Yinka Shonibare, MBE
Examining globalism, colonialism and other mingled histories, the British-born artist has his first West Coast exhibition in Santa Barbara. continued
100 Years of PNCA
Portland, Oregon celebrates an art school whose DNA is interwoven with its own continued
Innovative Denver
Pulling back while moving forward, Denver offers a variety of burgeoning galleries and ambitious new institutions. continued
Into The Woods
Photographer Carleton Watkins captured the landscape of Yosemite when California - and photography - were young. continued
Unnatural Selection
Engaging a wide range of issues, from natural history to art history and beyond, artists are putting hybrid mutant animals on center stage. Step right up and see the four-headed goose! continued
Urban Gardeners
SF artist Amy Franceschini exemplifies a new form of environmental and community-activism. Her goal? Greening the metropolis. continued
squeak carnwath
Repetition, in and of itself, is essential to the artist’s process... continued
alex couwenberg
Paintings created by Alex Couwenberg smudge the boundaries of modernist and post-modernist practice. continued
sherry karver
Oakland artist Sherry Karver creates work that deals “with a multitude of issues concerning each of us today..." continued
timothy tompkins
By altering photographs digitally and projecting them onto aluminum... Tompkins creates a unique combination. continued
sherie' franssen
Sherie’ Franssen’s massive, vigorous paintings revel in the depth and saturation that are hallmarks of oil paint. continued
siddarth parasnis
Contemporary artists have a complex, fraught relationship with art history... continued
“Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from Los Angeles” at the Hammer Museum
“Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures” at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Leonard Edmondson and Emerson Woelffer at Tobey C. Moss Gallery
“The Ballad That Becomes An Anthem” at ACME
Irit Batsry: “Beach at Nightfall / Caution” at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
“Inside/Outside: Artist Environments” at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Cornelia Schulz: “Recent Paintings” at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
Eva Speer: “Consolation” at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
James Kuiper at Friesen Gallery
Gregory Grenon at Traver Gallery
"Farming in the 21st Century” at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts
Reneé Lawter: “Welcome to the Greenhouse” at Black Maria Gallery
David E. Stone: “Unanticipated Despair (Despite Prior Naïve Optimism)” at Charlie James Gallery
Penelope Gottleib: “NO $ DOWN” at Kim Light/Lightbox
Lisa Adams: “The Future of Paradise Past” at Lawrence Asher
Amy Bennett: “At the Lake” at Richard Heller
George Legrady: "Stardust" at Edward Cella Art+Architecture
"The Flowering: The Fourfold Sense" at Gallery 16
Cathy Stone: “Black” at LIMN Gallery
John Hundt: "Totems" at Jack Fischer Gallery
Stephen Kaltenbach: “Nuclear Projects and Other Works” at Verge Gallery and Studio Project
Ian Boyden: "Let The Stones Tell It" at Augen Gallery
G. Lewis Clevenger: “New Paintings” at Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery
Michael Dailey at Greg Kucera and Francine Seders
Scott Foldesi at James Harris Gallery
“LA Paint” at the Oakland Museum
Takako Yamaguchi: “The Plain Sense of Things” at Cardwell Jimmerson
Timothy Karpinski: “The Place I Call Home” at Thinkspace Gallery
Carol Es: “She Dreamed She Remembered” at George Billis Gallery
David Korty at Michael Kohn Gallery
Ruth Weisberg: “Guido Cagnacci and the Resonant Image” at the Norton Simon Museum
Lisa Esherick: “Casino Paintings” at George Krevsky Gallery
Nina Zurier: “Recent Photographs” at Room for Painting/Room for Paper
Roland Petersen: “A Natural Order” at Hackett-Freedman Gallery
Katy Stone and Yvette Molina: “Tickling Thicket” at Johansson Projects
John Yoyogi Fortes and Linda Raynsford at Pamela Skinner/Gwenna Howard Contemporary Art
Laura Ross-Paul: “Northwestopia” at Froelick Gallery
C. L. Utley at Gallery 63 Eleven
