Nancy Youdelman to create a significant body of photographic work. This exhibition is about her exploration of a variety of female personas during that period. more...
Krista Svalbonas
Laser-cut pigment prints fuse photographs of facades of buildings shot during Krista Svalbonas' travels to Lithuania, Latvia, and Germany. more...
Krista Svalbonas
Laser-cut pigment prints fuse photographs of facades of buildings shot during Krista Svalbonas' travels to Lithuania, Latvia, and Germany. more...
Kelly Akashi
Kelly Akashi’s “Encounters” operates convincingly as a collection of discrete objects surrounded by related, but not necessarily interdependent, video projections and photographs of concocted microscopic elements. more...
Kelly Akashi
Kelly Akashi’s “Encounters” operates convincingly as a collection of discrete objects surrounded by related, but not necessarily interdependent, video projections and photographs of concocted microscopic elements. more...
Gwen Hardie
Gwen Hardie's square formatted paintings at first appear to be minimalist monochrome throwbacks. But they are actually rich in color. more...
Gwen Hardie
Gwen Hardie's square formatted paintings at first appear to be minimalist monochrome throwbacks. But they are actually rich in color. more...
On the Passage. . . .
The exhibition “On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time” showcases art with social and political themes. more...
On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time
The exhibition “On the Passage of a Few People. . . .” showcases art with socially and politically oriented themes. At its center is Mary Kelly, whose artwork joins feminism to psychoanalysis and who is represented here by "WLM Demo Remix." more...
Joan Brown
Joan Brown sought to reconcile her spiritual inclinations with contemporary life through the means and platform of her painting. more...
Joan Brown
Joan Brown sought to reconcile her spiritual inclinations with contemporary life through the means and platform of her painting. more...
