Exploring the interesting relationship between creation and destruction.

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1. Maja Lisa Engelhardt explores creation through great whales and winged fowl at Elizabeth Harris Gallery
2. Beguilingly beautiful, XOOOOX’s women convey a sense of melancholy and introversion and allude to the growing displeasure with the uniform, consumption-driven hype of the fashion industry at Mead Carney
3. Natalie Frank pictures people in various states of disintegration. Intimate portraits, surreal scenes, and large-scale constructed narratives poke at what it means to be human: the absurdity, desire, violence, and loss or claim of self at ACME Los Angeles
4. “I am interested in religion, gender and sex as each attempts to categorize the individual and define the individual’s place within a society: instituting roles, rituals and traditions. I am a painter that engages in sculpture and body performance for the making of objects” at Western Project
5. The multi-layered compositions of tilted bars and stripes in colorfully orchestrated cubistic spaces that have characterized Ned Evans’ recent paintings have been distilled in his latest work into more minimal equations at Craig Krull Gallery
6. Nina Tichava interested in the overlap of nature and culture and the patterns present in both; the tension between them drives my exploration of color, surface and materialit .at George Billis