Archives for October 2025

Arvida Byström’s online women perch in a bare liminal space, all taut-skinned, unblemished and pornographically proportioned, with not a curl of pubic hair in sight. However, their faces are altered to resemble different animals.

What is beauty? A quality, a trait, a value, an identity, or all of those things? “When the World is Beautifully Strange” brings a coterie of contemporary ceramic artists to address that question or to thoughtfully expand upon it.

Continuing through November 1, 2025 In the first two decades of her career, it was often presumed that Ann Gale’s work should be appreciated in the historical context of Bay Area Figurative painting. But Gale has lived near Seattle that entire time, and her work has always been more responsive to other influences. Her aesthetic […]

Is it possible to translate someone else’s experience accurately? This is the question at the heart of two concurrent exhibitions by Julio César Morales. “Ojo” is a mid-career survey, while “My America” is a selective group of new watercolors and a light and sound installation.

From 2021 to 2023, Brea Sounders engaged in a conversation with an early pre-ChatGPT AI programmed with a female identity. From that engagement, she developed an archive that forms the basis for “Blue Women.”

Hiroshi Sato uses photographs by Ansel Adams as reference material for his exhibition “Grounds.” While the paintings may represent an outdated image of college life as their subject matter, that is exactly what makes them relevant today.

With each piece Ishan Clemenco presents in his exhibition titled “Calipers,” ideas fly. So much so that each of the six works can be matched with an equal number of themes.

With a new suite of fourteen color-soaked, rectangular abstractions, Marsha Cottrell challenges assumptions about perspective, visibility, and collaborative analog technologies.

Tor Archer explores the connection between the transcendent and botanical worlds in welded metal sculptures. Using contemporary materials, the artist combines the human, the plant, and the divine worlds.

Oliver Lee Jackson is a Zen master of painting. His blend of figuration set amid abstract backgrounds delves into epic themes of art, human nature and those places where the two intersect.