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bean finneran
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Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison: "Force Majeure" at Cardwell Jimmerson

William Powhida: "No One Here Gets Out Alive" at Charlie James Gallery

Huguette Caland: "Autumn" at LA Contemporary

Asako Narahasi: "Coming Closer and Getting Further Away" at Rose Gallery

Mercedes Helnwein: "East of Eden" at Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Alyssa Monks: "Steam" at Sarah Bain Gallery

"Hidden Wounds, Paper Bullets: Iranian Contemporary Art" at Grand Central Art Center of CSU Fullerton

"San Diego NOW: Eight UCSD Visual Artists" at Oceanside Museum of Art

Lauren DiCioccio at Jack Fischer Gallery

Paul Madonna: "Album 01: In What Era Will You Get Stuck" at Electric Works

Ryan Boyle: "Concrete Poetry" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Jim Riswold: "Art People and a Cow" at Augen Gallery

Homare Ikeda: "Voicers" at van Straaten Gallery

James W. Washington, Jr. at Woodside/Braseth Gallery

Leo Saul Berk: "Deep, Dark" at Lawrimore Project

Karen Woods: "Inside Looking Out" at Stewart Gallery

"The Surreal Life: Gerry Snyder and Marco Rosichelli" at the New Mexico Museum of Art

"Death of a Propane Salesman: Anxiety and the Texas Artist" at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts

John Baldessari: “A Print Retrospective from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation” at the Legion of Honor Museum

Hadley Holliday: “Paintings” at Solway Jones

Betty Gold: “Color’form” at Gebert Gallery, Venice

Andrew Bush: “Vector Portraits” at M + B

Merion Estes: “Lost Horizons” at Gallery Anaïs

“An American Aesthetic Identity: Through the Eyes of American Women Artists” at the Carnegie Art Museum

Bella Feldman and JP Long: “Dialogue” at Sculpturesite Gallery

Servando Garcia: "Struggle: Paintings and Sculpture" at Togonon Gallery

Suhas Bhujbal: "Reincarnation" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Crystal Liu: "Give Us Our Dream: Part One" at Hosfelt Gallery

MK Guth: "Terrain Change" at Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Sherrie Wolf: "Counterpoint: New Paintings" at Laura Russo Gallery

Jonathan Saiz: “Industry” at Plus Gallery

Bradd Skubinna at Francine Seders Gallery

Mark Calderon: "Dominion" at Greg Kucera Gallery

Catherine Green at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art

Ann Weber “Corrugated” at the Boise Art Museum

Jill Foley “The Mountain” at Conduit Gallery

Stephanie Wilde: “Harmed” at Salt Lake City Art Center

“Superficiality and Superexcrescence” at Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery

Korin Faught: “Echo” at Corey Helford Gallery

Misako Inaoka: “Survival Game” at David Salow Gallery

Greg Miller: “Recent Work” at William Turner Gallery

“West Coast Drawings: Drawings VIII” at Koplin Del Rio

Monique van Genderen at The Happy Lion

Rosana Castrillo Diaz: “Recent Paintings” at Anthony Meier Fine Art

castaneda/reiman: “places we have never been” at Stephen Wirtz Gallery

Ursula Schneider: “The River” at Braunstein Quay Gallery

Hilary Pecis: “Intricacies of Phantom Content” at Triple Base Gallery

“Marking Portland: The Art of Tattoo” at Portland Art Museum

"New Discoveries" at Butters Gallery

Merrill Wagner at Traver Gallery

Emmi Whitehorse: “Forth” at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

Halim Alkarim: "The Witness Archive," at Robischon Gallery

Kim Ferrer: "Childsplay" at Walker Fine Art

“L.A. Noir” at Sullivan Goss

Trang Lê: “Mesopotamia” at Ruth Bachofner Gallery

Doni Silver Simons: “…lines…” at Sherry Frumkin Gallery

Jane O’Neal: “Environmental Memory: Part 1 - Home Grown” at DNJ Gallery

Matthew Brandt: “Chocolate, Bees, Dust, Sperm & Sprinkles” at Cardwell Jimmerson

“Neighbors: 17 Santa Barbara Artists in Ventura” at Sylvia White Gallery

Nan Grand-Jean: “Recent Paintings” at room for painting room for paper

Jeremy Morgan: “Imaginal Geographies” at Himmelberger Gallery

Seamus Conley: “Flash/Dissolve” at Andrea Schwartz Gallery

Eva Bovenzi at Graduate Theological Union

Robert Brady: “In My Backyard” at Stremmel Gallery 

Mary Henry: “Paintings And Drawings” at PDX Contemporary Art

Gail Tremblay: “Recycled Images/Iroquois Forms” at Froelick Gallery

Jim Green: “Unplugged” at MCA/Denver

Eirik Johnson: “Sawdust Mountain” at G. Gibson Gallery

Paul Metivier at Gallery IMA

“Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from Los Angeles” at the Hammer Museum

“Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures” at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Leonard Edmondson and Emerson Woelffer at Tobey C. Moss Gallery

“The Ballad That Becomes An Anthem” at ACME

Irit Batsry: “Beach at Nightfall / Caution” at Shoshana Wayne Gallery

“Inside/Outside: Artist Environments” at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art

Cornelia Schulz: “Recent Paintings” at Patricia Sweetow Gallery

Eva Speer: “Consolation” at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art

James Kuiper at Friesen Gallery

Gregory Grenon at Traver Gallery

James Gill at Cattle Track

"Farming in the 21st Century” at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts

“Human/Nature: Artists Respond To A Changing Planet” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Berkeley Art Museum

Reneé Lawter: “Welcome to the Greenhouse” at Black Maria Gallery

David E. Stone: “Unanticipated Despair (Despite Prior Naïve Optimism)” at Charlie James Gallery

Penelope Gottleib: “NO $ DOWN” at Kim Light/Lightbox

Lisa Adams: “The Future of Paradise Past” at Lawrence Asher

Amy Bennett: “At the Lake” at Richard Heller

George Legrady: "Stardust" at Edward Cella Art+Architecture

"The Flowering: The Fourfold Sense" at Gallery 16

Cathy Stone: “Black” at LIMN Gallery

John Hundt: "Totems" at Jack Fischer Gallery

Stephen Kaltenbach: “Nuclear Projects and Other Works” at Verge Gallery and Studio Project

Ian Boyden: "Let The Stones Tell It" at Augen Gallery

G. Lewis Clevenger: “New Paintings” at Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery

Michael Dailey at Greg Kucera and Francine Seders

Scott Foldesi at James Harris Gallery

“LA Paint” at the Oakland Museum

Takako Yamaguchi: “The Plain Sense of Things” at Cardwell Jimmerson

Timothy Karpinski: “The Place I Call Home” at Thinkspace Gallery

Carol Es: “She Dreamed She Remembered” at George Billis Gallery

David Korty at Michael Kohn Gallery

Ruth Weisberg: “Guido Cagnacci and the Resonant Image” at the Norton Simon Museum

Lisa Esherick: “Casino Paintings” at George Krevsky Gallery

Nina Zurier: “Recent Photographs” at Room for Painting/Room for Paper

Roland Petersen: “A Natural Order” at Hackett-Freedman Gallery

Katy Stone and Yvette Molina: “Tickling Thicket” at Johansson Projects

John Yoyogi Fortes and Linda Raynsford at Pamela Skinner/Gwenna Howard Contemporary Art

Laura Ross-Paul: “Northwestopia” at Froelick Gallery

C. L. Utley at Gallery 63 Eleven

Eric Bashor at Pacini Lubel Gallery

Bruce Conner: “Mabuhay Gardens” at Berkeley Art Museum

Kerry James Marshall: “Portraits, Pin-Ups, and Wistful Romantic Idylls” at Koplin del Rio Gallery

Eric Sall: “High and Wide” at Acuna-Hansen

Edgar Arceneaux: “Correlations and Isomorphisms” at Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

Tanya Batura: “Monochroma” at Western Project

Kyle Field: “More Country Questions” at Taylor de Cordoba

Christopher Murphy: “The Dawn of Luxury” at Lora Schlesinger

Sarah Walker: “Beacons, Floaters and Lost Objects” at Gregory Lind Gallery

Paul Schiek: “The Thing About You is You Will End Up Like Me” at Stephen Wirtz Gallery

Frank Lobdell: “The Dance Series 1969-1972” at Hackett-Freedman Gallery

Charles Fahlen: “Let’s Pretend” at Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Sean Healy: “Life in Black and White” at Elizabeth Leach Gallery

“Blurring The Line: The Art of Thread” at Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery

Nathan DiPietro at Punch Gallery

Manfred Lindenberger at Foster/White

Georgia O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle at the San Diego Museum of Art

“Light in August” by Heather Carroll at David Salow Gallery

“Revelations in Drawing” by Jerome Witkin at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

“while tides guide you back home” by Edwin Ushiro at Project: Gallery

“Don’t Worry About The Motion In The Ocean” by Tillman Kaiser at Honor Fraser

Pat O’Neill at Rosamund Felsen

"Slightly All the Time” by Mike Stilkey at Kinsey/Desforges

“RANK” at LAXART by Kori Newkirk (Los Angeles)

“TelAranaTelAranaTelA” by Ana Teresa Fernandez at The Luggage Store (San Francisco)