Eric Bashor at Pacini Lubel Gallery
Bruce Conner: “Mabuhay Gardens” at Berkeley Art Museum
Kerry James Marshall: “Portraits, Pin-Ups, and Wistful Romantic Idylls” at Koplin del Rio Gallery
Eric Sall: “High and Wide” at Acuna-Hansen
Edgar Arceneaux: “Correlations and Isomorphisms” at Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Tanya Batura: “Monochroma” at Western Project
Kyle Field: “More Country Questions” at Taylor de Cordoba
Christopher Murphy: “The Dawn of Luxury” at Lora Schlesinger
Sarah Walker: “Beacons, Floaters and Lost Objects” at Gregory Lind Gallery
Paul Schiek: “The Thing About You is You Will End Up Like Me” at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Frank Lobdell: “The Dance Series 1969-1972” at Hackett-Freedman Gallery
Charles Fahlen: “Let’s Pretend” at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Sean Healy: “Life in Black and White” at Elizabeth Leach Gallery
“Blurring The Line: The Art of Thread” at Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery
Nathan DiPietro at Punch Gallery
Manfred Lindenberger at Foster/White
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle at the San Diego Museum of Art
“Light in August” by Heather Carroll at David Salow Gallery
“Revelations in Drawing” by Jerome Witkin at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
“while tides guide you back home” by Edwin Ushiro at Project: Gallery
“Don’t Worry About The Motion In The Ocean” by Tillman Kaiser at Honor Fraser
Pat O’Neill at Rosamund Felsen
"Slightly All the Time” by Mike Stilkey at Kinsey/Desforges
“RANK” at LAXART by Kori Newkirk (Los Angeles)
“TelAranaTelAranaTelA” by Ana Teresa Fernandez at The Luggage Store (San Francisco)
Donald Feasél at Brian Gross Gallery (San Francisco)
Sabina Sulé at Micaela Gallery (San Francisco)
Sonia Kasparian at Butters Gallery (Portland)
Jacqueline Ehlis at New American Art Union (Portland)
“Power (less-ness) Smorgasbord” by Karen Ganz at Howard House Contemporary Art (Seattle)
“Dare alla Luce” by Mandy Greer at Bellevue Arts Museum (Bellevue)
“RedYellowBlue” at Another Year in L.A. (Los Angeles)
“Useable Histories” by Carmine Iannaccone at Solway Jones (Los Angeles)
“Unforeseen Frontier” by Greg Miller at William Turner Gallery (Los Angeles)
“Cloisters’ Confessions” by Masami Teraoka at Samuel Freeman Gallery (Los Angeles)
“Paintings, Prints, Sculpture” by Ynez Johnston at Cardwell Jimmerson (Los Angeles)
“Paintings” by Paul Pratchenko at Braunstein Quay Gallery (San Francisco)
“Ghost Hesh” by Daniel Tierney at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (San Francisco)
“Works on Paper 1930-1960” by David Park at Hackett-Freedman Gallery (San Francisco)
TJ Norris at New American Art Union (Portland)
Tsilli Pines at Ogle (Portland)
“Canciones de la Terra” by Alfredo Arreguin at Linda Hodges Gallery (Seattle)
“Gem Box” by Alan Fulle at Traver Gallery (Seattle)
“Complications of Nature” by Tim Forcum at d.e.n. contemporary (Los Angeles)
“Set a Course for Wayward Schemes” by Megan Geckler at Bert Green Fine Art (Los Angeles)
Raffi Kalenderian at Black Dragon Society (Los Angeles)
“Estofada” by Aaron Smith at Koplin Del Rio (Los Angeles)
“Obsession” by Franklin Williams at Lizabeth Oliveria (Los Angeles)
“Oblivion,” by David Maisel at Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara)
“The Road to Paradise” by Chester Arnold at Catherine Clark Gallery (San Francisco)
Chris Ballantyne: “When The World Was Flat” at Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco)
“A Matter of Scale” by Robert Buelteman at Spur Projects (Portola Valley)
“Army of No One” by Ryan Pierce at Lisa Dent Gallery (San Francisco)
“Like, Love, Lust” by Michael Sarich at the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno)
Gretchen Bennett at Howard House Contemporary Art (Seattle)
“Burpee Garden Paintings” by Alden Mason at Greg Kucera Gallery (Seattle)
“To and From the Printed Page” by Jess Pasadena Museum of California Art (Pasadena)
“Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler” by Carole Caroompas at Western Project (Los Angeles)
