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The article presents information on the exhibition "Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape: Five Decades of Painting" shown at Louis Stern Fine Arts in West Hollywood, California during April 22-August 28, 2004. Artist Helen Lundeberg has chiefly been recognized for her psychologically astute self-portraits and allegorical still lifes of the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1950s, however, she began to use spare, geometric shapes in abstract compositions that convey the quiescence of nature. The exhibition at Louis Stem Fine Arts of about 40 of her paintings demonstrated the quiet power of her work and its contemporary relevance.

Highlights the annual self-portrait exhibit of an elementary school in San Francisco Valley, California. Objectives of the project; Materials used; Artistic styles employed by the students.

The article focuses on a mural of actor Mickey Rourke at Echo Park in Los Angeles, California. Painted by Ruben Soto, an Echo Park-raised artist, electrician and aspiring filmmaker, in 1990, the mural is one half of a piece called "I Know Who I Am." The other half of the mural is a self-portrait of Soto on the opposite side of the freeway into Echo Park. Soto cites the reason why Rourke initially intrigued him as a subject matter.