Happy spring from Artwrld

How to Fly is a site-specific photomural by visual artist Sadie Barnette installed in CAAM’s atrium. Born and raised in Oakland, California, Barnette incorporates photographs she has taken of locations across the state with pictures from her family archives. The installation includes references to Barnette’s past artworks, as well as her signature motifs, such as glitter, rhinestones, cars, and plant life. The collection of images, ranging from a cousin’s birthday cake to a well-worn copy of Toni Morrison’s novel Jazz, are set at varying scales against an ombre rainbow backdrop, adding to the surfeit of color and pattern. Barnette has described herself as a “keeper of the past,” someone whose role it is to tend to the historical archive, including its moments big and small. While the photomural serves to chronicle and monumentalize her story and family history with a sense of humor and play, it is also an invitation for viewers to see themselves, their loved ones, and the magic of the everyday in their own lives.

Sep 30 - Oct 3

Persistence of Vision is The Pit's second solo exhibition by LA-based artist Jennifer King, featuring twelve new ceramic works experimenting with non-traditional glazing, painting, and high-fire techniques. Drawing from the subconscious, King explores the vase as a historically significant object of storytelling, memory, and nostalgia, embellished with dangling ceramic flowers and organic forms conveying opulence and latent motion. A central work, Splintering the Sun, pushes the vessel into a deconstructed state, introducing figurative tension between ruin and transformation.

Mar 21 - Apr 30

The center does not hold, it blooms is Tamara Gonzales's fourth solo exhibition with The Pit, featuring new mosaic wall works and sculptures. Developed during a residency in Limassol, Cyprus, the works are shaped by Mediterranean light, water, and layered history. Dolphins, fish motifs, waves, and Greek architecture permeate the compositions, rendered in glass tile mosaics that closely mirror Gonzales's on-site watercolors. Color functions as a living force, pattern as a carrier of memory, and painting as a devotional act where ancestral knowledge and spiritual practice converge.

Mar 21 - Apr 30

The First Garden is a solo exhibition of new work by Paulin Paris. Drawing on philosophy and sustained encounters with nature, the exhibition centers on the Tapis de feuilles series, large-scale paintings inspired by forest floors where layered leaves form rhythmic fields of color. Subtle faces emerge within the foliage, establishing a reciprocal gaze between viewer and image and reflecting on consciousness, presence, and the boundary between artwork and lived environment. The exhibition is curated by Sabine Paris.

Feb 21 - Apr 4

OCHI presents The View from Upstairs, an exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Cooper Cox. Painted from a vantage point overlooking an Idaho mountain range, the works translate speculative, AI-assisted imagery into oil on canvas. Drawing on landscape traditions, Cox examines how place is shaped by memory, technology, and mediated perception rather than direct observation.

Feb 24 - Apr 4

David Shull’s third exhibition with NOON Projects draws from a fifteen year body of work examining sentimentality, romance, and everyday materials. Sculptures, paintings, drawings, and photographs reinterpret flowers, domestic objects, and industrial surfaces through associative gestures and recontextualization. Referencing figures such as Flawless Sabrina, the works trace personal histories of love and friendship while maintaining a direct, materially focused approach.

Feb 20 - Apr 4