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Cara Romero, “Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)”
by Lynn Trimble Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Continuing through June 28, 2026 Cara Romero, “The Last Indian Market,” sublimated fabric print, 94 × 321”. All images courtesy of the artist. Thirteen Indigenous artists and intellectuals sit together at a long table, as depicted in a large-scale photograph mounted high on a wall overlooking a central space at the Phoenix Art Museum. Their elevated presence counters demeaning stereotypes of Indigenous peoples promulgated through ar

Lynn Trimble
Jun 224 min read


Ellen Sollod, “La Flâneuse, Le Jardin et Les Fleurs”
by Matthew Kangas The Seattle Light Room, Seattle Continues through June 27, 2026 Ellen Sollod, “Fleurs Francaises,” altered French-Latin dictionary with photo transfers, 6 x 34” (when opened). All images courtesy of The Seattle Light Room, Seattle. Best known as a maker of artist’s books and art-in-public-places projects, Ellen Sollod’s photographs have rarely been exhibited prior to “La Flâneuse, Le Jardin et Les Fleurs.” After spending years in Lyon, France as co-director

Matthew Kangas
Jun 224 min read


“Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest”
by Matthew Kangas Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Continues through August 2, 2026 Leo Kenney, “The Inception of Magic,” 1945, egg tempera on composite board, 36 1/8 x 24 1/8”. Courtesy of the Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Elizabeth Mann. Following major surveys in 1978 and 2014, “Beyond Mysticism: the Modern Northwest” amplifies the scope of the Northwest School (including the Big Four of Guy Irving Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and Mark Tobey), appending ancillary fig

Matthew Kangas
Jun 24 min read


Eric-Paul Riege
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle by T.s. FLock Continuing through October 25, 2026 Eric-Paul Riege “ojo|-|ólǫ́” installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. 2026. Photo: Jueqian Fang. What still distinguishes museums from privately owned galleries is the possibility, fragile and ever-threatened, of a non-transactional encounter with objects, in which value is understood in terms of intensity of attention and depth of experience.

T.s. Flock
Jun 26 min read


Lynn Aldrich, “Romance and Reality Will Kiss One Another”
by Jody Zellen Royale Projects, Los Angeles Continuing through June 6, 2026 Lynn Aldrich, “Grid Buster,” 1989, carpet padding, surge protectors, stereo arrangement of Gregorian Chant and vacuum cleaner noise, 10 x 17 feet. Courtesy of Royal Projects, Los Angeles. In many senses Lynn Aldrich's work is Duchampian. Her nuanced career spans more than forty years of witty and conceptually based works that ingeniously combine found materials, often including household objects, as w

Jody Zellen
May 263 min read


“DegreeZero: Utopia/Dystopia in Contemporary Art”
by David S. Rubin Wönzimer, Los Angeles Continues through May 22, 2026 Lawrence Gipe, “In Commemoration of Gardi Sugdub (Vanishing Island),” 2024, oil on canvas, 72 x 96”. All images courtesy of Wönzimer. Art is political, it is often said, yet there are clearly artworks that are Political, with a capital ‘P’, where specific social and moral issues drive the art. Such is the case with the works of the thirteen artists in “DegreeZero: Utopia/Dystopia,” a thought-provoking exhi

David S. Rubin
May 265 min read


Norman Lundin, “Landscapes, Mostly, Other Things Too”
by Matthew Kangas Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle Continues through May 16, 2026 Norman Lundin, “Studio Floor and Wall,” 2025, oil on canvas mounted on archived panel, 19 1/2 x 30”. All images courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle. Subjectivity of vision is one qualifier for legitimate realism, and Norman Lundin’s new paintings express that in spades. Seen in an exhibition titled “Landscapes, Mostly, Other Things Too,” Lundin’s breadth of vision and subject matter has never b

Matthew Kangas
May 144 min read


Anna Membrino “Dew”
by John Zotos Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, Texas Continuing through May 9, 2026 Anna Membrino, “Dew,” 2026, acrylic on canvas, 65 x 65”. All images courtesy of Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas. In Anna Membrino’s approach, landscape painting starts with photographs of the natural world. Then, with a technique involving collage and digital alterations on a computer screen, she arrives at an image worthy of the intense shifts in scale, color, and surreal mystery that has defined her

John Zotos
Apr 213 min read


Elizabeth Murray and Betty Woodman
by Jody Zellen David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California Continuing through April 25, 2026 Elizabeth Murray, “2.B.!,” 1990, oil, matchsticks, canvas and wood, 68 1/4 x 49 x 4 1/2”. All images courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. The surprising yet somehow inevitable pairing of Elizabeth Murray (1940 - 2007) and Betty Woodman (1930 - 2018), two artists whose beautiful, idiosyncratic works made them icons of their generation, opens up new avenues of discover

Jody Zellen
Apr 214 min read


JR, "Horizons"
by Michael Shaw Perrotin, Los Angeles, California Continuing through April 25, 2026 JR, “The Wrinkles of the City, Istanbul, Hasan Saltik Eye, Turkey,” 2015. All images courtesy of the artist and Perrotin Los Angeles. Having never previously seen JR’s work in person, taking in his mini-retrospective, titled “Horizons,” I’ve still fallen short of experiencing the quintessential JR: a large-scale black & white mural. Most typically these are photographs of an individuals’ eyes,

Michael Shaw
Apr 215 min read


Andy Moses, “Into the Light”
by Liz Goldner Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Continuing through September 20, 2026 Andy Moses, “The Deep,” 2005, acrylic on canvas over concave wood panel, 54 x 100 x 5”. All images courtesy of the artist. Viewing these dozen paintings by Andy Moses is to share in an aesthetic vision that looks at how art can affect and shape our own visual perceptions. The work addresses the relationship between abstraction and landscape, and is achieved through broad sweeping

Liz Goldner
Apr 213 min read
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