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...
Carmen Argote
Three months spent by Carmen Argote in the grand, Masion Magnolia in Guadalajara, Mexico produced a stunning series of photographs. More...
Marilyn Minter
If Marilyn Minter's work seems to connote photorealism, her innovative and charismatic body of work is far too visceral and political to be ghettoized into that or any convenient genre. More...
Ed Moses
"Ed Moses @90" pays tribute to this artist's insatiable search for the process of creation, "not to be in control, but to be in tune." More...
Eric Hesse and Tim Vermeulen
Encaustics by Eric Hesse aptly depict the variously filtered light of urban Los Angeles. In "Alphabet" Tim Vermeulen's precise paintings look to the letters found in an 18th-century primer for inspiration and perspective. More...
Nick Brandt
Nature photographer Nick Brandt drops his stunning images of threatened wildlife into sites of third world poverty and unregulated urban development. The results are both beautiful and shocking. More...
Jennifer Greenburg
Jennifer Greenburg appropriates found photographs into which she inserts herself, and in so doing "Revises History". More...
Helen Lundeberg
Combining avant garde surrealism and classical illustration launched Helen Lundeberg career long journey, mapped here, to a mature abstraction. More...
Ryan McCann
Ryan McCann paints photo realistically with a blowtorch. But, rest assured, his aesthetic reach extends beyond this process. More...
Roy Thurston and Monique Prieto
The pairing of light and space veteran Roy Thurston's shimmering hybrids and Monique Prieto's abstract diptychs suggestive of human ears represents an interweaving of the senses of vision and hearing. More...
Tomoko Sawada
Self-portraiture for Tomoko Sawada is all about the connection between a woman's interior life and outer appearance. More...
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan makes use of the most banal materials and simple methods to produce remarkable objects. This time it's the Slinky. More...
Across the Pacific
A selection of five Taiwanese artists forces us to drop any pre-conceived notions of what Asian art should look like. More...
Jean and Barbara Edelstein
This mother-daughter pairing brings together divergent aesthetic visions that both derive significantly from Asian traditions. Jean's accordion-fold scrolls reference Chinese "Scholar Books". Barbara's closely observed plants are both beautiful and meditative. More...
Gordon Watkinson
Architectural photography Gordon Watkinson examines a dozen original Bauhaus buildings paired alongside recent structures that preserve and extend the Bauhaus aesthetic. More...
Julian Wasser: Duchamp in Pasadena Redux
The first American museum retrospective of Marcel Duchamp occurred not in New York but Pasadena in 2963. Photographer Juilian Wasser was there to document it, producing some of the most iconic images of the L.A. art scene of the period. More...
Tim Hawkinson and Patty Wickman
The married couple of Tim Hawkinson and Patty Wickman do not pair aesthetically. Wickman's paintings express a deeply felt spirituality. Hawkinson's mixed media works examine the corruptibility of the human body. Both impressively engage the eye and raise important questions to reflect on. More...
Marty Schnapf
Marty Schnapf offers a cascade of eye sockets and other body parts emanate from abstract patterns in this dirty maximalism. More...
Victor Hugo Zayas
Changes have been coming, and will continue to come to the Los Angeles River for years. Victor Hugo Zayas artfully records that evolution, along with views of the urban environment in his "River" and "Grid" series. More...
