Kehinde Wiley
Two paintings of Ethopian Jews by Kehinde Wiley are in the tradition of the heroic portrait. Both are superb for their detail and execution. More...
Jeff Sonhouse
Jeff Sonhouse's portraits of African American men keep one foot in realism, but they sure make us wonder. More...
Jaydan Moore
Jaydan Moore's "Dust" exhibition is shaped by his family's history of tombstone carving. He recasts tableware and other found objects into touchstones of memory and nostalgia. More...
The Museum as a Creative Laboratory
The Torrance Museum recently set up a group of open studios right in their public space, effectively urbanizing the artist in residence. More...
Contrarian
Feminist intellectual Germain Greer has long been known for her powerful critique of the submissive role of women. DeWitt Chen responds to her recently aired views concerning art education. Should we just be doing it at home? More...
Jeffrey Gibson
Jeffrey Gibson revitalized his paintings by razoring many of them, running them through the washer, then repurposing the fragments into collages. More...
Richard Diebenkorn
This survey of Richard Diebenkorn's early work takes us through the numerous approaches the artist took before arriving at the style for which he is best known. More...
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...
Eric Beltz
Eric Beltz combines landscape, astronomy and graphic-novel fantasy in ultra-meticulous night skies full of intricate patterns. They verge on abstraction, the more so they permit our imagination to assert itself. More...
“Divine Bodies”
"Divine Bodies: Sacred Imagery in Asian Art" informs us as to how Asian artists have for centuries blended spirituality, myth and formal beauty. More...
Larry Bell
Larry Bell's signature form for over half a century is the cube, and we get a whole bunch of them here. Their vacuum-coated surfaces set them apart from the beginning, reflecting color at the same time that they permit light to flood through. More...
Patti Warashina
Patti Warashina takes on issues ranging from social media obsession to political corruption, but injects whimsy and humor to leaven and lighten things. She does it all in highly stylized ceramic figures, which are at times abstract generalizations, at other times very specific. More...
David Hockney
David Hockney has been painting a whole lot of portrait over the last few years, and they are gathered into a guilty pleasure of an exhibition. More...
James Lumsden
The abstract vision of James Lumsden display a mature formalism that is also full of feeling. Consisting of numerous layers of pigment and gloss medium, many works bisect the canvas to effect a dynamic visual interaction. More...
Considering the Viewer
Often artists either fail to consider their viewers, or pointedly disregard them. Richard Speer explains the value of concern for the viewer. More...
Minerva Cuevas
A single immersive on site mural turns the table on corporate branding strategies. Minerva Cuevas draws on cartoon and animation graphics to tell a narrative of migration, surveillance and ominous danger. More...
Betsy Schneider
What are today's teens experiencing and thinking about themselves? Bet Schneider has photographed teens since 2012 in an effort to help us get inside their heads. More...
Ryan Burghard
Ryan Burghard focuses on traces of things we sense but cannot see. An impaled bumblebee, the charred imprint of an unseen flame, a chalk mark--all are in some way inspired by a Virginia Woolf short story. More...
