master of modernism
In a body of work spanning over half a century, photographer Julius Shulman has created
some of architecture’s most memorable images and provided the definitive view of California’s Modernist legacy. He’s still going.

the pervasive artist
Creating work that is at once cartoony and serious, twisted and innocent, authentic and commercial, expensive and ubiquitous, Gary Baseman is his own hugely successful cultural hybrid.

projecting paradise
In her seductive, multi-layered installations, Los Angeles sculptor Won Ju Lim conjures visions of the built environment as a shimmering, precarious paradise.

redneck chic
A new breed of Northwest photographers are focusing on such down-to-earth subjects as RV homes, the Great Outdoors, and the plight of the working-class white American male.

phoenix rising?
Funky and innovative, Downtown Phoenix remains a draw to artistic urban pioneers. But can it succeed in escaping the shadow of civic neglect and development?

and just next door...
Upscale and comfortable, Scottsdale is less a part of the Phoenix art scene than its opposite.