Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? – an extraordinary collection of 182 color and black-and-white photos. Stories about women and how sports have shaped their identities. See pictures of sports stars Marion Jones, Chris Evert, Althea Gibson, Amelia Earhart, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Co-curators Jane Gottesman and Geffrey Biddle have assembled some of America’s best photojournalists and fine-art photographers including Mary Ellen Mark, Dorothea Lange, Tina Barney, Andrea Modica, and Annie Liebovitz. At USC Fisher Gallery. Ends 10/30.

Tracey Snelling: Last Picture Show, sculptures and photographs and Graciela Sacca: Outside, photos, video heliography on view at Stephen Cohen Gallery. Ends 11/6.

Su-Chen Hung: The Red Sea Series on view at CSUN, Northridge. Three new installations by San Francisco artist – each one uses various objects highlighted by red thread overlaps. Ends 9/25.

100 Artists See God organized by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston. Partial list of participating women include Eleanor Antin, Nicole Eisenman, Rebecca Horn, Mary Kelly, Liz Larner, Nancy Rubins, Alexis Smith, and Marnie Weber. These artists use personal confession or analytical assessments and depict images of what grounds or inspires them/us. Ends 10/3.

The UAM Diaries: 1973 to 2004 The Glenn Years – a tribute to retiring University Art Director Constance W. Glenn. The exhibition highlights selected projects that document the museum’s history. Ends 10/10.

Speculative Terrain opens at the Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, organized by Gordon Fuglie, Gallery Director. Encompassing views of San Diego mountains, Salton Sea, wetlands and coastal areas, foothills of Santa Barbara, the exhibition shows the extensive landscapes of vernacular Southern California. Included among 30 artists are Sharon Allicotti, D. J. Hall, Soo Kim, Marina Moevs, Stephanie Sanchez, and Kim Stringfellow. Ends 11/4.

Short takes: Cecilia Z. Miquez, in Flights of Imagination, creates magical creatures that become sculpted dreams at Lewis Stern. Ends 10/23. Ana Mendieta displays the “eruption” of three small volcanoes on her silhouette at Griffin Gallery. Ends 10/16.

Ruth Askey