Johnnie Winona Ross
Johnnie Winona Ross is influenced by the often imperceptible effects of nature on the New Mexico desert. What starts as a sensual abstraction gradually displays just how much it is the landscape that shapes the painting. More...
Mary Corse
Mary Corse spare but muscular version of reductivist painting and installation over a half century is summarized in this extended visual mantra. More...
Elise Wagner
Runes, astrological symbols, and celestial imagery have figured prominently in Elise Wagner’s body of work, and now climate change and encaustic are deployed in her visualization of melting glaciers. More...
“Hope + Trauma in a Poisoned Land”
Symbol-laden works by Diné (Navajo) artists and others deal head-on with a sensitive issue and its deleterious effects: uranium mining. More...
Laura Aguilar
Laura Aguilar focuses her camera on herself as well as others, often overweight, queer and working class, that many of us don’t tend to notice or think of as conventionally beautiful or inspiring. But they smartly reflect on the world and our place in it. More...
“Past/Future/Present”
The vibrancy of Brazilian contemporary art is on full display in “Past/Future/Present,” the first large-scale U.S. appearance of works from the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (MAM-SP). More...
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock has been visualizing these stories since he was a kid. But the conflict between the Mounds and the Vegans is for grown-ups. More...
Hans Burkhardt
No, Hans Burkhardt was not Latin American, but the native Swiss modernist did find a spiritual second home in Mexico, having traveled and lived there for extended periods starting in 1950. That country's color and spirit are embodied in this exhibition. More...
Moonlighting Movie Stars
Hollywood celebs like Brad Pitt or Jim Carrey tend to infuriate many artists by gaining undeserved attention for art that is half baked. Still, reminds Richard Speer, everyone is entitled to their own free expression. More...
Whose Kickstart Was This Anyway?
A Kickstarter campaign in support of Michael Rakowitz’s “Enemy Kithen” project seemed honorable enough until James Yood noticed it wasn’t exactly the artist who was doing the solicitation. More...
Julije Knifer, Mangelos
Going back to the 1950s Yugoslavian artists Julije Knifer and Mangelos produced some of the earliest conceptual-based works. More...
Shawn Huckins
Pre-20th Century American portraiture is defaced with smart phone phrases and graphic icons in Shawn Huckins’ canceling of historical reverence. More...
Gilliam and Hurley
Denzil Hurley and Sam Gilliam, in simultaneous exhibitions, exemplify very distinct approaches to abstract painting; both work. More...
Gilbert “Magu” Lujan
in 1974 Los Four strode through the Los Angeles County Museum, spray-painting the front of the building as they arrived. One of them, Gilbert "Magu" Lujan, went on to invent his own mythical "Magulandia," a Chicano paradise. More...
Gay Outlaw
Gay Outlaw's "Ozone" references climate change with a wide range of media, quality craftsmanship, and wide open wit. More...
“Small Sculpture”
On two long, white tables, 55 small sculptures by as many artists form an array of artworks resembling specimens laid out for inspection, running the gamut of familiar to strange in their forms. More...
Robbie Conal's Political Art
In the current zeitgeist, there is a need for political activist artists. Robbie Conal meets and then exceeds this need. More...
Alfredo Ramos Martinez
Alfred Ramos Martinez offered intimate insights into the pluralistic nature of Mexican culture with an eye trained in modernism. More...
Edvard Munch
Apart from SFMOMA's current show of Edvard Munch's paintings, this gallery show of his prints and works on paper display the freedom of Munch's technique and his ability to convey strong emotion when revisiting many of his key images. More...
