At first glance and from afar, Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s imagery appears to be photo-collage, but upon close viewing, the works are actually painted. What immediately…
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Betty Woodman
David Kordansky Gallery
No conversation about the history of ceramics in art, especially about works created by female artists, would be complete without mention of Betty Woodman. The…
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Ann Weber
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco
When Ann Weber began working on her current series of monumental sculptures made from recycled cardboard, vitriolic rhetoric about constructing a border wall dominated the…
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María Berrío
Kohn Gallery
Born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1982, María Berrío moved to the U.S. at the age of 18. Childhood recollections of exploring her family’s rural mountainside…
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Sarah Lucas
Hammer Museum
“Well-behaved women seldom make history,” asserted historian, Harvard professor, and Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in the 1970s about why women who act in…
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Gustavo Acosta
Latin American Masters
Gustavo Acosta is a Cuban-born, Miami-based painter whose skillful renderings of the urban landscape merge various techniques of paint application. In his latest works, realistic…
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Javier Peláez
William Turner Gallery
It feels like Javier Peláez is working through something, the kind of profound human experience whose emotions formulate universal psychological archetypes. In a series of…
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Genevieve Gaignard
Vielmetter Los Angeles
It is not Genevieve Gaignard’s brazen truths, stinging though they are, but her subtle pricks that linger worryingly— Remember This House (2019) places a portrait…
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Brandon Landers
M+B
In Brandon Landers’ debut solo exhibition at M+B, the Bakersfield-based, LA-born and raised artist delivers a collection of expressionistic and loosely narrative paintings that draw…
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David Hammons
Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
David Hammons, an infamously reclusive yet pervasive figure, is undoubtedly a pioneer and solidified staple of the art world. His thought-provoking work permeates the visual…
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TONY CONRAD
ICA / Philadelphia
“Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective” is the first large-scale museum survey devoted to work originally presented by the artist in his museum and gallery exhibitions….
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RABBIA SUKKARIEH
Robert & Frances Fullerton Museum Of Art / San Bernardino
Lebanon-born, Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Rabbia Sukkarieh regards her art as a means of transmuting a traumatic past. Having experienced the 1975–90 Lebanese Civil…
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CHIACHIO & GIANNONE
MOLAA / Long Beach
Argentine artists Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone who together form the duo Chiachio & Giannone were painters at one point in their careers. Their combined…
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REICH RICHTER PÄRT
The Shed / New York
Joy, transformation, transcendence—all lofty goals of early abstract expressionism—are exalted in the present tense at The Shed in the world premiere collaboration of three major…
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JAMES BENNING
MCA Santa Barbara
Milwaukee-bred, California-based filmmaker James Benning’s current exhibit at MCASB is nothing less than a brilliant baklava of America, a solemn layering of the country’s heartbreaking…
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ALAN RATH
San Jose ICA
Ever since man created robots, there have arisen ethical and moral questions regarding when and how they should be used. Isaac Asimov created the concept…
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