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06/12/2026

Justin Ortiz, “Spider”, 2026. Oil on linen. 75 x 55 inches.

Justin Ortiz
Will I Live Again
Through June 27th

06/10/2026

Sarah M. Rodriguez
Whitney Biennial 2026
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
On view through August

Sarah M. Rodriguez collects organic materials, casts them individually in aluminum using sand casts and lost-wax casts, and welds the separate casts together as sculpture. The components welded together create freestanding forms meant to be encountered from all sides. The sculpture shifts and reveals different relationships between parts as the viewer moves around it. The visible weld joints and machine cuts are as formally important as the casts. For her, the forms emerge through an accumulative process. Each work develops over months as the collected materials determine their own resolution before casting. The original material is destroyed in the process, making every cast an irreversible transformation.

“I view these like fossils and I view them as being in between states of alive and dead and carrying traces of an imagined evolutionary process through their ongoing transformation from when I collect them to when they come to my studio.” — Sarah M. Rodriguez

Photography credit: Morgan Waltz

06/02/2026

In the late 1980’s, Harry Fonseca went on a series of road trips in the American West. “Stone Poem #18”, 1989 is one of a “series of paintings inspired by his visits to rock art sites in the Coso Range in the Eastern Sierra and Canyonlands Park in Utah. Sometimes Fonseca was drawn to
dotted patterns, spiral forms or anthropomorphic figures he saw, and other times it was animals like big horned sheep or deer that caught his attention.”

Fonseca wrote, “the Stone Poems are not meant to be so much an interpretive recording of rock images but a way of self-exploration. The canvases, some as large as 6’ by 12’, suggest the size and scope of petroglyphic panels in situ.”Fonseca wrote that, “these images were painted since the first of this year, 1989. They all deal with the petroglyphs of the Coso Range in Southern California. My intentions are to use these petroglyph images as a starting point to make paintings, not just to reproduce the petroglyphs themselves.” “I’m working with abstract images and figures that are hundreds of years old and hopefully making statements that are relevant to our time.”

Image: Harry Fonseca, “Stone Poem #18”, 1989. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas, framed. 73 x 59 inches.

Harry Fonseca: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Coyote
Pacific Design Center Design Gallery
On view through July 3rd
750 N. San Vicente Blvd.
LA, CA 90069

05/29/2026

Justin Ortiz, “Giant”, 2026. Oil on linen. 75 x 41 inches.

05/26/2026

In “Little Red Riding Hood”, 1985 , Jean Fisher writes that “a double masquerade takes place... as [Coyote] assumes the place of Wolf-Grandmother in the tale of Red Riding Hood....Fonseca’s Trickster takes up the language of the white man’s game but reverses the direction of play.” In this work, like many of his others during this time period, “Fonseca takes the polymorphous and satirical figure of Coyote as Trickster ...dresses ‘him’ in contemporary costumes, and sets him loose in the scenarios of white society.”
Fonseca says, “Coyote can be a vicious little character. But too long often he’s been turned into a cute little pastel dog.”
“However, I never forget he is wild, he is a dog, that he can bite very, very hard: he is a Survivor.”

Harry Fonseca
𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘦
On view through July 3rd
Pacific Design Center Design Gallery
750 N San Vicente Blvd. LA, CA 90069

Tuesday through Saturday
12-5PM & by appointment

Image: Harry Fonseca, “Once Upon a Time”, 1985. Acrylic on canvas. 47 1/2 x 65 1/2 inches.

05/21/2026

Justin Ortiz, “Witness”, 2026. Oil on linen. 75 x 41 inches.

05/19/2026

Justin Ortiz
𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯
On view through June 27th

Images: Installation photos of Justin Ortiz’s solo exhibition, 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯.

05/15/2026

Congratulations to Athena LaTocha () whose work “Thirteen Days”, 2017-19, is included in the exhibition “Stretching the Canvas: Ten Decades of Native Painting” at the National Museum of the American Indian ().

“‘Stretching the Canvas: Ten Decades of Native Painting’ explores how Native artists challenged perceptions of what constituted art and what Native art could and should look like. Featuring more than 50 works by over 40 artists, this exhibition tells the story of how American Indian art expanded after World War I and how Native painters began to advocate for themselves in a world that often ignored their talent. Artists such as Fred Kabotie, Tonita Peña, and Stephen Mopope carved out space for painting at a time when Native art was often dismissed. Later generations—including Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kay WalkingStick, Fritz Scholder, James Lavadour, Jeffrey Gibson, Dyani White Hawk, and Athena LaTocha—expanded the field even further, embracing a wide range of approaches. Over the span of ten decades, these artists and their work demonstrated the breadth, complexity, and continuing expansion of Native self-expression.”

Stretching the Canvas: Ten Decades of Native Painting
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Instituiton
May 15, 2026 - Spring 2027

Image: Athena LaTocha, “Thirteen Days”, 2017-19. Ink and earth on paper. 44 x 120 x 2 inches. Photo by Kyle Knodell. Collection of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.

05/12/2026

Special thanks to for their comprehensive review of 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘢: 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘦 for . The writing brings insightful context to Fonseca’s multifaceted practice.

Read the full review using the link in our bio.

05/08/2026

Historical through-lines run deeply within Ortiz’s work: Dürer’s gestures filtered through Sigmar Polke, Greek sculptural forms refracted through Jordaens and Rubens. This history-honed imagery still carries a visual charge—even if stripped of its context, ungendered, and pushed toward abstraction. For Ortiz, art history is neither burden nor authority, but raw material.

Justin Ortiz
𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯
Through June 27th

Image: Justin Ortiz, “Two Figures (after Dürer)”, 2024. Oil on canvas. 24 x 42 inches.

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