Georgina Spengler
Georgina Spengler's woodland streams and lush greenery are immersive and abstract. They are also an homage to Greek Nobel winning poet Giorgos Seferis. More...
Emily Wood
Emily Wood has long chronicled the landscape of the western U.S. Hers are luminous and reliable scenes across the mountainous divide between eastern Washington and the Pacific coast. More...
Zadok Ben-David
Zadok Ben-David’s “People I Saw But Never Met” consists of 30,000 chemically etched aluminum figures that build on the concept of integration. More...
Alex Weinstein
Stand under the sun and close your eyes to see the light on your closed lids. Dive under a wave, look up and see the sun droplets above your head. Imagine almost, but not quite dying. Do these things and you will understand the art of Alex Weinstein. More...
Gisela Colon
Mysterious and magical, Gisela Colon's color and light sculptures defy any simple explanation of how they were produced. More...
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
Not perhaps as much an event as the recent Monet or Matisse and Diebenkorn exhibitions, Stuart Davis dazzles at the de Young Museum. It clarifies his path from early Ashcan to the electrifying visual music he is best known for. It is work that still has important things to say about America. More...
Marcus Zúñiga
Newcomer Marcus Züñiga contextualizes a cosmic perspective through a personal and ethno-centric lens. Materials are contemporary but the presentation and design are kept simple. But it adds up to a complex result. More...
Rick Bartow
Known more for his animal/human hybrids, Rick Bartow's modest "Tot Blumen" botanicals reflect profoundly on mortality. More...
Frank Romero
Boyle Heights in East L.A. is closely associated with Chicano culture, and few artists are more associated with it as an emerging cultural force in the second half of the 20th century than Frank Romero. This retrospective tells us why in a body of work that by turns tough, charming, deadly serious, humorous and ironic. More...
Marimekko, With Love
The rise and continued cultural influence of the Swedish fashion design house Marimekko is here traced and assessed. More...
Tom Bolles
"Reverence," the title of Tom Bolles' current show, emphasizes and achieves a careful balance of color, light and texture. More...
Disturbing Subjects
The heated controversy over Dana Schutz' "Open Casket" overlooks that the artist favors honest personal emotions over graphic realism. More...
Michael Kenna and Mark Thompson
Michael Kenna's photography is exceptionally painterly, while Mark Thompson's landscape paintings of chilly Scandinavia have the appearance of vintage photographs. Kenna's images of Ford's River Rouge auto plant strikes a far different tone of grand, if ominous formalism. More...
Deconstruction: The War for a Word
The philosophical importance of Jacques Derrida's deconstructivist theory has helped shape serious art for decades. That makes Steve Bannon's mis-use of it in a political context not only offensive but dangerous. More...
Ken Fandell
Examples from three series of layered photographs turn a blown out tire, some bricks, and palm tree trunks into rich visual journeys. More...
Longacre-White and Homer French
Andrea Longacre-White stuffs one gallery full of sculptural hardware, and has wood spilling out of containers in the smaller space. Jesse Homer French's paintings start naive but gain the eye's interest thanks to strong compositions and dark but intriguing themes. More...
An Artist’s Line Drawn in Quicksand
Daniela Repas' short documentary/animation "Mnemonics" embraces the ethnic heritage of this former Bosnian refugee as subject matter. There are larger lessons in how Repas tolerates values she cannot assimilate while celebrating those that she can. More...
Matt Kleberg and Woody DeOthello
This engagingly titled “Knocked-Kneed and Bow-Legged” examines the cultural moment’s instabilities with beauty and humor. More...
"Why Can't We Live Together”
The melancholy lyrics of a 1972 hit by Timmy Thomas, "Why Can't We Live Together,” provide the thematic framework for a multinational and multiracial mix of artists that's set against the cacophony of today's headlines. More...
Archipenko on the West Coast
Ukranian native Alexander Archipenko rose to become one of cubist sculpture's most important talents early in what became a globe-trotting career. A survey exhibition at the Frye Art Museum reinvigorates his contributions to cubism, the modern ceramics movement, and, yes, to West Coast modernism. More...