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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 While the paintings may represent an outdated image of college life as their subject matter, that is exactly what makes them relevant today.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.
Known for his caustic satire, painterly skill and cross-cultural iconography, Enrique Chagoya positions himself as both chronicler and court jester, exposing cycles of political folly that repeat with unnerving predictability.
Best known for his wire diamond chairs, Harry Bertoia also created monotypes, open-form bronzes, and his resonant “Sonambient” sculptures — metal planes and rods transformed into instruments of space and sound.
Holly Wong embraces her personal traumas as creative engines that now motivate her prolific production. It’s all carried out in her home, much of it laid out in fragments and finalized on her living-room carpet.
