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Susan Budge
The fierce instinct of maternal protection manifests itself in Susan Budge's large totemic ceramic sculptures. These guardians or sentinels represent the spirits of people who have passed away. More...


Judith F. Baca
Judith Baca is a force of nature. The artist and activist is responsible for approximately 250 murals in Los Angeles that have captured the spirit of neighborhoods, while mentoring and influencing scores of young people who have served as collaborators. More...


Connie Goldman and Mikey Kelly
They make a compelling argument for formalist practice: quality execution that explores painting with creative flair. More...


“Mutual Intelligibility”
“Mutual Intelligibility” questions the ability of speakers of related but non-identical languages to understand one another. Jeffrey Stenbom, Anna Mlasowsky and Helen Lee provide some oblique, if affirmative answers. More...


“Changing Landscapes”
Three artists wrestle with traditional Chinese landscape painting's blend of realism and calligraphy. We see modernization, urbanization and changing cultural norms reflected in their works with varying emphasis. More...


Wookjae Maeng
Wookjae Maeng's sculptures line the walls like taxidermied trophies from a world that is almost but not quite our own. More...


Amanda Williams
With her background in architecture, Amanda Williams' art practice speaks to place and community. Vacant homes are painted in vivid hues and recorded before demolition, often revealing the interaction among privilege, people and space. More...


Kent Williams
Kent William’s current paintings materialize their subjects through a haze of expressive, yet meticulous brushwork. More...


Larry Kornegay
Larry Kornegay assumes the role of a would-be archaeologist who finds his pleasure in the oddest artifacts and striking juxtapositions. He finds harmonies in unexpected places. More...


Bernd and Hilla Becher
Dedicated archivists, image of industrial facades and structures such as water towers, grain elevators and blast furnaces by the late Bernd and Hilla Becher are a master class in how documentary photography can be imbued with aesthetic heft. More...


Sayre Gomez
Sayre Gomez' hyper-realistic paintings foreground a chain link fence, with backgrounds behind the fencing tantilizingly blurred. Additional wood panels render the wood surface marked with stickers that tell their own story. More...


“Kinesthesia"
The retro-futuristic flavor of “Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art 1954-1969” is well suited to its Palm Springs host city. More...


Mona Hatoum
Dislocation and alienation are natural constants in Mona Hatoum's work, with an undercurrent of danger and a sense of precariousness. No wonder, she comes from a Palentinian family, was raised in Lebanon, and has resided in London since the 1975 Lebanese Civil War. More...


Dinh Q. Lé
In "The Scrolls: Distortion" Dinh Q. Lé, drapes rolls of original and appropriated images on paper cascading from ceiling to floor. More...


Andrew Wyeth’s Darkness and Light
Painted primarily in opaque tempera or watercolor, Andrew Wyeth's landscapes, portraits, interiors, and still lifes are ethereally delicate, worthy of scrutiny. They make a strong case for the continuing relevance of unapologetic realism. More...


“Disruptive Perspectives”
"Disruptive Perspectives" explicates the multiplicity of experience when it comes to gender and sexual identity. Works here boldly make the private and intimate into an experience that is both candid and public. More...


Nancy Graves
"After Image" presents a selection of Nancy Graves' black grounded paintings of the 1980s. Lines and patterns burst with colorful energy. More...


Peter Foucault
Peter Foucault uses small robots to draw, making the point that process may be deliberately deployed to take us beyond taste. More...


The Walking Cure
The heartlessness of much contemporary art, argues DeWitt Cheng, reflects the lack of an ethical center in American culture. More...


Jack Pavlik and Louis Watts
Jack Pavlik’s "10 Waves" kinetic sculptures sit silently before they begin moving rhythmically, producing a chiming metallic music. Louis Watts' charcoal drawings, "On Today," cultivate joy within a highly repetitive routine of execution. More...

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