Pure color and pure joy are seldom as close as they are in Lisa Hoke’s The Gravity of Color, New Britain.

Rob Wynne is not afraid of beauty and its seductive shimmer, albeit beauty of a somewhat tongue-in-cheek sort, spiked with a shot of self-awareness.

The particular pleasure in tracking the evolution of a painter’s oeuvre was abundantly indulged by this retrospective of Anthony Palliser’s work.

The city’s remorseless self-destruction and relentless rebuilding is the subject of an untitled exhibition of recent work by Catherine Borg, a Bay Area native who arrived in Las Vegas in 2004 after five years in New York.

Thomas Houseago’s first U.S. solo exhibition, “Serpent,” was a promising start for David Kordansky’s new digs in Culver City.