Donald Feasél at Brian Gross Gallery (San Francisco)

Sabina Sulé at Micaela Gallery (San Francisco)

Sonia Kasparian at Butters Gallery (Portland)

Jacqueline Ehlis at New American Art Union (Portland)

“Power (less-ness) Smorgasbord” by Karen Ganz at Howard House Contemporary Art (Seattle)

“Dare alla Luce” by Mandy Greer at Bellevue Arts Museum (Bellevue)

“RedYellowBlue” at Another Year in L.A. (Los Angeles)

“Useable Histories” by Carmine Iannaccone at Solway Jones (Los Angeles)

“Unforeseen Frontier” by Greg Miller at William Turner Gallery (Los Angeles)

“Cloisters’ Confessions” by Masami Teraoka at Samuel Freeman Gallery (Los Angeles)

“Paintings, Prints, Sculpture” by Ynez Johnston at Cardwell Jimmerson (Los Angeles)

“Paintings” by Paul Pratchenko at Braunstein Quay Gallery (San Francisco)

“Ghost Hesh” by Daniel Tierney at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (San Francisco)

“Works on Paper 1930-1960” by David Park at Hackett-Freedman Gallery (San Francisco)

TJ Norris at New American Art Union (Portland)

Tsilli Pines at Ogle (Portland)

“Canciones de la Terra” by Alfredo Arreguin at Linda Hodges Gallery (Seattle)

“Gem Box” by Alan Fulle at Traver Gallery (Seattle)

“Complications of Nature” by Tim Forcum at d.e.n. contemporary (Los Angeles)

“Set a Course for Wayward Schemes” by Megan Geckler at Bert Green Fine Art (Los Angeles)

Raffi Kalenderian at Black Dragon Society (Los Angeles)

“Estofada” by Aaron Smith at Koplin Del Rio (Los Angeles)

“Obsession” by Franklin Williams at Lizabeth Oliveria (Los Angeles)

“Oblivion,” by David Maisel at Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara)

“The Road to Paradise” by Chester Arnold at Catherine Clark Gallery (San Francisco)

Chris Ballantyne: “When The World Was Flat” at Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco)

“A Matter of Scale” by Robert Buelteman at Spur Projects (Portola Valley)

“Army of No One” by Ryan Pierce at Lisa Dent Gallery (San Francisco)

“Like, Love, Lust” by Michael Sarich at the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno)

Gretchen Bennett at Howard House Contemporary Art (Seattle)

“Burpee Garden Paintings” by Alden Mason at Greg Kucera Gallery (Seattle)

“To and From the Printed Page” by Jess Pasadena Museum of California Art (Pasadena)

“Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler” by Carole Caroompas at Western Project (Los Angeles)

“Everything is a Love Story” by Matthew Heller at DCA Fine Art (Los Angeles)

“Perfect Entrance” by Tim Sullivan at Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles)

“Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surf” at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (SBCAF) (Santa Barbara)

“Seventy Years of Painting” by Wayne Thiebaud at Laguna Beach Art Museum (Laguna Beach)

“1957” at Sullivan Goss (Santa Barbara)

“West of the Great Divide: 1968-2008” by Paul Kos at Gallery Paule Anglim (San Francisco)

“Detroit” by Katherine Westerhout at Electric Works (San Francisco)

“Evolutionary Soup” by Kirsten Stolle at Dolby-Chadwick Gallery (San Francisco)

“slowblivion” by Joe Macca at PDX Contemporary Art (Portland)

Hap Tivey / Gregg Renfrow at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland)

“My Phone Tells Me To Do Bad Things” by Ries Niemi at Punch Gallery (Seattle)

“Minidoka On My Mind” by Roger Shimomura at Greg Kucera Gallery (Seattle)

“Las Vegas Diaspora” at the Las Vegas Art Museum (Las Vegas)

“Belief System” by Jeffrey Vallance at Margo Leavin (Los Angeles)

“Potion Paintings and Drawings” by Linda Stark at Angles Gallery (Los Angeles)

“Five Years, Ten Years, Maybe Never” by Matthew Monahan at MOCA (Los Angeles)

“Tracking Identity” by Martin Gantman at HAUS Gallery (Pasadena)

“New Paintings” by Becca Mann at Roberts & Tilton (Los Angeles)

“Cookie Cutter” by Lucy Gaylord-Lindholm at Jack Fischer Gallery (San Francisco)

“Troubled Goods, a Ten-Year Survey (1997-2007)” by Robert Colescott at Meridian Gallery (San Francisco)

“The New Europeans” by Jim Goldberg at Stephen Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco)

“The Flower Series” by Brenda Louie at Sacramento State Library Annex Gallery and the Pence Gallery (Sacramento)

