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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Peter Ferguson
Peter Ferguson offers glimpses into a not-so-friendly parallel earth in an earthy palette that evokes early sepia photography. 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...
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...
Isadora Stowe
Hundreds of everyday objects float in a colored haze that Isadora Stowe works like overlapping memories from various times and recollections. 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...
Virgil Grotfeldt
Darkly luminous paintings by the late Virgil Grotfeld are distinctive biomorphic abstractions that traverse vast and microscopic space. 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...
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 social ill. 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...
"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...
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...
David Aylsworth
Small, gestural and seemingly simple, David Alysworth's paintings are loving and painstaking studies in the process of abstraction. 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...
