Avisheh Mohsenin
Avisheh Mohsenin has been recovering with Houston from Hurricane Harvey over the past year. From the many damaged photographs that she salvaged from the storm, she has evolved many into fresh images. As a group they are fresh and topical, yet personal and, surprise!, appealing. More...
Ravi Zupa
Drawing on the Northern European Renaissance and Indian mythology, Ravi Zupa repurposes both to offer a modern cultural critique. More...
“Compression”
Elana Herzog and Luanne Martineau have a shared affinity for paper, textiles and heavily worked surfaces loaded with visual detail. More...
Phranc
Phranc, also known for her LGBTQ activism and "All-American Jewish Lesbian Folk" music, displays "Swagger" (the show's title) in both her formal mastery and personal identity. Depictions of ordinary objects, especially life jackets, in cheap materials draw from her personal back story without depending on it for effect. More...
Thomas Glassford
Thomas Glassford brings together organic materials such as gourds with contemporary manufactured products in richly metaphorical works. More...
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl makes use of collage to discover the right composition of figures to occupy familiar settings in his usual formally complex paintings that are dripping with amibiguity. More...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Brimming with both symbolism and narrative skill, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's survey proves fascinating and morally charged. More...
Mary Hayslip
The art gallery as a fantasy garden of imaginary flowers and invented creatures forms the heart and soul of Mary Hayslip's current exhibition. More...
Kehinde Wiley
Two paintings of Ethopian Jews by Kehinde Wiley are in the tradition of the heroic portrait. Both are superb for their detail and execution. More...
Jeff Sonhouse
Jeff Sonhouse's portraits of African American men keep one foot in realism, but they sure make us wonder. More...
Jaydan Moore
Jaydan Moore's "Dust" exhibition is shaped by his family's history of tombstone carving. He recasts tableware and other found objects into touchstones of memory and nostalgia. More...
The Museum as a Creative Laboratory
The Torrance Museum recently set up a group of open studios right in their public space, effectively urbanizing the artist in residence. More...
Contrarian
Feminist intellectual Germain Greer has long been known for her powerful critique of the submissive role of women. DeWitt Chen responds to her recently aired views concerning art education. Should we just be doing it at home? More...
Jeffrey Gibson
Jeffrey Gibson revitalized his paintings by razoring many of them, running them through the washer, then repurposing the fragments into collages. More...
Richard Diebenkorn
This survey of Richard Diebenkorn's early work takes us through the numerous approaches the artist took before arriving at the style for which he is best known. More...
Nicholas Galanin
Whose land we are living on and what that means are questions that drive Nicholas Galanin's work. His mixed heritage, both Native American and settler, informs his visual critique of both. More...
Eric Beltz
Eric Beltz combines landscape, astronomy and graphic-novel fantasy in ultra-meticulous night skies full of intricate patterns. They verge on abstraction, the more so they permit our imagination to assert itself. More...
“Divine Bodies”
"Divine Bodies: Sacred Imagery in Asian Art" informs us as to how Asian artists have for centuries blended spirituality, myth and formal beauty. More...
Larry Bell
Larry Bell's signature form for over half a century is the cube, and we get a whole bunch of them here. Their vacuum-coated surfaces set them apart from the beginning, reflecting color at the same time that they permit light to flood through. More...
