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...
Fred Wilson
This elegant but poignant exhibition shows Fred Wilson to wholeheartedly embrace postmodernist social critique. 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...
Sarah Walker
Vertiginously immersive abstract paintings by Sarah Walker are gorgeously rich fusions of digital thinking with visionary psychedelia. 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...
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...
Ingrid Calame
Ingrid Calame makes tracings of debris on sidewalks or streets that produce intricate compositions of overlapping stray marks. More...
Peter Halasz
Large scale paintings by Peter Halasz of nighttime scenes are meticulous, elegant and evocative of collective memory. 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...
Katherine Westerhout
Katherine Westerhout documents decaying buildings just as she finds them, in all their ruin and beauty, still somehow vibrant and grand. 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. Past projects of note have included... 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...
Peter Halley
Peter Halley's abstraction smartly engages architectural references, the "Prison" image here an element he has returned to for 30 years. 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...
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...
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...
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...
Surrealism
"Surrealism: New Worlds" is a sprawling survey of about 100 works that refreshes appreciation for the movement with numerous highlights. More...
