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Melina Ausikaitis
Melina Ausikaitis' works are soft, indistinct scenes punctuated weight and form. Tangible details are immersed in an ethereal ground. More...


Paula Jean Rice, “Transformation & Transcendence”
Three-dimensional and wall-mounted relief sculptures blend autobiography with cosmic, geographic, and historical references in Paula Jean Rice's retrospective. They prove impactful on our thinking about our own and others' pain. More...


Walter Hopps
Walter Hopps was the founding director of Houston’s Menil Collection, but his first love and talent was curating. More...


Delfin Finley, “Coalescence”
Delfin Finley joins other artists who celebrate people of color by making sympathetic, often idealized portraits of them that debunk prejudicial stereotypes. Finley's subjects bear the weight of the past but ever cognizant of the threats of the present. More...


Ted Kincaid
Conceptual artist and photographer Ted Kincaid presents an investigation of the natural beauty of the elements: earth, sea, and sky. More...


Preston Wadley, “Abstract Truth”
Preston Wadley presents three bodies of deeply moving work that conveys a history of African Americans. The 'Abstract Truth" series invents a genealogy of forgotten people There are also double-sided images mounted on pedestals and black-and-white portraits of homeless youth. More...


Evoking Wokeness
Two exhibitions, "Together in Time," and "'afro-Atlantic Histories" tackle a range of public issues while exerting real aesthetic power. More...


Not Such Good Work If You Can Get It
Revelations about Tom Sachs' treatment of his studio staff, his declarations of their treatment being his "greatest art work" to the contrary, cast light on how many assistants to elite artists deal with high levels of stress, disillusionment, and bitterness. More...


Jónsi, “FLÓÐ (Flood)”
FLÓÐ (Flood) is an immersive installation by Sigur Ros' Jónsi that manages three things. First, it addresses climate change without resorting total cynicism. Second, it speaks directly to the region in which it is placed. And third, it succeeds as a crossover. More...


David Frazer
David Frazer creates visual metaphors for complicated contemporary phenomena that are individualistic and instantly recognizable. More...


Marcus Lelle and Matthew Behrend
Marcus Lelle's heads and portraits share qualities of fluctuation. Matthew Behrens's cosmological images stretch the painterliness of photography. More...


Refik Anadol, “Living Paintings”
Refik Anadol's paint and palette is AI and datasets. The imagery is large-scale, ever morphing spectacle. In this, his first gallery exhibition, he includes plenty of explanatory content about concept and methods. More...


Barbara T. Smith, “The Way to Be”
Barbara T. Smith entered the art world after experiencing life as a frustrated suburban housewife during the 1950s. She became a pioneer of performance art, using it as a therapeutic vehicle for a personal spiritual journey that began with and in relation to the sexual revolution. More...


Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archeology of Memory
Amalia Mesa-Bains has championed Mexican identity and culture since the 1970s through her profusely decorated multimedia installations that draw on the home altar tradition. More...


Rui Sasaki, “Subtle Intimacy: Here and There”
The mutable boundaries between meteorology, phenomenology, and art-making form the gee-whiz objects and installations that have put Rui Sasaki on the art-world radar. “Subtle Intimacy: Here and There” is an open cube of 235 glass panels of vaporized flora transmuted into art. More...


Virgil Grotfeldt
This selection of carbon powder drawings and acrylic paintings of amorphous biomorphic figures are suggestive and poignant. More...


Anish Kapoor
New paintings by Anish Kapoor transport us into archetypal mythic spaces brimming with chthonic, creation-story texture and energy. More...


Michael Davis, Richard Turner, and Paul Harris
Collaborating on “Uplifting Tales and Eroded Histories," Harris, Turner and David address the shifting geology of the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southwest Los Angeles. They each bring a lengthy interest in natural elements that deepens our own understanding of the Peninsula's geohistory. More...


Breyer P-Orridge & Eric Heist
Three Polaroid snapshots are used by Eric Heist and Breyer P-Orridge for sugar coated silkscreen near-abstract interpretations. More...


Edward Burtynsky, “African Studies”
Edward Burtynsky documents, with stunning composition, color, pattern and detail, the effects on the natural landscape of human agricultural and industrial culture. More...

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