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...
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...
Roland Reiss
This retrospective casts Roland Reiss as one of Southern California's pivotal artistic figures of the last half century. 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...
Hiroshi Sato
Hiroshi Sato's domestic interiors of introspective young women draw on deeply historical sources with a contemporary counterpoint. 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...
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...
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...
Roberto Chavez
This retrospective of pioneer Chicano artist Roberto Chavez shows him to be a vigorous painter and mentor. More...
Kirk Pedersen
An eye for the ordinary positions Kirk Pedersen as a curator of the commonplace, an observer of the unnoticed. 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...
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...
