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Beverly Semmes, “Body Shop”
by George Melrod Official Welcome , Los Angeles Continuing through February 21, 2026 Beverly Semmes, “Body Shop,” installation view at Official Welcome, 2026. All images courtesy of Official Welcome, Los Angeles. Photo: Evan Bedford It’s now been over thirty-five years since Beverly Semmes first emerged in New York as a trailblazer in the use of clothing as a sculptural material — and as metaphor. And she did so in a memorably big way, presenting giant grey coats with their a
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3 hours ago5 min read
Gary Faigin, “Worlds Seen and Unseen”
by Matthew Kangas Harris/Harvey Gallery , Seattle, Washington Continuing through February 28, 2026 Gary Faigin, “Outpost,” 2025, oil on panel, 22 x 28”. All images courtesy of Harris/Harvey Gallery, Seattle. The Gary Faigin memorial retrospective is not a museum survey, but a highly selective scan of earlier works and his final series, “Colony.” It gives his considerable audience a chance to consider his evolution as a painter and ponder the cumulative effect of his peculiar
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Sophie Calle, “Overshare”
by Liz Goldner UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art , Costa Mesa, California Continuing through May 24, 2026 Sophie Calle, “Room 43” from “The Hotel,” 1981. Courtesy of Siglio Press Commentaries about this exhibition barely prepare viewers for its depth, expansiveness and especially for its sheer fearlessness. The show by French conceptual artist Sophie Calle (b. 1953) presents projects that she calls “The Spy,” “The Sleepers,” “The Protagonist” and “True Stories,” a
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Josh Dorman, “The Long View”
by Jody Zellen Billis/Williams Gallery , Los Angeles Continuing through February 14, 2026 Josh Dorman, “Peardog,” 2025, ink, acrylic, antique paper on panel, 12 x 12”. All images courtesy of Billis/Williams Gallery, Los Angeles. Josh Dorman's idiosyncratic, encyclopedic paintings traverse time and space. They are intricate works that demand our undivided attention. Over the years, Dorman has collected a wide range of printed ephemera, culled from books, maps, magazines and te
Jody Zellen
Feb 73 min read
Michelangelo Lovelace, “Art Saved My Life”
by Lynn Trimble ASU Art Museum , Tempe, Arizona Continuing through February 15, 2026 Michelangelo Lovelace, “No Justice No Peace,” 1993, mixed media on wood panel, 54 1/4 x 48 1/2”. Courtesy of the Michelangelo Lovelace Estate and Fort Gansevoort Gallery. The streets of Cleveland burst to life in paintings by Michelangelo Lovelace (1960-2021), a self-taught artist who professed that “art saved my life.” It was a keen observation, reflecting on the experiences he had growing u
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Feb 75 min read
Rachel Dorsey, “Careworn”
by T.s. Flock ANTiPODE , Seattle, Washington Contact gallery for closing date Any artist who ventures to address the slippery subject of intimacy always risks succumbing to sentiment. The domestic, the everyday, the emotional: these are all subjects that naturally invite tenderness, and art history is littered with versions so saccharine that they no longer say anything about real life. But the artist who refuses such complacency understands that the domestic realm and the bo
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Feb 76 min read
“Black Clay”
by Matthew Kangas Arte Noir Gallery , Seattle, Washington Continuing through February 22, 2026 Sasa Aakil, “Joy is a Revolution,” fired and unglazed terra cotta, various dimensions. All images courtesy of Arte Noir Gallery and the artist. The twenty-five artists in the “Black Clay” ceramics invitational hail from Washington, Texas, District of Columbia, California, Illinois, Tennessee and elsewhere, but trace their heritages to Nigeria, Ghana, the Philippines, and other land
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Jan 224 min read
Emigdio Vasquez, “Retrospective 50”
by Liz Goldner Hilbert Museum of California Art , Orange, California Continuing through May 30, 2026 Emigdio Vasquez, “John the Prophet,” 1985, oil on canvas 24 x 36”. All images courtesy of the Hilbert Museum of California Art, Orange, CA. This largest ever retrospective of 50 paintings by Emigdio Vasquez (1939-2014) is long past due. The Orange County artist’s works from 1967 to 2007 feature compassionate portraits of OC barrio residents and their neighborhoods. These day l
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Jan 224 min read
Robert Therrien, “This is a Story”
by David S. Rubin The Broad , Los Angeles, California Continuing through April 5, 2026 Robert Therrien, “This Is a Story,” installation view showing late 1970s/early 1980s keystone and coffin-shaped sculptures. Courtesy of The Broad Foundation, Los Angeles. All photos: David S. Rubin. Although the early paintings and sculptures by Robert Therrien (1947-2019) are simple and elemental in form and have at times been associated with Minimalism, this forty-year retrospective revea
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Jan 225 min read
SURVEY: Antony Gormley
by John Zotos Nasher Sculpture Center , Dallas Continuing through January 4, 2026 Antony Gormley, “Quantum Cloud XX (tornado),” 2000, stainless steel, 91 3/4 x 58 5/8 x 47 1/4”. All images courtesy of Antony Gormley and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. Photos: Kevin Todora. Over the last forty-five years British sculptor Antony Gormley (b. 1950) has remained a consistently major figure on an international level. His work centers on a critical investigation of bodies in sp
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Dec 24, 20253 min read
Julie Himel, “Awe Struck”
