Ben Murray
If large scale and grand gesture are typically associated with the heroic and the tragic, Ben Murray manages to turn those traits into something more personal and pensive. More...
Q and A
For James Yood it remains a nettlesome question whether an artist is less consequential because they do not work out of New York. More...
Shepard Fairey
Shephard Fairey owns a 45 rpm cut in 1978 by Little Roger and the Goosebumps that became the basis for contemporary DJ-ing--not to mention for Fairey’s approach to appropriated art. More...
Manuel Neri
Now 84, Manuel Neri explores the "partial figure" with virtuoso technique, psychological insight, sensuality and power. More...
Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin makes incursions into modes of historical narrative art to both revive and critique the interpretation of stories we only thought we knew. More...
Chris Engman
Intellectual yet hypnotically beautiful, Chris Engman’s images carry photography into worlds that by turns disorient, please and frustrate. More...
“The Armory Show”
Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Art originated as a contemporary alternative to the more commercial offerings of local galleries. The original 1977 took its name from the 1913 New York original, and it continues today as an important showcase. More...
Mary Lou Zelazny
Among the best at intertwining painting and collage, Mary Lou Zelazny's current work is explosive and self-reflexive. More...
Pablo Helguera
Best known for his conceptual project “The School of Panamerican Unrest,” for which he organized a schoolhouse on wheels to drive the entire 20,000 miles of the Pan-American Highway, Pablo Heilguera's pair of installations reveal fresh aesthetic breadth. More...
Sam Francis, New York, and Outsiders Looking In
Revisiting the skepticism that West Coast-based Sam Francis provoked with his invigorating brand of Abstract Expressionism among New York critics decades ago serves to remind us why the art world is better off no longer revolving around Manhattan. More...
Eric Kasper
Children may appear in much of Eric Kasper's work, but that hardly means that his moody narrative themes are kid friendly. More...
Sultan and Mandel
Dating from the late 1970s, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel's collaboration, once subversive, remains as endearingly perverse as ever. More...
Isabelle Cornaro and Matt Sheridan Smith
Isabelle Cornaro's fuzzy, seemingly abstract images are spray-painted directly on the wall based on her own film sources. Separately, Matt Sheridan Smith silver-coated bread loaves conflate oral with visual desire. More...
The Smell of Paint
CalArts was originally Chouinard, and along with Otis College, observes Peter Clothier, these private art schools went through near simultaneous financial crises as the environment for cultural education went from free wheeling to something more corporate. More...
Shane McAdams
When Shane McAdams invokes "Scorched Earth" as an exhibition title he references more than just a strategy of war. More...
A Curatorial Triptych
Among curators, David S. Rubin is among those most regarded as devoted to artists. Here he sheds light on how the aesthetic thinking of artists comes to be reflected in his curatorial practice. More...
Martin Facey
Though versed in the varieties of current artistic expression, Martin Facey mostly sticks with the old-school religion of modernist abstraction. More...
Roberto Gil de Montes
Longtime L.A. resident Roberto Gil de Montes invokes memories of early childhood in Mexico--Orozco murals, the symbolism of the Pre-Columbian presence--through a deployed arsenal of visual symbols. More...
Keith Carter
Keith Carter’s new photographs from the series “Ghostland” are moody, mysterious and often as murky as the East Texas swamps where he grew up. More...
