John Yoyogi Fortes
Eclecticism and hybridity may be common practice these days, but who would have thought that graffiti art, pop surrealism, and identity art (loosely defined) could combine More...
Astrid Preston
From her earliest renditions of architectural fragments on aluminum cutouts in the 1970s, to the patterned formal gardens More...
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder's work as seen here form a triumvirate of form, balance and joy. Particularly joy. More...
Charles Garabedian
Charles Garabedian has had a career engagement with figuration as the arena where humanism sorts out its psychic, social, daily and mythic conundrums. More...
Rusty Scruby
Starting with snapshots from the family album, Rusty Scruby duplicates source images from scores to hundreds of times to create evocative tessellated patterns. More...
Larry Mullins
The works of Larry Mullins signal a rare moment where the fragility of language is met with an equally More...
Ingrid Calame
Originally a native of New York, Calame made the move west to attend the California Institute of the Arts in More...
West of Rome Public Art
West of Rome began in 2005 in a private residence located in the suburban hills of Pasadena. Emi Fontana, who had operated Galerie Fontana in Milan since 1992, had recently arrived in Los Angeles, and wanted to work More...
Mark Dion's 'Marvelous Museum'
For 'The Marvelous Museum,' Dion mined the Oakland Museum's vast collection in order to stage a series of situations through the calculated installation of various objects. In particular, he has focused on More...
Mayme Kratz
Fish bones, cicada wings, rattlesnake ribs: these form the palette of Mayme Kratz. She uses these things to make magic; but she is not a witch. More...
Margie Livingston
Starting with a hairball, Margie Livingston works her way to objects constructed of paint. She remains a painter. More...
Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam
The Chicago creative couple Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam leaves an impression in the Bay Area with meticulous paintings and expansive assemblages. More...
Frederick Wight
Frederick Wight was first a prominent museum curator and director at UCLA, and then became best known for landscape paintings he produced after retirement. More...
Lee Kelly
A current retrospective at the museum traces the Oregon artist’s career while an accompanying book, “Lee Kelly,” includes lush photos of many of Kelly’s public art works as well as those in private collections More...
Laurie Lipton
Laurie Lipton's virtuoso drawing skills are yoked to a visionary and historical sensibility that runs from Goya to Bosch. More...
