Infinite Possibilities of Origami
Origami art has moved into the post-Modern age by leaps and bounds, and this medium-sized but highly engaging show is a jaw-dropper. More...
Cy Twombly
The last paintings created by Cy Twombly prior to his recent passing retain remarkable vitality of scale, energy and those great clouds of pigment. More...
Peter Shire
This survey of Peter Shire's cups, more sculptural than utilitarian, are a natural complement to his signature teapots. More...
Four Bay Area Abstractionists
In the spring of 1975, Philip Linhares organized a stunning exhibition of then-recent abstract paintings by Elmer Bischoff at the San Francisco Art Institute. Since 1972, Bischoff had been working More...
Adam McEwen
Adam McEwen's compressed graphite replicas and paintings with chewing gum reflects on where we once we and where we are now. More...
John Chiara
The handmade aspects of John Chiara's approach to photography push the limits of the medium and lends it a distinctive physicality. More...
Theophilus Brown
This small survey of Theophilus Brown, who passed away earlier this year, is a convincing first shot at securing his historical place. More...
Michael Petry
The Director of MOCA London presents his bold and poetic multi-faceted art for the first time stateside. More...
The Chicago Attitude
In the history of art, Chicago is a well-respected place to be born or educated, and the list of major American artists who have done so is pretty distinguished. More...
Anthony Velasquez
Warm and inviting still life paintings by Anthony Valesquez bring together assemblage-type objects in sculpture-like arrangements. More...
Irene Kung
The singular beauty and mystical power of a tree is aptly conveyed in Irene Kung's digitally manipulated photographs. More...
Peter Selz: Sketches of a Life in Art
In an new and engaging biography of one of the West Coast most prominent art historians and curators we learn that Peter Selz has been far more than the sum of his art activities. More...
LA Raw
"LA RAW" assembles a diverse group of artists who present figurative art that for decades has engaged the abject, that quintessentially postmodern conceptual quagmire. More...
Masako Miki
The deer as a symbol of graceful innocence is central to Masako Miki's new paintings and sculpture. More...
Erick Swenson
Eirick Swenson imbues lifelike realism with a reluctent sense of mortality in these memento mori. More...
Eirik Johnson
Eirik Johnson documents decay and the fringe of the contemporary west in two series of "Camps" and "Cabins". More...
Nina Katchadourian
This is an entire exhibition of art made on airplane flights using only what comes available of the plane. And Nina Katchadourian delivers. More...
Barer / Hsu
Cara Barer photographs old newspapers; Pang-Chieh Hsu paints paper currency. Both arrive at a kind of cultural vanitas. More...
Kim MacConnel
Systems and intuition appear in roughly equal balance in Kim MacConnel's current abstract yet smartly referential paintings. More...
Mitchell Marti
Mitchell Marti's prints and animations resonate from geometric configurations that writhe and twist like that were, well, living things. More...
