Bay Area Abstraction
Three to abstract painters of the San Francisco Bay Area proved that, at the time, New York School painting was being matched on the West Coast. More...
Fred Martin and Friends in the Fifties
In a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Kimberly Chun, longtime Bay Area painter Fred Martin described his role as “basically, a builder. A builder of the community of artists.” More...
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl's impulsively provocative approach to figurative art can be seen in these watercolors and sculptures. What surprises is that to a great degree this turns out to be inadvertent. More...
Dan Attoe
Dan Attoe makes a drawing each day, and the examples showcased in this show counterbalance lowbrow-style pictorial imagery with enigmatic, brain-twisting text. More...
Modernism in the Northwest
"Modernism in the Pacific Northwest" presents a canon of greatest hits with new accessions bound to become iconic pictures themselves. More...
“Vanishing Points"
Art photography, photo journalism and advocacy blend into a compelling photo show "Vanishing Points" that features work by Sant Khalsa, Stephen K. Lehmer and Douglas McCulloh. More...
"Surface to Air”
“Surface to Air: Los Angeles Artists of the Sixties and the Materials That They Used” may be the first show to contextualize how art was born out of the air and space industry. More...
Sean Healy
In "Extroverts" Sean Healy stares down contemporary masculinity through such motifs as a cigarette--not as a subject but as a drawing tool. More...
June Wayne
A new survey of June Wayne's varied career focuses on her achievements in lithography, but not to the exclusion of so much more. More...
McArthur Binion
McArthur Binion is a native of rural Mississippi who became the Cranbrook Academy's first African American MFA recipient, and who now is enjoying a well earned career resurgence. More...
Bill Owens
Bill Owens’ “Surburbia” is a series of black-and-white portraits of housing tract Northern California families taken between 1968 and 1972 that is a classic of documentary photography imbued with rich hints of the context of its time. More...
Ed Moses and Larry Poons
Pairing Ed Moses and Larry Poons matters simply because it places side by side two of our best living painters who are linked by the language of paint. Both have spoken it eloquently for decades. More...
Will Santa Monica Destroy Bergamot in Order to Save It?
The new Metro Rail stations on the West Side will impact the Bergamot Station gallery complex. If Santa Monica City's current plan to remake the center is realized, instead of preserving it we may end up with just another shopping mall. More...
Shan Goshorn
Native American artist Shan Goshorn weaves what at first appears to be traditional Cherokee baskets--but they are far from that. More...
Yuko Someya
Beautiful and deliberate floral paintings by Yuko Someya are inspired by Japanese literature and, more importantly, their exotic fairy tale character keeps you glued to these images. More...
Jaime Scholnick
Jaime Scholnick translates awkward polystyrene packaging passed to her by family and friends to evoke architectural monuments. More...
A Real Whodunit
For nearly a century "Young Woman at an Open Half-Door" was among the Art Institute of Chicago's most beloved masterworks. Suddenly that all changed. More...
Jay Giroux
Stare at Jay Giroux' paintings for awhile and all the abstract black and white layers will reveal plenty to see and engage. More...
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs of figures from wax museums and taxidermy specimens convey exceptional enigma and mystery. More...
Rose Cabat
Pick up one of Rose Cabat's diminutive vases, what she calls "feelies." This still active centenerian's glazes have the feel of goatskin suede. More...
