Trinidad: Joy Station, created by Los Angeles-based artist Beatriz Cortez, imagines a future communal space station dedicated to multicultural coexistence, the survival of indigenous peoples, and experiences of joy. The installation draws its name from Trinidad, Colorado, the home of Drop City, one of the early artist communes founded in the United States in the…

Beatriz Cortez and Rafa Esparza present a new iteration of their collaborative installation, Nomad 13. Taking the form of an unconventional space capsule built from adobe bricks and steel, the structure houses a garden of indigenous plants originally cultivated by the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations. The garden refers to the long history of plant…

Presented in collaboration with Farhang Foundation, Focus Iran 3: Contemporary Photography and Video is the third biennial juried exhibition of international photography and video works that offer multiple perspectives about Iran and Iranian culture. Featuring a wide spectrum of emerging and mid-career artists from around the world, Focus Iran 3 democratizes the art form of…

On the Inside is a group show of LGBTQ+ artists who are currently incarcerated. The art is made from basic materials the prisoners have access to behind bars: mostly letter-sized paper, dull pencils, ball-point pen ink tubes (the hard shell is deemed too dangerous), and unlikely innovations such as using an asthma inhaler with Kool-aid to…

John T. Riddle Jr. (1933-2002) was a sculptor, painter, printmaker, teacher, and curator. His aesthetics focused on chronicling the history, struggles, and triumphs of black life through figurative paintings and prints, small and large-scale abstract ceramic sculptures, assemblage, and iron works constructed from found objects. He was deeply moved by the 1965 Watts Rebellion, and…

Informed by a long-standing interest in ecological issues, Cynthia Minet’s animal sculptures — featuring her signature use of found plastic materials and LED lights — address the complicated roles of plastic, consumer culture, and electricity in modern life. Minet’s Jacked: Panthera Atrox is one-part animal and one-part machine combining the form of the panthera leo…

For over 30 years, Echiko Ohira has created a vast body of work using repurposed paper. Her deep love of the material stretches back to her childhood in Japan, where her family home was filled with paper shoji screens and calligraphic scrolls. Her father’s old architectural blueprints often served as a substrate for Ohira’s earliest…

RAW: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism features nine contemporary artists who work with commodities including sugar, salt, copper, porcelain, and water to explore the historical and contemporary effects of global capitalism. The artists’ deliberate use of these materials acknowledges the complex and enduring legacy of the capitalistic structures that produced these raw materials, such as slavery,…