E.J. Hill
E.J. Hill has drawn attention to himself as a statue (of himself), but here a series of paintings take center stage. The best of these are terse but efficient evocations of the demands that burden minorities and women. More...
Peter Ferguson
Peter Ferguson offers glimpses into a not-so-friendly parallel earth in an earthy palette that evokes early sepia photography. More...
Maria Hupfield
Indigenous artist Maria Hupfield sees herself as a disruptor of stereotypes between craft and art, gender, and tropes of her own Native American culture. She frequently interacts with her sculpture in performance, as documented in images that add clarifying narrative to the show. More...
Julie Mehretu
Her large scale abstractions at first read as exercises in gestural painting, but Julie Mehretu builds layers of media and imagery drawn from widespread sources. She composes them to allow the eye multiple points of entry in a survey that is rich in both ambiguity and urgency. More...
Isadora Stowe
Hundreds of everyday objects float in a colored haze that Isadora Stowe works like overlapping memories from various times and recollections. More...
David Kessler and Jim Waid
Jim Waid's paintings are layered with color, texture, and his own whimsical mark making. They exude a joy for the natural world free of polemics. David Kessler paints on aluminum panels with the feel of a noir film. More...
Virgil Grotfeldt
Darkly luminous paintings by the late Virgil Grotfeld are distinctive biomorphic abstractions that traverse vast and microscopic space. More...
Democracy's Trial
Artists typically require a modicum of calm and long stretches of time to focus and create, but these are not those times. Many artists have engaged the present reality, but DeWitt Cheng finds reflection on the death of the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates offers lessons for today's artists. More...
Art for the Homeless
David Rubin's personal encounters with homelessness and the homeless are similar to that of most Angelenos. He reflects on how artists ranging such as David Hammons and Andres Serrano, and organizations such at More Art and Hospitality House have brought art to bear in helping address this major social ill. More...
Art for the Homeless
David Rubin's reflects on how a wide range of artists and art organizations have brought art to bear in helping address the major social ill of homelessness. More...
Laura Fritz
The gothic-romantic sensibility of Laura Fritz produces a supremely elegant integration of great craft, minimalist panache and a splash of terror. More...
