Made in L.A. 2018, the latest iteration of the Hammer Museum's biennial, is a powerful antidote to the fatalistic, apocolyptic imaginaries dominating 2018's media landscape.

My first impression of Meryl Pataky's untitled solo show at Stephanie Chefas Projects in Portland was a sense of corrupted beauty. Gorgeous glowing tubes of color caked in a viscous, dripping black fluid.

Heimir Björgúlfsson makes art populated by birds and wild animals, snippets of the natural world, and bits of detritus evidencing the human hand.