Nicholas Galanin
Whose land we are living on and what that means are questions that drive Nicholas Galanin's work. His mixed heritage, both Native American and settler, informs his visual critique of both. More...
Wendy White
Atari-era pixelated hearts underscore the vernacular of Wendy White’s collaged denim and digital prints of ads for sports cars. More...
Pat O’Neill
Pat O'Neill's “The Decay of Fiction” is a five-channel installation projected onto three walls, immersing you in a muted spectacle that is ghostly, varies in speed, and manages to be endlessly compelling to watch. More...
Mabry Campbell
Houston’s distinctive architecture serves as Mabry Campbell’s primary subject in sharply focused, dramatic photographs. Mostly black and white, included too is a color series of the James Turrell "Skyspace" at Rice University. More...
John Wilcox
A gallery size retrospective of a little know artist rarely succeeds in making its case. John Wilcox, however, is the exception. More...
William Volkersz
Dutch emigre Willem Volkersz engages mid-20th century America by way of road-trip souvenirs, ceramic figurines and travel postcards. But he is not aiming to take us on a nostalgia trip, but to reflect on where we come from to be where we are now. More...
Sam Fresquez
Sam Fresquez uses a central tunnel-like sculpture, paired with text-based objects that include wooden cubes of laser-cut calligraphy and painted palm fronds to convey the ambiguities in human experiences of family and home. More...
Donald Roy Thompson
Donald Roy Thompson returned to an "Echo Series" of paintings after about a 40 year break, and it's worth the wait. More...
Catherine Wagner
Using photography to examine social forces and institutions that shape it is Catherine Wagner's forté. She conveys the inherent beauty of scientific and cultural artifacts while maintaining an objective distance. More...
Elizabeth Turk
Deservedly renowned for her intricate carvings, these "Extinct Bird Cages" constitute an inquiry into the memorial presence of something now gone. From stunning to thoughtful, Turk's shift is dramatic but convincing. More...
Robert Adams
One of the central players of the "New Topographics" deadpan aesthetic in photography, this selection of Robert Adams' black and white photos of roads, and street of the American West may be just-the-facts snapshots or metaphors of life's journey. More...
Paul Berger
Paul Berger seemly explored multiple directions of the future of photography relatively early in his career. Berger approaches his various subject matter with an eye to altering it and transforming the way we perceive the world. More...
Maxim Walkultschik
Thousands of wood dowels dotted with paint the size of toothpicks are Maxim Walkultschik's answer to optical art. More...
Fred Stonehouse
Fred Stonehouse's dreamlike scenarios are populated with human/animal hybrids caught in some intense situations. More...
Tonika Lewis Johnson
Tonika Lewis Johnson interviews Chicago residents on opposite north and south ends of longitudinal running streets. Not surprisingly the neighborhoods they reflect are utterly different. The point, though, is that Johnson brings these "Map Twins" together. More...
Burning Down the House
On September 2nd Brazil's National Museum burnt nearly 2 million art, historical and scientific artifacts. Primarily a victim of inadequate funding and planning for such a catastrophe, don't think for a moment that this could not happen here. More...
“I Was Raised on the Internet”
A darkened gallery filled with screens, projections, and a cacophony of audio compels us from one room to the next. More...
“In Red Ink”
The ghost of Edward Curtis both informs and stimulates push back from this group of Native American contemporary artists. More...
Raphaelle Goethals and Wanxin Zhang
Raphaël Goethals and Wanxin Zhang have seemingly little in common. Goethals is a Belgian painter who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s, and Zhang is a Chinese sculptor who relocated to the States in the 90s. But cultural experience and formal similarities abound. More...
