All of those things at once

Sometimes they are exquisitely rendered portraits, and sometimes they are cartoonish with doodles on top. And sometimes Adam Wever-Glen’s paintings are all of those things on one canvas.

The Sacramento artist mixes his refined figurative work with electric squiggles and smiley faces plastered on clouds or masks; childlike flat-perspective houses and luscious, swirling, classic Wayne Thiebaud-style impasto in his body of work currently up at WAL Public Market Gallery. Wever-Glen may be exploring different techniques and styles, but the outcome is reliably intriguing and well-executed.

He shows with Bekah Wilson Smith’s mixed media works, which explore personal and collective memories in relation to capitalism, in Temporary Destinations.