R. Nelson Parrish: streetseasky | Rendering a kinetic impression of the Southern Californian landscape, Parrish visually distills the iconic elements of surf, sun, and highway through glass-like resin, wall mounted objects.

Ultimately seeking the inter-connectedness of body and landscape, R. Nelson Parrish uses...

Dion Johnson: Vivid Slipstream | A new body of work of dynamic opposites; of expansiveness and compression, darkness and light.

In the tradition of Karl Benjamin and Lorser Feitelson, and their interest in the environment and landscape, Johnson uses color to evoke the...

Antonia Wright: Be | The sad, strange, beautiful vulnerability and, at times, painful faces of the human condition are all considerations in the work of Miami-based artist Antonia Wright. Wright explores the various politics and comic facets of human experience through a multifarious, process-oriented...

Jennifer Wolf: Landscape | Wolf unveils an exquisite series of fluid abstractions. The paintings are composed using ground mineral pigments, which she has been collecting from geographic sites for over a decade. Utilizing the varied properties of the different minerals, the paintings employ intuitive...

Nicolas Shake: Significance Swells | Returning to his home in the high desert of Palmdale in 2008, at the apex of the economic downturn, the artist found sections of his neighborhood abandoned and piles of domestic rubble in the surrounding landscape; an environment rife...

Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open | The first major museum survey of the artist's life and work features paintings, photographs, toys, sketchbooks, and videos, presented in a novel gallery setting that evokes Baseman's childhood home, replete with family snapshots and furnishings.

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Charles Luckman, William Pereira, Welton Becket, Paul R. Williams, LAX, Theme Building; perspective view, 1961, Pencil, watercolor, and gouache on board, 60 x 88.3 cm (23 5/8 x 34 3/4 in.). © The Luckman Partnership, Inc. | a Salas O'Brien Company

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John Chiara: Los Angeles | San Francisco-based artist John Chiara pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium through his choice of process and the mastery of its possibilities. His approach is distinguished by its incredible physicality and recalls the early days of the medium...

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The (artist) shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it." -- Anais Nin

Shane Guffogg: The...

Mark Steven Greenfield: Animalicious | Featuring approximately 14 works completed over the past two years, the exhibition further explores issues surrounding the development of African-American stereotype through works on wood, Duralar and cotton embroidery, several of which will be on display for the first...

Jay Mark Johnson: No Such Place | A critical exploration of our obsession with technology and how our use of these machines not only dominates the environment, it also fashions the very manner in which we perceive and interact with the world.

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Nathan Mabry, In Your Face (Number 9), 2006, C-print on Sintra, © Nathan Mabry, courtesy of Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Beg Borrow and Steal | This exhibition brings together artists from different generations whose works abandon the search for new visuals, seeking...

Being Here | The exhibition features photographic works by 10 extraordinary artists whose imagery derives from the experience of living and/or working in the Inland Empire (IE). Each of the their creative works provide us with a unique view and perspective of life in...

Each week This Artweek.LA presents five current exhibitions we feel represent the best of the Los Angeles art scene. This week, however, we have decided to feature a single extensive career retrospective devoted to the work of one of the most influential yet under-recognized...

Denatured Nature | The Scripps College Ceramic Annual -- the longest-running exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States -- opens for its 69th consecutive year with "Denatured Nature," which focuses on artists who alter objects via a variety of techniques-including misdirection and irony-to...

photo l.a. | Los Angeles' longstanding photographic art fair returns to the historic Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for its 22nd edition on January 17-21, featuring photoBOOK LA, a new platform for publishers and book artists.

Continuing the discourse on photography's place in the fine...

Andrew Schoultz: Fall Out | San Francisco-based artist Andrew Schoultz translates the motifs in his kinetic two-dimensional works into a real scale three-dimensional installation - presenting an interrelated combination of painting, sculpture, drawing, and collage. Referencing the social constructions and implications of a public...

Doug Ohlson: Works from the 1980s | A native of Cherokee, Iowa, Doug Ohlson (1936 - 2010) exchanged the effortless horizons of the Midwest for the bare-knuckles bright lights of New York City in 1961. Though the city proved to be the ideal springboard...

Cole Sternberg: strip mall shopping center outlet mall mall of america | In the artist's ongoing sociopolitical discussion, Sternberg delves into the idea of consumption as a perceived 'right' of Americans; a 'right' that is perpetuated and celebrated by the media to thus spread...

Ed Moses: The Crackle Paintings | Moses' six decade long career is distinguished by his continually evolving process; in The Crackle Paintings we see a further continuation of his process and aesthetic.

Moses began exhibiting at the legendary Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles,...