Lee Godie
Both self-taught and homeless, Lee Godie managed to insinuate herself into Chicago's art history. Beyond a constant output of paintings her photo booth self-portraits are packed with intrigue and symbolism. More...
Splatters, Spurts, Sex
Erotic drawings by Sam Francis recently seen in Pasadena were an unfamiliar, uncharacteristic pleasure of frank exuberance. More...
“Hidden Narratives”
If you don't think that the medium of glass lends itself to the telling of stories, the four artists included in "Hidden Narratives" beg to differ. Erin Dickson, Michelle Murillo, Jeffrey Sarmiento and Kathryn Wightman, successfully integrate traditional and innovative use of glass towards that very end. More...
“Puja and Piety” and Lewis deSoto
"Puja and Piety" is a sprawling selection covering 2,000 years of Indian history. Before the entrance of the show is a new work by Lewis deSoto anchored by an oversized inflatable reclining self-portrait based on the 12th-century Buddha at Gal Vihara in Sri Lanka. More...
Patrick Graham
Patrick Graham derives his paintings and mixed media works from personal turbulence and connects it to collective experience. More...
Carmen Vetter
Carmen Vetter brings together photographs and kiln-formed glass in effectively two distinct bodies of work. The glass stands out for the clever sourcing of imagery, the use of glass powders fired on plate glass, and the feeling we get of hives of activity made engaging with the use of a formalist grid structure. More...
Tom Kiefer
Tom Kiefer translates mundane personal effects into politically laden emblems of our government’s handling of illegal immigration. More...
Linnea Glatt
Linnea Glatt's hypnotic works exude serenity that depends on a succession of shapes in alternating sizes that imply movement produced by rhythmic shapes, mainly solid circles. More...
Chuck Close Comes Home
If you thought Chuck Close, the master of the face who suffers from prosopagnosia, hails from New York, think again, he's from the Seattle area. More...
Ruth Gruber
Ruth Gruber's retrospective of her lengthy career in photojournalism is as much a testament to her courage and persistence as to the remarkable array of subjects she was able to gain access to and record. More...
Claire Falkenstein
A lively survey of Claire Falkenstein's sculpture, paintings and prints traces her development as a self-aware modernist. From her earliest work forward, her approach to abstraction was marked by restless gestural formalism combined with a willingness to try new materials. More...
Boyang Hou
The basketball hoop serves as the template for Boyang Hou's witty, circle-in-a-square abstract paintings. More...
How to Visit an Art Museum
As a seasoned teacher and art critic, James Yood has visited museums all over the world. He shares his preparation and approach to visiting and gaining familiarity with a museum collection, and what a specific collection means to the culture of its host city. More...
Saskia Jordá
Saskia Jorda works with yarn, felt and thread and, yes, they feel whimsical. But her themes of displacement also imply tragedy. More...
Carmen Argote
Three months spent by Carmen Argote in the grand, Masion Magnolia in Guadalajara, Mexico produced a stunning series of photographs. More...
Agnes Martin
The patient, reductive work of Agnes Martin may appear as simple as the grid template from which it grew. But it was her freedom from any preconception of what the grid might express that led her to the aesthetics of slight difference. More...
Let’s Hear It for the Worker Bees
Staff and volunteers relying on their own creativity often provide the means to elevate the development of talented artists. More...
Justine Frischmann
Justine Frischmann brushes and sprays oil paint atop subtly printed digital photographs infused on aluminum, a mash-up of painting and photography. This would have once raised aesthetic hackles, but now is a fruitful blurring of arbitrary boundaries. More...
Jeff Slim
Jeff Slim explores his Diné (Navajo) heritage while presenting images of young, urban figures navigating the contemporary world. More...