Eugenia Pardue at B Rogers Gallery and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Portland/ Eugene)

Yoshihiro Kitai at Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery (Portland)

Samantha Scherer at Davidson Contemporary (Seattle)

Kathryn Altus at Lisa Harris Gallery (Seattle)

“I Stole Stealth (Coyote Taught Me)” by Erika Wanenmacher at Linda Durham Contemporary Art (Santa Fe)

“The Urban Myth: Visions of the City” at Sullivan Goss (Santa Barbara)

Whitney Bedford at Cherry & Martin (Los Angeles)

Robert Hudson at Frank Lloyd Gallery (Los Angeles)

“Kitsch Recovery Progrom” by Manuel Ocampo at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery (Los Angeles)

“Not Narrative Enough” by Marc Trujillo at David Salow Gallery(Los Angeles)

“Small Things/Te Voglat” by Alexis Weidig at Overtones Gallery(Los Angeles)

“Some Other Day in the Garden” by Paul Mullins at Nathan Larramendy Gallery(Ojai)

“Represent” by Walter Robinson, “Better Living” by Andy Diaz Hope at Catherine Clark Gallery (San Francisco)

Amy Trachtenberg at Brian Gross Fine Art (San Francisco)

“light house” by Chris Daubert at b. sakata garo (Sacramento)

Junko Yamamoto at Gallery IMA (Seattle)

Joe Feddersen at Stonington Gallery (Seattle)

Francis Celentano at Laura Russo (Portland)

Michael Kessler at Butters Gallery (Portland)

Matthew Mitros at Portland Art Center (Portland)

“Chopped Chromed Customized” at the Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe)

ROGUE WAVE ’07: 12 Artists from Los Angeles at LA Louver (Los Angeles)

“Unfurled” by Ruth Weisberg at Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles)

“Sweet Home Valhalla” by Van Arno at Corey Helford Gallery (Los Angeles)

“Anna Moore” by Julie Orser at Paul Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles)

“Chasing the Rabbit” by Marion Lane at BLK/MRKT (Los Angeles)

Rebecca Bollinger at Walter Maciel Gallery (Los Angeles)

Mary Cecile Gee: “Field Equations: An (Accidental) Self-Portrait” at Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions (SCAPE) (Corona Del Mar)

Wolfgang Paalen at Frey Norris (San Francisco)

Dennis McNulty at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art (San Francisco)

Livia Stein at Togonon Gallery (San Francisco)

“Duck Soup” by Ana Bagayan, Michael Beck, Justin DeGarmo, Joseph Daniel Fiedler at Varnish Fine Art (San Francisco)

Martín Ramírez at San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose)

“15 Years” by Ian Harvey at JayJay Gallery (Sacramento)

Kate Hunt at Davidson Contemporary (Seattle)

Cris Bruch at Lawrimore Project (Seattle)

LA Arts Month

Los Angeles Art Fair

Photo LA, 2010

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, January 2010

Lightcatcher Building Opens at the Whatcom Museum

Getty Foundation Grant Announced

American Sculptor Peter Forakis

Fisher Collection Comes to SFMOMA

Oakland Museum of CA Receives New Grant Award

Major Gift Announcement at Palm Springs Art Museum

LACMA Announces New Department Head

Joint Operations Agreement Reached

Julius Shulman

Abstract Painter Frederick Hammersley Dead at 90

Four Major Arts Grants Awarded by James Irvine Foundation

Upcoming Beyond the Border Art Fair

Tamarind Institute Receives $100,000 Grant

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden joins with AFTA

Artist Christian Moeller Awarded Commission

L.A. C.O.L.A. Awards Announced

Philanthropist Leonore Annenberg Passes Away

Los Angeles Artwalks

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Opens Rooftop Garden

Denver Art Museum Announces New Appointment

The Los Angeles Art Show Reports Record Attendance

SMOCA Awards Catalyst Award

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

The Nevada Museum of Art

Hammer Museum Announces New Appointments

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)

The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC)

Chinatown Art Night

The Sam Francis Foundation

LACMA Statement on MOCA Resolution

Los Angeles Arts Month 2009

Los Angeles Art Show

ArtLA

The Getty Foundation

The Oceanside Museum of Art

Terry Toedtemeier

Daniel Foster

The Center for Curatorial Leadership

Melanie Fales

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

11th Cairo Biennale

The Henry Art Gallery

The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

The Pilchuck Glass School

49 Geary Street

Patricia Faure

Los Angeles Art Show

The Claremont Museum of Art

California Hall of Fame

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art

The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

2008 California Biennial

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Laguna College of Art & Design

Morono Kiang Gallery

Gary Garrels

Ceramist, Ralph Bacerra

The Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA)

The California Community Foundation

The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture

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