John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin’s paintings were more about empty spaces than what is visible. Starting in the late 1940s he was among a tiny handful of artists investigating hard-edge painting in order "to achieve the totally abstract." More...
“Images of Resilience”
“Images of Resilience: Chicana/o Art and its Mexican Roots” is acutely timed and attuned to current immigration controversies. More...
Dean Monogenis and Pepa Prieto
Dean Monogenis reduces paintings on wood panels into a mound of wood shreds, while others survive as sleek fusions of landscape and architectural renderings. Pepa Prieto conjures an abstract mystical kingdom of shapes and colors. More...
Linarejos Moreno
“Art Forms in Mechanism,” which refers to Linarejos Moreno’s ongoing inquiry into the relationship between the industrial and the natural . More...
Laurent Millet
Laurent Millet cites his childhood memories building things from sticks and rocks. The early works retain more of the intuitive mystery of childhood, through they are cruder. More...
“Man Made”
"Man Made" references the built environment, though through the creative lens of a group of women. While these artists source a range of architectural and landscape constructs, they often display sensitivity to what is to be found, the flotsam of what has been built. More...
Alicia McCarthy
Alicia McCarthy melds together 1960s style abstraction with the iconoclasm of the punk and graffiti scene during which she came of age. More...
Martha Alf Pointed Me to the Light
Martha Alf introduced a noteworthy approach to contemplative spirituality in art in here series of pears during the 1980s. Starting as carefully staged psychodramas, the edible object assumed the role of an actor, but over time they assumed a whole new dimension. More...
Sophia Dixon Dillo
More than 20 miles of metallic copper thread ebb and flow like streams of golden light in Sophia Dixon Dillo’s “Illumination.” More...
Mike Buchheit and Rachel Brace-Stille
Mike Buchheit's photographs of the Grand Canyon are more about his decades-long familiarity with its terrain and weather patterns than natural spectacle. Rachel Brace-Stille often accompanies Buchheit, but has a preference for close-ups of telling details that possess their own aesthetic intimacy. More...
Stacey Steers
Filmmaker Stacey Steers' "Edge of Alchemy" draws on silent film era footage and 19th century engravings and woodcuts collaged into a loose narrative of Scientist and Creature. More...
Bryan David Griffith
"Rethinking Fire" is Bryan David Griffith's artful way to question why we disrupt the cycle of naturally occurring wildfires. More...
Ellen Berman
Ellen Berman’s paintings of food and domestic objects seem as though they could come alive and provide nourishment. More...
Christine Frerichs
The landscape paintings of Christine Frerichs dazzle us with their light, which is decidedly a light of place as well as time of day or night. More...
Yvette Mayorga
The attraction of the sweet, buttery scent of frosting runs up against the cut-out, glitter-covered words “GO BACK” hung from a gilded rope upon a fuchsia-colored wall in Yvette Mayorga's installation, "The Politics of Desire." More...
Patti Oleon
Patti Oleon recorded public places in Europe, but edits out the masses of people so as to transform the architecture into mysterious virtual worlds. More...
Sandow Birk
Sandow Birk’s sprawling “American Qur’an” is unintentionally timely, given current efforts to impose travel bans and border walls, having been conceived in the wake of 9/11 and requiring more than 10 years to complete. More...
Protest and Authenticity
Genuine political outrage channeled through the sensibilities of strong, creative individuals can certainly generate great art. They are the natural opponents of authoritarianism after all. But we must keep in mind that high emotion is never sufficient to produce great art any more than it results in wise political solutions. More...
“Holy Barbarians”
“Holy Barbarians: Beat Culture on the West Coast” brings together six key beat-era artists who helped change the art culture of the West Coast. More...
Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith's soft touch of an installation flirts heavily with post-Duchampian mischievousness, but with an immense amount of freedom spread throughout this rabbit-warren of galleries. More...
