Some of our favorite women artists from the Los Angeles region. Some we’ve known since the Al’s Bar days. But all would have felt right at home there.

Since even before Al’s Bar, Joe Potts has earned the respect of countless Los Angeles-area artists, both for his visual art and his musical explorations. And he has extended that acclaim to a global audience.

Working with wood, a notoriously difficult medium, Leah Doyle finds an extraordinary variety of imagery and presents it with unexpected grace and subtlety.

In the 1980s and 90s, Los Angeles-based artist Gary Matteson was creating works that were eerily predictive of today’s social and political divisions. Musée du Al takes great pleasure in presenting this look back at a time when the first cracks were just beginning to appear.

A look at the depiction of animals as they appear in the imaginary worlds dreamed up by artists. Inspired by the work of Marnie Weber.