by Andy Brumer Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California Continuing through October 25, 2025 Rebecca Morris, “Untitled (#25-25),” 2025, oil and spray paint on canvas, 63 1/8 x 63 1/8 x 2 1/8”. All images courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles. [Editor’s Note: Brumer and his family joined thousands of victims of the Altadena fire in January. The recovery of some semblance of normal life has been a shared struggle in the months since. Mr. Brumer’s review of Rebecca Morris’ exhib

by Liz Goldner UCI Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, California Continuing through October 11, 2025 Great Park Gallery, Irvine, California October 26 to December 28, 2025 Various installations at UCI Beall Center for Art + Technology, 2000–2024. All images courtesy of the Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, California. The Beall Center, founded in 2000 at UC Irvine, has blazed a path into digital media art in the United States and beyond, all the while engagin

Commentary by Bill Lasarow "We like to say we gave artists 'the freedom to fail.' Good research requires failure. All too often, market concerns prevail over experimentation. My mantra has been to always choose artists over art! Art is a precious product of human experience, not a commodity. And, artists are keepers of an elusive fire.” —Griff Williams, Gallery 16, San Francisco Alison Saar, “Uproot” exhibition installation view, 2023. L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California.

by John Zotos Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas Continuing through January 18, 2026 Yayoi Kusama, “All the Eternal Love I have for the Pumpkins” (detail views), Infinity Mirror Room, 2016, wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LED, 115 1/8 x 163 3/8 x 163 3/8” Images courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, and © Yayoi Kusama. For well over seven decades Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) has reinvented herself time and again. Up to the present day Kusama has engaged with major currents

by Matthew Kangas Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, Washington Continuing through October 18, 2025 Ethan Murrow, “Housekeeper,” 2025, acrylic on panel, 16 x 12 x 2”. All images courtesy of Winston Wáchter Fine Art, Seattle. It makes perfect sense that Ethan Murrow has had almost as many exhibitions of his work in Paris as in New York — or Seattle. His seventh show here is composed of 11 large acrylic paintings and six large graphite drawings. Despite the valiant efforts of n

by Jody Zellen The Brick, Los Angeles, California Continuing through September 20, 2025 Nancy Buchanan, “Fallout from the Nuclear Family” (detail), 1980, installation with book of excerpts and archival photos. All images courtesy of the artist and The Brick, Los Angeles. Photos: Natalie Weis/Hyperallergic. I first encountered Nancy Buchanan's work in 1985 in “The Family as Subject Matter,” a group exhibition curated for The Washington Project for the Arts in Washington, DC by

by Liz Goldner Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Continuing to September 7, 2026 Donna Schuster, “The Black Hat (Self Portrait),” c. 1912, oil on canvas, 21 x 23”. All images courtesy of the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach. Donna Schuster (1883-1953) excelled at painting portraits of confident, beautiful women, relaxing, dining, enjoying the outdoors, taking care of business and playing instruments. These paintings, many created during the suffragette movement, reve

by Matthew Kangas Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, Washington Continuing to September 17, 2026 James W. Washington, Jr., “Democracy Challenged,” 1949, oil on unfinished masonite, newspaper collage, 18 x 48”. All images courtesy of Dr. James W. Wasington, Jr. and Mrs. Janie Rogella Washington Foundation. Photo: Dasha Moore. One of the factors that makes assessing James W. Washington, Jr.’s contribution to America’s art history difficult is his multifarious l

by Jody Zellen Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California Continuing through September 6, 2025 Cecilia Z. Miguez, “The Smile is the Last Thing to Go,” 2025, bronze, concrete, resin, gold leaf, glass microbeads, and oil paint, 39 1/2 x 10 10”. All images courtesy of the artist and Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood. In her evocative exhibition “A Thousand Years in One Night,” Cecilia Z. Miguez laments the loss of her Altadena home and studio in the Eaton fire. Like

by Jody Zellen CMay Gallery, Los Angeles, California Continuing through August 16, 2025 China Adams, “Crisscross,” 2025, micron-pen, graphite, 8 3/4 x 8 3/4”. All images courtesy the artist and CMay Gallery, Los Angeles. In “Poles, Walkers and a Black Sheep” China Adams presents two distinct but related bodies of work: black and white drawings of utility poles, and sculptures made by bedecking geriatric walkers with brightly painted canvas fragments that have been twisted and

by David S. Rubin Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Camden Annex, Beverly Hills, California Continuing through August 9, 2025 Rodolfo Abularach, “Espacial Verde,” 1980, oil on canvas, 24 x 24”. All images courtesy of Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills. The late Guatemalan artist Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020) is widely recognized in Latin America, but he is not well known in the United States, where he lived and worked for forty years. In 1955, he left Guatemala to study at the Art Stude

by Liz Goldner Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California Continuing through August 3, 2025 Nicholas Kontaxis, “Meant to be,” 2019, acrylic on canvas, 72 1/2 x 102”. Most artists we observe and read about, past and present, are far from conventional in their thinking and approaches to life and art. Due to their atypical thinking, they are able to extract from their environment abstract, surreal and/or impressionistic visions, and they turn these visions into creations tha

by Matthew Kangas J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, Washington Continuing through July 26, 2025 Cable Griffith, “Return to Sender,” 2025, fabric dye4 and acrylic on canvas, 57 x 81”. All images courtesy of J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle. In his current exhibition, “Return to Sender,” we immerse ourselves imaginatively in Cable Griffith’s alien landscape paintings. Griffith recently completed a series of mosaic murals at the new Sound T

by T.s. Flock Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington Continuing to January 26, 2026 Ralph Ziman and The Team, “The AK-47 Project” from the “Weapons of Mass Production” series, installation view. All images courtesy of Ralph Ziman. Ralph Ziman’s “Weapons of Mass Production” series began with AK-47s rendered as glinting totems of global violence in the glass beadwork of mostly South African and Zimbabwean artisans. Ziman followed this with the up-armored absurdity of a full-size