orange county cool
A striking new multi-disciplinary exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art examines the emergence of mid-century Modernism and Southern California’s “cool” self-image.

hard-edge, hard-won: karl benjamin
The remarkable career of one of The Abstract Classicists now on view…

abstract classicism in retrospect
Writer/curator Peter Selz recalls the making of a term, a movement, and a moment in West Coast painting.

a mutable feast
In drawing, sculpture, video, and installation works, Santa Fe artist James Drake tackles difficult subjects with exquisite versatility.

the illusionist
Shifting between sculpture and painting, between deception and perception, Tony DeLap’s rigorously spare works please and tease the eye. Now you see it, how you don’t.

material maps
British-born, Oregon-based sculptor Matthew Picton layers time, space and politics with his seductive cartographies.