'Sunshine' by Sharon Ellis, 2005, Alkyd on canvas 42 x 34"

Intense color and incredible detail make Los Angeles artist Sharon Ellis’ new alkyd on canvas paintings of California landscapes vibrate with a visual sensuality that is almost overwhelming. Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica. 5/27 to 7/1.

An exhibition featuring new video and performance work by artist Coco Fusco at MC Gallery deals with the role of female military interrogators in the War on Terror. To 5/13.

Trying to throw open the door to all kinds of art and responses to the idea of 'The Romantic', the Delusionarium Series at CSUF Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana seeks to find a curatorial balance between art’s autonomy, curatorial themes and the exhibit space. However, clearly out of balance in this three part group exhibition of 15 artists is the presence of only five women artists, Marya Alford, Kathryn Andrews, Lindsay Brant, Tami Demaree, and Nicole Quaid. To 5/21.

The dripping mists of transparent images Ruth Weisberg paints onto unstretched canvas take on all the ghostly power of haunted memory in “New Beginnings”. Featuring her new 29 foot mural and a series of smaller paintings. At Jack Rutberg, Los Angeles. To 5/31.

'The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography' at the Skirball unravels, with the aid of the camera’s eye, the mistaken notion that American Jews are all white, middle-class and of European origin. Of the thirteen emerging and mid-career artists working in photography, video and mixed media, five are women: Nikki S. Lee, Shari Rothfarb Mekonen, Tirtza Evans, Jessica Shokrian, and Andrea Robbins. To 6/3.