tierra

The wall labels are printed on recycled paper dyed with Los Angeles soil, and the gallery walls are painted with terra cotta and red iron oxide pigments. In this Clay Biennial, even the surfaces are made of dirt.

Fourteen Latinx, Indigenous and Black artists work in adobe, masa, sand, rock and soil as well as clay, across three floors. You start on the first floor with Jackie Amézquita's residency, where visitors cast the inside of their hands in soil, masa and ocean water. The second floor is about lineage and matriarchal knowledge; the third sets extraction beside repair. Anyone in the US can also mail Amézquita soil from home until 25 October: it's the only museum on Museum Row asking for your dirt.

Glasstire called the show "both cohesive and expansive" and says no single work carries it, so give the commissioned texts time. Admission is $12, free for 12 and under, and pay what you wish on Sundays. Amézquita's last Friday on site is 23 October.