Jordan Casteel
The portraits and street scenes of Jordan Casteel are at once understated and extravagant; she breaks down barriers in multiple ways. 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
John Buck
John Buck’s kinetic sculptures produce the pleasure of seeing clashing symbols all moving in concert, wryly playful yet joyless. 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 hold. 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 were. 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...
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...
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...
Barbara Takenaga
Immersing us, Barbara Takenaga delves into her otherworldly feeling for space, beneath the sea and into the animal kingdom. 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...
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...
