Jeff Krueger and Terri Rolland
Jeff Krueger and Terri Rolland both work with clay, but in very different ways. Krueger's ceramic sculptures recall familiar domestic objects, but are also biomorphic abstractions. Rolland's acrylic and clay abstract paintings build on soft, rounded lines and shapes. More...
Allen Ruppersberg
This retrospective of first generation conceptualist Allen Ruppersberg proves that conceptualism need be neither dull nor repetitive. More...
Hadley Radt
Hadley Radt’s modestly-sized abstractions somehow conjure the mysteries of time and space from economic means — liquid ink and acrylic pen marker on rectangular clayboard or circular wooden panels — and obsessive technique. More...
Lisa Solomon
A blend of personal identities is personal for Lisa Solomon, whose varied array of media investigates the effects of WW II internment camps. More...
Douglas Miles
In "Everyday Sacred" Douglas Miles prompts us to consider troubling issues of historical displacement and contemporary marginalization of indigenous people. Depiction of everyday realities is favored over romantic embellishment. More...
The Pros and Cons of Juried Exhibitions
If juried exhibitions offer emerging artists for exposure oapotuntites, they also can place them at the mercy of unscrupulous operators. More...
David A. Clark and Yuri Fukouka
Clark's arrows are both symbol and directional pattern. Fukouka's porcelain sculptures cluster thin curls into flowers. More...
Charles White
Currently the subject of a LACMA retrospective, Charles White's aesthetic progeny are popping up elsewhere around L.A. to amplify his message. More...
“Solidary and Solitary”
"Solidary and Solitary" offers a fresh look at the development of African-American art through the lens of a private collection. More...
Sterling Ruby
Sterling Ruby builds big things that feel like they sprang right out of the earth, move easily from pop culture references to art historical critique, not to mention from ceramic to urethane to wood. We want to move along with them from room to room. More...
Takashi Murakami
There is plenty for Takashi Murakami fans to cozy up to here, but go upstairs to see where the artist is going now. He gets self-reflexive in works that can include textual narrative that has some edge, even if he still wants us to smile. More...
Floyd Newsum
Floyd Newsum's style and subject matter are deliberately childlike, but graphically complex. Their links to folk art are as clear as to modernist surrealism and expressionism. Personal and family history also run up against the larger canvas of the racial history of this country. More...
“Beyond the Framework”
The five artists in “Beyond the Framework” seek precision of geometric abstraction, but also to reflect on topical issues. More...
Carrie Ann Baade
Symbolism culled from art history abounds in the work of Carrie Ann Baade. These visual clues feel like a treasure map search that lead us to autobiographical and feminist messaging. More...
Piero Manzoni
A forerunner of the late 1960s Italian “Arte Povera” movement, Piero Manzoni believed that painting had run its course as a viable medium, and so experimented with a range of materials as replacements for oil paint More...
Sherrie Wolf
Sherrie Wolf's "Found" exhibition is so titled because she’s painting from photographs of things exactly as she found them during her travels.She culled her new subject matter from flea markets and antique stores, and forgoes her usual sumptuous color in favor of black and white. More...
Chelsea Ryoko Wong
Chelsea Ryoko Wong's mixed-media paintings tackle the multi-cultural panorama of street life in the neighborhoods of San Francisco. More...
In Praise of Art Criticism
Serious journalism in general and art criticism in particular has honestly never been very lucrative, but it may be more important than ever. More...
American Stories: David Hurn, David Graham and Bill Owens
“American Stories" as told through the lens of David Graham, David Hurn and Bill Owens sees America present looking up at America past, contemplating all that’s come before, but also looking ahead at what is yet to be. More...
Fought and Pittman
David Fought's tabletop-scale sculptures of humble materials are paired with Steuart Pittman's simple abstractions that are not so simple. More...
