"Reimagining the Contemporary Landscape"
The nine artists in "Reimagining the Contemporary Landscape" challenge cliches of the West in multiple ways that make up with their coherence what they lack in cohesion. More...
Why Paint?
OK, we live in a digital world. But I am continually drawn to images that aren't generated on the flickering screen but by a hand of a painter. It communicates in ways that the computer never will. More...
Michael Madzo
There is an air of nostalgic calm to Michael Madzo’s surrealist collage paintings that is familiar yet mysterious, comforting yet unsettling. More...
Rory Devine
Rory Devine sources numerous images from Google searches to produce paintings that covey a melancholic nostalgia laced with irony. More...
"Self(ie) Portraits"
"Self(i.e.) Portraits" explores new meanings of self image wrought by social media and the rise of the selfie. More...
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Deservedly known for the video "The Way Things Go" this series of replicas of banal objects by Peter Fischli and the late David Weiss displayed in scattershot fashion elevate the mundane. More...
Inappropriate Behavior
DeWitt Cheng sees the coverage of the recent smashing of a Han Dynasty vase decorated by Ai Weiwei as signifying the disconnect that has arisen between dollar value and that of the genuinely moving and memorable in art. More...
Does Art Criticism Matter Any More?
DeWitt Cheng regards gradual withdrawal of contemporary art from the intellectual commons in favor of the marketing echo chamber as a trend in need of reversal. More...
Opportunity or Corruption?
There is nothing wrong with self interest and the profit motive existing in the art world. But it's a shame to see talented artists being reduced to advertising hacks in taking advantage of L.A.'s new mural ordinance. More...
“Abstraction and the Once-Silenced Shout”
It is helpful to recall the politically charged history of modern abstract art. The very idea that the political right and left once regarded it as "dangerous" looks quaint now, but one can't help but miss the edge bestowed by suppression. More...
Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré's new venture into ceramics outshine the drawn animation frames, but the completed animations mesmerize. More...
"Surface Tension"
The three artists in “Surface Tension” - Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak, Gwendolyn Blunkett and Jon Lee - all work in multiple layers, but with very different results. More...
Zoe Dusanne
A new biography restores Seattle dealer Zoe Dusanne as a key player in the Pacific Northwest post-war art scene. She was the first to exhibit Seattle area, New York and international artists under one Seattle roof. More...
Fernando Casas
Fernando Casas is both artist and philosopher, and has explored speculative questions in his images for over 40 years. More...
Jane Lindsay
For "From the Outside In" Jane Lindsay taught inmates to draw, interviewed them, and then brought out her camera. This is the result. More...
Frank E. Cummings III
This survey shows that some of the most detailed and delicate wood work in recent decades has come from the studio of Frank E. Cummings III. More...
Nick Albertson
Pattern-based and monochromatic, Nick Albertson’s images initially appears to be abstractions. But they are in fact carefully staged household objects. More...
Andrew Hayes
Andrew Hayes repurposes the printed pages of books for sculpture that display both wit and craft. More...
Zimoun
The sound of one of Zimoun’s installations is the multitude of many identical noises such at raindrops or typewriters that is a musical sum of the everyday. More...
Heather Mekkelson
Playful in spirit, Heather Mekkelson's sleek installations are rich media stews preoccupied with outer space. More...
