“Ten-in-One”
The circus comes to MCA in the form of ten diverse artists who share a fascination with the fantastical. More...
Gabriel de la Mora
Gabriel de la Mora makes much with the humble match--in bulk quantities. Striking, gathering and counting all add up. More...
Cassandra Straubing and Babette
Cassandra Straubing and fashion designer Babette collaborate on “poetic ghost," which somehow combines clothing and glass to express conflicted expectations placed upon women. More...
Roland Reiss
This retrospective casts Roland Reiss as one of Southern California's pivotal artistic figures of the last half century. More...
Mickalene Thomas
The central figure of Mickalene Thomas' current show, "I was born to do great things," is her late mother Sandra Bush. Thomas walks a fine line between aesthetic originality and a documentary compilation of personal effects. More...
Hiroshi Sato
Hiroshi Sato's domestic interiors of introspective young women draw on deeply historical sources with a contemporary counterpoint. More...
Ryo Toyonaga
The mixture of media in Ryo Toyonaga's exhibition "Awakening" teem with viscera and appendages that glisten wriggle and go bump in the night. More...
HJ Bott
HJ Bott translates "20 Basic Scribbles"--fundamental marks researched and identified back in 1970--into his own system of symbols, patterns and modular components. More...
Luis González Palma
20 years of work by Luis Gonzalez Palma center on his distinctive portraits and beyond, always retaining a flair for the dramatic. More...
Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton's "the common SENSE" is loaded with dead animal pelts, products, photographs (for the taking!) in a spectacle of slaughter that is a powerful, if somewhat uneven aesthetic statement. More...
Sayre Gomez
First Sayre Gomez bombards us with an installation of music, nonsense slogans and consumerist themes; and then contrasts this with serene veils of color and mute imagery--immersion on one hand and solitude on the other. More...
Randy Colosky
Randy Colosky's works assume forms dictated by the nature of the materials he chooses but still remains adventurous. More...
Alison Saar
For Alison Saar the title of her show, "Hot House," evokes both form and content in works that evoke deep personal and political notes. More...
Richard Misrach and Kate Orff
In "Petrochemical America" Richard Misrach and Kate Orff reveal, through a series of large scale photographs and elegantly designed visual narratives, the insidious grip of the petrochemical industry. More...
Rough and Ready
"Rough and Ready" is a four artist show geared to youthful Goth sensibilities, as well as their elder grognards of the Beat persuasion. More...
Wendy Given
Gaelic motifs meet the Columbia River Gorge. Decay and death permeate Wendy Given's deceptively gorgeous body of wok. More...
Judith Kruger
Judith Kruger brings a different kind of Asian aesthetic influence into the layered surfaces of her distinctively colored paintings, the nihonga tradition of mineral pigments. More...
Paul Metivier
In an uneven mix of works, Paul Metivier does show a particular affinity for symbolic, socially rooted subject matter. More...
Jason Middlebrook
In "There is a map in every tree" Jason Middlebrook beautifully integrates intricate line work with the grain of wood planks. But he then abandons the wood for stained glass with as yet unconvincing results. More...
Melanie Willhide and Klea McKenna
Melanie Willhide infects images of women and flowers with digital irregularities. Klea McKenna records raindrops and palm fronds. More...
