"Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now”
“Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now” is both a historical exploration and a recognition of the place Native American artists presently occupy in the contemporary art world. It helps us grasp the cultural revitalization that we are in the midst of. More...
“Self-Help Graphics, 1983-1991”
Latino art in East L.A. was given one of it's strongest pushes forward by Self-Help Graphics through most of the 1980s, the time period this show focuses on. And SHG continues to be a major force in L.A. art to the present day. More...
Performance Art is Where Liberal Humanism Thrives
That stuff that's not really performance art is being called performance art, argues Lisa Wainwright, ignores the context of its emergence and direction over the last half century. It has from the start been an expression of the tradition of liberal humanism. More...
"Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now”
“Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now” is both a historical exploration and a recognition of the place Native American artists presently occupy in the contemporary art world. It helps us grasp the cultural revitalization that we are in the midst of. More...
Ellen George
Ellen George deploy a unifying vertical line for their jumping off point. A sun-bleached quality permeates this body of work, as if the whole lot had been left out to cure for months or years under the glare of high-desert light. More...
Jane Rosen
Jane Rosen's current show concentrates on animal forms - birds, horses, etc. - that are evoked in often minimalist forms. More...
Agnes Pelton
Spirituality, desert landscape and early modern ideas about abstraction form the aesthetic core of this Agnes Pelton survey. More...
Mildred Howard
“TAP: Investigation of Memory” is an expansive installation carpeted with over a thousand gleaming silver shoe taps imported from Mildred Howard’s dream. Beyond a dreamscape about tap dancing, its military formation feels like a somber journey. More...
A Tale of Two Art Sites
Between the recently opened Ed Paschke Art Center and the much ballyhooed Lucas Museum of Narrative of Art to be opened in four years, which do you suppose tells us more about Chicago? More...
A Tale of Two Art Sites
Between the recently opened Ed Paschke Art Center and the much ballyhooed Lucas Museum of Narrative of Art to be opened in four years, which do you suppose tells us more about Chicago? More...
“A Patterned Language”
Fist-size found objects, by artist Matt Magee, sit atop a white oblong panel supported by four sawhorses. Albert Chamillard's cross-hatched ink drawings allude to the earliest written language. Placed along wood carvings from Papua New Guinea they connect language, narrative and history in new ways. More...
Carmen Menza
Carmen Menza's latter day take on light and space bathe the gallery and the eye in bold color and sound. More...
Alejandro Diaz
Alejandro Diaz popularized the satirical variant of the '60s cliché "Make Tacos Not War." Common materials and witty phraseology make for running visual commentary on South Texas and Mexican culture, the art market and other social and personal issues. More...
