In one of Liséa Lyons’s 13 new untitled chromogenic prints, a seated young girl contemplates a birthday cake with lit candles on a colorful tablecloth. Her chin resting on her hands, slouchy posture and downcast eyes seem to be at odds with the spirit of the occasion.

Motion is the operative element in David Ellis’s work, whether kinetic sculpture, stop-action animation or hang-on-the-wall paintings. Ten years ago he created the first of what he has come to call motion paintings: time-lapse video records of a painting’s continuous making, unmaking and remaking.

The Los Angeles-based artist collective Fallen Fruit has gained the attention of the art world and local community alike with a fusion of populism, relational esthetics and adolescent antics. The trio—David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young—began mapping fruit trees growing on or extending over public property in Los Angeles in 2004 and making the maps free to the public.

In his first U.S. solo exhibition, titled “Yesterday’s Heroes, Tomorrow’s Fools,” Zsolt Bodoni, who is Romanian-born but Hungarian by descent, presented what initially seemed a modest exploration of painting’s formal issues.

Santa Fe-based abstract painter Lawrence Fodor has shown his process-oriented work extensively on the West Coast for nearly three decades. His most recent output was the subject of two shows in Santa Fe, one last winter at the Lannan Foundation and another this summer at Linda Durham.