“100 Years of National Parks: The West”
For creative minds America’s national parks have served as a continuing source of inspiration. The more than 30 photographers focusing on our national parks in the Western U.S. reflect their beauty while making their own aesthetic statements. More...
Dana Hart-Stone
Dana Hart-Stone’s renders cascades of snapshots, aligning them in vertical strips that form skillfully orchestrated patterns. More...
Home Land Security
"Home Land Security" at San Francisco's Presidio is the latest production of the FOR-SITE foundation. It's a compelling setting for an international selection of 18 artists who address the digital-age conflict between security and freedom. More...
Rachel Schwind Gardner
Rachel Schwind Gardner has a special affinity with wild creatures such as deer, wolves and ravens. The title of the show is “Prey," and it addresses the cycles of life: birth, death and rebirth in terms of hard reality but with a clear spiritual dimension. More...
Paul Sietsema
Paul Sietsema may be making the most interesting tromp l'oeil around with fields of paint punctured by crinklings, gouges, and scratches. More...
“Creator, Composer, Conductor”
Visual art and music certainly differ by virtue of the latter being generative, even revolutionary, while the latter is more interpretive. Richard Speer observes that this was not always so, but more recently he sees a trend towards the artist not as composer but conductor. More...
Jeffrey Vallance
Drawings comprising Jeffrey Vallance's "Now More Than Ever" range from the folksy to the exacting and amount to a quirky visual treasure hunt. More...
Manuel Neri
Manuel Nero, now 86, has for decades been a virtuoso of sculptural verisimilitude of the human figure, while having been a central player in the funky Bay Area figurative movement. Recent bronzes confirm, but do not extend the scope of his contributions. More...
“Energy Charge”
The artists included to show alongside the late artist in “Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta” convey an electric energy. More...
Justin John Greene
In “Secret Slob,” L.A.-based artist Justin John Greene references J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.” Reflecting Holden Caulfield, Greene depicts unsavory cinematic scenarios that underlie everyday life. More...
Margarita Cabrera
“Space in Between,” a collaboration between Phoenix fiber artist Margarita Cabrera and members of the local immigrant community, who tell their stories in the form of folkloric fiber art. More...
Alison Keogh
In “Pixels” Alison Keogh engages the intersection of structure and chaos. Gestural drawings in sumi ink, idigo and graphite are effectively tossed into the sections of a neat grid. More...
It’s All True
Bruce Conner's retrospective in timely fashion reminds us what an uncompromising, socially critical avant-garde career looks like. More...
Adonna Khare
Adonna Khare draws the heck out of animals that make the point we are indeed all political animals. While making rhetorical points gracefully and with restraint, her complex weave of fine lines takes the eye on a delightful ride. More...
“He/She/They”
“He/She/They” is a group show proposing traditional male dominance is endangered, and that this is a good thing that was decades in coming. More...
Aline Mare and Michael Giancristiano
Aline Mare and Michael Giancristiano each have an intensely spiritual take on the natural world. Mare layers photography and painting to produce an intense visual poetry. Giancristiano's plywood with plant reliefs describe the power of regeneration. More...
Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey is a portraitist with a talent for capturing people's intimate expressions--despite the fact that they are posed. More...
Rocky Schenk
Rocky Schenck documents a world that may seem a "Recurring Dream" to many, but feels familiar to the eye of an Angeleno. Lurking behind his surreal landscapes are tales of sadness and emptiness. More...
Marlana Stoddard Hayes
Marlana Stoddard Hayes literally incorporates mushrooms into her paintings, which counterintuitively, are abstract. More...
A Commitment to Social Justice
Many who knew Arnold Mesches are feeling loss over his recent passing at age 93. Always a painters' painter, his series that drew on his clash with McCarthism. Years later he used the contents of his FBI files to inspire "The FBI Files," which are now even more relevant than when he first created them. More...
