Feitelson / Lundeberg
The aesthetic interplay of the first couple of early California modernism is highlighted in this broad selection of their 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...
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...
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...
Johannes Girardoni
Johannes Girardoni merges architecture and light in two distinct bodies of work that somehow work together. 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...
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...
Felis Stella
IKEA inspired art sounds like an oxymoron, but Felis Stella brings mixes an informed etymological interest with just enough creative mischief. 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...
Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew's gridded constructions of recycled wood serve as an aesthetic wake-up call to global consumerism's endless party. More...
Cig Harvey
Cig Harvey often inserts herself into witty and richly ambiguous color photographs that get you to create your own story. 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...
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...
''Framing Abstraction''
Carefully curated, 'Framing Abstraction' successfully shuttles between the poles of the spiritual and nihilistic traditions. 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...
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...
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...
Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha sharpens the distinction between the car as fetish object versus a tool for viewing the world in 'Road Tested.' More...
Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen aestheticizes photographs that document military and intelligence surveillance operations. 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...
