In this appealing show by husband-and-wife artists based in Los Angeles—she’s a potter; he’s a painter and printmaker—Kusaka and Wood draw inspiration not only from art historical precedents but also from each other. Kusaka’s Hellenistic stoneware vases, decorated with triceratopses and brontosauri and witches on broomsticks, are echoed in Wood’s paintings and drawings, which include jauntily decorated vessels, as well as flowering plants. Two of Wood’s gouaches depict short, wide pots whose surfaces redeploy Matisse’s “Red Studio” and “Red Room”: domestic visions of a painter who, like these talented figures, saw no point in distinguishing between the fine arts and the decorative. Through June 13.
A portrait of Shio Kusaka, Aubrey Mayer, 2006