In this edition:

• Dozens of artists and students cover the campus of the César E. Chávez Learning Academies (CCLA) in a series of new murals.

• Clare Woods, Coco Young, and Márcia Falcão transform and reclaim landscape painting in solo shows at Night Gallery.

• A look inside the immersive installations of University of California, Irvine’s MFA graduates.

With the Help of Students, Street Artists Transform an LA High School

Well-known names and veteran muralists with deep ties to local communities were tapped for the project at César E. Chávez Learning Academies in San Fernando. | Matt Stromberg

Curator Michaëla Mohrmann Introduces Spiritual Geographies at UCI Langson IMCA

In this video, curator Michaëla Mohrmann introduces the exhibition Spiritual Geographies: Religion and Landscape Art in California at UCI Langson Institute and Museum of California Art. The exhibition examines how different religious outlooks shaped landscape painting between 1890 and 1930, contributing to California’s reputation as a mystical place.

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Diana Ruzova
Márcia Falcão: Flesh Monuments, Clare Woods: I Blame Nature, and Coco Young: Passage at Night Gallery

“Fleeting landscapes of the natural world and the body in motion are currently tucked away on a dead-end street in an industrial area of Downtown Los Angeles. In three solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Clare Woods reinterprets the still-life genre through oil on aluminum, Coco Young shows pastel-toned, oil-on-linen pastoral scenes, and Márcia Falcão presents curvaceous figures on canvas and paper.”

Claudia Ross
University of California, Irvine MFA Thesis Exhibition Part 2 at UCI’s CAC Gallery, Room Gallery, and University Art Gallery

“Three recent MFA graduates staged immersive exhibitions across the school’s Orange County campus, each with incisive, self-aware touches that challenge histories of gallery and institutional display.”

ON OUR RADAR 

Alice Wang: We Are Extraterrestrial at the Vincent Price Art Museum

“Alice Wang’s first solo museum show in the US features glass works, ceramics, prints, and a film that trace her explorations into seemingly unnatural phenomena in the natural world. Drawing heavily from science, Wang swings from the micro to the macro, spanning molecular structures and the overwhelming abyss of space. Over six years, Wang documented sites in the American Southwest, Iceland, and the Arctic with similar landscapes as other planets, weaving footage of these ‘alien’ sites with personal histories and drawing parallels between physical and psychological terrains.” — Matt Stromberg

For more exhibition recommendations, check out our list of 10 shows to see in Los Angeles this May.