“Everything is a Love Story” by Matthew Heller at DCA Fine Art (Los Angeles)
“Perfect Entrance” by Tim Sullivan at Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles)
“Seventy Years of Painting” by Wayne Thiebaud at Laguna Beach Art Museum (Laguna Beach)
“1957” at Sullivan Goss (Santa Barbara)
“West of the Great Divide: 1968-2008” by Paul Kos at Gallery Paule Anglim (San Francisco)
“Detroit” by Katherine Westerhout at Electric Works (San Francisco)
“Evolutionary Soup” by Kirsten Stolle at Dolby-Chadwick Gallery (San Francisco)
“slowblivion” by Joe Macca at PDX Contemporary Art (Portland)
Hap Tivey / Gregg Renfrow at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland)
“My Phone Tells Me To Do Bad Things” by Ries Niemi at Punch Gallery (Seattle)
“Minidoka On My Mind” by Roger Shimomura at Greg Kucera Gallery (Seattle)
“Las Vegas Diaspora” at the Las Vegas Art Museum (Las Vegas)
“Belief System” by Jeffrey Vallance at Margo Leavin (Los Angeles)
“Potion Paintings and Drawings” by Linda Stark at Angles Gallery (Los Angeles)
“Five Years, Ten Years, Maybe Never” by Matthew Monahan at MOCA (Los Angeles)
“Tracking Identity” by Martin Gantman at HAUS Gallery (Pasadena)
“New Paintings” by Becca Mann at Roberts & Tilton (Los Angeles)
“Cookie Cutter” by Lucy Gaylord-Lindholm at Jack Fischer Gallery (San Francisco)
“The New Europeans” by Jim Goldberg at Stephen Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco)
Eugenia Pardue at B Rogers Gallery and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Portland/ Eugene)
Yoshihiro Kitai at Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery (Portland)
Samantha Scherer at Davidson Contemporary (Seattle)
Kathryn Altus at Lisa Harris Gallery (Seattle)
“The Urban Myth: Visions of the City” at Sullivan Goss (Santa Barbara)
Whitney Bedford at Cherry & Martin (Los Angeles)
Robert Hudson at Frank Lloyd Gallery (Los Angeles)
“Kitsch Recovery Progrom” by Manuel Ocampo at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery (Los Angeles)
“Not Narrative Enough” by Marc Trujillo at David Salow Gallery(Los Angeles)
“Small Things/Te Voglat” by Alexis Weidig at Overtones Gallery(Los Angeles)
“Some Other Day in the Garden” by Paul Mullins at Nathan Larramendy Gallery(Ojai)
Amy Trachtenberg at Brian Gross Fine Art (San Francisco)
“light house” by Chris Daubert at b. sakata garo (Sacramento)
Junko Yamamoto at Gallery IMA (Seattle)
Joe Feddersen at Stonington Gallery (Seattle)
Francis Celentano at Laura Russo (Portland)
Michael Kessler at Butters Gallery (Portland)
Matthew Mitros at Portland Art Center (Portland)
“Chopped Chromed Customized” at the Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe)
ROGUE WAVE ’07: 12 Artists from Los Angeles at LA Louver (Los Angeles)
“Unfurled” by Ruth Weisberg at Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles)
“Sweet Home Valhalla” by Van Arno at Corey Helford Gallery (Los Angeles)
“Anna Moore” by Julie Orser at Paul Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles)
“Chasing the Rabbit” by Marion Lane at BLK/MRKT (Los Angeles)
Rebecca Bollinger at Walter Maciel Gallery (Los Angeles)
Wolfgang Paalen at Frey Norris (San Francisco)
“India On My Mind” by Livia Stein at Togonon Gallery (San Francisco)
Martín Ramírez at San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose)
“15 Years” by Ian Harvey at JayJay Gallery (Sacramento)
L.A. C.O.L.A. Awards Announced
Philanthropist Leonore Annenberg Passes Away
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Opens Rooftop Garden
Denver Art Museum Announces New Appointment
The Los Angeles Art Show Reports Record Attendance
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Hammer Museum Announces New Appointments
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)
The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC)
LACMA Statement on MOCA Resolution
The Center for Curatorial Leadership
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Laguna College of Art & Design
The Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA)
The California Community Foundation
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