by Matthew Kangas Foster/White Gallery , Seattle, Washington Continuing through December 20, 2025 Julie Himel, “Glitch,” 2025, oil on board, 12 x 12”. All images courtesy of the artist and Foster/White Gallery. Canadian artist Julie Himel presents four paintings measuring at around 4 feet in tandem with nine small oil and mixed-media paintings in her current show, “Awe Struck.” The works obliquely tackle the current issues of climate change, but from the safe, time-honored Ca
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Dec 24, 20253 min read
The Virtue of Instability
by Bill Lasarow December 24, 2025 Doris Salcedo, “Installation at 8th International Istanbul Biennial,” 2003, 1,550 wooden chairs. Courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York. The Art World is by its very nature unstable, and in that lies much of its value and strength. It thrives on its dual handmaidens, individuality and freedom. If creative originality is a simple ideal, novelty and eccentricity mark its charming failure. It is not consistent with democratic governance, whic
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Dec 24, 20256 min read
Mae Al-Jiboori, "Settling In"
by Matthew Kangas Blackfish Gallery , Portland, Oregon Continuing through December 27, 2025 Matthew Kangas writes regularly for Visual Art Source eNewsletter; Ceramics: Art & Perception (Australia); and Preview (Canada). Besides reviewing for many years at Art in America, American Craft, Art Ltd., Vanguard and Seattle Times, he is the author of numerous catalogs and monographs, the latest being the award-winning Italo Scanga 1932-2001. Four anthologies of his critical essays
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Dec 13, 20254 min read
"The Space Between: First Light, Last Light”
by Liz Goldner GW Contemporary , Laguna Beach, California Continuing through January 4, 2026 Salomón Huerta, “Night Pool,” 2025, oil on canvas, 54 x 36 x 1 1/2”. All images courtesy of GW Contemporary, Laguna Beach. Genevieve Williams, owner/curator of this five-month-old gallery, is enchanted by art that reveals abstract aspects of our atmosphere. As curator at the Laguna Beach based Honarkar Art Foundation (now closed), she mounted “Luminaries of Light,” displaying several
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Dec 13, 20253 min read
Ken Gonzales-Day, History’s ”Nevermade” (USC) and “Afterlife” (Luis De Jesus)
by Jody Zellen USC Fisher Museum , Los Angeles Continuing through March 14, 2026 Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles California Continuing through December 20, 2025 Ken Gonzales-Day, “Ramonacita at the Cantina” from the “Bone-Grass Boy : The Secret Banks of the Conejos River ” series, 1996, C-print, 22 1/2 x 34 1/4”. All images courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. Ken Gonzales-Day's mid-career survey “History’s “Nevermade"” moves us through three decades of work. Whi
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Dec 13, 20255 min read
Yoko Ono, “Music of the Mind”
by Margaret Hawkins MCA Chicago , Chicago, Illinois Continuing through February 22, 2026 Clay Perry, “Yoko Ono with Half-a-Room,” 1967. All images courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” — Yoko Ono Yoko Ono is one of those artists whose persona overshadows her artwork, which never quite reemerged publicly in the U.S. after the 1980 murder of her husband, John Lennon. But all along she ha
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Nov 24, 20255 min read
Rajni Perera, “Dhum Lōkaya (Smoke World)”
by George Melrod Rajiv Menon Contemporary , Los Angeles Continuing through December 13, 2025 Rajni Perera, “Primitive,” 2025, acrylic gouacher, aluminum, glass and semiprecious stone beads, mother of pearl beads, and charcoal on polyester, 60 x 84”. All images courtesy of Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles. Born in Sri Lanka and based in Toronto, Rajni Perera draws from traditional and contemporary influences to create her own strikingly immersive personal mythology, invit
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Nov 24, 20255 min read
Sabrina Gschwandtner, “Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice”
by David S. Rubin Shoshana Wayne Gallery , Los Angeles Continuing through January 10, 2026 Sabrina Gschwandtner, “Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice,” installation view. All images courtesy of Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Since 2009, when Sabrina Gschwandtner acquired a collection of archival film footage that had been deaccessioned from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, she has been making geometrically patterned “film quilts” by sewing together filmstrips and exhi
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Nov 24, 20254 min read
R. Crumb, “Tales of Paranoia”
by Michael Shaw David Zwirner Gallery , Los Angeles, California Continuing through January 10, 2026 R. Crumb, “Rabbit … Is My Dome Too Dominant?” 2019, gouache ink, and graphite on paper, 7 x 9 1/2”. All images courtesy of David Zwirner, Los Angeles. Spoiler alert: R.Crumb is an anti-vaxxer. And a conspiracy theorist. But Crumb’s probing, self-critical dive into why he’s gone down this path, including some very specific re-creations of conversations he’s had (one with a docto
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Nov 19, 20254 min read
Yoshida Chizuko, Retrospective
by Matthew Kangas Portland Art Museum , Portland, Oregon Continuing through January 4, 2026 Yoshida Chizuko, “Shoreline,” 1950, oil on canvas, 31 3/16 x 25 9/16 x 1 1/16”. All images courtesy of the Portland Art Museum and the Estate of Yoshida Chizuko. This retrospective of Japanese painter and printmaker Yoshida Chizuko (1924-2017) coincides with the museum’s acquisition of 80 works by the postwar artist. Accompanied by an international symposium in October, a full-length c
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Nov 19, 20254 min read
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