From Gay Art to Queer Art in the Pacific Northwest (Part I)
The Pacific Northwest was the only region in the country in the 20th century where an entire art movement was founded exclusively by homosexuals. The so-called Northwest School's four major figures were Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Guy Irving Anderson and Kenneth Callahan. More...
Benny Fountain
There is an unlikely chemistry between geometric abstraction and nostalgia in Benny Fountain's new "window room" paintings. More...
Claude Monet
Why another Claude Monet exhibition? "Monet: The Late Years" solidifies the case that Monet introduced bold innovations during his final decade following a break from painting due to the deaths of his wife and son. More...
"Sin Fronteras"
The artists featured in "Sin Fronteras" - Patrick McGrath Muniz, Nicholas Herrera and Tomas Vigil, bring historic Catholic imagery into the present. More...
To Swoon, Perchance to Dream
Richard Speer takes a close-up look at the zone separating carnal from spiritual ecstasy in some exceptional artworks. More...
David Beck
This survey of David Beck's mostly small, always intricately detailed and imaginatively rich works is riveting. If the model of the Enlightenment era wunderkabinett has earned fresh fascination over the last couple of decades, Beck may be one of its finest exemplars. More...
Anthony Hernandez
Los Angeles has been Anthony Hernandez subject for decades, and "Screened Pictures" is no exception in this. He shoots through bus shelter mesh, so the images seen through the mesh are blurred and evocative. More...
Rag Bone Grace Truth
Margaret Hawkins drove to meet with her summer class thinking a break from art might be nice. And realized that art is always there to be found. More...
Daniel Ramos
In his archival print, “Coyote,” a polaroid of an open highway is taped atop a creased, weathered paper on which is typed the tale of artist Daniel Ramos’ father’s illegal passage from Mexico into the United States in 1971. More...
Gina M. Contreras
In “Sola Chola,” Gina Contreras uses a simplified color palette that powerfully stirs emotions of sex, desire, and longing. More...
Marianne Kolb
The advantage of Marianne Kolb’s female figures, their ambiguity, becomes a disadvantage as the art world comes to favor more social meaning. More...
